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Re:ChatGPT Is Throwing 404 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:15AM (#49551322)
It's cloudflare. It's always cloudflare
you only end up in a loop if you don’t define what you want clear enough. clarity has outcome, acceptance criteria, boundaries and non goals. once those are clear to you and you transform them into text, you have significantly better chances of avoiding the infinite loop.

tldr: you only get stuck in an infinite loop when you don’t know what you want(when to stop)

Re:If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do? on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @09:32AM (#49083614)
Design. And redesign.
Re:Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @02:30PM (#48911130)
Now please please make for with the first comment of every HN front page posts ever.

edit: added “please”

“The relationship of thought to word is not a thing but a process, a movement from thought to word and from word to thought.” Vygotsky
Re:The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:52AM (#48569776)
The difference is the destination. Me crunching code with llms vs you doing the same thing will lead both of us to different places(let’s say equally fast for the sake of the conversation). What will set us apart in the end is who will actually sell it, and that’s llm-independent.
Re:The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:32AM (#48567466)
“everyone”. it’s there, it’s accessible, it’s “cheap”. acceleration will depend on the operator capability. if the final product will make a diff in the real world, it will ALWAYS depend on the entrepreneur, not the tools used.
Re:The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:18AM (#48567370)
Assumption: now everyone can do more of the above. The final line is still selling. So everyone will get to the sales part, FASTER. Triage will still happen at this stage, regardless of AI. You won’t be able to avoid this triage, regardless of how fast you get there.
Re:The Eternal Sloptember on Monday May 25, 2026 @12:40AM (#48263438)
What i meant was: your experience might not be representative of the coding models capabilities. At least based on the poor examples in the post, you’re just scratching the surface of learning how to extract value from them, and, as i understand, you gave up and shared your experience. Given that you fully understand how an LLM works(and you do) it might also be that you’re using it outside training data. Not all code is equally represented(quality/quantity) in the training data, like there’s not the same amount of latin text as opposed to english text there(it’s all gravy to an LLM). You also suggested that manual might be faster and better quality - in MY experience, this is just you (using search through prompts), using it wrong.

Edit: added gravy pun

Re:The Eternal Sloptember on Sunday May 24, 2026 @03:36PM (#48260323)
You're using it wrong.
Re:Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes? on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @07:29AM (#47688737)
Do you pay your employer when you introduce bugs? I think you're lucky if you get usable output which you don't consider a mistake. Also, you might be mistaken if you think that you pay for a deterministic service.

edit: typo

Any accuracy measurements?
I'm sticking with Sonoma as long as they still provide security updates, then i go +1, hoping to skip the whole liquid glass phase.
It was an anecdote or a story shared on HN eariler this year.
If you built it FOR someone(a business), you are already on the wrong path. You should have built it WITH someone(a business) and you'd already have feedback and real world usage. Maybe next time around start with a real problem (confirmed by a business) rather than how you want the world to work.
Re:Signal knows who you're talking to on Sunday November 23, 2025 @05:50AM (#46022424)
The critique of metadata being hard is fair, the claim that sealed sender is “totally useless” is not. It’s a small, incremental hardening step in a very messy design space, not a magic invisibility cloak, and judging it as the latter sets the bar unrealistically high for anything that still wants to be a drop-in WhatsApp replacement.
Re:Cognitive and Mental Health Correlates of Short-Form Video Use on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @04:02PM (#45985140)
attention is all they want
Re:Why movies just don't feel "real" anymore on Monday November 17, 2025 @01:55AM (#45951381)
It's about the new trend of shallow DoF in new movies vs old ones.
Re:WriterdeckOS on Sunday November 09, 2025 @03:32AM (#45863916)
I use a regular 3kg 17” macbook pro from ~2007. Beautiful keyboard, good enough resolution, wifi off(not much use on the internet anyway). Still modern ux and good trackpad.
Re:Ask HN: What made you become an IT/programmer? on Friday September 05, 2025 @02:15AM (#45135479)
The original iPhone.
100-700$. more when actively building, less when maintaining.
Re:CocoaPods Is Deprecated on Monday September 01, 2025 @07:28AM (#45091816)
End of an era.
Try the API. If no knowledge, use via Cursor.
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