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New comment by pbw in "VibeOS: First ever AI-native operating system"

pbw — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:26:31 +0000

This will happen for real. But then a JIT-like process will generate regular code for efficiency, on the fly in the background.

The automation of jobs will never end

pbw — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:51:40 +0000

Article URL: https://metastable.org/never-end/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336182

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The automation of jobs will never end

pbw — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:33:14 +0000

Article URL: https://metastable.org/never-end/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175033

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

There is no room: the sphere of automation

pbw — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:29:51 +0000

Article URL: https://metastable.org/the-sphere/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161063

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pbw in "Three Inverse Laws of AI"

pbw — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:55:57 +0000

Rather than “the book explains how bread is made” say “the sheets of paper which make up the book have ink in the shape of letterforms which correlate with information about how bread is made”.

New comment by pbw in "Statecharts: hierarchical state machines"

pbw — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:11:38 +0000

I’m going to give this URL to Claude, ask it to propose uses of state charts in my codebase. Yes, it already has this in its training data, but I find giving it a URL brings it to top of mind.

New comment by pbw in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

pbw — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:26:12 +0000

This is only 33 years after I took a networking class and learned all about IPv6 and the IPv4 address space crisis.

New comment by pbw in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

pbw — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:00:38 +0000

There's certainly a risk that an individual will rely too much on AI, to the detriment of their ability to understand things. However, I think there are obvious counter-measures. For example, requiring that the student can explain every single intermediate step and every single figure in detail.

A two-hour thesis defense isn't enough to uncover this, but a 40-hour deep probing examination by an AI might be. And the thesis committee gets a "highlight reel" of all the places the student fell short.

The general pattern is: "Suppose we change nothing but add extensive use of AI, look how everything falls apart." When in reality, science and education are complex adaptive systems that will change as much as needed to absorb the impact of AI.

New comment by pbw in "The future of version control"

pbw — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:07:09 +0000

This sounds good, but I wonder if AI has changed the calculus on conflict resolution. It can not only chase down the conflicting changes, but also read those commit messages and PRs to divine intent. It might be that git is "good enough," given we have AI.

Technological Speed Limit

pbw — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:31:47 +0000

Article URL: https://metastable.org/speed-limit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47461601

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Coding with agents feels like a chess simul

pbw — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:17:58 +0000

Article URL: https://tobeva.com/articles/chess-simul/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413902

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

The Technological Speed Limit

pbw — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:49:25 +0000

Article URL: https://metastable.org/speed-limit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324889

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Movie site built on a game engine

pbw — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:17:00 +0000

I'm an ex-gamedev (Guitar Hero) who built a movie website that looks like a Trello board. Each column can contain a different movie or cast member. Load pre-made boards or create your own by dragging and dropping between the columns. You can share boards with others.

For example, start with Quentin Tarantino’s movies in Column 1, put the cast of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in Column 2, then put Brad Pitt’s entire filmography in Column 3. Keep going as long as you want, building a "chain" ala Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

I was frustrated that all popular movie websites are page-oriented: one HTML page per movie or person. I asked myself what a movie site designed in 2026 would look like, in an era when full-screen canvas sites like Miro are common. And then asked what if the site was built on a game engine? I used PixiJS.

I ingested TMDB movie data into my own SQLite database head of time, so there are no external API calls at runtime. This was necessary because opening a board with 100's of columns would exceed rate limits. My read-only SQLite DB lives on a Fly volume, attached to my Fly machine. Most of the hard engineering was making the boards virtual, so we materialize only the columns currently visible. This keeps the site at 60Hz even on huge boards.

Some pre-made board:

2025 Oscar Winners: https://movie-chain.com/boards/oscars-2025

All of Christopher Nolan's movies: https://movie-chain.com/boards/christopher-nolan

Top movies of 1999: https://movie-chain.com/boards/top-rated-1999

Experience using Claude Code to build the site: https://tobeva.com/articles/chess-simul/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298005

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Coding with agents feels like a chess simul

pbw — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:17:52 +0000

Article URL: https://tobeva.com/articles/chess-simul/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234670

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Five Hundred PRs with Claude Code and the Future of Software Engineering

pbw — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:35:31 +0000

Article URL: https://tobeva.com/articles/five-hundred/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207087

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Agentic Simul: What 500 PRs in two months taught me

pbw — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:06:46 +0000

Article URL: https://tobeva.com/articles/simul/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167922

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Agentic Simul

pbw — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:35:05 +0000

Article URL: https://tobeva.com/articles/simul/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47156640

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

I Contain Multitudes: The Agentic Coding Simul

pbw — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:41:25 +0000

Article URL: https://tobeva.com/articles/multitudes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142679

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pbw in "How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code"

pbw — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 02:46:45 +0000

I have mixed feelings about the "Do X in N lines of code" genre. I applaud people taking the time to boil something down to its very essence, and implement just that, but I feel like the tone is always, "and the full thing is lame because it's so big," which seems off to me.

New comment by pbw in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

pbw — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:45:12 +0000

SO was built to disrupt the marriage of Google and Experts Exchange. EE was using dark patterns to sucker unsuspecting users into paying for access to a crappy Q&A service. SO wildly succeeded, but almost 20 years later the world is very different.