Hacker News: ochronus

New comment by ochronus in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

ochronus — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:32:52 +0000

No, it's not, except for a small percentage of the userbase.

New comment by ochronus in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

ochronus — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:32:06 +0000

Haha, right, just like the recent uncommunicated changes to limits, cache, etc.

New comment by ochronus in "Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome"

ochronus — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:43:30 +0000

This is awesome! Thank you for building it!

New comment by ochronus in "Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans"

ochronus — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:42:58 +0000

Hmm, the bug I hit lasted for days and burned through my credits/limits/tokens like crazy, consistently. It's gone after the last update.

New comment by ochronus in "Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans"

ochronus — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:40:48 +0000

No, I think they mean:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s7mkn3/psa_claud...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s7zgj0/comment/o...

New comment by ochronus in "Extra usage credit for Claude to celebrate usage bundles launch (Pro, Max, Team)"

ochronus — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:49:57 +0000

Ok, so this is how they try to compensate for their messed up month of bugs (insane token burn)

New comment by ochronus in "Show HN: Hopalong Attractor. An old classic with a new perspective in 3D"

ochronus — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:27:16 +0000

Really cool :)

New comment by ochronus in "Code has always been the easy part"

ochronus — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:06:56 +0000

Of course, this is still considering the current model of working. Which in itself is a question.

New comment by ochronus in "Code has always been the easy part"

ochronus — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:03:29 +0000

This discussion feels analogous to me to the age-old "we can do it fast now, and do it right later" tradeoff discussion, except now it's about knowledge, maintainability etc.. There are stages of companies and types of products where solution quality has a bigger buffer, some are more critical. We also know that in many places, once you shipped a crappy solution in a week, you've now set an expectation, and management will expect you do repeat that forever, not getting the time to actually fix/rearchitect when needed.

We used to brush that off with the "we'll fix all of that once we've shipped", now we brush it off with "doesn't matter, AI can fix it later easily". This applies to knowledge about the code, domains and quality itself, too.

To me, this is a reasonable tradeoff to discuss, and sticking to either extreme ("AI is cancer" and "AI is the silver bullet") feels silly.

There's real risk here, and I do see a lot of seniors act like kids in the candy store. That speaks volumes to what AI really unlocks (cheap experimentation, for one!), but also warrants caution.

Based on the data (not great quality tbh...) we have, the net speedup is more realistically around 5-10% of the total time of software engineers, and we're yet to see the cost of that speedup.

New comment by ochronus in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

ochronus — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:45:48 +0000

The creator of the hammer says driving nails into wood planks is a solved problem. Carpenters are now obsolete.

New comment by ochronus in "Stop prompting. Let the AI interview you to build specs"

ochronus — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:46:50 +0000

GSD does that, too.

New comment by ochronus in "Stop prompting. Let the AI interview you to build specs"

ochronus — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:28:03 +0000

Great idea, and some of the tools are already somewhat covering it, e.g. GSD or spec-kit.

https://github.com/gsd-build/get-shit-done

https://github.com/github/spec-kit

New comment by ochronus in "Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers"

ochronus — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 09:40:50 +0000

I don't think it's fake - it explains why suddenly I got a ton of "verify your registration to XYZ" emails in the past week.

New comment by ochronus in "Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox"

ochronus — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:50:50 +0000

bye-bye Firefox then

New comment by ochronus in "US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry"

ochronus — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:41:26 +0000

Yet another reason to not travel there... :/

New comment by ochronus in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

ochronus — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:59:56 +0000

Ooooh but it has AI ;) blergh

New comment by ochronus in "Kagi Hub Belgrade"

ochronus — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:49:23 +0000

Wow, this is awesome :) Love this team.

New comment by ochronus in "AI has a deep understanding of how this code works"

ochronus — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:50:14 +0000

Kudos to the folks in the thread!

New comment by ochronus in "AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service"

ochronus — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:19:38 +0000

Exactly. The problems start when people say it's good for everything ;)

New comment by ochronus in "Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture"

ochronus — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:15:30 +0000

But but it's webscale!