watsonjs

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) on Monday April 13, 2026 @05:29AM (#47749692)

> My initial motivation was wanting to RDP and SSH into my home workstation from a locked-down corporate laptop when I travel. I couldn't install Tailscale on the laptop

I'm not sure it would work but did you try running tailscale client through a docker container so it's not installed directly in your host system?

Re:The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Engineering Orgs Are Flyi... on Monday April 13, 2026 @05:03AM (#47749535)

I've been a software engineer for more than ten years and never cared about these kinds of topics. But lately, I've found them genuinely interesting. Could someone recommend books on the economics of software businesses? I can't take this author's content seriously.

Re:Show HN: A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code on Thursday March 26, 2026 @03:53PM (#47534902)

how do you evolve this? you have received a couple of suggestions to make it better. How do you evaluate whether a different strategy yields better results?

Re:Awakening Bell on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @11:18AM (#45426627)

It's amazing the relief that such sound can bring

Re:UML diagram for the DDD example in Evans' book on Saturday April 19, 2025 @01:01AM (#43734320)

I think its abandonment is related to the adoption of agile methodologies. UML was used to describe systems from day one. Agile methodologies came in, claiming that we don’t need it.

AI models to understand legacy code without code generation

Posted by watsonjs on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @12:42PM
from the self-post dept.

I'm looking for AI-based tools that can help me understand a system's legacy components. Ideally, I would provide the source code, and the model would generate text or diagrams that explain the code's underlying business rules as much as possible.The broad range of existing LLM tooling seems to focus specifically on the code generation part, but I'm not interested in getting generated code. I...

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Re:NewsNotFound: An open-source, unbiased news company on Saturday April 22, 2023 @05:03AM (#35664628)

The two sentences in the article that tells me this will be a failure:

“ Once we have a list of related headlines, we then use GPT-3 to generate a list of facts, not opinions, that are present within each of those headline’s respective articles.”

“ We then run the article through a “bias checker,” which uses sentiment analysis to rate the sentiment polarity of the generated article.”