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New comment by saadn92 in "Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design"

saadn92 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:02:20 +0000

What does pricing look like?

New comment by saadn92 in "Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'"

saadn92 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:24:15 +0000

I'm all for saving money where you can, but these models really aren't great for learning because they love giving you answers and it's so easy to get an answer, but the process to get to the answer is how you actually learn. Unless you put guardrails in place to actually learn, I don't think this advice is good.

New comment by saadn92 in "The Year of Internal Tools"

saadn92 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:45:22 +0000

yep, excellent use case! I did something similar with my gmail recently, because I hate using gmail's UI and I also hate that I don't get access to all my data, but I've begun to regularly backup all my email into a local postgres DB (including attachments). AI has also allowed me to get a full backup of my entire email and archive it onto my own storage. and the best part of this: I might be able to finally get off gmail

New comment by saadn92 in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

saadn92 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:43:18 +0000

Maybe not everything needs to be smart.

New comment by saadn92 in "The Year of Internal Tools"

saadn92 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:19:05 +0000

good question. maintenance is cheap with tools like astra/opus. also, these aren't production level applications, so I don't need to worry about it being "perfect" (though there's no such thing)

New comment by saadn92 in "The Year of Internal Tools"

saadn92 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:04:12 +0000

Can also say the year that subscriptions go down, because now you can finally build your own systems exactly to your liking. Save money and have something that works just for you. LLMs are awesome.

New comment by saadn92 in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

saadn92 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:01:04 +0000

You can take it how you'd like. The reality is that the US bombed and killed children. There's no arguing that.

New comment by saadn92 in "Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]"

saadn92 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:02:05 +0000

Thanks for admitting to the mistake, but my understanding was that coding was fully solved now?

New comment by saadn92 in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

saadn92 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:15:06 +0000

Yes, I am aware, but when I said "chatbot" I'm referring to LLM in general. I could have been more specific, but I was being pretty emotional as well.

New comment by saadn92 in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

saadn92 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:10:06 +0000

you're being nitpicky. for all intents and purposes, they used something outside of human intelligence and kids died

New comment by saadn92 in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

saadn92 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:34:01 +0000

What a world we live in that the most powerful government in the world relies on intelligence from a chat bot. Maybe it’s about time we realize that the US hasn’t been doing well for a long time. And who cares what I think when I can’t imagine what the parents of these kids must be going through, but as long as there is ignorance, perpetuated by social media at an expeditious rate, there will be incidents like this. God help us all. Poor kids.

New comment by saadn92 in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

saadn92 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:14:35 +0000

bots everywhere

New comment by saadn92 in "I Don't Like LLMs"

saadn92 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:02:13 +0000

Big part of engineering is to know what tool to use in what situation and in this case, this tool fit perfectly for my needs. Your needs may be different, so that tool will work for you. There's no obsession here. All I've stated is that LLMs have saved me time and money and that's something I can actually measure. You're free to believe that or not, but it's my experience.

New comment by saadn92 in "I Don't Like LLMs"

saadn92 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:41:04 +0000

placebo effect? It took me 30 minutes to setup instead of a day, that's not a placebo effect, my friend

New comment by saadn92 in "Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup"

saadn92 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:49:10 +0000

I've had this need recently and noticed that tailscale is extremely useful between phone to mac transfers as well. I mean you can also technically use airdrop too, but that sometimes is unreliable for me.

New comment by saadn92 in "Show HN: AutoBot – live voice control for long-running AI work"

saadn92 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:08:05 +0000

Ha, I know. The way I end up solving it is to give full permissions to the claude/codex session and just try to lockdown any external actor from reaching my systems, but there's still a risk of course. The tools I work on are internal enough that I don't lose too much sleep over it, but prompt injections still scare me.

New comment by saadn92 in "Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing"

saadn92 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:04:56 +0000

I've mentioned in other threads, but we have execs at my work sending out emails using Claude. It's hilarious, but not unexpected.

New comment by saadn92 in "Show HN: AutoBot – live voice control for long-running AI work"

saadn92 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:14:10 +0000

Thank you for sharing! It's funny, yesterday I just built an iPhone Shortcut that allows me to dispatch async claude code tasks, i.e. fixing a bug just by saying "dispatch go" on my phone. Really cool to see other people working on stuff like this!

New comment by saadn92 in "Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others"

saadn92 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:36:05 +0000

neat, I'll check this out! I usually just use Termius via tailscale for ssh

New comment by saadn92 in "I Don't Like LLMs"

saadn92 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:37 +0000

They do help you move faster in my experience