MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paulhodge | 2025-08-05 15:46:35+00:00
I've had days where it really does feel like 5x or 10x...

Here's what the 5x to 10x flow looks like:

1. Plan out the tasks (maybe with the help of AI)

2. Open a Git worktree, launch Claude Code in the worktree, give it the task, let it work. It gets instructions to push to a Github pull request when it's done. Claude gets to work. It has access to a whole bunch of local tools, test suites, and lots of documentation.

3. While that terminal is running, I go start more tasks. Ideally there are 3 to 5 tasks running at a time.

4. Periodically check on the tabs to make sure they're not stuck or lost their minds.

5. Finally, review the finished pull requests and merge them when they are ready. If they have issues then go back to the related chat and tell it to work on it some more.

With that flow it's reasonable to merge 10 to 20 pull requests every day. I'm sure someone will respond "oh just because there are a lot of pull requests, doesn't mean you are productive!" I don't know how to prove to you that the PRs are productive other than just say that they are each basically equivalent to what one human does in one small PR.

A few notes about the flow:

- For the AI to work independently, it really needs tasks that are easy to medium difficulty. There are definitely 'hard' tasks that need a lot of human attention in order to get done successfully.

- This does take a lot of initial investment in tooling and documentation. Basically every "best practice" or code pattern that you want to use use in the project must be written down. And the tests must be as extensive as possible.

Anyway the linked article talks about the time it takes to review pull requests. I don't think it needs to take that long, because you can automate a lot..

- Code style issues are fully automated by the linter.

- Other checks like unit test coverage can be checked in the PR as well.

- When you have a ton of automated tests that are checked in the PR, that also reduces how much you need to worry about as a code reviewer.

With all those checks in place, I think it can pretty fast to review a PR. As the human you just need to scan for really bad code patterns, and maybe zoom in on highly critical areas, but most of the code can be eyeballed pretty quickly.
by skeledrew | 2025-08-05 15:46:40+00:00
> Perplexity's value proposition appears to be "we're going to take the stuff off your website, and present it to our users. We're not going to show them your ads, we're not going to offer them your premium services or referrals to other products, we're going to strip out the value from your content and take it for our users".

This, exactly this is a primary reason why I use Perplexity. I want the valued content, without the unnecessary distractions that I'll never consciously touch anyway (there have been accidental clicks now and then, because some site designers really want people to click that ad and go all out to embed it into the content, and it only leads to great annoyance and sometimes a promise never to visit that site again).
by samfeldman | 2025-08-05 15:46:42+00:00
Adding birthdays to a calendar would save you the $9/yr and may be preferable for some users.

I just prefer text reminders—they are hard to miss. For me it's the simplest, least intrusive way to remember. And I like being able to add new friends via text as well.

I'd rather wake up to a text that says "Happy birthday to ____!" than check my calendar to see a friend's birthday next to random events.
by rustyrustling | 2025-08-05 15:46:43+00:00
After 2-3 weeks of going hard at Claude Max - yeah it's got major limits. At first I was trying to make full ready-to-go-to-prod entirely with vibe coding. Then I progressed to reviewing all the code it made. However, it will spend at least a third of it's tokens and my constantly ( 5 hr ) replenishing opus on spinning in a circle - checking random dirs, random files, and unrelated things for the answer to a problem that it THINKS is solution ( and that's not even considering the price increase ( by token reduction and 7 day waiting period lol ) that they will be doing in August.

Then I just stopped letting it run rampant and reviewed every step it took ( this is when I got the best results. ) So realistically - all it would be good at in a complex enterprise software stack ( My primary experience is with Guidewire ) it would be great for quickly scaffolding new parts of a micro service, adding onto pieces of one very specifically, and just removing the grunt work of manually hitting tab, cmd ->, ctrl ->, opt -> through big files and letting me just read it and confirm rather than getting carpal tunnel.

Honestly the best use I've gotten out of it has been updating and adding onto my emacs config primarily used for org-roam.

As far as replacing engineers? After at least 300 hours using max - I can say no it will not. I realized this after I spent more time configuring the rules and prompting the ai than actually just writing the code myself.
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by btreecat | 2025-08-05 15:47:23+00:00
> No feedback, no one to bounce ideas off, no “nice job” at the end of the day. > > The freedom is great, but it gets weirdly quiet. > > Anyone else relate?

