zackproser
Re:Claude as My External Brain: Autistic, ADHD, and Supported
on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @12:05PM (#45734675)
Well, this particular moron reads hacker news, too, and actually has a formal diagnosis for both autism and severe ADHD. But thank you for calling me a moron because someone took the article I published for free to be of help to similar folks. Your day is obviously off to a better start than mine. Le sigh indeed.
Re:OpenAI Codex Review
on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @12:31PM (#44043403)
Maybe, maybe that's FUD...I can't predict the future.
Re:OpenAI Codex Review
on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @11:55AM (#44043024)
Me too :)
I feel it will get there in short order..but for the time being I feel that we'll be doing some combination of scattershot smaller & maintenance tasks across Codex while continuing to build and do serious refactoring in an IDE...
Re:OpenAI O3-Mini
on Friday January 31, 2025 @06:54PM (#42893927)
Not trying to be snarky, but the example prompt you provided is about 1/15th the length and detail of prompts I usually send when working with Cursor.
I tend to exhaustively detail what I want, including package names and versions because I've been to that movie before...
Re:I trusted an LLM, now I'm on day 4 of an afternoon project
on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @06:29PM (#42859530)
This
Re:Show HN: Instantly visualize any codebase as an interactive diagram
on Sunday December 29, 2024 @08:07PM (#42545310)
Ah nicely done! I was just about to build this
Re:My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants ...
on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @06:34PM (#42312912)
Great game
What Makes a Good Changelog?
Re:Ask HN: Best AI Code Assistant?
on Saturday October 12, 2024 @10:49AM (#41819491)
Had the same experience. Cursor ux and also Zed are designed to make copy pasta'ing back and forth obsolete. It's certainly more comfortable to iterate within the IDE, for me.
Re:Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
on Friday October 04, 2024 @11:58AM (#41742727)
Very cool. Thanks for sharing
Pinecone Serverless Gas in Azure and GCP
Re:Ask HN: What's your experience with Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 for coding?
on Saturday August 24, 2024 @09:27AM (#41338151)
Few months in with Cursor as my daily driver and I completely agree. I cannot unsee my productivity gains.
Excited to try Zed, but FWIW, this is exactly Cursor's default behavior if you use the side chat panel
Yeah +1, the current top LLMs do pretty well with TypeScript
Re:Ask HN: What are some "toy" projects you used to learn neural netwo...
on Monday August 12, 2024 @04:49PM (#41229170)
https://zackproser.com/blog/mnist-pytorch-hand-drawn-digit-r...
Did this recently.
Re:Show HN: I wrote my Resume on my personal site and it's printable w...
on Friday June 28, 2024 @10:05PM (#40827358)
Looks great on my old pixel, Dolev!
Very nice
Re:We no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents
on Friday June 21, 2024 @12:05PM (#40750933)
Here's a real world example of a custom RAG pipeline built with Langchain
I did a full tutorial with source code that's linked at the top of that page ^
Fwiw I think it's a good idea to build with and without Langchain for deeper understanding.
Show HN: Legal semantic search starter – Next.js
Re:Python wheel filenames have no canonical form
on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @12:37PM (#40660062)
https://www.pinecone.io/blog/pain-poetry-python/
This was the write up I did last year
Re:AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead
on Thursday June 06, 2024 @10:26PM (#40604721)
But increasingly I prefer to ask LLMs the same things I used to search Google for...
Re:AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead
on Thursday June 06, 2024 @10:25PM (#40604716)
Meaningful velocity increase while keeping quality high enough for the services to function in production and charge users..
Re:AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead
on Thursday June 06, 2024 @10:25PM (#40604713)
What you say tracks - but I'm wondering what happens if they manage to unlock some meaningful velocity increase to the point where they can begin tackling other domains and shuttling out products at a higher rate...Agree with your thoughts on search - it's f'ing unusable now and frustrating to look at.
Re:AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead
on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:59PM (#40604599)
After reading this I'm wondering how the indy code autocomplete tools are going to be able to compete longterm with this giant feedback rich data machine Google has built...do engineering orgs of sufficient scale ultimately hoard their tooling for competitive advantage, thereby leaving independent players to cater to developers outside of Google? Feels like yes...but plenty of inventions trickle out in various forms.
Re:AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead
on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:53PM (#40604563)
Having a similar experience but in the other direction. I have a lot of backend and frontend development experience but no ml background. Being able to ask stupid questions to get further faster has been making difference for me.
Re:Some notes on influenceering
on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @06:23PM (#40579572)
And, for what it's worth, I also share because I love building things and learning. I taught myself how to code using free resources online, so it felt perfectly natural to publish and open-source everything I figured out.
I also wouldn't mind eventually making some money off delivering reliable value to others.
Re:Some notes on influenceering
on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @06:21PM (#40579565)
This is helpful - thank you for sharing. I've been down a mental rabbit hole lately and reached similar conclusions.
Re:Some notes on influenceering
on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @06:20PM (#40579559)
+1 - I picked up my first semi-stalker / email harasser recently from blogging and sending out a newsletter about apps I build and open-source. Pretty weird experience.
Re:Vector Databases Compared
on Sunday May 19, 2024 @11:39AM (#40407623)
Good suggestion - thanks!
Re:Asciinema 3.0 will be rewritten in Rust
on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @09:25PM (#39297106)
I appreciate and use asciinema, but a big plus one for VHS.
I like being able to store my tapes in a repo and edit them:
https://github.com/zackproser/vhs-scratch
And as the official VHS docs show you can do even more interesting things with CI/CD