Hacker News: ochronus

New comment by ochronus in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

ochronus — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:11:52 +0000

This is lovely

New comment by ochronus in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

ochronus — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:04:08 +0000

No, no, much better: make it a SKILL.md ;)

New comment by ochronus in "Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates"

ochronus — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:53:25 +0000

I think Liquid Glass is a general UX/Product blunder, not a deliberate evil masterplan to force users to buy new phones.

New comment by ochronus in "Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates"

ochronus — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:19:32 +0000

Doesn't match my personal experience over a handful of iPhone generations. I know, anecdotal only, but still.

New comment by ochronus in "The Whole Anthropic Kerfuffle"

ochronus — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:01:21 +0000

I see your point, but I'd be surprised if they'd lose a significant user base in the end; the hype is just way too high

New comment by ochronus in "The Whole Anthropic Kerfuffle"

ochronus — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:40:58 +0000

I don't think they are clueless, but rather, struggling. Being an AI provider is a money burner, and they probably don't have enough fuel for the fire anymore, so they are trying things to squeeze more $$$ and limit usage at the same time.

New comment by ochronus in "The Whole Anthropic Kerfuffle"

ochronus — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:33:55 +0000

Yes, it's related to the limits of the subscription plans. 2ish months ago the same sub started hitting limits earlier and earlier on very similar tasks/codebases. Then they said, Oh, sorry, it was a caching bug, now it's fixed. It wasn't. Then a couple more bugs. Still no fix. Recently they announced "doubling the limits" (made possible by the Grok deal) - still hitting limits super fast compared to how it used to be 2+ months ago. Moreover, the models got somewhat dumber and slower, too.

New comment by ochronus in "The Whole Anthropic Kerfuffle"

ochronus — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:07:06 +0000

Yeah, claude code is mostly unusable at this point. It's been in a constant decline for a good 1-2 months. It's more like a scam now.

New comment by ochronus in "Claude Pro: Opus model will only be available if extra usage is enabled"

ochronus — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:04:06 +0000

Hence the only other path: slow, constant enshittification of the models' performance

New comment by ochronus in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

ochronus — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:58:36 +0000

As predicted by many. The math is, as usual, mathing.

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.