Hacker News: spacecadet

New comment by spacecadet in "Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)"

spacecadet — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:07:42 +0000

It's a skill issue... governance and culture skills. Doesn't matter at this point what model you use... a thoughtful harness with appropriate levels of HITL and strong security, governance, discipline. "We" have a very successful dark factory running... no I cant tell you about it. It's trade secrets at this point. It was incredibly hard to build, roll out, and maintain.

People have no idea that 2 years ago we hit peak performance with omni models. We won competitions with GPT-4o-mini, mini... it does not matter. Context matters. Discipline matters. Observability matters. Most of all, PEOPLE matter.

All of the fools who tried this and laid people off. Fools. It's about empowering your team, making their lives easier, less frustrating, and higher impact.

New comment by spacecadet in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

spacecadet — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:54:07 +0000

20 years ago when I use to instruct a 101 class on programming, in the first 2 weeks, I made everyone write simple programs with paper and pencil. Students thought that was insane, I would catch them mocking it. I always had the last laugh... those who took it seriously always performed the best and went on to have more successful careers.

New comment by spacecadet in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

spacecadet — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:49:20 +0000

idk discipline? try retraining your brain on non-digital activities. Pick a long running non-digital activity and gitrdone.

New comment by spacecadet in "Show HN: A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy"

spacecadet — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:20:41 +0000

You might also like my AI written zero player game/sim: https://github.com/derekburgess/simcraft

The whole thing originated years ago to see what LLMs were capable of. Just spent a chunk of my Fable access hacking away at it. Is it intended to be 100% realistic, no. Its more art, tho I do try to lean into physics...

New comment by spacecadet in "We Have Learned Nothing"

spacecadet — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:19:02 +0000

You all are being idiots. Im done. There is so much nuance to all of this that I did not include. Key words are Flattened by Regulation... Have you ever read a damn rule book? Stock, improved, modified, class, my god.

Good bye, never again. Hacker news is a lost cause.

Signing out.

New comment by spacecadet in "We Have Learned Nothing"

spacecadet — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:24:22 +0000

Oh really?! I said my statement was oversimplified. Not all groups have the same requirements. NASA Spec is very regulated for instance... But I knew a comment like this was coming, so as someone who grew up with a family race team, has a race car, and builds a motorsports app. Shut up.

My eyes being rolling faster than my crank...

New comment by spacecadet in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

spacecadet — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:03:03 +0000

Writing code doesn't reliably work... However, as we converge toward a more collaborative development environment, code is more important than ever. Testing, sales, etc. more important than ever. Security... more important them ever.

Or everything will converge toward a rust like inference optimized gibberish...

New comment by spacecadet in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

spacecadet — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:51:08 +0000

There we go, gluten for punishment, you spiteful nerds.

New comment by spacecadet in "We Have Learned Nothing"

spacecadet — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:46:20 +0000

Racing competition is flattened through regulation(oversimplified). All drivers have the same car. Drivers skill and fearlessness is the deciding factor.

I came here to basically say this about running a company- but your comment was a better launching point.

As someone who has run several companies over the last 25 years and has read and or tried nearly ever "method" mentioned... Im now running a company where Im abandoning everything and just going at with skill and fearlessness... and no funding. It feels freeing, and we are growing.

New comment by spacecadet in "Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?"

spacecadet — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:12:22 +0000

Introduce them to jailbroke LLMs.

New comment by spacecadet in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

spacecadet — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:10:58 +0000

Oh now this gets up votes? Few weeks ago nothing but down votes. I guess I'll see you babies at the raid on the OpenAI data center?

New comment by spacecadet in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

spacecadet — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:34:58 +0000

As I said, from AGI to IPO and everyone will forget and move on.

New comment by spacecadet in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

spacecadet — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:07:57 +0000

unlikely, people tend to assume wrong about me... as an outlier and all...

New comment by spacecadet in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

spacecadet — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:06:43 +0000

No. I no longer believe in VC or PE. Evils that hurt society more then benefit...

New comment by spacecadet in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

spacecadet — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:03:46 +0000

I realize this sounds one sided. Ive also founded companies and worked across the range of startup to faang. Everything has changed... For the better if you ask me.

New comment by spacecadet in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

spacecadet — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:02:45 +0000

Do you have a race car or race team? Happy to onboard you, otherwise, not here.

New comment by spacecadet in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

spacecadet — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:39:57 +0000

Im an 20 year veteran of application development consulting. Contributor level... not talking head. I do more estimating than anyone you likely know. Consulting is cooked. I just AI native built (not vibe coding...) an application with a buddy, another Principal level engineer and what would cost a client 500-750k and 8-12 weeks, we did for $200 and 1 sprint. Its a passion project but highly complex mapping and navigation app with host/client multi-user sync'd state. Cooked.

New comment by spacecadet in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"

spacecadet — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:48:09 +0000

Classic hacker news comment mate.

Your system sounds great to me, curious what you have going on!

New comment by spacecadet in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"

spacecadet — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:38:49 +0000

Not bragging, but I lucked out... Upgraded to 192 and 10tb of M2 SSD's last year and its the first time in my life my workstation has appreciated...

New comment by spacecadet in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"

spacecadet — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:04:54 +0000

Many kit builders with flashy PCs are only running 32gb. If you look at datasets like Steams, most people are still on 16 and 32. Hell 4% are still on 8!