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Re:Ask HN: How is all new software not broken? on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @01:25PM (#48297482)
noted. ty
Re:Ask HN: How is all new software not broken? on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @10:24AM (#48280284)
appreciate that. i generally don't do that selective context building step. i instead have claude plan, then run that plan through multiple iterations where i and/or codex reviews the plan and gets it to where it should be. but so often little things slip in that are maddening.

to be fair, i am not doing a line by line code review. for that i also defer to multiple iterations, where i'm reviewing each finding, but my scope is limited to what's surfaced by the agent.

but it's hard to believe big tech is reviewing line by line when they've pushing out thousands of lines.

Ask HN: How is all new software not broken?

Google claimed at Google I/O that they shipped "100 features in 100 days" for Antigravity. I can barely get Claude Code to implement a pnl script for historical stock market data without serious bugs or drift. What are they doing differently, or what am I doing wrong?

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PDD – Psychopath Driven Development

A lot has been discussed about why it's important not to anthropomorphize AI. But the trouble is that AI is just so anthropomorphic that denying it that status feels, to some degree, like lying to yourself. Who amongst us hasn't felt a twinge of hesitation before hitting Ctrl+C to end the conversation?I think it's far better to take the stance, as many have pointed out, that working with AI is...

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Moments of joy != meaning (JS equality operator)

Moments of joy can be meaningful, and they can even be coerced into being meaningful, but it's important to remember that they are not meaningful in and of themselves.I think it's important to call this out because this conflation is oversold in marketing--and for good reason. We all want meaning, but it's hard to get. So, if we think we can get it with a moment of joy, which is much easier to...

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Re:Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs on Monday March 02, 2026 @04:25PM (#47224323)
I just can’t get over the fact that your Anglicized name sounds like manual shipper.

Setting Boundaries with People

I recently learned a formula from my son's playgroup teacher that has made boundary-setting much more palatable because it makes the whole thing feel less like a high-stakes endeavour. It goes like this:"I know you want <something> but <rule-that-comes-first>."As it relates to playgroup: "Timmy (not my son's name, btw), I know you want to jump around right now, but there's a rule...

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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Monday November 10, 2025 @09:18AM (#45876255)
Taking any intention and turning it into an everyday reality. First app. React Native + expo/eas

https://trystriver.com

Show HN: Striver – organize and internalize what's important to you

https://trystriver.com

Sharing my first app, Striver. Made with React Native/Expo, deployed with EAS.Generally geared towards folks who want to be intentional about what they're thinking and where they're thinking about it.Helps you seperate your attitudes/beliefs/approaches to, for example, going to the gym, and family time at home.It's decidedly unengaging, un-doom-scrolling, un-super-fun. Maybe to a fault?Would...

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A note of thanks

My wife was one of the first to sound the alarms (to me, that is) about the layer of garbage code and massive "comprehension debt" AI is surely creating."Are CEOs aware that more and more, no one actually knows what they are doing?" she asked, in earnest.When I told her that I'm actually seeing a shift in tech articles and memes expressing that sentiment, I wondered if what I was observing was...

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best of luck!! great idea. would love it see how it executes.
"our biggest challenges are accuracy" lol
Re:Ask HN: Can the React 19 hooks be found in the wild? on Monday June 09, 2025 @01:56PM (#44227158)
> botched right before 19 release

how do you know? have any articles on that? would be an interesting read..

Re:Ask HN: Am I old? on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @12:47PM (#44117953)
lol
Re:Ask HN: Am I old? on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @12:46PM (#44117931)
What's my point? That's a phenomenal question. I think my point was to see if anyone else out there shared my existential state. Now, of course I knew someone did, but there's really nothing like a good ol' confirmation from the other.

Ask HN: Am I old?

I don't think I'm old, but I get great joy in writing a simple utility function by hand, without ai. Just yesterday I wrote a function that removes the ending punctuation from a string, if present, and adds a period instead. I also wrote onDone, onSubmit, and onCancel handlers using more than my tab key.Yet it seems to me that this is quickly becoming the stuff of an older generation, of people...

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fyi https://docs.enkitask.com/ is not loading the js bundle. i'm on my corporate laptop behind a vpn, however, so maybe my company doesn't want me being efficient and effective :)
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do on Thursday January 02, 2025 @07:39PM (#42580767)
I recommend reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**