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New comment by tinyhouse in "Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates"

tinyhouse — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:27:41 +0000

I highly recommend everyone to use Pi - it's simpler and better harness. The only tricky part is that moving forward you cannot use the Claude subscription to access Opus. But for many tasks there are enough alternatives.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

tinyhouse — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:08:47 +0000

I really started to like Pi. That's unfortunate that I won't be able to use it with Opus (way too expensive without a subscription). I'm optimistic that open source coding models will be able to keep up. AI is too important, we're shooting ourselves in the foot if we don't adopt open source tools and models. The more adoption the better it will become.

New comment by tinyhouse in "If DSPy is so great, why isn't anyone using it?"

tinyhouse — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:16:34 +0000

A lot of these ideas Dspy and RLM (from the same people IIRC) are more marketing than solving a real problem.

New comment by tinyhouse in "2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March"

tinyhouse — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:23:31 +0000

That's going to happen in all of big tech (already happening at Amazon and Microsoft). These companies have too many employees. It was never really justified and with AI even more so. I've been in big tech and directors often tell everyone to hire when they can rather when they need. For example, if they know a hiring freeze is coming, they will try to hire as many people as they can before it happens. It's rare to find people in big tech where their incentives align with the company. (and the blame is not always on the people themselves)

As for Meta, I give Mark credit for trying, even if he failed so far with all the VR stuff. The main disappointment is about Llama cause it's clearly an execution problem. With Meta's investments in AI throughout the years, not being able to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI is a big failure.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Oil hits $100 a barrel despite deal to release record amount of reserves"

tinyhouse — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:40:20 +0000

Israel and the US completely control their airspace and Iran's entire navy got demolished. I think the US prefers not to got too far as they prefer to keep the negotiation talks open. According to reports they asked Israel not to target energy for example.

New comment by tinyhouse in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

tinyhouse — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:41:26 +0000

Less people visit the US because it's do damn expensive. That's the biggest reason for most people. Most people don't have any principles, they go where they can afford. Last year I was in NYC and Miami beach and was shocked how expensive everything was. (I know these are expensive places but that's where most tourists go - they don't visit Kansas)

New comment by tinyhouse in "AI is making junior devs useless"

tinyhouse — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:33:39 +0000

AI made juniors without potential useless, not all juniors.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

tinyhouse — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:17:53 +0000

Yes, they depend on AWS for compute and Amazon also owns a big chunk of Anthropic (it used to be close to 30%, probably less now with the recent raises). I think it's a good partnership since for the most part they focus on different things and I don't see Anthropic going after AWS - they are an AI company first and foremost. Amazon has their own AI stuff for enterprise but no one uses it so I don't think they take it seriously. They know they cannot compete here.

I think that OpenAI and Microsoft is a more challenging partnership with much more overlap.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

tinyhouse — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:57:12 +0000

Openai is just playing catchup at this point, they completely lost thier way in my view.

Anthropic on the other hand is very capable and given the success of claude code and cowork, I think they will maintain their lead across knowledge work for a long time just by having the best data to keep improving their models and everything around. It's also the hottest tech conpany rn, like Google were back in the day.

If I need to bet on two companies that will win the AI race in the west, it's Anthropic and Google. Google on the consumer side mostly and Anthropic in enterprise. OpenAI will probably IPO soon to shift the risk to the public.

New comment by tinyhouse in "AI is going to kill app subscriptions"

tinyhouse — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:09:04 +0000

I think the article has some truth but the author also ignores something important. Yes, subscription costs are going down. But there's a big difference between consumer and enterprise. Everyone needs to build fast now. A company cannot get distracted by building capabilities in-house that are not core to their product. This was true yesterday and will be true tomorrow. That means they will keep paying for quality solutions and not settle for sub-par solutions just because someone made them for free (there was always an open source solution available long before AI entered the scene). I may argue that not settling is even more important now that moving fast is key.

For a company, paying $10K a year for a quality service, that's a no-brainer. Most companies spend that money on alcohol in company onsites. However, if you're charging really high prices (the Datadogs of the world), then you're going to face tougher competition from cheaper alternatives that might be as good as you, and when companies need to cut costs, which they often do, you'll be in trouble.

I think what it means to many software companies is that prices will significantly go down on average but the median might not see significant decrease. Companies will be smaller and more lean, hiring less people in general (not just engineers!). There will be more companies out there, so hopefully it will even out.

Last thing is that every product will have too many options to choose from. This has been the reality actually for a long time and going to get much worse. How you market and brand your product and acquire customers will become more difficult than ever.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Kimi Claw"

tinyhouse — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:20:36 +0000

This is great. AI is too revolutionary to be in control of three closed models / companies. The more the merrier.

(I know this is not a new model but it's not just about the model, it's about the entire ecosystem)

New comment by tinyhouse in "Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you"

tinyhouse — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:53:29 +0000

fyi, I just signed up and the confirmation email went to my spam folder (Gmail).

New comment by tinyhouse in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

tinyhouse — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:25:58 +0000

How is this different than Celery and the like?

New comment by tinyhouse in "Vibe coding kills open source"

tinyhouse — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:17:35 +0000

There's a balance between coding by hand and vibe coding that is important. The less you understand the code, the more boring maintaining the software becomes. It's OK for throw away code, but not for serious open source projects. Use it as a powerful tool rather than your replacement.

New comment by tinyhouse in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

tinyhouse — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:56:48 +0000

I'm not a big fan of this solution since it rewards people who knowingly did something that is illegal. It also allows businesses to take advantage of these people, unless you decide to give them legal status immediately. However, I agree with you that getting the balance right is really hard and that deporting people, esp families with kids who grew up here and did nothing wrong, is very problematic.

New comment by tinyhouse in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

tinyhouse — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:49:28 +0000

Well, if a Korean car factory worker live and work illegally in the country, then it makes total sense to remove them, regardless if they are serial killers or not. A company shouldn't even hire anyone who is not eligible to work legally in the country. There are laws that need to be followed like everything else.

It sounds like you're saying that you want the country to have open borders so that everyone can come live and work here given they pass some basic checks (no criminal history for example). I am not saying that is wrong, but that's not how pretty much every country in the world operates.

New comment by tinyhouse in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

tinyhouse — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:33:11 +0000

I don't have a horse in this race, but I do have a question. If you don't deport illegal immigrants, why not just open the border to everyone to come in? (let's ignore criminal records, etc for this exercise). What's the point of not letting people in but then if they manage to come in illegally, assume it's all good and they can stay?

New comment by tinyhouse in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"

tinyhouse — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 03:12:30 +0000

Well, software is measured over time. The devil is always in the details.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro"

tinyhouse — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:41:03 +0000

Microsoft's future depends on OpenAI.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

tinyhouse — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:35:44 +0000

I'm already using Claude Code to organize my work and life so this makes a lot of sense. However, I just tried it and it's not clear how this is different than using Claude with projects. I guess the main difference is that it can be used within a local folder on one's computer, so it's more integrated into ones workflow, rather than a project where you need to upload your data. This makes sense.