Hacker News: willsmith72

New comment by willsmith72 in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

willsmith72 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:10:57 +0000

this sounds... really slow. for large changes for sure i'm investing time into planning. but such a rigid system can't possible be as good as a flexible approach with variable amounts of planning based on complexity

New comment by willsmith72 in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

willsmith72 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:11:37 +0000

this doesn't add up. the 20k is in API costs. people talk about CC losing money because it's way more efficient than the API. I.e. the same work with efficient use of CC might have cost ~$5k.

but regardless, hiring is difficult and high-end talent is limited. If the costs were anywhere close to equivalent, the agents are a no-brainer

New comment by willsmith72 in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

willsmith72 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:42:22 +0000

depends, "out the nose" is relative based on what else you could be doing and what else is out there

and no job i've had considered 9-5 40 hours after a 1 hour lunch break

New comment by willsmith72 in "[dead]"

willsmith72 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:03:20 +0000

including downdetector... that's annoying https://downdetector.com/status/npm/

New comment by willsmith72 in "Mixpanel Security Breach"

willsmith72 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:48:13 +0000

you shouldn't try to innovate on everything, have to draw the line on buy/build somewhere

New comment by willsmith72 in "Mixpanel Security Breach"

willsmith72 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:49:52 +0000

Well OpenAI say users' names, emails and locations have been divulged, one of them is going to accept there was a "breach"

New comment by willsmith72 in "Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege"

willsmith72 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 05:40:40 +0000

I just hope that in 100 years time, people will be shocked at the prevalence of social media these past 2 decades

New comment by willsmith72 in "Nano Banana Pro"

willsmith72 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:25:09 +0000

> Starting to roll out in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio

> Rolling out globally in the Gemini app

wanna be any more vague? is it out or not? where? when?

New comment by willsmith72 in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

willsmith72 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:20:56 +0000

pretty sure the serious companies are just using claude through bedrock. let anthropic handle the model, outsource the rest

New comment by willsmith72 in "Collaboration sucks"

willsmith72 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:22:46 +0000

not at all. me, owner of a new feature: hey boss wanted to get your thoughts on this. Boss: "let's schedule a review for next week, and pull in x and y who are familiar with the space"

Vs Boss: "your call"

New comment by willsmith72 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

willsmith72 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 06:23:05 +0000

Simple feedback collector. Something I end up building in every project, so why not built it once and productise even just for myself. Still building out the dashboard, some clustering, and automated PRs (by Claude Code)

https://feedbee.willsmithte.com/

New comment by willsmith72 in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

willsmith72 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:54:33 +0000

how much are these services wasting sending out these emails? surely some rate limiting would be sensible

New comment by willsmith72 in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

willsmith72 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:43:32 +0000

As a Will Smith with no acting abilities I can relate. I have heard it got my resume to the top of the stack out of curiosity though

New comment by willsmith72 in "The profitable startup"

willsmith72 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:15:54 +0000

totally agree with this, operating cash flow positive + internal reinvestment seems like the best mix for an early software company

New comment by willsmith72 in "My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4"

willsmith72 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 05:10:37 +0000

depends on use, I had the same laptop but the speed increase when I upgraded to an M3 was easily worth it

New comment by willsmith72 in "Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division"

willsmith72 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:34:11 +0000

Yeah that was my read too, I'm anticipating more rounds over the next few months

New comment by willsmith72 in "I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance"

willsmith72 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:29:45 +0000

> 40ms round-trip time

In that case how can you possibly get 35ms FCP? Am I missing something?

New comment by willsmith72 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

willsmith72 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:31:47 +0000

Of course, referring to this

> The Amazon retail site seems available

New comment by willsmith72 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

willsmith72 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:15:13 +0000

It seems reasonable to me that Amazon (retail) would build better AZ redundancy into their services than say Snapchat or a bank

New comment by willsmith72 in "Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing"

willsmith72 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:11:57 +0000

I find Gemini incomparable to Claude, especially for coding. The chat UI is ok, but Claude Code eats the CLI for breakfast