Hacker News: moezd

New comment by moezd in "A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost"

moezd — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 06:09:45 +0000

Seeing the title made me think: Jev used to be quite popular. Is anyone else still using it heavily these days?

New comment by moezd in "Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?"

moezd — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:55:04 +0000

I rotated over many LLM providers and tried out different harnesses, but I always come back to an honest Claude Pro subscription, plus the work account that gives me a GitHub Copilot Enterprise seat. I make sure to always have access to the agent, so it never runs on my laptop. I literally can't stand how GPT sounds confident and gets a crucial piece wrong every time. If I could afford the hardware, I would've probably set up a local LLM rig, but good ones that promise Fable-level inference are out of reach for me.

I haven't seen a lot of improvement by increasing the orchestration layers, honestly. Am I missing something?

New comment by moezd in "Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI"

moezd — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:25:27 +0000

Eh. We could've been better off by not inventing cars and creating wonderful concepts like jaywalking, highways literally tearing neighbourhoods apart, stupefying rush hour commutes, lead in gasoline... but who wants to get rid of their cars now, without any presuppositions about their current city's public infrastructure? The genie is out of the bottle.

New comment by moezd in "OccupySaaS"

moezd — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 04:32:35 +0000

I think we can make it sharper by not only 1:1 copying it, but focusing on a specific use case that bugs people. How about a backend-only replica that solves Terraform-specific bugs and makes a 1:1 compatible API that feels like a breeze? Then users can slap their own UI on top and basically own the product.

New comment by moezd in "Trapped in the Technologist Factory"

moezd — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:53:13 +0000

I can't believe we are rediscovering division of labour. Some tech bros are really that far gone, huh.

New comment by moezd in "French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic"

moezd — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:51:35 +0000

And how about CDNs that we use and love? Who's to say we don't serve our customers from France?

New comment by moezd in "French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic"

moezd — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:56:38 +0000

Doesn't France also have cloud infrastructure that offers similar products like AWS S3?

New comment by moezd in "Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer"

moezd — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:35:33 +0000

Exactly. Instead of getting a confident answer that I can store insulin at 95 F, I would like to know that it goes bad at 85. That 10 degree difference determines whether you store your medicine properly or not.

New comment by moezd in "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model"

moezd — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:17:25 +0000

It's how they finally become profitable: You burn through your token quotas so you have to buy them per request now. Oh, and also Enterprise seats are selling like bubble gum.

It's the same addiction script again and again.

New comment by moezd in "ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems"

moezd — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:24:25 +0000

That's exactly how I imagined Ancient Romans got some of their deities: They heard of some people or some group in the marketplace as the praeco heralded the daily news, and if they were not fluent enough to understand the nuance, they came to believe that there's a group of people who solves their problems "in the name of X".

New comment by moezd in "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?"

moezd — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:25:18 +0000

Say you're Matthew Boulton in 1775 who partnered with James Watt when he started popularizing his imrpoved steam engine. Could you have predicted that in 2026 we will be discussing about him here, on the Internet, (probably) on a smartphone? Putting down a number is the wrong discussion imho.

New comment by moezd in "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?"

moezd — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:21:48 +0000

I'd like to imagine that a factory from 1880s looked a lot different than today, with IoT and robot arms and whatnot. Intellectual work will still be needed, always will. Just think about "computers" of the Space Race era. Their whole job was to sit down with a calculator and calculate the engineering approximations for an orbit that takes a rocket to the moon. Then they installed IBM monoliths and suddenly you needed a few computer scientists only, plus mechanics for overall maintenance of the machine and utilities. And noone ever stopped teaching electronics at all. In fact, that kick-started the Moore's law era.

New comment by moezd in "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?"

moezd — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:32:41 +0000

Exactly. Factories will be built, but you will still need workers, project engineers, and actual architects. Automation is still not there yet, despite the elaborate harnesses of frontier models.

New comment by moezd in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

moezd — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:56:39 +0000

Noone is mad here, you're fighting with shadows. Go touch some grass. If you want to do science, get accepted in a research institute instead of schooling people over your made up standards, and get me an alternative story to argue against. You are still attacking the character and assuming that you have the authority and honestly, it's rather embarrassing for you at this point.

New comment by moezd in "Tesla Roadster"

moezd — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:15:53 +0000

Aah, like a young grasshopper. Just what we needed, thanks Elon.

New comment by moezd in "A model where companies lease critical minerals instead of selling them"

moezd — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:47:38 +0000

lend-and-lease, you say?

New comment by moezd in "BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC"

moezd — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:45:57 +0000

After a day of reading AI slop, reading what's essentially an MUN-style resolution, 100% human made, is like eye candy. Thank you for sharing this.

New comment by moezd in "Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts"

moezd — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:10:45 +0000

insert thank you meme

New comment by moezd in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

moezd — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:09:56 +0000

Who told you that this is a fact? It's a story, and as far as I can see, a convincing one. If you see otherwise, you should explain yourself in terms that don't resort to ad hominem, and appeals to authority that I assume you don't have either.

New comment by moezd in "Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along?"

moezd — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:40:34 +0000

At scale you would drop pandas in favour of polar and eventually move to DuckDB. See, this is the blue collar mentality, arguing about whether a wrench or screwdriver helps here and how much WD-40 is enough. An engineer would be tasked to build the chassis entirely, making sure that complaints from previous versions are addressed properly.