Hacker News: therealdrag0

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

therealdrag0 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:56:21 +0000

Ya I was slow to try Grok but I’m now happy with it.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

therealdrag0 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:54:33 +0000

I used mostly OpenAI for the last like 6 months in cursor. I got tired of how slow Claude models are and switched. I’m surprised usage is so low. Wonder why.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

therealdrag0 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:39:17 +0000

I like Cursor. Honestly the biggest reason is the decent WYSIWYG markdown editor.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

therealdrag0 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:34:20 +0000

I saw that happen culturally. But never saw that much different in performance. And I really dislike terminal development. And their desktop app is really buggy.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations"

therealdrag0 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:39:57 +0000

Ya I’m so impressed by people who just go and work on problems like this and get their hands dirty.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Software engineering is about managing complexity"

therealdrag0 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:52:23 +0000

Ya I was very hand wavy. Though in my experience a lot of smaller shops have a higher percent of seniors than big tech. And I don’t know how much smaller shops there are, so I rounded up. Also smaller shops depend more on this well rounded thinking.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Software engineering is about managing complexity"

therealdrag0 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:12:21 +0000

Yep that’s all “senior+ engineer” stuff at least and even those can be cut in half by quality. So maybe 25% of engineers have those attributes?

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Software engineering is about managing complexity"

therealdrag0 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:11:08 +0000

I think the limitation is still context. Humans are better at judgment than AI because humans have more context to put together better decisions. when AI has all of the context, It beats the socks off me.. for better or worse sharing and organizing context is a notoriously difficult problem that won’t be solved overnight. This could easily be a 10 or 20 year problem because it depends on human organizational structures and investing in free flow of information and information storage tools. Unifying search tools like Glean help a lot here but they’re also expensive.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"

therealdrag0 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:57:45 +0000

I think stability is more important than speed. 15 years ago living in apartments in Seattle I had a lot of time of day service disruptions, but the last 10 years I have used both cable and fiber and they’ve been perfectly fine.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer"

therealdrag0 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 22:56:44 +0000

The challenge is finding problems that are “worth” solving as a staff engineer. General “bugs” are not staff worthy. Staff need to convince leadership to fix an architectural problem that removes a whole class of bug.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Don't paste the AI, please"

therealdrag0 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:38:10 +0000

I use dictation a lot and god it’s so bad. I have to correct something every single time.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

therealdrag0 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:50:04 +0000

Sure all that can be true. I’m just saying none of that implicates AI capabilities.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

therealdrag0 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:17:57 +0000

I agree it’s a great starting point for the daily check. But it’s not a good answer to a specific explicit request to measure visceral fat imo. And there’s a lot of confusion in these comments about how much they actually correlate.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit"

therealdrag0 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:18:38 +0000

I got mad when airline checked us in for a flight, during a blizzard, took our luggage, then cancelled our flight and refused to give us our luggage back promising to fedex it to us. Fortunately we noticed a lot of luggage on the ground and eventually found ours and just took it despite protests.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

therealdrag0 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:28:15 +0000

My company is heavy on AI promotion, but many many many people still do things sub-optimally, and many systems are still not well integrated/able with AI.

“The future is here it’s just not evenly distributed”, and that applies inside companies too.

Hard to actually judge without being in the room and knowing the team that owns the incident. And as other said, it’s pretty common IME to have a root cause but slow roll communication of it until remediation has more confidence.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "A Preview of DuckDB v2.0"

therealdrag0 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:22:37 +0000

Hate to bring it up, but 10,000 commits in less than 6 months is a lot. Is AI a major contribute here?

Is AI use for accelerated development of a beloved tool like DuckDB enough to quiet lingering doubters?

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

therealdrag0 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:08:12 +0000

That is a proxy estimate. You can’t actually measure visceral fat at home.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

therealdrag0 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:05:57 +0000

“In this meta-analysis, BMI and WC, but not WHR, were very strongly correlated with imaging-derived total and subcutaneous abdominal fat. By comparison, all three measures were moderately or strongly correlated with imaging-based visceral abdominal fat, with WC showing the greatest correlation.” https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10503139/

Seems decent to me.

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"

therealdrag0 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:15:52 +0000

Why look for an alternative before you’re affected in any way?

New comment by therealdrag0 in "Grok Bot"

therealdrag0 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:14:30 +0000

I use Hermes locally and it’s constantly hitting bot blocks. Just trying to shop clothes for me it gets blocked.