Hacker News: techpression

New comment by techpression in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

techpression — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:17:00 +0000

17M seems like a rounding error these days with all the AI investments. Probably some spare cash in a fund that needed to be closed or something.

Solving actual problems are hard, and even harder to get money for (see research). Most VC’s are in it for the returns only, not actually making a change, there are some exceptions but they are far and few apart.

New comment by techpression in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

techpression — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:30:10 +0000

We have been hearing this since GPT-2. They’ve been crying wolf for too long, that’s on them (the model providers). That and the fact they never publish anything interesting around their claims. It’s the ffmpeg thing all over again (very old bug in a decoder for a format used by one game from the early 90’s sold as some major breakthrough).

New comment by techpression in "Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors"

techpression — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:22:55 +0000

Doesn’t matter, they are not handling it correctly, but instead keep selling while far over capacity. They should not accept more users until they can supply the service. We solved this thousands of years ago, it’s called waiting in line. And yes, it’s not common to see, but that doesn’t excuse not doing it.

New comment by techpression in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

techpression — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:22:31 +0000

Curious as to how many people are using 4.6, perhaps you’re on a subscription? I use the api and 4.6 (also goes for Sonnet) is unusable since launch because it eats through tokens like it’s actually made that way (to make more money/hit limits faster). I guess it makes sense from a financial perspective but once 4.5 goes away I will have to find another provider if they continue like this :/

New comment by techpression in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

techpression — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:38:34 +0000

519K lines of code for something that is using the baseline *nix tools for pretty much everything important, how do they even manage to bloat it this much? I mean I know how technically, but it's still depressing. Can't they ask CC to make it good, instead of asking it to make it bigger?

New comment by techpression in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

techpression — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:33:44 +0000

What? We must have different internets, I agree in general, but the "AI is the second coming" crowd is louder than standing next to a jet on takeoff. I'm in the "AI is making me more productive but a worse developer" crowd, don't know what I count as.

New comment by techpression in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

techpression — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:08:11 +0000

I wouldn't trust those claims from any private companies, even public ones play the most insane tricks in earnings calls to inflate numbers or heck, just make up new ones.

I'm not saying they're wrong, but I don't take much stock in their words.

New comment by techpression in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

techpression — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:01:03 +0000

As others have said, the title is bollocks. For any mismanaged infrastructure you can make these crazy claims. If they did it today it would be ”saved $100/year”.

The thing is, if it took them a day with AI it would’ve been _at most_ a week without it. So why did they wait? Someone is not being responsible with the company funds.

New comment by techpression in "We Have Learned Nothing"

techpression — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:52:31 +0000

Sure, but I like it to my military service, I remember the good parts only, unless I start digging. Nobody wants to read about normal life, either you claim success or you claim failure, in between sells no copies.

New comment by techpression in "We Have Learned Nothing"

techpression — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:53:24 +0000

Survivorship bias. For every success you describe there are nine or so failures. Skill being involved doesn’t exclude being lucky, and I believe being lucky (some people call it timing) is of utmost importance.

New comment by techpression in "Have a fucking website"

techpression — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:07:01 +0000

Thank you for the much needed refresher on what running a business actually entails for many.

New comment by techpression in "Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers"

techpression — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:54:12 +0000

The people who were voted to power (across the globe, not just the US) to do something about it are stuck getting their dopamine kicks posting garbage on the same platforms. It’s truly a terrible timeline we are in.

New comment by techpression in "What is agentic engineering?"

techpression — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:46:28 +0000

I mean agents as concept has been around since the 70s, we’ve added LLMs as an interface, but the concept (take input, loop over tools or other instructions, generate output) are very very old.

Claude gave a spot on description a few months back,

The honest framing would be: “We finally have a reasoning module flexible enough to make the old agent architectures practical for general-purpose tasks.” But that doesn’t generate VC funding or Twitter engagement, so instead we get breathless announcements about “agentic AI” as if the concept just landed from space.

New comment by techpression in "The AI coding divide: craft lovers vs. result chasers"

techpression — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:45:52 +0000

Sure, it goes both ways, I’m having great results at the startup I’m working at too.

New comment by techpression in "Grief and the AI split"

techpression — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:41:25 +0000

Outwards communication and inside results tend to differ vastly. I’ve heard some true horror stories already from companies who claim they’re doing amazing things with great results. You should be especially on guard if it’s a publicly traded company, selling AI usage is necessary to appease the market (and thereby C-level stock value).

New comment by techpression in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

techpression — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:11:03 +0000

And for a lot of folks that just doesn’t matter. Paying 50 or 100 USD for a server per month won’t be the thing that breaks you.

Before you get to a scale where Rails become a problem you need to have a product that drives a pretty significant engagement, that’s where most fail.

New comment by techpression in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

techpression — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:31:51 +0000

We’ve been doing AI research since the 1950’s, and as with most other fields there are peaks and valleys. History books are filled with promises of breakthrough that never happened, even though at one time they were all ”very close”.

New comment by techpression in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

techpression — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:21:58 +0000

So you’ve tried at least a hundred ideas by now, care to share fifty of them? I’m very curious as to what they are. Opus is too slow to even complete one idea per day for me, and that’s fine, I don’t have hundreds of them :)

New comment by techpression in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

techpression — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:17:56 +0000

Only running one agent? You should have a distributed network of them at least, if you don’t you will get left behind! Running on the cloud? Stupid, buy hardware for tens of thousands of dollars to run it locally, own your tools. Etc etc, I haven’t seen a crazier rat race in tech ever, the JavaScript framework era is looking like the most stable of software times compared to where we are right now.

New comment by techpression in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

techpression — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:46:03 +0000

I’m a hard core rogue-like player (easily over a thousand hours at least in all the games I’ve played) but even so I can admit that hey have nothing compared to a well crafted world like you’d find in From Software titles or Expedition 33, or classic Zelda games for that matter. Making a great world is an incredibly hard task though and few studios have the capabilities to do so.