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New comment by simsation in "What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI?"

simsation — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:59:50 +0000

When I saw a very basic mockup of a website and realized AI could generate the entire page from it (this was shortly before ChatGPT came out)

New comment by simsation in "Ask HN: Do you embrace AI in your life and business?"

simsation — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:18:12 +0000

This is nothing new. Every few years there's a shift you have to adapt to. In terms of web technology: vanilla JS, then prototype.js/scriptacoulous -> jQuery, then React/Vue/Angular, then Next.js/Nuxt, now Vibe Coding where prompting is a new layer on top. Same with CSS -> Less, Scss -> Bootstrap, Tailwind. Now with vibe coding as new layer, I don't write CSS anymore. The developers and consultants who refused to move with each wave got left behind. AI is the current wave and it will be the next basic computer skill.

New comment by simsation in "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"

simsation — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:30:07 +0000

Amazing, thank you for the reamp tip! I used winamp always in my Windows years like 15yrs ago. But then I switched to Mac and forgot about winamp completely.

New comment by simsation in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

simsation — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:24:38 +0000

Same for me, I started web development with Netscape and IE5, and all the browser specific CSS declarations and media queries, checking on so many different browsers. Then all the trouble with positioning by inline blocks/float, then flex boxes. Now AI does all the HTML structure and CSS. Never have to do it again.