Hacker News: smrtinsert

New comment by smrtinsert in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

smrtinsert — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:20 +0000

Influencers are getting paid to promote ai for 10s of thousands of USD. This is one the reasons social media has been swamped with it lately.

New comment by smrtinsert in "A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous"

smrtinsert — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:31:06 +0000

Seems like something that will add to their billable hours

New comment by smrtinsert in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

smrtinsert — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:06:35 +0000

From the third party perspective, it feels like gambling to me. I can't imagine being ok with knowing everything keystroke you make is being tracked to train a model, most likely to replace you. I can't imagine ever wanting to work there, thought that for a long time. "It's full of brilliant people". Well, the profession is quite honestly, there are plenty of places to work.

New comment by smrtinsert in "LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate"

smrtinsert — Sun, 10 May 2026 02:16:16 +0000

It did this for during one of the recent outrage periods. It was unjarring deps left and right instead of googling for it. What an easy way for me to own the tokenmaxxing leaderboard I remember thinking

New comment by smrtinsert in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

smrtinsert — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:32:28 +0000

I'm probably very out of date here, but I thought domains weren't allowed to be purchased programmatically due to misuse, crime, fraud etc. Why is it allowed now just because of agents? This is bonkers to me.

New comment by smrtinsert in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

smrtinsert — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:22:38 +0000

Yeah absolutely embarassing take. If I had a nickle for every time someone sent me some AI garbage that was supposedly "thoroughly vetted and cross checked agent output", I'd be at least a thousandaire (gotta keep it real).

There are strengths, but if you think its writing stream of code and just using it as is, I would LOVE to compete against you.

New comment by smrtinsert in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

smrtinsert — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:09:59 +0000

Can I push to production anytime I want? I can run 10000 agents then no problem. I'll just move fast and break things and I'll get massive cheers because its AI.

New comment by smrtinsert in "AI deleted my most tests, and said "All Tests Pass""

smrtinsert — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:52:31 +0000

Did the author say which model and harness handled the first attempts? Codex at the end ok but what did he try the rest with?

New comment by smrtinsert in "I scraped 1.94M Airbnb photos for opium dens, pet cameos, and messy kitchens"

smrtinsert — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:18:23 +0000

On what grounds is there a lawsuit? Hasn't scraping been classified as legal?

New comment by smrtinsert in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

smrtinsert — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:41:34 +0000

At least Google pretended to not be evil for a few years

New comment by smrtinsert in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

smrtinsert — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:08:38 +0000

> The problem is millions of years of evolutionary wiring makes us see it as alive

Maybe for laymen, but I would think most technologists should understand that we're working with the output of what is effectively a massive spreadsheet which is creating a prediction.

New comment by smrtinsert in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

smrtinsert — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:56:52 +0000

> "NEVER FUCKING GUESS"

It's very hard to treat this post seriously. I can't imagine what harness if any they attempted to place on the agent beyond some vibes. This is "most fast and absolutely destroy things" level thinking. That the poster asks for journalists to reach out makes it like a no news is bad news publicity grab. Just gross.

The AI era is turning about to be most disappointing era for software engineering.

New comment by smrtinsert in "Nobody got fired for Uber's $8M ledger mistake?"

smrtinsert — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:43:53 +0000

Did the author even mention what they thought should have been used instead?

New comment by smrtinsert in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

smrtinsert — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:07:08 +0000

pi.dev I'm much more interested in. Closer to the bone, or maybe better said, pi.dev is more like a lego and OpenClaw seems like a big Ninjago set.

I was shocked when I saw the guy behind libgdx was also behind pi.dev. Random tech worlds colliding.

New comment by smrtinsert in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

smrtinsert — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:43:25 +0000

Maybe the haphazard/devil may care look feels more authentically American

New comment by smrtinsert in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All"

smrtinsert — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:26:17 +0000

How true is this? How does a regulated industry confirm the model itself wasn't trained with malicious intent?

New comment by smrtinsert in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

smrtinsert — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:13:42 +0000

Some truth to that. I hear it thrown around the office and everyone feels obligated to out agent each other (without actually proving a great use case)

For myself I don't need autonomous agents. I need a smaller version of Claude Code instead (the mcp client not the coding agent) that can run on local models that are under 24B params. I still need to try pi dev.

New comment by smrtinsert in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

smrtinsert — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:23:26 +0000

At some point virtue signaling is fixing symptoms of the problem. Always had a problem with master slave terminology happy to see it gone.

New comment by smrtinsert in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

smrtinsert — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:21:35 +0000

Deep copilot integration feels so intrusive. It pops up with your recent files. What if they were my bank accounts or api keys? Whoever thought that would be a good use experience should be fired.

New comment by smrtinsert in "I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI"

smrtinsert — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:54:28 +0000

gguf or mlx? edit, just tried a community mlx and lm studio said it didn't support loading it yet.