Hacker News: paodealho

New comment by paodealho in "I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25"

paodealho — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:29:28 +0000

Should also note the math done on the token costs. $25 of subsidized tokens because he's on a subscription plan.

New comment by paodealho in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

paodealho — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:56:23 +0000

The last place I worked for, if it happened with someone new in the company or the team, I would find a polite way to say "do your job and fix this shit" and it worked.

Some people have put me on their blacklists after these interactions, sure, but they're the exact people I don't want to work with again. The important thing here is that I've never done someone else's work for free.

New comment by paodealho in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

paodealho — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:04:57 +0000

I like them. It tells very clearly how much effort went into someone's work.

I like them even more on code comments. It tells _precisely_ how much effort went into the pull request, so I don't spend time reviewing lazy work.

New comment by paodealho in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"

paodealho — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:04:06 +0000

LLMs can't fail, they can only be failed ... by you!

New comment by paodealho in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

paodealho — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:23:09 +0000

As fallible as they may be, I've never had a next-thought generator recommend me glue as a pizza ingredient.

New comment by paodealho in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

paodealho — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:46:58 +0000

> execs being misinformed about what their own companies are doing/achieving with AI

And a bunch of yes-men down the lower layers of management funneling these ideas.

In a meeting at my last job, one of the execs was bragging about how a chatbot was reading Jira customer service tickets and calling tools/APIs to solve those tickets, and it "only costs 1.5USD per ticket. How much would a human cost, huh?"

Little did the exec know, but my team was already using a ~600 lines python script to solve the problem with a higher rate of precision. The chatbot-automation thing was largely pushed by my manager when I was out on vacation, just so he could earn his good-boy points with higher ups. Worst manager I've had in my 14 years of career btw.

New comment by paodealho in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

paodealho — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:01:28 +0000

Funny thing. This never happened to me with tech/electronics, but happens from time to time with food items.

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

paodealho — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:08:13 +0000

Fine doublespeak there. It can mean anything when talking to the public, and anything else when talking to Sam Altman.

New comment by paodealho in "Components will kill pages"

paodealho — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:03:34 +0000

And on that same sentence:

> but in today’s world but in today’s world where the world changes every month, it’s best to be ahead.

Could I be the one getting ahead of him if I skip next month and plan for +1 world changes?

New comment by paodealho in "AI-First Company Memos"

paodealho — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:40:27 +0000

Goes to show how infested with disconnected management this industry is.

All the tools that improved productivity for software devs (Docker, K8S/ECS/autoscaling, Telemetry providers) took very long for management to realize they bring value, and in some places with a lot of resistance. Some places where I worked, asking for an IntelliJ license would make your manager look at you like you were asking "hey can I bang your wife?".

New comment by paodealho in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

paodealho — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:32:24 +0000

Yes—it is!

New comment by paodealho in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

paodealho — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:51:11 +0000

Sorry for not contributing to the discussion (as per the guidelines), but is it just me or this blog post reads a lot like LLM-filled mumble jumble? Seems like I could trim half of the words there and nothing would be lost.

New comment by paodealho in "I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed"

paodealho — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:26:16 +0000

> without spending large swaths of time learning minutia

He probably meant languages he's not proficient with.

New comment by paodealho in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

paodealho — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:37:58 +0000

Software dev has been promoted as a good career path for almost 2 decades now. Naturally you'll have a bunch of people going in only because of money.

A few years ago, when Agile was still the hot thing and companies had an Agile "facilitor" or manager for each dev team, the common career path I heard when talking to those people was: "I worked as a java/cobol/etc in the past, but it just didn't click with me. I'm more of a peoples person, you know, so project management is where I really do my best work!".

Yeah, right...

New comment by paodealho in "Claude Opus 4.6"

paodealho — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:49:54 +0000

also:

"Researchers Extract Nearly Entire Harry Potter Book From Commercial LLMs"

https://www.aitechsuite.com/ai-news/ai-shock-researchers-ext...

New comment by paodealho in "Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware"

paodealho — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:30:45 +0000

Back in the XP days if you let your computer for too much time on the hands of an illiterate relative, they would eventually install something and turn Internet Explorer into this https://i.redd.it/z7qq51usb7n91.jpg.

Now the security implications are even greater, and we won't even have funny screenshots to share in the future.

New comment by paodealho in "Claude Code for Infrastructure"

paodealho — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:09:05 +0000

It is my experience that most of these business domain experts snore the moment you talk about anything related to the difficulties of creating software.

New comment by paodealho in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

paodealho — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:43:23 +0000

When I see these types of posts I wonder what those people do all day long that is so important, to the point they can't dedicate 30 minutes to plan and execute some chores.

New comment by paodealho in "How vibe coding is killing open source"

paodealho — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:01:26 +0000

Me. I've never been a maintainer for any big opensource project, so it won't make a dent on anything, but now my contributions are exactly zero.

New comment by paodealho in "Automatic Programming"

paodealho — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:17:20 +0000

Only if you exclude those long pages of markdown spec you had to type!