<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: sesm</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sesm</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:38:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sesm" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sesm in "Perfection is not over-engineering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> We acknowledge not everything will be covered, we're setting the requirements at the 90th percentile use case<p>I'm ok with this as long as dropped requirements are documented and nobody wakes you up at night when those edge cases show up in production. Also, when the next feature needs to build on top of those dropped edge cases, you are given enough resources to redo the previous solution.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:53:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985343</link><dc:creator>sesm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985343</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sesm in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think there was a 'prompt' for it, rather a long and dedicated work of a professional mathematician which involved LLM in some capacity. I'm sure the search step wasn't an ad-hoc script running in a Claude Code session (as somebody would naively assume), it was an optimized numerical code running in Anthropic's compute cluster. Note that details are not published yet and `__alpoge__` is officially working at Anthropic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:37:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985202</link><dc:creator>sesm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985202</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sesm in "Road to Elm 1.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's the Elm definition of simplicity? Genuinely asking, because the concept of simplicity is very vague and overloaded in programming.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:08:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804080</link><dc:creator>sesm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804080</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sesm in "You can't unit test for taste"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Rick Rubin told Anderson Cooper he has no technical ability. Doesn't play instruments. Can't work a mixing board.<p>If you watch his interview on Rick Beato's channel, this myth will fall apart. He plays guitar, had his own punk rock band and his guitar playing is featured on some high-profile records he produced. Also, he has a lot of practical experience with all kinds of studio equipment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:13:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673734</link><dc:creator>sesm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sesm in "AI coding at home without going broke"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Do that well and you can build what a team of twenty engineers would put out in a month for around a thousand dollars.<p>As usual, an extraordinary claim without an extraordinary evidence: <a href="https://stephen.bochinski.dev/apps/" rel="nofollow">https://stephen.bochinski.dev/apps/</a></p>
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<p>I would argue that those are not emergent property of the model, but a property of how humans find insights in a plausible guess.</p>
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<p>"AI" is a marketing term, LLMs and Difusion Models are math.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 14:13:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222942</link><dc:creator>sesm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222942</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sesm in "Flipper One – we need your help"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They want to run local models</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 14:04:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222777</link><dc:creator>sesm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sesm in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, it's much worse. It will take much more time to review and notice that it doesn't actually solve the problem at hand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 10:00:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191357</link><dc:creator>sesm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191357</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sesm in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agree, after closer look smart pointer types are pretty standard and collections were indeed a part of migration.<p>But still, in order to prepare those detailed and very project-specific instructions you need to iterate on trying to convert the files from this specific codebase.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 09:55:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146638</link><dc:creator>sesm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146638</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sesm in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When announcements say that rewrite took 1 week, I wonder how much time went into preparing this file with very detailed instructions on mapping Zig to Rust idioms: <a href="https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270fa881dd5730ef1549e88407701a5#diff-b3c07d9485bc3ae6894a60cba66d6d93c1c43223c9dcf47ad64691930f090152R352" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270fa881dd573...</a><p>On top of that, if you look at 'Pointers & ownership' and 'Collections' sections, the Bun codebase is already prepared, using internal smart pointer types that map 1-to-1 to Rust equivalents, and `bun_collections` Rust crate already exists.<p>This makes an impression, that rewrite was prepared long time ago and was Bun team proposition to Anthropic during the acquisition deal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 19:43:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140229</link><dc:creator>sesm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sesm in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder, did they consider an approach of vibe-coding a deterministic converter and then running it? This should be much more token efficient.</p>
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<p>Just to clarify, you did this for C tools using LLMs or using deterministic conversion tools?</p>
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<p>I guess they vibe-rewrite to C, relying on CCC compiler. Agent loop will be modifying both the project and the compiler until the ends meet.</p>
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<p>I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:54:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137986</link><dc:creator>sesm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sesm in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Or maybe the Zig team is in a greater danger, since their brains hold the genius juice the clankers are missing and they should have it by 2027<p>Imagine you want to monopolize programming by pushing LLM as an obligatory middle-men. Then people who can program without LLMs are direct threat to your business plan. It's time for us to start hiding. I'm cosidering adding `co-authored by Claude Code` to my hand-written commits and running Claude in useless loops to mock API usage.</p>
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<p>Wasn't looking at leaked Claude Code source already enough for the ridicule?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:45:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137865</link><dc:creator>sesm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sesm in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The reason for this is: the only way to show productivity gains enabled by AI is to lay off people and pretend you are doing the same amount of work (while in reality you are severely dropping quality and accumulating technical debt).</p>
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<p>But it's a team sport. For example, in Dota 2 you should be trying to dominate your opponents. If you are trying to dominate your teammates instead (by prioritizing better KDA) you are most likely ruining the game.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 09:58:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047485</link><dc:creator>sesm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047485</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sesm in "Appearing productive in the workplace"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The new meaning of OCD</p>
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