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New comment by solomatov in "The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers"

solomatov — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:42:42 +0000

>I’m not sure what you mean by keep it in your head?

If the project you work on is large enough, it takes me some time to get everything I need to understand for review into the short term memory. If it's small enough, it's less of a problem for me.

New comment by solomatov in "The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers"

solomatov — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:50:12 +0000

But you have to keep it in your head, and remember all stuff at the same time. How is it possible to track, and do reviews one after another? Or are these pretty long running agents?

New comment by solomatov in "The Human Cost of 10x: How AI Is Physically Breaking Senior Engineers"

solomatov — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:38:22 +0000

But how do you cover such amount of multi tasking? Could you give an example? I mean what kind of tasks allow such a parallelization?

New comment by solomatov in "The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers"

solomatov — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:35:13 +0000

> more like supervising 8-15 agents

How do they do it? (My own record is 5 agents, but it is not typical). Do they use gastown or something?

New comment by solomatov in "The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers"

solomatov — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:21:59 +0000

Is there any publication which demonstrates that the improvement is really 10x?

New comment by solomatov in "Servo is now available on crates.io"

solomatov — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:00:44 +0000

What this crate could be used for?

New comment by solomatov in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

solomatov — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:44:19 +0000

Could you recommend which quantization level to use with it?

New comment by solomatov in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

solomatov — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:38:46 +0000

Does github copilot ToS allow this?

New comment by solomatov in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

solomatov — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:37:39 +0000

Do they have any sandbox out of the box?

New comment by solomatov in "Unsloth Studio"

solomatov — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:58:18 +0000

What do you mean by custom LMStudio license? Your employer requires reviews of proprietary EULAs or do you try to get a custom licensing deal from LMStudio?

New comment by solomatov in "Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment"

solomatov — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:32:17 +0000

Could you compare it to other similar software? E.g. Codex App, Conductor, and others? Why your app?

New comment by solomatov in "The $2k Laptop That Replaced My $200/Month AI Subscription"

solomatov — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:06:40 +0000

How is quality for what Qwen 8B provides compares to proprietary models? Is it good enough for your use case?

New comment by solomatov in "Software factories and the agentic moment"

solomatov — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 02:03:54 +0000

But what is the result of your work? What do you commit to the repo? What do you show to new folks when they join your team?

New comment by solomatov in "Software factories and the agentic moment"

solomatov — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:07:33 +0000

Is it essentially using LLMs as a compiler for your specs?

What do you do if the model isn't able to fulfill the spec? How do you troubleshoot what is going on?

New comment by solomatov in "Software factories and the agentic moment"

solomatov — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:40:16 +0000

You aren't supposed to read code, but do you from time to time, just to evaluate what is going on?

New comment by solomatov in "Why software stocks are getting pummelled"

solomatov — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:47:55 +0000

Thanks for the link.

So, basically you made a replacement for webflow for your use case in 10 days, right?

New comment by solomatov in "Why software stocks are getting pummelled"

solomatov — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:26:34 +0000

>But it does reduced by an order of magnitude the amount of money you need to spend on programming a solution that would work better

Could you share any data on this? Are there any case studies you could reference or at least personal experience? One order of magnitude is 10x improvement in cost, right?

New comment by solomatov in "The Codex App"

solomatov — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:27:16 +0000

Is it open source? Do they disclose which framework they use for the GUI? Is it Electron or Tauri?

New comment by solomatov in "AI code and software craft"

solomatov — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:26:14 +0000

>I think that really high quality code can be created via coding agents. Not in one prompt, but instead an orchestration of planning, implementing, validating, and reviewing.

Do you have any advice to share (or resources)? Have you experienced it yourself?

New comment by solomatov in "Agentic Patterns"

solomatov — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:05:11 +0000

It's a very well known pattern. But what about others? There're a lot of very interesting stuff there.