Hacker News: podnami

New comment by podnami in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

podnami — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:27:10 +0000

I’ve spent time doing software at VW and a few of its subsidiaries, and this matches my experience.

Compliance is everything, and SAFe (Scaled Agile) is deployed as a blunt instrument.

Management treats software exactly like hardware production lines—everything is just an "engineering process" that can be optimized on a spreadsheet.

The underlying assumption is that individual engineering talent is just an interchangeable commodity. Once you view developers as replaceable cogs, outsourcing the entire infrastructure to the lowest bidder in India becomes the logical conclusion.

It’s a textbook case of process-over-people driving institutional tech debt.

New comment by podnami in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

podnami — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:07:09 +0000

Coding on the go is definitely a use case. Especially if you want something answered or make a big decision on an architectural change but need both docs and get informed about trade offs. The biggest productivity boost we made was auto deployment of new PRs so that the agent can make live changes and we can review stuff on the to. Suddenly you can do QA in a park in the sunshine without being in front of a desktop

New comment by podnami in "OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API"

podnami — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:15:13 +0000

This is snark. Since when has a junior level dev managed to debug and deploy say a cloudformation stack and follow up with notes under 3 minutes?

New comment by podnami in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

podnami — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:38:44 +0000

They lost me at Opus 4.7

Anecdotally OpenAI is trying to get into our enterprise tooth and nail, and have offered unlimited tokens until summer.

Gave GPT5.4 a try because of this and honestly I don’t know if we are getting some extra treatment, but running it at extra high effort the last 30 days I’ve barely see it make any mistakes.

At some points even the reasoning traces brought a smile to my face as it preemptively followed things that I had forgotten to instruct it about but were critical to get a specific part of our data integrity 100% correct.

New comment by podnami in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"

podnami — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:51:18 +0000

Do you have to know Assembler to be able to write code in Java? With the point being that you rarely know the underlying mechanics - and the same if true for vibe coding.

New comment by podnami in "Microgpt"

podnami — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:41:13 +0000

What happens before the probability distribution? I’m assuming say alignment or other factors would influence it?

New comment by podnami in "Microgpt"

podnami — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:38:36 +0000

I would assume this is from case to case, such as:

- How aligned has it been to “know” that something is true (eg ethical constraints)

- Statistical significance and just being able to corroborate one alternative in Its training data more strongly than another

- If it’s a web search related query, is the statement from original sources vs synthesised from say third party sources

But I’m just a layman and could be totally off here.

New comment by podnami in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

podnami — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:20:25 +0000

Is your prediction that most people actually like to use software?

New comment by podnami in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

podnami — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:39:34 +0000

If you’re working in engineering, find an exit. AI is coming for you.

New comment by podnami in "Zed is now available on Windows"

podnami — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 07:32:37 +0000

You can just ask AI

New comment by podnami in "Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol"

podnami — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 20:11:54 +0000

Hey man, take a step away from the keyboard. Instead imagine the every day person. Would they rather click, scroll, swipe and pull out credit cards across multiple websites - or just ask their digital assistant to do it?

The defaulting to negativity will really eat some communities up from the inside.

New comment by podnami in "Open models by OpenAI"

podnami — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:23:48 +0000

Wow this was actually blazing fast. I prompted "how can the 45th and 47th presidents of america share the same parents?"

On ChatGPT.com o3 thought for for 13 seconds, on OpenRouter GPT OSS 120B thought for 0.7 seconds - and they both had the correct answer.

New comment by podnami in "Crypto has become the ultimate swamp asset"

podnami — Sun, 18 May 2025 11:51:09 +0000

You can do this using OpenRouter; they accept USDC I think

Ask HN: Should bots actively be banned on HN

podnami — Tue, 13 May 2025 23:22:33 +0000

I saw the top comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43970837 and started thinking if there are rules against using bots to write comments. Personally I wouldn’t have spotted it but some people pointed out the use of dashes and then I felt duped. What are your thoughts on this? Catching ChatGPT generated comments vs human responses isn’t easy, but in the case of that specific comment I felt “double duped” as the comment also described an experience from real life.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43978967

Points: 4

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New comment by podnami in "Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?"

podnami — Tue, 13 May 2025 09:17:11 +0000

Make a cool product video. It’s easier for people to grok the basic value prop for a product (and it forces you to think about it) vs needing to read product specs. It’s definitely worthwhile using a professional to get it created as it can be used for fundraising/sales etc

New comment by podnami in "Getting Older Isn't What You Think"

podnami — Wed, 07 May 2025 17:46:36 +0000

Often the wants dissipate over time. One craves sleeping in, having a coffee and not arguing with your spouse. Sure if you push people they might confess about abandoned dreams, but my experience is that most people over 45 are quite content. Maybe it’s a Swedish thing.

New comment by podnami in "Show HN: My AI Native Resume"

podnami — Mon, 05 May 2025 04:43:16 +0000

How is this not better for engineers than having to maintain a LinkedIn page or a PDF-based resume?

New comment by podnami in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

podnami — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:38:44 +0000

Checkra, an inline assistant for UX, copy and conversion feedback right on your site. It’s easy to set up with a tiny JS snippet and free to use - no account needed. We’re using it for our in-house product development and it has streamlined our workflow for generating A/B versions of pages and copy significantly

New comment by podnami in "Google Is Winning on Every AI Front"

podnami — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 06:43:49 +0000

Do we have insights on whether they knew that their business model was at risk? My understanding is that OpenAI’s credibility lies in seeing the potential of scaling up a transformer-based model and that Google was caught off guard.

New comment by podnami in "Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty"

podnami — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 11:38:33 +0000

Isn’t it a democratisation of communication? I mean before social media the friction between you and your soapbox was much bigger.