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New comment by murukesh_s in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

murukesh_s — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:52:26 +0000

>Scott Chacon is a co-founder of GitHub

Thought so until saw this. Man, he is the co-founder of Github and already seed-funded. How can someone refuse him? 17M is a small amount considering the valuation VS Code Agent wrappers are getting

New comment by murukesh_s in "MacBook Neo"

murukesh_s — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:37:37 +0000

wish they enable the actual iphone 16 with a full-fledged OS that we can plug into an external monitor.. I think samsung tried it but didn't get mass appeal. Apple could do that IMO - would have even avoided launching neo as students own a device in the form of phone or tab anyway..

New comment by murukesh_s in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

murukesh_s — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:01:59 +0000

Try driving without google maps. Its a slippery slope we common folks we are in and there is no coming back - except for few purists..

New comment by murukesh_s in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

murukesh_s — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:48:45 +0000

If the management is the one actually paying for the software from their own pocket (founder), the tables turn. There are millions of SME owners who are forced to pay for B2B software just out of necessity and not having resources to build it in-house.

AI could change that for good.

New comment by murukesh_s in "Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back"

murukesh_s — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:21:32 +0000

What are you implying?. He would have had to hire a good developer at least for a full month salary to build something like this.

And if you are thinking enterprise, it would take 2-3 developers, 2 analysts, 2 testers, 1 lead and 1 manager 2-3 months to push something like this. (Otherwise why would lead banks spent billions and billions for IT development every year? What tangible difference you see in their website/services?)

5000 calculators may look excessive, but in this case it magnifies the AI capabilities in the future - both in terms of quality and quantity.

New comment by murukesh_s in "The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable"

murukesh_s — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:42:12 +0000

In his defence, Modi's was external degree - i.e remote degree - so no one sees in the class room.

New comment by murukesh_s in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

murukesh_s — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:56:00 +0000

Scary is that the LLM might have been trained on the entire open source code ever produced - which is far beyond human comprehension - and with ever growing capability (bigger context window, more training) my gut feeling is that, it would exceed human capability in programming pretty soon. Considering 2025 was the ground breaking year for agents, can't stop imagine what would happen when it iterates in the next couple of years. I think it would evolve to be like Chess playing engines that consistently beat top Chess players in the world!

New comment by murukesh_s in "Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal"

murukesh_s — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:11:19 +0000

>Most modern backend is building consistent distributed state machines, you need to cover all the edge cases, deal with concurrency, different clients/contracts etc. I would say getting BE right (beyond simple CRUD) is going to be hard for LLM simply because the context is usually wider and hard to compress/isolate.

Seeing the kind of complexity that agents (not standalone llm) are able to navigate - I can only start to believe - just a matter of time it can do all kinds of programming, including state of the art backend programming - even writing a database on its own - good thing with backend is its easily testable and if there is documentation that a developer can read and comprehend - an llm/agent would be able to do that - not very far from today.

New comment by murukesh_s in "Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal"

murukesh_s — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:41:32 +0000

>Isn’t frontend more complex? If my task starts with a Figma UI design, how well does a code agent do at generating working code that looks right, and iterate on it (presuming some browser MCP)? Some automated tests seem enough for an genetic loop on backend.

Haven't tried a Figma design, but i built an internal tool entirely via instructions to agent. The kind of work I could easily quote 3 weeks previously.

New comment by murukesh_s in "Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal"

murukesh_s — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:40:08 +0000

I disagree - having worked on backends most of the time, I find modern frontend much more complex (and difficult to test) than pure backend. When I say modern frontend - its mostly React, state management like Redux, Zustand, Router framework like React Router, a CSS framework like Tailwind and component framework like Shadcn. Not to mention different versions of React, different ways of managing state, animation/transitions etc. And on top of that the ever increasing complex quirks in the codebase still needed to be compatible with all the modern browsers and device sizes/orientation out there.

New comment by murukesh_s in "Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal"

murukesh_s — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:17:06 +0000

I used to think the same until latest agents started adding perfectly fine features to a large existing react app with just basic input (in English) . Most of the jobs require levels of intelligence below that. It's just a matter of time before agents get to that.

New comment by murukesh_s in "Why does Swiss cheese have holes?"

murukesh_s — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 03:25:05 +0000

Wondering why someone did not solve the problem already? Of all the countries in the world US is brimming with entrepreneurs who want to "solve" a consumer problem, and with modern population I assume there is enough demand on fresh/healthier products - why on earth someone wouldn't try to fix it there?

New comment by murukesh_s in "N8n raises $180M"

murukesh_s — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:26:09 +0000

Its all over youtube. Its the de-facto way to build agents if you are searching youtube. Just try "Create agent" and see.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/agent-builder

The openai agent builder launched 2 days ago is basically inspired by n8n. n8n when launched wasn't an AI tool, it was inspired from numerous enterprise integration tools like Mulesoft, which were inspired by dozens of other enterprise tools, some launched even decades ago.

If you haven't tried you should check it out. Its an amazing way for no-coders to build something substantial in a relatively quick manner.

New comment by murukesh_s in "Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high"

murukesh_s — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 03:10:21 +0000

At least you can dodge false diagnosis which is important especially when it can cause irreversible damage to your body

New comment by murukesh_s in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

murukesh_s — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:59:03 +0000

We replaced Slack with Mattermost for one of the teams - and guess what we don't miss Slack there. Threads, push notifications everything works fine and you get more features at least compared to the free version of Slack

New comment by murukesh_s in "Detroit's carmakers to save billions in emissions rollback"

murukesh_s — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 06:25:16 +0000

Unfortunately yes, but there is a chance for a maverick like DJT to come and make sweeping changes (in a positive way).

New comment by murukesh_s in "Detroit's carmakers to save billions in emissions rollback"

murukesh_s — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:41:59 +0000

But Americans can hope for a regime (policy) change every few years though. You could argue both the political ideologies are broadly doing the same shit, but you can hope or lobby for change. On the other hand, imagine your unfavourite politician/ideology remaining in power for the eternity!

New comment by murukesh_s in "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"

murukesh_s — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:49:49 +0000

Imagine you have shit ton of money but only agents that generate 10% bad code? You crushing or beating anyone..

New comment by murukesh_s in "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"

murukesh_s — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:47:24 +0000

I found the opposite - I am able to get 50% improvement in productivity for day to day coding (mix of backend, frontend), mostly in Javascript but have helped in other languages. But you have to carefully review though - and have extremely well written test cases if you have to blindly generate or replace existing code.

New comment by murukesh_s in "Apple announces American Manufacturing Program"

murukesh_s — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:16:11 +0000

Even if there are zero tariffs, the per capita difference is so huge. US was so far reaping the benefit of product made with labour from developing countries and consumers getting wages from developed country, making buying a new phone a rather insignificant portion of total yearly salary, however for a common man in developing country, owning an Apple device is sometimes equal to your yearly salary. So yea even if manufacturing moves to US and prices doubles, the consumers can absorb it.