<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: osigurdson</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=osigurdson</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:29:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=osigurdson" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by osigurdson in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think many who plan on buying the stock it to be controlled by anyone other than Musk.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:24:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492474</link><dc:creator>osigurdson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492474</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by osigurdson in "Lines of Code Got a Better Publicist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think a better metric these days is what percentage of code is not   reviewed / understood by humans. That is the real bottleneck. Until we can stop looking at the code, AI barely matters - you are just trading quality for quantity.<p>Thats why it is so amazing for speed runs and prototypes. Here it is legitimately > 10X faster.</p>
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<p>It doesn't help shareholders or customers in any way however so we should not celebrate it or even simply accept that this is "the way things are". It is an error to be corrected.</p>
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<p>I'm surprised they cared enough to do this. I'd still rather use Linux but MacBook value is incredible.</p>
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<p>They will have to open source it. Otherwise it is impossible for anyone outside of OAI to gain any insights - basically just a Boris at this point.</p>
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<p>I'd much rather people think deeply about summarizing their work. This helps others understand it but, more importantly, helps the developer understand what they did. If its hard to summarize, maybe it should be tightened up a little for instance. Enforcing a "schema" might help a tiny bit but also can cause people to check out a little as it can feel like just another meaningless process.</p>
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<p>Probably as good as that can get is something like WSL. Microsoft put a lot into that but still not the same as just using Linux. I wish Apple / MS would do the opposite and build their OS on top of Linux but of course that will never happen.</p>
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<p>You may be right, its possible however that people running on Azure may use it locally for testing.</p>
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<p>I bounce the moment I see "fascist" in your pie chart. Sorry.</p>
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<p>It hurts, but I'll pay a premium for worse hardware that will run Linux. But for others in my family Macbooks are just far better value by a wide margin than Windows laptops. Vertical integration really wins these days.</p>
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<p>Automated outbound is a real problem now. I think LinkedIn actually has a pretty good model in which it costs money to send a message if the other party does not reply. Lucky for them of course! Nice to be able to collect 100% of the value of a needed incentive structure!</p>
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<p>Does containerization help much here? If it's a code tool then presumably it needs access to your code files (read / write). Maybe there are use cases for it of course.</p>
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<p>Right. You mean all behaviors are tested, essentially.<p>So if you / team are going to implement a new feature, what does that look like? Do you write Gherkin or similar, unit tests or both? Can you provide an example of what that might look like? How much of this has changed for you since the pre-AI days?</p>
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<p>Back in the crypto days I was somewhat intrigued by Arweave's permanent storage idea. It seems like it is still around (I've never used it personally though).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 19:09:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348678</link><dc:creator>osigurdson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by osigurdson in "Backpressure is all you need"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>>  if your tests don't catch any known issues, the problem is the tests aren't comprehensive enough.<p>Maybe I misunderstand but this seems like a fairly low bar in the test suite only covers existing bugs.<p>I'd argue that if you aren't going to look at the code you actually need a <i>fully</i> comprehensive test suite - in the sense that if the tests pass, the code is correct and you don't have to look at it at all. The problem is, that isn't very quick to create it seems. Of course, if there is a way to do it quickly in a way that is reproducible by others I'd love to hear about it.</p>
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<p>Definitely agree that performance optimization is a good use case for LLMs. Here you have both a measurable goal / objective function and guardrails against functional regressions. It kind of closes the loop in that regard.<p>One thing however is a test suite is not usually exhaustive in the sense that any code that passes the tests is valid. Usually tests are more complimentary in nature. Therefore you could still possibly get code degradation, potentially.</p>
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<p>I can see how you could avoid regressions this way, but what do you add to your harness to prove that a new feature is working?</p>
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<p>Exactly. Popular opinion is behind reality by several months. Claude used to be significantly better, now it is basically the same.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 15:44:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337456</link><dc:creator>osigurdson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by osigurdson in "MCP is dead?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>> MCP consumes ~65x more tokens than the CLI approach.<p>For this example, there seems to be no explanation for the LLM to know when to use this curl command, etc. Is the idea that the linear API is known in the LLM weights already and therefore there is no need to include "the manual" in the context window? If so, it's a pretty narrow win.</p>
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<p>Maybe three days is enough for some code bases, but if you have millions of lines of code, agents aren't going to help you that much.</p>
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