Hacker News: pgm8705

New comment by pgm8705 in "Daily Claude outage is upon us. Waiting for Claude Status to update"

pgm8705 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:56:42 +0000

I think the only correct answer here is: It depends, on so many different things. Usage is definitely way more generous with codex and it isn't even close.

New comment by pgm8705 in "DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding"

pgm8705 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:10:48 +0000

As a long time paying customer of DO, I don't know how I feel about this. I've been unbelievably happy with the products I rely on (App Platform and Managed Postgres). I worry this is an attempt to play catch up in the AI space and everything else will lose focus.

New comment by pgm8705 in "Ask HN: Is Claude down again?"

pgm8705 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:05:45 +0000

I agree it seems better at complex work. However, I find that it often tries to make ALL work complex. I had a simple bug fix where I knew exactly what the 1-2 line fix was. GPT 5.4 added like 200 LOC and started refactoring the entire function of the app. Was the refactor possibly an improvement? Maybe, but I needed the fix quick so I stopped it and switched to Claude, which did exactly what I was expecting.

New comment by pgm8705 in "Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI"

pgm8705 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:42:10 +0000

I also have always gone back to Claude after trying new models... until GPT-5.3-Codex, specifically with the new Codex Mac app. I've been pretty much full time with it for a few weeks now and have not missed Claude Code. It can over complicate things at times, but for the most part, it is providing working solutions on first go and following coding patterns that already exist in my app. With Claude, it would frequently knock out a feature with acceptable code quality, but be completely broken and require a round of debugging.

I'm even getting by without hitting limits on the $20/month plan, whereas I needed to be on the $100/month one with Claude.

New comment by pgm8705 in "An Update on Heroku"

pgm8705 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:28:31 +0000

Digital Ocean App Platform is great. We switched to it from Heroku in 2021. It had some growing pains to start, but has been rock solid since. I can only think of 1 downtime incident that was their fault. They continue to improve the platform too, and are VERY responsive to requests.

New comment by pgm8705 in "Compare the New iPhone Models"

pgm8705 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:44:48 +0000

Not sure why the downvotes, it's largely true. Almost every non-techie I encounter in real life incorrectly uses the term "memory" to mean storage space.

New comment by pgm8705 in "Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making"

pgm8705 — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:08:39 +0000

I think it would be enough to simply move the 3 point line back a couple feet AND have it follow its natural arc out of bounds, thus eliminating the shorter and easier corner 3 shot.

New comment by pgm8705 in "Firing programmers for AI is a mistake"

pgm8705 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:15:37 +0000

Yes. I think part of the problem is how good it is at starting from a blank slate and putting together an MVP type app. As a developer, I have been thoroughly impressed by this. Then non-devs see this and must think software engineers are doomed. What they don't see is how terrible LLMs are at working with complex, mature codebases and the hallucinations and endless feedback loops that go with that.

New comment by pgm8705 in "How I use LLMs as a staff engineer"

pgm8705 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:05:15 +0000

I used to feel they just served as a great auto complete or stack overflow replacement until I switched from VSCode to Cursor. Cursor's agent mode with Sonnet is pretty remarkable in what it can generate just from prompts. It is such a better experience than any of the AI tools VSCode provides, imo. I think tools like this when paired with an experienced developer to guide it and oversee the output can result in major productivity boosts. I agree with the sentiment that it falls apart with complex tasks or understanding unique business logic, but do think it can take you far beyond boilerplate.

New comment by pgm8705 in "Deploying Rails on Docker: Kamal Alternative"

pgm8705 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:59:31 +0000

I'm of the opinion that a single VPS can take you a very long way. Once you get to the point where you've outgrown that model, you're likely making enough money where something like Digital Ocean App Platform, as another commenter suggested, would be money well spent.

New comment by pgm8705 in "Deploying Rails on Docker: Kamal Alternative"

pgm8705 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:50:30 +0000

I've tried several times to migrate a few apps I have from Dokku to Kamal because I've been intrigued by all the hype in the Rails community about it, but I've always given up after an hour or so of unsuccessful tinkering around. Maybe it is just because it's what I'm used to, but the Dokku experience is so much better than Kamal.

New comment by pgm8705 in "Spotify is increasing US prices again"

pgm8705 — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:55:20 +0000

I find myself contemplating this more and more now, especially as my interest in discovering new music has declined significantly as I enter middle age. My biggest concern would be replicating the cloud aspect of streaming music. Is there a good solution for having access to my library on all my devices as well as my sonos system?

New comment by pgm8705 in "Study finds that 52% of ChatGPT answers to programming questions are wrong"

pgm8705 — Fri, 24 May 2024 13:14:03 +0000

I agree this is the correct way to use it, and it is incredibly useful in that case, but I think a study like this is valuable in the face of all the hype/fud about how AI Agents can program entire complex applications with just a few prompts and/or will replace software engineers shortly.

New comment by pgm8705 in "Spotify HiFi is still MIA after three years, and now so is my subscription"

pgm8705 — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:28:07 +0000

The spotify app experience is what drove me away in the first place. Once they started cluttering the home screen with TikTok style videos and banner sized ads for podcasts I have no interest in, I left for Apple Music and have not looked back.

New comment by pgm8705 in "Spotify HiFi is still MIA after three years, and now so is my subscription"

pgm8705 — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:20:20 +0000

The spatial audio is also keeping me with Apple Music, although I will say that while most are incredible, sometimes I'll come across an album where the spatial mix is laughably terrible.

New comment by pgm8705 in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

pgm8705 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:48:06 +0000

I have been golfing in a weekly league for 10+ years and was frustrated by the complex spreadsheet our league manager built to track everything. I Figured there must be an app we could replace it with... While there were plenty, most were severely outdated or simply did not do what we needed. So I created https://golfsheet.app

New comment by pgm8705 in "Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps"

pgm8705 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 14:52:23 +0000

Awesome! I'm looking forward to trying this out. Currently I get this functionality by using PouchDB on the client with a CouchDB sever. Then on my API server I have some janky code in a cron job to sync changes from CouchDB to PostgreSQL.

New comment by pgm8705 in "37signals Introduces "Once" - Buy software one time"

pgm8705 — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 18:55:09 +0000

I wonder if they're going to offer Basecamp with this model, and if so, how much is that going to cost? I imagine it would have to be in the thousands.

37signals Introduces "Once" - Buy software one time

pgm8705 — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 18:17:15 +0000

Article URL: https://once.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37408929

Points: 254

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New comment by pgm8705 in "Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile want to access your bank account"

pgm8705 — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:06:06 +0000

Seems like ATT may have screwed this up even worse. They seemingly dropped my autopay discount to $5 from $10 claiming that I am using a credit card, when I'm using my checking account as I always have for the past 10 years.