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news.ycombinator.com 2mo ago

Why don't AI coding tools like REST?

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news.ycombinator.com 5mo ago

Ask HN: Does anyone keep prompts and reasoning as part of dev cycle?

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news.ycombinator.com 6mo ago

Ask HN: Is managing AI features fundamentally different from traditional coding?

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news.ycombinator.com 7mo ago

Ask HN: Is There a Shell Revival?

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news.ycombinator.com 7mo ago

How to get your app noticed by those who matter

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news.ycombinator.com 7mo ago

Is there an hour by hour model quality tracker?

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news.ycombinator.com 7mo ago

Is there any value from "coming soon" placeholders?

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news.ycombinator.com 7mo ago

What's the "best" way to version your product?

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qz.com 7y ago

Africa being left in dust for voice; it's a hole in AI

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medium.com 7y ago

You: Know what I'm saying? Machine: No. Sorry. I'm Still learning

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www.nytimes.com 7y ago

Great series on the 3 ways Russia crafts fake news into real real

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www.seanshadmand.com 7y ago

My Dad had a Stroke. How Google Home and me being a developer helped

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arstechnica.com 7y ago

NPM i event-stream 3.3.6 “404s”. Turns out was removed due to BC hack

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www.seanshadmand.com 7y ago

How to safely check breech list for your user's passwords

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seanshadmand.com 10y ago

Why I love Polymer 1.0

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Web and web wrappers are still no way to build an app

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www.producthunt.com 11y ago

Get to know the startup communities where you travel

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www.kickstarter.com 11y ago

A story of the first startup in history now on Kickstarter

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seanshadmand.com 11y ago

A New User's Perspective on Using Betterment and Wealthfront ETF Investment Apps

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info.erecmakesafire.com 11y ago

Teaching the entrepreneurial spirit to children

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seanshadmand.com 11y ago

A take on points in product development

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www.seanshadmand.com 14y ago

"Should I add x product?" Litmus test.

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www.seanshadmand.com 14y ago

What do you and Sonic the Hedgehog Have in Common?

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www.seanshadmand.com 16y ago

The Life of Entrepreneurship

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like with most agentic dev I do these days, I go between "I need this" to "I used to need this when humans were involved but is it just vestigial" a lot. In this case, why am I documenting at all if the agent is pretty good at understanding things quickly via the context and indexes it creates from the code itself.

...on the other hand... since we still have humans using the features and interacting with them, knowing what is going on and why it made a decisions (for better or worst) doesn't seem like something to let go of.

What a cool concept to turn the SM 140 chars concept into a programming demo list! Is there a reverse to this that work to compress a JS script into 140 chars to help show some creative ideas without needing to fully understand the code? Also, how good is AI at generating these in your experiences?

Interesting. I use a lot of python and nodejs for my apps, maybe this shell angle is a weird quirk I developed for no particular reason. I keep a seperate repo called “manager” and use it to manage my other parts of the stack like, “run tests for each repo, bump version, commit to git” with a single CLI command. I have no idea why that started. My guess is an agent created a shell script and I just went with it and built up around it. Good to hear other perspectives. Thanks!

There is a reshaping of what we think is “right”. Like, I am less and less interested in SDKs since I can just ask for a lightweight, custom, integration into anything I want based on API docs. I mean, I still use a lot of SDKs…buuuut it feels like I’m forcing the AI to use them for my monkey brain’s sake. Is predefined mashup of structured services even necessary anymore?

Dude - crazy. When I saw this post I was like - finally someone said it. But it isn't just "iPhone". Why is spell check so bad EVERYWHERE..... still?. Like, how is it I am still even able to share texts, emails, etc that have mistakes at all? I feel like "spell check" is so old school. Intent, and matching intent, without typos is way over due. A bit meta: but, I am going to have to re-read this post - why? I still send texts that say "What re you doing?" - hwy?

Is it a bubble? 7 months ago

Finance people are funny. They are so wrong when you hear their logic and references, but I also realized it doesn't matter. It is trends they try to predict, fuzzy directional signals, not facts of the moment.

