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New comment by ojr in "I don't recommend Tailwind CSS"

ojr — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:47:39 +0000

IDEs can autocomplete tailwind classes but eventually you just memorize them, also with AI assisted coding I don't even write the classes anymore just small adjustments like changing pt-3 to pt-4, AI implemented dark mode in a small app I am working on in one shot, I think tailwind being in the training data helped tremendously with the task.

New comment by ojr in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

ojr — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:33:01 +0000

the resale market for disk has been on a downtrend for years, you can sign into someone's else psn account too and share games, you are a washed up gamer, its okay I am washed up too.

New comment by ojr in "Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI"

ojr — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:37:41 +0000

it just a higher level of abstraction but not high enough that it replaces developers, I don't think the LLMs are even capable of reaching that level. Saying the creative process is gone is laughable. A lot of people make these claims and only have an internal tool that no one uses to show for it.

I built a "simple" storage application recently, uploading large files from a phone is not trivial, you can't just command Claude to do it without giving it good context.

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

ojr — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:16:47 +0000

This truly shows how king making in venture capital is done, kids have the MIT pedigree but sometimes this is not enough for certain demographics, give them a ton of money to explore ideas and pivot, product is a vscode fork that sells subsidized AI, only possible with venture capital. Providing inference at unsustainable rate deemed as "product market fit". Product loses money until they exit.

VCs that say "I always knew the team was special", give me a break.

New comment by ojr in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

ojr — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:36:11 +0000

I can use Gemini 3 Flash with the harness I built for around 8 years and still not exceed the cost of a Mac Studio with 128GB, the price for privacy is very high. Agentic flows that get stuck can be worked around but I prefer developer velocity.

New comment by ojr in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

ojr — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:50:41 +0000

I spend around $20 a month through API fees using my own harness, https://slidebits.com/isogen. Nothing too special, I prompt it produces file changes using grep and vector search and I can individually accept which files.

I also work on a consumer AI application https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slidebits-studio/id1138731130

For comparison someone showed me an internal company tool he was working on. He had Claude agents dangerously skipping permissions and firing up github branches through a vm sandbox just to make a single feature change. One agent to code and the other to review.

New comment by ojr in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

ojr — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:37:13 +0000

I use Gemini 3 Flash, I've seen the Claude Code setups, bullish on Anthropic people are driving up tokens but I am able to produce outcomes with a fraction of the money.

New comment by ojr in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

ojr — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:14:24 +0000

well 2026 is easily the most software I shipped so AI is definitely making the process faster. Sad if you with agree with the post, I'm outlier though AI has enabled me to build several subscription apps that was able to make money, not a lot but it will compound trust me.

New comment by ojr in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

ojr — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:27:39 +0000

I was able to release two new iOS apps including a game, and a cross desktop application just this year. I refuse to go back to writing code by hand. If it doesn't help your productivity that's okay, ignoring how productive it has made developers like myself is a choice.

AI was also able to help me create my first subscription payment workflow.

It is like farming without Roundup, less crops, more energy, less toxic chemical risks.

New comment by ojr in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

ojr — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:28:16 +0000

I don't think it surprisingly easy at all unless you are running multiple background tasks overnight, I think Gemini will eventually be the default agentic coding agent in the future when it comes to price and efficiency because its backed by sound money.

I don't use the Claude Code harness, grep instead of using a combination of vector search is super expensive and not sure how their read file implementation is. I built my own harness for example that restrict reads and writes in a token efficient manner. Building your own harness will always be the cheapest option in the long run.

My own harness, minimalistic GUI gets the job done nothing too fancy https://slidebits.com/isogen

New comment by ojr in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

ojr — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:22:10 +0000

I am an early Gemini daily driver type engineer, feels like Node, Firefox, React and Tailwind all over again, Claude Sonnet is 10x more expensive, quick thought experiment do you think 10 Gemini prompts is needed to match the quality of one Claude Code prompt? The harness around Gemini is an issue but I built my own (in Rust)

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

ojr — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:44:57 +0000

They say programming is dead... I built an AI Streamer platform that responds to a twitch chat

https://slidebits.com/ai-streamer

Not a trivial thing to vibe code without any domain expertise but this project took me under 2 weeks with a AI coding agent harness I built myself. I use Gemini 3 Flash as my main driver as well.

New comment by ojr in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

ojr — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:46:36 +0000

I used regexes in a similar way but my implementation was vibecoded, hmmm, using your analysis Claude Code writes code by hand.

New comment by ojr in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

ojr — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:29:18 +0000

hackernews has a good signal to noise ratio, noise is bad

New comment by ojr in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

ojr — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:28:39 +0000

last time I tried to use nextjs in a cloudflare worker there was a lot of issues

New comment by ojr in "I hate AI side projects"

ojr — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:59:35 +0000

I guess all the publishers and advertisers are worried and complaining about nothing

New comment by ojr in "I hate AI side projects"

ojr — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:55:07 +0000

almost always wrong is just incorrect. Ask it who made Hackernews and it says Paul Graham with a informational paragraph it scraped from Wikipedia, without me clicking into Wikipedia. I can provide so many examples.

New comment by ojr in "I hate AI side projects"

ojr — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:52:41 +0000

For the average Google User, searching for things like who perform in the Superbowl it is not extra hoops and incredibly fast. It's going to power Siri soon, enjoy.

New comment by ojr in "I hate AI side projects"

ojr — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:48:45 +0000

hasn't been my experience, I am able to search for information faster, speed to correct answer has increased on average, I feel, if we start providing examples your argument starts to fall fast. Think about the average Google Search, you really think it gets it wrong? Your search query is probably more obscure than mainstream web users.

New comment by ojr in "I hate AI side projects"

ojr — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:44:05 +0000

Google Search has gotten better unless you think AI mode is a downgrade, the alternative of having a wikipedia article, reddit post or random website as the first result is not better technically maybe morally for you but not matter of factually. The average user does less manual filtering.