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New comment by patdoli in "Klondike Solitaire game for curses in 5k of C"

patdoli — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:59:19 +0000

undo is always where these tiny games stop being tiny

New comment by patdoli in "Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world"

patdoli — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:19:39 +0000

> We tried this early on — used ChatGPT as "project manager" to set up the entire harness before writing any code. After a week it produced 140+ docs of rules, architecture, frameworks. Zero lines of code. When we finally brought in another tool to review, the verdict was: "a perfectly secure empty safe." The harness was immaculate. There was just nothing inside it. > > Harness matters, but if you're not shipping code alongside it, you're just writing fiction.

New comment by patdoli in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

patdoli — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:08:01 +0000

I don't know how to code at all. First time I tried Cursor to build a web app, just talking to it — and it actually worked. That was my first oh shit moment.

A few months later I've gone from Cursor to Codex to Claude Code, from a web app to a native app to an open-source project. It's been one continuous oh-shit since then. Time flies.

My biggest oh shit moment now? Watching my API credits run out.