Hacker News: okdood64

New comment by okdood64 in "Perplexity launches AI agents for work"

okdood64 — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:44:08 +0000

The CEO just needs to do more CNBC appearances and they're good.

New comment by okdood64 in "Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T"

okdood64 — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:03:36 +0000

Why does years of work matter? Serious question.

New comment by okdood64 in "Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)"

okdood64 — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:39:01 +0000

Aren't they all like that?

New comment by okdood64 in "AI is destroying my CS degree"

okdood64 — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 18:12:54 +0000

> A CS degree was never going to provide you with all of the tools that you need for a successful career. It provided you with the basics to get your foot in the door.

Aside from teaching me the _basics_ of programming and discrete mathematics, it did not help my career. I, in-fact (due to poor GPA), did not even have a SWE role out of school and had to find my own way here into a successful career. (I struggled even with LeetCode easys coming out of college) I attribute it to creating opportunities for luck (networking) and an appetite for life-long learning (which came well after college).

New comment by okdood64 in "OccupySaaS"

okdood64 — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 03:08:50 +0000

Exactly. Also it's incredible how many working professionals (as evidenced by this "movement") don't understand why companies pay for software to these SaaS companies.

Ironically attaching your company to a movement like this will deter people from using it.

New comment by okdood64 in "HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN"

okdood64 — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 23:39:48 +0000

Let's be realistic. Most of the videos on hackertube.org wouldn't exist if it weren't for the enormous sums of money YouTube pays their creators because of...ads.

I would also be more impressed with it if they created their own video processing and serving stack.

New comment by okdood64 in "Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says"

okdood64 — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:17:23 +0000

> when I say things like OpenAI and Anthropic are gonna crater

But how do you know that? (And no I'm not shocked by this statement, it's just odd to say it with conviction.)

New comment by okdood64 in "AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them"

okdood64 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:54:38 +0000

Fair.

New comment by okdood64 in "AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them"

okdood64 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:06:37 +0000

Exactly, thank you. I'm much more interested in how systems interact gracefully, addressing failure modes and building for resiliency/scale.

Do you need good quality code to do that? Sure, but that's just another line-item on the laundry list of things to make it happen.

New comment by okdood64 in "AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them"

okdood64 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:04:49 +0000

I know Google SREs who do feature development on the infrastructure support they support alongside their devs.

New comment by okdood64 in "AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them"

okdood64 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:03:20 +0000

There's nothing unique about junior SREs. They're replaceable with almost any "vanilla Dev". You don't really build a unique experience or expertise until Senior+.

New comment by okdood64 in "AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them"

okdood64 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:12:45 +0000

> make concerted efforts to do programming (like a coding hour every week), do a Leet code question

I'll probably get downvoted for this but: At 15 YoE, hell no.

Day-to-day coding lost it's allure to me about 3-4 years ago; it's just a means to an end. I think AI came at the right time for me.

New comment by okdood64 in "AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them"

okdood64 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:09:56 +0000

> Some immediate targets include multi-signal correlation across metrics, logs, and traces, autonomous root-cause analysis for partially understood failures

AI is already pretty good at this in "SRE" workflows.

> AI-driven change risk assessment

And half decent at this.

New comment by okdood64 in "Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5"

okdood64 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:43:01 +0000

If you're talking about track record, Argon had the same sort of announcement and was released.

New comment by okdood64 in "Gemini 4 Carbon"

okdood64 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:48:59 +0000

What's vaporware? They announced Argon and it was publicly launched a month later. Same with the previous models.

New comment by okdood64 in "Jailbreaking the Switch 2"

okdood64 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:45:17 +0000

I'm confused. So you just completely pirate all your games?

New comment by okdood64 in "Tesla Roadster"

okdood64 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:41:54 +0000

The audience wasn't that close.

New comment by okdood64 in "Tesla Roadster"

okdood64 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:48:02 +0000

Nah, this ain't it chief. I own exactly 0 directly. Too volatile and don't really care for Teslas at all. I love my gas cars.

New comment by okdood64 in "Tesla Roadster"

okdood64 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:47:03 +0000

I like the fun retro look, similar to the N Vision 74 [1]. This actually has some taste unlike the Cybertruck.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_N_Vision_74

New comment by okdood64 in "Tesla Roadster"

okdood64 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:42:51 +0000

Okay that's one of the coolest things I've seen in a while since the rockets landing.

Car looks half decent too.