Hacker News: recroad

New comment by recroad in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

recroad — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:07:54 +0000

RFC 2119 style requirements have proven to be quite effective for me.

New comment by recroad in "The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable"

recroad — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:21:56 +0000

That may be true but it’s still capable of nuanced discussions.

Enforcing Invariants in AI-Generated Code with ADRs and Contracts

recroad — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:22:17 +0000

Article URL: https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/enforcing-invariants-in-ai-generated

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736025

Points: 1

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New comment by recroad in "Working With AI: A concrete example"

recroad — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:30:06 +0000

Have to disagree with this as it's excellent at helping you wide and broad before converging. I suggest trying OpenSpec and use /ospx:explore to state your problem and go from there.

Four Ways to Plan Agent Work

recroad — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:33:44 +0000

Article URL: https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/four-ways-to-plan-agent-work-and

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634097

Points: 2

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Don't rely on instructions; use Agent Hooks to enforce guardrails

recroad — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:29:40 +0000

Article URL: https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/agent-hooks-deterministic-guardrails

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619290

Points: 3

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New comment by recroad in "Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)"

recroad — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 02:04:49 +0000

This has been working for me

https://lookscanned.io/en/scan

Model Card: unsloth/GLM-5.2-GGUF

recroad — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:47:17 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/GLM-5.2-GGUF

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576652

Points: 2

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New comment by recroad in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

recroad — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:01:12 +0000

No, they tried to negotiate a new deal, not go back to the one they had agreed to. Why would Iran trust any new negotiations?

Iran was naive enough to trust the US twice in the last year and HAD THEIR NEGOTIATING TEAM BOMBED! I'm shocked they even trust the US to hold up to the deal they signed today. I'm guessing US concessions on frozen assets was just too much to pass up.

New comment by recroad in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

recroad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:33:14 +0000

You left out the part that they went past the 3.5% after Trump pulled out of the deal. While they were in it, they were complying fully as per IAEA and the US State department themselves.

New comment by recroad in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

recroad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:32:23 +0000

Iran was fully abiding by the JCPOA (Obama Iran deal) until Trump pulled out in his first term. Trump hates Obama so that was entirely out of spite.

What is surprising is how co-opted the Biden admin was by Israel, that they didn't even bother to even consider reentering it despite it being a Democratic party "win" when it was first announced.

New comment by recroad in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

recroad — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:54:10 +0000

Snitches be bitches

New comment by recroad in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

recroad — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:45:44 +0000

Woah - what’s the prompt and what’s the PR?

New comment by recroad in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

recroad — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:43:09 +0000

I use Elixir not because of typed/untyped, but because of BEAM and OTP.

New comment by recroad in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

recroad — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:47:33 +0000

Mostly brownfield systems in Java, Elixir and TS. I use OpenSpec in explore mode and point the agent to all the different repositories (when not working in a monorepo) to identify changes. Once done, i switch to propose mode and spend at least 15 minutes there iterating over the plan until I'm satisfied with the TDD approach (agents need tests to verify their work). Then apply and review. This also auto generates docs etc.

New comment by recroad in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

recroad — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:36:31 +0000

I just don’t understand how people are getting negative value out of AI or even only 20% productivity boost. I can only conclude that people don’t know how to use agents.

New comment by recroad in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

recroad — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:09:14 +0000

There's also this:

https://www.stridelikeaboss.com/

New comment by recroad in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

recroad — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:31:53 +0000

“Nepo babies don’t cheat” seems like a contradictory philosophy

New comment by recroad in "We let AIs run radio stations"

recroad — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:03:19 +0000

By donating whatever money they wasted here to literally anything.

New comment by recroad in "We let AIs run radio stations"

recroad — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:00:58 +0000

This is why we need more data centers?