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New comment by robeym in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

robeym — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:08:39 +0000

Fable has been Anthropic's most ambitious and hopeful release. It makes me think Mythos isn't anything but Opus with certain guardrails removed. Very interesting. Hoping we'll see some quick refinements to it

New comment by robeym in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

robeym — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:03:06 +0000

It's been amusing to watch the AI trend of increasing unusual tool uses. Fable easily takes the cake. I learn a lot more terminal commands thanks to it!

Building an AI-Friendly Company, Just in Case AI Takes over the World

robeym — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:23:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.paxerp.com/blog/ai-friendly-company-docs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497228

Points: 1

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Show HN: I generated 235 system docs in a day using GPT-5.5

robeym — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:26:38 +0000

I generated 235 system documentation pages for a startup in about 8 hours using GPT-5.5 in Codex.

We've been putting off the chore of writing technical docs since our team could handle all customer questions directly. However, since releasing an AI tool in the system, users have started asking it system questions as opposed to just data questions like it was designed for. It couldn't answer how-to questions, so, users got confused.

We didn't have a direct way to teach the Ai about our system since our internal docs were thin and the codebase large.

We ended up defining some good documentation practices in best-doc-practices.md, passed it to GPT-5.5, and asked it to write system docs for every module in the system (hundreds), handling 5-10 at a time for context limits.

To our surprise, it worked very well. The tool had read-access to all relevant server/client/database files, so the output was accurate and aligned to what we defined in the best-doc-practices.md.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475992

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by robeym in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

robeym — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:21:10 +0000

For PAX ERP. It'll be read by both humans and llms. "Paxy AI" will be the primary reader, which is the AI support tool in the system. When users ask it a question about how to do something, it'll answer based on the technical docs.

New comment by robeym in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

robeym — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:54:23 +0000

AI impacts so much. So many white collar chores just get obliterated with AI. Legal & regulatory docs, production planning, sales materials, etc. Just yesterday I used AI to generate 235 new system docs based on our codebase, and added automated .md -> html publishing so final drafts go straight to the website. This work that would've taken a contractor 1-2 weeks got done in a day, by me, someone who definitely isn't a technical writer.

When the person who knows what's needed can handle the technical execution themselves, you no longer need that second person.

I certainly wouldn't say you need "more humans"

New comment by robeym in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

robeym — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:55:56 +0000

That woodworking idea is great. It's just a hobby for me as well but after long days of desk work where moving fast is rewarded, it's great to work slowly on a wood project with my hands. I tried listing a couple things on Facebook marketplace but I had never used it before so they just removed my posts.

New comment by robeym in "I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)"

robeym — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:28:56 +0000

Fun read! This is a good story to share. I spent over a year building a complex SaaS product for a narrow market, but it was something I personally needed and was interested in. It was a second full-time job as a solo developer, but the chances are if you are interested in something and find it worthwhile, others will too. It's worth it! Great work. Fun story. Thanks for sharing

New comment by robeym in "GitHub Incident Again"

robeym — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:59:41 +0000

Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

GitHub Incident Again

robeym — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:59:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/?now

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293607

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by robeym in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

robeym — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:04:38 +0000

I think quality experience and personal values are more important than engineer cost. I've seen so many shortcuts taken on outsourced work these past few years. AI also loves shortcuts. The combination of the two is not worth the cost savings.

If you value high quality work and pride in what you do, outsourced workers (who most often don't pay careful attention to their work, hence the cost) are not the solution. However, if you're just trying to get something done and don't care about it getting done right, what better way to do it than spending the least amount of money possible

New comment by robeym in "The real cost of owning a home"

robeym — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:49:30 +0000

I don’t think we should be discouraging people from buying homes. In a healthy market, the goal should be more households owning the homes they live in, not more homes being accumulated by investors and non-owner-occupant buyers.

The mistake is not buying a home. The mistake is buying too much home, stretching the term too far, and ignoring maintenance.

A cheaper house, shorter loan term, and realistic repair/addition budget change the math a lot.

Own what you can actually afford to maintain.

A trial user told us our ERP workflow felt disconnected. They were right

robeym — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:55:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.paxerp.com/blog/user-feedback

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267605

Points: 1

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New comment by robeym in "Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing"

robeym — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:08:29 +0000

I was in the same boat, moving my max subscription to Codex instead of Claude, with a Claude Design project going. I was under the impression that Design was pro plans only, so I downloaded basically everything before cancelling.

It could be worth a quick $20 subscription just to grab your stuff, then cancelling. Trying to get support from either Claude or OpenAI seems pretty hopeless. Hopefully this post will get them to see you

New comment by robeym in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

robeym — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:24:44 +0000

I think progressing as humans is something to be proud of. I care less about who gets credit and more about what we can now do.

I also do not think this makes people less capable of solving hard problems. The bar just moves up. More people can now work on harder problems with better tools.

If the goal is credit or proving real skill, then focus on harder problems, like ones AI can't reach

New comment by robeym in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"

robeym — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:44:15 +0000

I believe this is in response to PocketOS. When I read the original post, I was trying to figure out how they even built a workflow that had AI so close to the self-destruct button. This post's explanation about it probably being fully vibe-coded makes sense. How else would the system be so fragile and for the agent to have such far reach? They built a house of cards.

New comment by robeym in "Agent Skills"

robeym — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:13:12 +0000

A far better approach is being precise with your prompts and if you find a new model has any bad habits, address it specifically in your AGENTS.md and go on your way. If you want to throw in slop promts, go ahead and add a massive AGENTS.md your employer gave you.

People waste too much time on this stuff. The next version could totally change how the model processes your agents.md.

Get good at promting, use agents.md as a minimal model annoyance fixer, and reset it often (every major release)

New comment by robeym in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

robeym — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:48:07 +0000

Anytime Microsoft buys something it's time to start looking for alternatives

New comment by robeym in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

robeym — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:45:01 +0000

Most people run to GitLab or Codeberg. The real loss is network effect of everyone being on GitHub.

GitLab: most similar to GitHub. Repos, CI/CD, issues. Hosted or self-host

Codeberg: free, non-profit, FOSS-friendly. Runs Forgejo. Where Zig went

Forgejo / Gitea: lightweight, self-host on a small server

Bitbucket: fine if you're already in Atlassian/Jira land

Sourcehut: minimalist, email-patch workflow. Fast but a culture shift

Radicle: peer-to-peer, no central server. Niche, principled

Tangled: newer, built on ATProto

New comment by robeym in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

robeym — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:29:49 +0000

Solid and growing impressions but low CTR. We're not quite on page 1 for most queries, and not even close for our primary target queries.