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New comment by ohmahjong in "AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less"

ohmahjong — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:15:45 +0000

In terms of knowledge sharing and gathering hard-won human context I agree, sort of. An LM review can at least prompt some reasonable changes, catch performance issues, etc.

New comment by ohmahjong in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

ohmahjong — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:43:12 +0000

Thanks for putting into words what I have been seeing a lot at work and haven't been able to put my finger on. We tend to have quite diverse _workflows_ between devs at my company, and success seems to correlate with injecting better context earlier in the process.

I like to chat with Claude about how to approach a given problem, bring in extra context, etc, before even really drafting up a plan, while other people dive into implementation immediately and go on wild goose chases.

90% of the time we end up in the same place in roughly the same amount of time, and there are obviously tradeoffs to spending more time planning vs implementing. I'm oversimplifying as well.

New comment by ohmahjong in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

ohmahjong — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:35:35 +0000

A simple one - a small MacOS status bar widget that shows me if my Ethernet adapter is the default connection or WiFi. It also shows the reported link speed. I have a _very_ flaky USB/Ethernet adapter so seeing "Eth 10" in the bar is enough to prompt me to unplug/replug and get back to "Eth 100" (yes, it isn't gigabit).

New comment by ohmahjong in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

ohmahjong — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:07:28 +0000

Yoof, that reframing is interesting but took LONG

New comment by ohmahjong in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

ohmahjong — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:06:46 +0000

This seems somewhat sensible to me - the genie _is_ out of the bottle, and students absolutely will use AI agents to finish assignments without learning a thing, but there is some value to showing how agents can be used as teaching tools and what healthy use _can_ look like

New comment by ohmahjong in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

ohmahjong — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:08:53 +0000

AI has made my experience as a fully remote worker in a not-fully-remote company worse. It is adding a layer of indirection between myself and the juniors I'm mentoring, or the product manager I'm working on a feature with, and many other mundane facets of work. The opportunity to passively pick up on my coworkers' idiosyncrasies is now gone and all I can do is guess at what prompt they might have used.

I'm trying to have more face-to-face calls, and to talk to people without a bot involved, but can be difficult, frustrating, and not "productive" either.

New comment by ohmahjong in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

ohmahjong — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:07:24 +0000

Man, I really miss Terry Pratchett too. He has been my favourite author for as long as I can remember (maybe Roald Dahl before that?). It helped having such a volume of work to go through at the time in my life where I was reading the most. I swear he has the most re-readable books too; so many small details and jokes that would be missed on a first pass.

GNU Terry Pratchett.

New comment by ohmahjong in "Cursor 3"

ohmahjong — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:28:21 +0000

As someone whose work enforced a switch from Cursor to Claude Code, I do keep on top of the code by pairing it with an IDE, tracking/viewing changes etc. There's no real obstacle to using an IDE as you normally would, with Claude Code as a sidecar.

New comment by ohmahjong in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

ohmahjong — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:11:53 +0000

I'm in the industry (albeit not a 20-year old), and agree that the domain itself is incredibly dry.

The tech is quite interesting, thankfully.

From a customer perspective it's interesting - compliance sucks so much that even a slight improvement/automation goes a long way

New comment by ohmahjong in "AirPods Max 2"

ohmahjong — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:04:44 +0000

I don't know exactly how to measure bang for buck, but my Sony XM4s have been holding up well, sound good, are decently comfortable for a day's work, the battery life is good, etc.

They do have some annoyances like not always sleeping correctly when left connected to my laptop, but overall they are easy to recommend

New comment by ohmahjong in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

ohmahjong — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:30:40 +0000

I'm building a very casual daily price-guessing game for my mum. Every day she gives me feedback, and I'm using it as a chance to de-rust my CSS/React + see how daily games tick.

https://scandle.co.za

New comment by ohmahjong in "I’m joining OpenAI"

ohmahjong — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:26:47 +0000

Peter was quite vocal on twitter about _only_ using Codex to develop OpenClaw, but Claude is what a majority of people were (are?) using to run the tool itself.

New comment by ohmahjong in "Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit"

ohmahjong — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:47:17 +0000

At least both of those threads contain a healthy amount of skepticism in the comments

Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

ohmahjong — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:29:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46516422

Points: 22

# Comments: 6

New comment by ohmahjong in "AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos"

ohmahjong — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 08:06:56 +0000

Maybe they will avoid the storage cost by generating this slop on the fly; who would notice?

New comment by ohmahjong in "Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?"

ohmahjong — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 05:18:35 +0000

That's the first I've seen of 4k77 and related projects, thanks for sharing. A true labour of love.

New comment by ohmahjong in "Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing"

ohmahjong — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 05:20:30 +0000

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New comment by ohmahjong in "Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration"

ohmahjong — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:06:53 +0000

I'm not sure what the distinction between "execute" and "run" is; is there a difference?

New comment by ohmahjong in "Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration"

ohmahjong — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:03:49 +0000

Having a typo in "pendantic" is a masterstroke

New comment by ohmahjong in "PYX: The next step in Python packaging"

ohmahjong — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:20:44 +0000

In my experience (albeit from about 4 years ago) having some kind of private package with pipenv (or even plain pip) was really annoying. We went the route of a private repo on Github rather than a private package repository, which maybe set us up for exactly that annoyance.