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Re:Why are good developers so wary of agentic development? on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:54PM (#50322065)
> Agentic Coding (My prompt was good, so my software is good)

You are far, far behind where the industry currently is, and where the puck is moving with statements like that. Check out how pstack (from poteto) handles this, and look at what Spawn (game company) is doing as a couple off the top of my head examples.

This is a meat proxy throwing a Slop Grenade [1]

[1] https://slopgrenades.com

Get used to it, this is the direction of the industry in the age of AI and Bending Spoons is just ahead of the curve.
Re:Top Chefs Have a Confession: They Love Taco Bell on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:40AM (#50039859)
Toco Bell is doing some great marketing here
That's not what he was saying. Watch the entire keynote.
Re:I don't want to read what you didn't write on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @01:08AM (#49811887)
> I don’t want to live in a world where you use AI to summarize something important into unreadable text, and then I use AI in an attempt to decipher it. I want to hear you, imperfections and all.

Agreed! This is a classic Slop Grenade[1]

[1] https://slopgrenades.com

Re:7.1 Earthquake in Japan on Thursday July 30, 2026 @12:09AM (#49106038)
I'm 10 minutes from Kashima (where the Aeon mall is) and the quake was violent. But that's not the worst part, it's all the aftershocks that keep coming (just had yet another about an hour ago). They've been frequent. The locals tell me that the worst is yet to come. The big quake 10 years had this pattern, a sizable shake, lot's of aftershocks, then the big destructive one hit. Everyone in the area is on edge.
Re:The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @07:20AM (#48568742)
There is still so much old school thinking and process in this. Go through this process that has been the same for the last decade+ but now you just don't need a team of people to do it. You can just use Claude instead! Really, we are in a paradigm shift, not in a "do the same thing but with less people" shift.
Hey @gschier this is awesome. I've been a long time user of Insomnia and since the acquisition it's ever so slowly, well... it's been a challenge for me.

I didn't know you created Yaak!

I just downloaded Yaak and it's been awesome, thank you!

I downloaded this through AUR on Arch and one bit of feedback is that I wish you'd make the sig verification a whole bunch easier, thanks!

Re:Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @05:20PM (#44448980)
Oddly, the article didn't mention where to use this new feature, it's found here cursor.com/agents and only available to paid plans.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024) on Sunday March 03, 2024 @07:51PM (#39585970)
> To ensure Aha is actively recruiting and not just vacuuming up resumes: How many positions are you hiring for now and how many have you hired in the last 6 months?

This is a great and valid point. Not only for this company, but companies in general where we see a high volume of recurring posts over a period of time.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024) on Sunday March 03, 2024 @07:49PM (#39585955)
> The leadership’s attitude was pretty bad...

I've had a very similar experience to yours. It allowed me to quickly understand why we see their job postings littered across the web at such a high rate over the years. My take away was that they demand more than they are willing to provide.

Codespaces user here (I set it up for the teams), for about the last 1.5 years in a large corp setting with teams using it.

My experience with is it has been wonderful for getting started and immediatly becoming productive with very complex systems. Most of those systems have 1 (or very few) experts who need to help everyone else with their setups. When problems arise, and they often do, they've become the bottleneck and Codespaces removes that. Those experts can focus on keeping just that up globally versus locally for each individual.

Outside of that scenario, complex systems, I've experienced it to be overkill. The negatives that come along with using such systems haven't outweight the benefits.

Re:Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @08:10AM (#37831054)
Definition of a “hacker”
> He has a rundown of the various ways to access his content at the bottom

To the point of the commenter, you can't read that as it's blocked. A better approach is to change the link to this HN post.

> "Anchor Brewing will no longer make its iconic holiday beer, Christmas Ale. The spice-laden winter warmer has been a brewing tradition since 1975 and something that Northern California beer lovers look forward to every November."

> "It’s unlikely that it will come back."

Nooooooooooo!

Re:SaaS services behind a startup on Monday September 26, 2022 @09:07PM (#32990597)
> Maybe it's just because I'm getting old, but this whole "Don't build it yourself, buy it. Focus on your own business, and whenever you need something extra, use a Saas" seems to me like an anti-pattern. I cannot back it up, it's a gut feeling.

A lot of this now is also about supporting others within your community. I'm sure you do this with code, support junior developers? Now we're in an era where you can do the very same, but for those creating products, too.

> I don't know. Building a product with so many dependencies feels very amateur, error prone, and prone to instability.

I bet if most were honest, and reviewed their code dependencies (external libraries) you could make the exact same statement.

> Again, it's just a gut feeling from some old dude that has been doing software since the late 90s. Maybe it's just the way things are done nowadays.

It's just an extension of doing what you're most likely already doing, and firmly believe in.

Re:$8600 MRR business on Airtable on Friday August 19, 2022 @08:37AM (#32520227)
Thanks for sharing Andy!

> Today, 30%-40% of my customers come through our YouTube videos or blog posts

Could you talk about how you get the other 60% to 70% of customers?

Thanks!

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