Hacker News: tills13

New comment by tills13 in "GitHub Authentication issues related to API requests"

tills13 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:59:57 +0000

cool looks like this nuked all of our authenticated connections in Heroku, too.

New comment by tills13 in "SpaceX's IPO is a disaster waiting to happen for your pension fund"

tills13 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:58:18 +0000

Me selling lemonade at the end of my driveway is about 300-800 million dollar business. That's just one thing I sell at the end of my driveway.

250k people in my city x $4/lemonade x 365 days per year

New comment by tills13 in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

tills13 — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:38:22 +0000

It's apocalyptic to the people who previously clocked in, did mediocre work, and clocked out. For those of us willing to put in a little effort, it's just another tool. Though I think there's still a disconnect at the managerial level where they think firing half the team and giving the rest AI is going to 10x revenue.

New comment by tills13 in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

tills13 — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:05:43 +0000

> You get out of it what you put into it.

Beyond that, it's a force multiplier and it doesn't care if the force is positive or negative. Someone with poor software engineering principals can use AI to make an absolute mess quickly.

New comment by tills13 in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

tills13 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:48:53 +0000

The difference between "art in general" and this is scale and speed. Sure, I'll grant you that people are going to engage in deception with or without this but the barrier to entry with this is literally on the floor. Do you have a $5 prepaid VISA? You can generate whatever narrative you want in 30 seconds. Replace the $5 Prepaid VISA with the pocketbook of a three letter agency and it starts getting crazy.

New comment by tills13 in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

tills13 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:34:08 +0000

I know this is kind of at odds with this thread in general but

> but I know it requires work (...) to finish it

If you're like me and, when you get to this stage, you tend to burn out and abandon the thing, have you tried using gen AI to get you over that hump?

I love coding and still do but I often reached a point where all the fun, easy things were done and I'd be stuck at 90% with only difficult and boring tasks. I've been using Claude recently to just get me over that hump and finish my projects. It can still be fulfilling if you do it right.

New comment by tills13 in "NASA Force"

tills13 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:03:35 +0000

So are they defunding NASA or not?

New comment by tills13 in "ChatGPT for Excel"

tills13 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:57:06 +0000

These AI in Excel products are a financial crisis waiting to happen. Or maybe just Enron but stupider.

New comment by tills13 in "Claude Code Routines"

tills13 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:27:11 +0000

> react to GitHub events from Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure

Oh cool! vendor lock-in.

New comment by tills13 in "Building a CLI for All of Cloudflare"

tills13 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:21:21 +0000

I think the point is that I don't have to remember the command. I just have to tell my agent in plain-English to do X.

For example, we're dragging our feet on Github Config as Terraform at our org so in the meantime I've been using Claude + the gh cli to deploy changes across repos. I don't need to know / remember the gh cli command to pull or push a ruleset, or script a loop in Bash, I just have to say

> Claude pull the ruleset from and push it to , ,

The CLI is also nice because it abstracts away authentication. I have another flow which doesn't have a CLI and Claude is more than happy to interpolate the API key that it read from a config file into the chat history (horrifying).

New comment by tills13 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

tills13 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:41:08 +0000

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New comment by tills13 in "Claude Code Down"

tills13 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:38:15 +0000

I keep forgetting have a 3080 laying around... Gotta figure that out.

New comment by tills13 in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

tills13 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:53:43 +0000

4.4 expletives per word is insane. Their prompts must look like

** ** ** ** implement ** ** ** ** no ** ** ** ** ** mistakes

New comment by tills13 in "Claude Code Down"

tills13 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:51:47 +0000

What do you run it on? And even then, I'm guessing your tokens per second are not great?

New comment by tills13 in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

tills13 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:02:15 +0000

Is it not already a node app? So the only novel thing here is we know the original var names and structure? Sure, sometimes obfuscated code can be difficult to intuit, but any enterprising party could eventually do it -- especially with the help of an LLM.

New comment by tills13 in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

tills13 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:29:15 +0000

As more an more companies lazily use AI to achieve the same thing I am doubling down on supporting -- even if I don't really care about the subject -- anything that supports actual, real human art.

New comment by tills13 in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

tills13 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:49:45 +0000

Fortnite made more money than God during its prime years. Where did that money go?

Just to hazard a guess: the majority of this money went to investors and executives and now, when the pot is empty, the employees pay the price.

New comment by tills13 in "Minecraft Source Code Is Interesting"

tills13 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:25:20 +0000

such a shame too because I'm genuinely interested but like I cannot bring myself to care about AI generated content slop

New comment by tills13 in "Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.6"

tills13 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:13:42 +0000

Have they tried asking Claude to fix it no mistakes?

New comment by tills13 in "Honda is killing its EVs"

tills13 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:13:02 +0000

Oh I mixed up Honda and Hyundai in my head and panicked for a second. Were they even ever trying?