<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: phpnode</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=phpnode</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:07:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=phpnode" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They overbuilt capacity for grok but no one wants to use grok for several reasons</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:27:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424363</link><dc:creator>phpnode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424363</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Goodness me that’s quite a comparison</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 12:39:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159699</link><dc:creator>phpnode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159699</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are quibbling over minor semantics. Is the US preventing most oil from reaching Cuba or not?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:38:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143073</link><dc:creator>phpnode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143073</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The car reads the speed limit signs too, they don't just rely on GPS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 23:35:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142631</link><dc:creator>phpnode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142631</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If your competitor is cutting jobs because of AI you can either race them to the bottom or you can use the humans you already have to leverage AI to expand your product offering, become more competitive, tackle more work, deliver better quality results etc. I don't see a world where AI does the work and humans sit around poor and idle.</p>
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<p>They won't. So what? This is not how specs are used, no one is saying that they are a replacement for source code.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 20:11:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100030</link><dc:creator>phpnode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People always say this but it’s misguided imo. Yes LLMs are not deterministic, but that’s totally irrelevant. You aren’t executing the LLMs output directly, you’re using the LLM to produce an artefact once that is then executed deterministically. A spec gets turned into code once. Editing the spec can cause the code to be updated but it’s not recreating the whole program each time, so why does determinism matter?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 16:01:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096784</link><dc:creator>phpnode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "GitHub is sinking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because if you were building GitHub from scratch today you wouldn't build it the same way and would benefit from many of the technological advancements of the last 2 decades (nearly).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 19:35:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087062</link><dc:creator>phpnode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>at least one went to Shopify, I'm not sure about the rest</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 22:34:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069586</link><dc:creator>phpnode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Last time they tried this they laundered it though an employee's personal github to distance it from google itself, then framed the proposal in the most disingenuous manner possible, as if it was something that users wanted rather than another mechanism for google to exercise control</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 18:13:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066778</link><dc:creator>phpnode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066778</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why do you continue to extend the benefit of the doubt to your former employer when they have shown themselves to be untrustworthy again and again?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 17:39:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066342</link><dc:creator>phpnode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066342</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Last time this happened we got a bunch of Google employees downplaying the impact of WEI and calling it a nothingburger, that people were being hysterical. I just checked, and everyone I saw defending it has since left the company. I'm sure another wave of Google managers, keen to appeal to the higher-ups, will be here to defend this new initiative any minute now.</p>
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<p>it's about the comments / votes ratio.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:31:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056942</link><dc:creator>phpnode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056942</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1. More code faster is not the goal. More features / value faster is the goal. Obviously to get there you need to write more code, but it's not writing code for code's sake.<p>2. Yes, true, but the point is to move up the abstraction hierarchy, so instead of asking the LLM to rename a variable you describe the concrete business goal you're trying to achieve.<p>It is true that coding agents cannot build fully complete stable systems completely unguided yet. That's why we still have jobs. But it's wrong to suggest that they don't deliver value or that they're destined to produce trash every time. It is a matter of oversight and guidance and setting your codebase up for success. That does require work, but it is not impossible, just a different skillset from the ones we've been used to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:51:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048812</link><dc:creator>phpnode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have an approach that can handle this if you're interested? My email is in my profile.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:40:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048688</link><dc:creator>phpnode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048688</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If it's genuinely the case that you can write code faster than you can prompt it into existence then you're not being ambitious enough with your coding agent. Ask it to do more. Tackle bigger problems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 01:33:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044354</link><dc:creator>phpnode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044354</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it does take a little while to get good at this new skill, yes. Just like, say, learning a new programming language and the ecosystem around it takes some effort. After you get over the hump it's really very straightforward and mostly a matter of knowing the kinds of mistakes the LLM is likely to make ahead of time, and then  kindly asking it to do something smarter. If you've successfully mentored junior engineers you already have this skill.</p>
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<p>and then people get bored and stop updating them, soon we'll need a graveyard-graveyard to showcase all the failed graveyard projects.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 15:11:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023611</link><dc:creator>phpnode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023611</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by phpnode in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to be an expert at php but now I haven’t written any in over a decade, I can still read it but it would take me a little while to get back to where I was (hopefully I’ll never need to), same thing could easily happen due to ai</p>
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<p>Cloudflare workers shows a visualisation of your workflow in their dashboard, but it’s imperfect</p>
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