Hacker News: snowstormsun

New comment by snowstormsun in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

snowstormsun — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:12:46 +0000

Well, the 10x promised revenue increase must come from somewhere...

New comment by snowstormsun in "Writing code is cheap now"

snowstormsun — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:43:45 +0000

Who's going to maintain all the cheap code and review it? Is the "software janitor" job title becoming reality now?

New comment by snowstormsun in "GitHub Agentic Workflows"

snowstormsun — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:48:48 +0000

Surely this won't be a security nightmare.

New comment by snowstormsun in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

snowstormsun — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:20:05 +0000

it's even worse than that! bots are doing it as well

New comment by snowstormsun in "Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux"

snowstormsun — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:28:47 +0000

I am using this every day, such a useful little tool!

New comment by snowstormsun in "You don't want to hire "the best engineers""

snowstormsun — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:53:10 +0000

If you want the best engineers, you also need to be the best employer.

New comment by snowstormsun in "Malleable Software"

snowstormsun — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:32:52 +0000

> Now, in many cases, LLMs can handle the "how" for you. You describe what you want in plain language, and the system works like a programmer or system analyst: breaking your problem into building blocks, mapping a flow to solve it, and creating the first version.

People keep saying things like this, but what's an actual example of a viable product created that way? Talk is cheap, I want to see it.

New comment by snowstormsun in "Anthropic's CEO says in 3-6 months, AI will write 90% of the code (March 2025)"

snowstormsun — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 10:54:32 +0000

https://youtu.be/9RaGLtJaZjs

New comment by snowstormsun in "A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages"

snowstormsun — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 13:08:32 +0000

2027

New comment by snowstormsun in "LLM Inevitabilism"

snowstormsun — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:58:16 +0000

Don't worry, it will go away once the stock market plunges.

New comment by snowstormsun in "Recovering from AI addiction"

snowstormsun — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:54:23 +0000

Somehow this text looks suspiciously clean, as if it was generated ;)

New comment by snowstormsun in "P-Hacking in Startups"

snowstormsun — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 09:45:19 +0000

The problem probably more often just is that the product/vision itself is not as good as it is sold to shareholders. No PM will like to push back on this, so they're stuck with things like optimizing the landing page because "clearly the business vision is flawless, it must be that users don't understand it correctly".

New comment by snowstormsun in "Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own"

snowstormsun — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 09:10:02 +0000

Redundant Backups

New comment by snowstormsun in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

snowstormsun — Mon, 26 May 2025 11:15:00 +0000

So who will be held accountable if things break? "Sorry dear customer, it's not our fault, this code was AI generated and it worked in our tests."

New comment by snowstormsun in "A simple search engine from scratch"

snowstormsun — Tue, 20 May 2025 15:30:12 +0000

Using tfidf or bm25 would actually be simpler than a vector search.

I understand this is just for fun, just wanted to point that out.

New comment by snowstormsun in "A simple search engine from scratch"

snowstormsun — Tue, 20 May 2025 15:15:43 +0000

Nice idea, but this approach does not handle out of vocabulary words well which is one major motivation for using a vector-based search. It might not perform significantly better compared to lexical matching like tf-idf or BM25, and being slower because of linear complexity. But cool regardless.

New comment by snowstormsun in "MCP: An in-depth introduction"

snowstormsun — Sat, 17 May 2025 14:45:01 +0000

MCP is practically useful, but the total lack of security in its "design" for me just underlines the type of YOLO-driven development and lack of quality that's being marketed as productivity improvement in software engineering too often these days.

New comment by snowstormsun in "I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search"

snowstormsun — Thu, 15 May 2025 19:31:55 +0000

In your comments history someone replied to a job posting "Just an FYI, if you do a takehome project for William, he won't respond to you (not even with an auto reject)."

New comment by snowstormsun in "In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more"

Hacker News: snowstormsun

New comment by snowstormsun in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

New comment by snowstormsun in "Writing code is cheap now"

New comment by snowstormsun in "GitHub Agentic Workflows"

New comment by snowstormsun in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

New comment by snowstormsun in "Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux"

New comment by snowstormsun in "You don't want to hire "the best engineers""

New comment by snowstormsun in "Malleable Software"

New comment by snowstormsun in "Anthropic's CEO says in 3-6 months, AI will write 90% of the code (March 2025)"

New comment by snowstormsun in "A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages"

New comment by snowstormsun in "LLM Inevitabilism"

New comment by snowstormsun in "Recovering from AI addiction"

New comment by snowstormsun in "P-Hacking in Startups"

New comment by snowstormsun in "Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own"

New comment by snowstormsun in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

New comment by snowstormsun in "A simple search engine from scratch"

New comment by snowstormsun in "A simple search engine from scratch"

New comment by snowstormsun in "MCP: An in-depth introduction"

New comment by snowstormsun in "I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search"

New comment by snowstormsun in "In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more"

New comment by snowstormsun in "Difficult Employees (and How to Handle Them)"