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Re:A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @07:44PM (#49959124)
This is amazing
Re:Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psyc...
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @09:57AM (#49775942)
The way frontier models work, that loop will get compressed to a one-shot within a version or two
Re:AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:36PM (#49340951)
Most ai output is meant for other ai's to read, in my experience. The humans job is to compress it for humans
Re:How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @10:35PM (#49238622)
I prefer to have the LLM ask me the questions
Re:Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed
on Saturday July 25, 2026 @01:37PM (#49049722)
many of us work with swarms of cheap off-shore contractors and have to rewrite or finish their code already as it is. The llm is much lower friction
Re:Why is Claude an Electron app?
on Saturday February 21, 2026 @07:11PM (#47106563)
Don't they eventually become managers and tech leads anyway and outsource to their staff?
Re:Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone
on Monday January 26, 2026 @12:07PM (#46768249)
On the discussion of the right or wrong tool, I find it possible that the ability to reason towards a goal is more valuable in the long run than an intrinsic ability to achieve the same result. Or maybe a mix of both is the ideal.
Re:The recurring dream of replacing developers
on Monday January 19, 2026 @09:57AM (#46679707)
It's essentially the same as an engineering lead writing a good jira ticket
Re:The Future of Software Development Is Software Developers
on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @09:10AM (#46433470)
Prompt engineering is just good transfer notes and ticket writing, which is something a majority of the devs I've worked with don't enjoy or excel at
Re:AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
on Monday December 15, 2025 @01:01PM (#46278007)
But what about their two year head start? If everyone is executing at the speed of light, there will still be winners and losers
Re:Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
on Monday November 17, 2025 @10:41AM (#45954562)
So cool, I think all kids would love this
Re:Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to de-enshittify the...
on Friday November 14, 2025 @08:19AM (#45926454)
Hey! Cool! I've been making this too: https://github.com/broast/aipageeditor
Looking forward to trying it and see how far it takes the vision. Tweaks looks capable of very cool and useful things :)
Re:Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app ...
on Saturday November 01, 2025 @02:20PM (#45783967)
Good work. I've been thinking about this for awhile and also experimenting with letting the LLM do all the work, backend logic plus generating the front-end and handle all front-end events. With tool use and agentic loops, I don't see any reason this can't work where it meets the latency needs (which hopefully could be improved over time).
Re:YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 ...
on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @09:37AM (#45746673)
I think every single Windows release has necessitated some registry hacks to bring back useful features from the previous version
Re:Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones g...
on Thursday September 11, 2025 @07:36AM (#45210352)
I've had a flip 3 and flip 5 which both had screen and hinge problems within a year. I love the form factor but just don't take it to the beach.
My flip 5 inner screen is currently unusable so I'm stuck using the small square cover screen which I'm enjoying quite a bit too. I don't know if my next phone should be a flip phone or a small phone, but nothing gets as small or as good hardware as the front cover of these flip phones, vs other small phones
Re:Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
on Sunday September 07, 2025 @04:34PM (#45161884)
It's the cover screen of my zflip 5 with the inner screen being broken. It's surprisingly usable and I find myself wishing more phones were purposefully built at this size and shape.
Re:Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
on Sunday September 07, 2025 @08:46AM (#45157705)
My mobile device is a square aspect ratio and thus there is no portrait mode to check this out :(
Re:AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
on Friday August 29, 2025 @09:36AM (#45063948)
So basically what an engineering manager or product manager enjoys doing
Re:We put a coding agent in a while loop
on Monday August 25, 2025 @08:29AM (#45013129)
> it will be harder to find someone to talk to understand what they were trying to do at the time.
These are my favorite types of code bases to work on. The source of truth is the code. You have to read it and debug it to figure it out, and reconcile the actual behaviors with the desired or expected behaviors through your own product oriented thinking
Re:Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine
on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:46PM (#44980838)
Uploaded my own sci-fi art and was amazed by the result
Re:AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I'v...
on Thursday August 21, 2025 @09:56AM (#44972856)
I definitely have
Re:AI-induced dehumanization (2024)
on Friday August 15, 2025 @10:34AM (#44912962)
I'm a bot
Re:I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:54PM (#44868002)
The only feature I need that would accelerate my workflow that text file editors don't currently have is a column with the last modified timestamp of that particular line, and maybe some color indication to show which lines were modified the most recently compared to others. And this would be based on change, not based on save or commit.
Re:Read your code
on Monday August 04, 2025 @10:23AM (#44786225)
Reading code is just as fun as writing it, to be honest
Re:Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf
on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:12PM (#44564716)
It's taken Cisco 25 years to recover
Re:Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents
on Sunday July 13, 2025 @04:47PM (#44553594)
This tool just made me realize I've been vibe coding at years for work as a manager. Great job, this is a game changer so far for me!
Re:'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
on Saturday July 05, 2025 @12:27PM (#44473784)
I wonder how effective it would be to finetune a model to remove jailbreaks from prompts, and then use that as part of the pipeline into whatever agent
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on Iran
on Sunday June 22, 2025 @10:38AM (#44347280)
If they waited to know the outcome then it wouldn't be a probability
Re:OpenAI o3-pro
on Thursday June 12, 2025 @07:57AM (#44256661)
Chatgpt itself has gotten much better at producing and reading code since a year ago, in my experience
Re:Spaced repetition systems have gotten way better
on Sunday May 18, 2025 @02:05PM (#44023214)
As I understand, anki's use of spaced repetition comes from how it presents you cards in increasing or decreasing frequency based on how you have answered it previously. In this way, I prompt chatgpt to ask me questions, and it revisits previous questions or topics for me based on how I've answered previously. I continue the same conversation periodically prompting it for questions to ask me.