Is it a bubble? 7 months ago

What you make of this memo really depends on who you are and how you're positioned. The dot-com era was absolutely a bubble. Tons of companies died, but the internet itself didn't go away, and the people who backed the right companies did extremely well. The 2007 housing bubble, on the other hand, was a totally different kind of event: broad, systemic, long lasting, and painful for almost everyone.

AI looks a lot more like the former. Some companies will fail, valuations will swing, but the underlying technology isn't going anywhere. In fact, many of the AI firms that will end up mattering are probably still undervalued because we're early in what will likely be another decade long technology expansion.

If you're managing a portfolio that needs quick returns and can't tolerate a correction, then sure, it probably feels like a bubble, because at some point people will take profits and the market will reset.

But if you're an entrepreneur or a long-term builder, that framing is almost irrelevant. This is where the next wave of value gets created. It's never smooth and it's never easy, but the long-term opportunity is enormous.

I feel like it allows me do more of the fun bits of coding and creating. It's not too different than giving the easy/basic/annoying stuff to consultants and less senior engineers. Do people get mad when the hire more devs? You still get to machinate over how to attack a problem in clever ways. Also, you can give 4 out of 5 tasks to the AI and leave the fun bits for yourself.

This is perfect for AI video creation. Everyone is dead so you can easily get likeness for the actors and produce a teaser real for pennies on the dollar. Did you try that yet? Throwing that on a post and/or youtube will get a nice ghetto test of interest you can then show some execs - 1M views is the new "here is my idea".

How he created a world around his CV may not be groundbreaking, but very creative and done exceptionally well. I caught myself driving around for a couple minutes. Accepting cookies bakes a cookie, you get hidden easter eggs when you complete certain actions (like lift driving in water). Just like with any creative endeavor (movies, music, dance) doing something no one has ever seen isn't always the goal (striving for that can often feel forced/cringe); creating an emotion in someone is art - and this did that for me.

Takes a min to load even when it shows the circle complete. But a 1-2xrefreshes load it and yes, it is pretty sick. Wish you could zoom out more though. Nice work to Bruno!

My gut reaction is, if AI was really good at vibe coding all the infra it could be nice, but getting C deployed and productized is the potential challenge. The "roads" we built for hyper scaling apps doesn't strike me as C friendly. And, even with the friendlier deployment strateies on next, python, etc, AI still slips up a lot.

I agree with the marketing side, but I am more on the implementation side. Could you imagine iPhone having a section "coming soon" in their OS? To me it seems impatient and wishful thinking than prioritized and thoughtful execution. When I talk to other founders/designers I feel like their reasoning falls apart pretty quickly when asked "why did you add that there?".

Yeah, that is a good way to look at it. Since this is for a website/web-app then we WILL "only support the latest". So will add that to the calculus. What I like about the trend toward "year" in the version is the instant ability to see the age of the version.

I was surprised to not find a single instance of "fear" or "accountability" in all the comments. The major driving force in "Big Enterprise" is putting a price tag on "are you prepared for something to go wrong." Either with bad actors, stupid mistakes, or lack of resources. The overhead and settings required to increase or decrease how much exposure the customer is willing to take is what drives the indu$try. That being said, I don't disagree with a lot of the comments. There is definitely the case of over engineering, but that is a bi-product of a business having to decide between making money or turning away a customer. Great companies have kept it simple while steered their users toward simplicity (which drives down cost and errors for all parties).

We got into a discussion at work on this. How do you battle a strategy that injects fake news stories into publishers hands, and does it over the course of 3-10 years or more, internationally. Basically sabotaging any chance for valid researcher by those trying to seek the truth on a given (potentially planted) subject. It is a brilliant tactic, if not so insanely nefarious. Has anyone figured out a counter measure that comes close to helpful?

Piggy backing on your post, I have a very large and complex systems of architectures (both hardware and software). I'd love to take that documentation and run analyzation on the data/node and their relationships (maybe via a graph DB in the backend and some rich search capabilities). Anyone know of any tools that not only help you draw and document, but interface with the diagrams via API?

Love revolut. The ability to store income in multiple currencies (and transition between them easily) is great. Personal accounts are free, so it is easy to try out. It is a zero interest account for business AND they charge a fee on top of that. I think they (or someone else) could do it more intelligently (like a Robinhood) for a zero fee setup.