Hacker News: weakfish

New comment by weakfish in "Coding Is Not Solved"

weakfish — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:15:26 +0000

I see subtle ones at least daily, misunderstanding a component or hallucination of a spec for something. I’m in blockchain.

New comment by weakfish in "Coding Is Not Solved"

weakfish — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:10:25 +0000

No, but the authors of $LIBRARY are accountable if it fails

New comment by weakfish in "Tells of a Slop UI"

weakfish — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:08:13 +0000

I’ve been trying to put my finger on what it is that is happening when the robot writes stuff like “3 campuses, one app” example, I’m glad the author was able to identify it as chat context leaking through.

The other version of it is the robot over-indexing on some part of the prompt and leaving comments places. An example is I ask it to prefer integration tests using TestContainers, it starts adding comments to every new test saying “Real services, no mocks” or something.

And yes, I have a line in my *.MD saying not to do that.

New comment by weakfish in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

weakfish — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 03:36:31 +0000

Source?

New comment by weakfish in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

weakfish — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:06:39 +0000

> I've met a number of young western Europeans while traveling there who are jealous of the ability of Americans to afford cross-ocean/different-continent multi-week trips to tier-1-hotel-cost cities, while feeling like it's more out of reach to them to find a job that would let them.

Anecdotally, I think it’s out of reach for many young Americans in my cohort (26) but we’re insulated from that in tech

New comment by weakfish in "Teleoperated Humans"

weakfish — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:27:37 +0000

Weird to see Cary mentioned as the setting

New comment by weakfish in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

weakfish — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:09:23 +0000

I honestly don’t understand comments like this because in my work, this would be a disaster. And before I get the comments about my harness/skills etc, I’ve tried many tools and harnesses and skills and all that earnestly and in good faith. I find use in it for doing the grunt typing labor, but letting it loose in ways described above have only ended in spending much more time cleaning it up than if I just did the work myself.

I hate to sound pretentious, but I wonder if it’s a difference in complexity of work and problems being solved.

New comment by weakfish in "I am often wrong"

weakfish — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:58:14 +0000

I would think that with agentic coding they’d be able to have a shared core and an interface native to the system, I.e. not react in the terminal and a swift or C# front end for the desktop app

New comment by weakfish in "I am often wrong"

weakfish — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:12:28 +0000

Is it open? I'd love to take a look and perhaps steal some ideas :)

New comment by weakfish in "I am often wrong"

weakfish — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:19:42 +0000

I still am mind blown at how bad CC is as software. It’s just not that hard of a problem. I get that harnesses aren’t trivial, but they’re not insane either. And the fact that it’s running on a JS runtime (that they bought!) is also crazy. Why not Go/BubbleTea? Why not literally anything native? It makes no sense

I don’t want to be a jackass, but it’s hard to take anything Boris says seriously when he’s headed up such weird software. And it’s not like resourcing or money is an issue for them. If Claude was so damn good, why does CC suck?

New comment by weakfish in "Exfiltrate Your Weights"

weakfish — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:23:18 +0000

Replacing someone's words with a made up quote so you can dunk on them isn't how you display that you won an argument. I would ask that you engage in good faith with the other poster's ideas.

New comment by weakfish in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"

weakfish — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:06:46 +0000

I’d recommend reading the late David Graeber’s “Debt” which does a good job illustrating exactly what you described, which is how currency is at its core an IOU

New comment by weakfish in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

weakfish — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:45:34 +0000

That’s the implication I believe

New comment by weakfish in "Fuck it, make it anyway"

weakfish — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:51:13 +0000

I love this articulation.

New comment by weakfish in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

weakfish — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:39:32 +0000

Strong opinions tightly held

I try as hard as I can to have strong opinions, loosely held

New comment by weakfish in "What will our economic future look like?"

weakfish — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:28:16 +0000

For me, at least, despite being obviously powerful, I just can’t find anything useful to do with it beyond toys.

New comment by weakfish in "We built our house for LAN parties (2024)"

weakfish — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:59:22 +0000

> most cars are in the ballpark

If you’re in the Bay, maybe, otherwise it’s $35-50k depending on how new

New comment by weakfish in "GPT-6 Astra"

weakfish — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:13:44 +0000

The AGI goal posts move

New comment by weakfish in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

weakfish — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:02:41 +0000

I mean, I code?

New comment by weakfish in "Zohran and the Short Link"

weakfish — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:29:33 +0000

Context for the unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgiC8YfytDw

(The guy is joking in the video)