Hacker News: quikoa

New comment by quikoa in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""

quikoa — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:33:28 +0000

It is only allowed in unsafe blocks. As long as the unsafe blocks are few and well understood then Rust programmers can contain this to a small well defined portion of a program.

New comment by quikoa in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

quikoa — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:14:36 +0000

I can't tell if this comment is sarcasm or not. If you let AI run commands you don't understand (especially in production) you may end up with some nasty surprises.

New comment by quikoa in "The bottleneck was never the code"

quikoa — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:00:34 +0000

Yes, if code is only a liability then just delete the code and poof liability is gone.

New comment by quikoa in "Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?"

quikoa — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:42:02 +0000

The ultimate piece is not revenue but profit. At some point these enormous investments will have to be earned back. Good luck with that when open weight models are also continuously improving, have cheap providers and for many are already very usable.

New comment by quikoa in "A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games"

quikoa — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:27:22 +0000

Yea I get that, I still wouldn't want to invest a serious amount of time on a product to build on such a platform. Best of luck though maybe it still works as a business.

New comment by quikoa in "A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games"

quikoa — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:53:00 +0000

Vendor lock-in with a monthly subscription where the price can change at any moment or the company may disappear along with your product. I wouldn't build my business on that.

New comment by quikoa in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

quikoa — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:22:43 +0000

I can't even tell whether this comment is serious or not.

New comment by quikoa in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

quikoa — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:17:43 +0000

Maybe Anthropic is just testing the waters to see what they can get away with. Left unchallenged (court, charge back, whatever) why change course?

New comment by quikoa in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

quikoa — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:03:45 +0000

The open models cannot be taken away. Anyone with the right hardware can host these. Unlike the API/subscription services where you can be banned from, may have drastic price increases or reduction of their limits.

New comment by quikoa in "Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again"

quikoa — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:39:35 +0000

The open models may not be as great but maybe these are good enough. AI users can switch when the prices rise before it becomes sustainable for (some) of the large LLM providers.

New comment by quikoa in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"

quikoa — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:03:37 +0000

Isn't there a difference between: distilling specific AI input/output vs scraping whatever random AI output (with unknown input)?

New comment by quikoa in "SDL bans AI-written commits"

quikoa — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:21:19 +0000

Alright, if you do build something I hope you share it here. I'm always looking forward to any image editing/processing apps or techniques.

New comment by quikoa in "SDL bans AI-written commits"

quikoa — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:06:05 +0000

I'm interested in tools (or blog posts about this) for image editing apps. Would you mind sharing what you've build?

New comment by quikoa in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

quikoa — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:16:57 +0000

The cost for AI companies might be $5000 but the "essentially free" could be close to the limit of what people are willing to spend. If that's the case then enshittification will continue and/or many AI companies will never be profitable.

New comment by quikoa in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

quikoa — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:11:30 +0000

Inference for API or subscriptions? There is a massive price difference between the two.

New comment by quikoa in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

quikoa — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:38:39 +0000

Perhaps the subscription part of the business is so heavily subsidized that they have no choice but to reduce the cost.

New comment by quikoa in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

quikoa — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:34:59 +0000

If Claude Code truly was worth something they'd sell it instead of forcing its use with a subscription.

New comment by quikoa in "Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still"

quikoa — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:54:45 +0000

Check out reddit with subreddits like /r/INAT, /r/gameideas or /r/gamedesign.

Or Look at where artists hang out. This could be pixel art forums. Also contact artists that you admire directly (would need to show something here and not merely an idea obviously). Paying for an artist is also worth considering if that's an option.

New comment by quikoa in "Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still"

quikoa — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:51:10 +0000

You don't have to go at it alone, share your idea(s) and get a pixel artist to join.

Think about how much time you invested in to learning programming. If you're not prepared to do the same for art it's better to get someone else to do it. Especially if you don't enjoy it.

New comment by quikoa in "So where are all the AI apps?"

quikoa — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:37:26 +0000

While a good post the title is a bit ambiguous. The post is about applications created using AI not applications with AI functionality embedded.