Hacker News: sibeliuss

New comment by sibeliuss in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

sibeliuss — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:21:22 +0000

This thing is horrible.

If you have it installed, it will silently inject a warning into claude that you should use tailwind, even if your app is not! Then every single request will silently question the decision as to why yr app is using one thing, rather than another, leading to revisions as it starts writing incorrect code.

I couldn't believe it when I discovered it. For so many reasons I am vehemently anti Vercel. Just discovered this two days ago, after installing their frontend skill.

Moving Railway's Frontend Off Next.js

sibeliuss — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:20:42 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.railway.com/p/moving-railways-frontend-off-nextjs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677664

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by sibeliuss in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

sibeliuss — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:43:04 +0000

Cmd+Tab skills! But mainly, its a matter of only ever doing one thing at a time and optimizing for that in lots of little ways.

This "rule" is especially useful now that I'm coding primarily through agents. Secret weapon number 2, while everybody else is getting burned out running ten agents at once and producing slop, while I'm now writing more (and better) code than ever.

New comment by sibeliuss in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

sibeliuss — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:16:27 +0000

This was my secret weapon for years. My coworkers could never understand my focus and productivity and were always surprised when I said that it was due to working from a tiny laptop screen, and no more.

New comment by sibeliuss in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

sibeliuss — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:13:39 +0000

To appear as a strongman in the eyes of those in power, those who are clearly incapable of introspection. And by such moves he himself gains power.

New comment by sibeliuss in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

sibeliuss — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:09:33 +0000

His statements about this were purely politics, and nothing more. He himself does not believe this. It's political revisionism.

New comment by sibeliuss in "The future of version control"

sibeliuss — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:31:28 +0000

Why must everyone preprocess their blog posts with ChatGPT? It is such a disservice to ones ideas.

New comment by sibeliuss in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

sibeliuss — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:13:09 +0000

This ^ Exactly it. This will be the change.

New comment by sibeliuss in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

sibeliuss — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:38:27 +0000

I'm extremely cautious about complexity, yet have adopted a claude-based dev flow. It comes down to watching and guiding it, and not letting it run autonomously. At a certain point your codebase will tip over into the patterns you've defined and claude will recognize and follow them. Just treat Claude as a vim editor mode and you will see a big difference, and your relationship to the tool will change.

New comment by sibeliuss in "Boss-CSS: I created another "CSS-in-JS" lib"

sibeliuss — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:21:54 +0000

Happy to see a new CSS-in-JS lib. All of this madness about runtime performance costs does not apply to 99.9% of the population. But good abstractions do. And then there's latency, and machines are getting faster, and browsers getting better, etc etc. This whole argument and the related FUD was all a non-issue to begin with, at the great cost to DX.

New comment by sibeliuss in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

sibeliuss — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:07:09 +0000

This utterly boring AI writing. Go, please go away...

New comment by sibeliuss in "Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI"

sibeliuss — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:34:23 +0000

Biome missed the bus by not getting mixed language formatting in soon enough. Oxfmt got it, and then won.

New comment by sibeliuss in "What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI"

sibeliuss — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:00:15 +0000

Appreciate this take. It makes a lot of sense and can see this happening all over right now.

New comment by sibeliuss in "The silent death of good code"

sibeliuss — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 03:50:27 +0000

The statement makes sense with software that has users, and scales past a certain size. Claude is the map, not the territory.

New comment by sibeliuss in "The silent death of good code"

sibeliuss — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:48:22 +0000

> This same colleague then invested time into understanding the kernel subsystem, the exact reasons why the original C program was written how it was, and rewrote the Rust translation himself. The difference was night and day; the code flowed naturally, explained itself and the underlying subsystems, and may genuinely be some of the nicest parts of the entire codebase.

This is the point that everybody needs to calm down and understand. LLMs are fantastic for POCs _which then get rewritten_. Meaning: the point is to rewrite it, by hand. Even if this is not as fast as shipping the POC and pretending everything is ok (don't do this!) it still drastically speeds up the software engineering pipeline and has the potential to increase Good Code overall.

A perfectly reasonable rule in software organizations is: For greenfield code, LLMs are strictly required for 1st-pass prototyping (also required!). And then: Hand writes (within reason) for production code. Your company will not lose their competitive edge following this guideline, and this includes your hard-earned skills.

New comment by sibeliuss in "Ask HN: Junior getting lost"

sibeliuss — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:52:40 +0000

The only way to learn real software engineering is on the job. It is not theory but practice. Assume you know nothing, and humble yourself to learn. It will take many years!

New comment by sibeliuss in "We want strict narrowly typed JSX"

sibeliuss — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:45:38 +0000

This is rad +

Easy Measures Doing, Simple Measures Understanding

sibeliuss — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:46:46 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/easy-vs-simple/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721721

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sibeliuss in "Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal"

sibeliuss — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:57:10 +0000

Textual is A++. Feels a bit less snappy than Ink, but it makes up in all things with its immense feature-set. Seriously fun building apps of all kinds with this lib.

New comment by sibeliuss in "Raising money fucked me up"

sibeliuss — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 04:12:20 +0000

It's less about praising your children, vs being honest with them! Don't give them false praise, and they'll be fine.