This was my first 8 yrs in professional development.

I had no way to gauge my skills or success.

Got lucky when another department needed help with a project and I worked with some great folks for the better part of a year. Learned my value relative to the market and was able to better advocate for myself and find a new job.
by nirav72 | 2025-08-05 15:47:25+00:00
>Why are people still installing security cameras that are monitored by them?

Very few people rarely ever actively monitor their home security cameras these days. I only look at the recorded footage if and only when a predefined event is triggered. Usually if a person is detected within a specific area when I'm not at home and they shouldn't be there. Such as door leading into the house from the backyard. Or if a package is delivered and I don't see the package on my doorstep.
by j45 | 2025-08-05 15:47:45+00:00
It can be, but if you're familiar with what you're working with and have experience with other systems that have transferrable knowledge, again, it can be an advantage.

I was surprised with claude code I was able to get a few complex things done that I had anticipated to be a few weeks to uncover, stitch together and get moving.

Instead I pushed Claude to consistently present the correct udnerstanding of the problem, strucutre, approach to solving things, and only after that was OK, was it allowed to propose changes.

True to it's shiny things corpus, it will over complicate things because it hasn't learned that less is more. Maybe that reflects the corpus of the average code.

Looking at how folks are setting up their claude.md and agents can go a long way if you haven't had a chance yet.
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-08-05 15:48:10+00:00
This makes me want to comment that the first thing I noticed on the page is two white rectangles on the second image (under "Drive Stats by the numbers") are not top-aligned.

Regarding tables: using monospace typefaces and padding floats with zeros to better align numbers make them easier to visually compare at a glance. Compare the difference the alignment of the AFR column of the two first big tables makes.
by 9rx | 2025-08-05 15:48:25+00:00
> then in our 20's more or less have to make a mad dash to establish a place to live, a career, a partner, etc.

Life is full of surprises and doesn't always work out the way you thought it would, but who isn't at least trying to resolve those things long before their 20s? The "mad dash" may be someone's ultimate fate, but being the norm seems a bit off.
by jodrellblank | 2025-08-05 15:48:35+00:00
Tangent; put lists in alphabetical order! Or some other order which makes sense to the user in the context, like date, or priority. Something which is not unordered, coincidence, whatever the hashtable or nosql DB produced, order of creation when that isn't an important ordering in the domain, some internal or even visible GUID.

Worse if there's no filter, worse if it's a dropdown and there's no way to type the desired name, only look.
by cogman10 | 2025-08-05 15:49:03+00:00
> Investigators determined the Titan’s real-time monitoring system generated data that should have been analyzed and acted on during the 2022 Titanic expedition. However, OceanGate did not take any action related to the data, conduct any preventative maintenance or properly store the Titan during the extended off season before its 2023 Titanic expedition.

So, a bunch of giant red warning flags AND they didn't bother to properly store the casket. I feel bad for the passengers, Stockton got the FAFO award he deserved.
by iamjackg | 2025-08-05 15:49:25+00:00
It is the best version of fuzzy search I have ever seen: the ultimate "tip of my tongue" assistant. I can ask super vague things like "Hey, I remember seeing a tool that allows you to put actual code in your files to do codegen, what could it be?" and it instantly gives me a list of possible answers, including the thing I'm looking for: Cog.

I know that a whole bunch of people will respond with the exact set of words that will make it show up right away on Google, but that's not the point: I couldn't remember what language it used, or any other detail beyond what I wrote and that it had been shared on Hacker News at some point, and the first couple Google searches returned a million other similar but incorrect things. With an LLM I found it right away.
by philipallstar | 2025-08-05 15:49:40+00:00
> Michelle Moore, the chief executive of Groundswell, a nonprofit group that received a Solar for All grant, said revoking the award would undermine the Trump administration’s efforts to address soaring electricity demand fueled by artificial intelligence data centers.

Solar is so expensive and cost-inefficient per-household. Data centers need their own large, uninterrupted power supplies.
by yapyap | 2025-08-05 15:49:42+00:00
Also I don’t think it’s fair to compare using LLMs to do your work for you (AKA burdening your coworkers with part of your workload because they will have to point out your garbage) is the same as “Counterfeits to human connection“.

At work I’m not trying to connect with people on any more level than just being on the same level as to what we are working on. Maybe on break but while deep-working I just want the information necessary to do the job, the communication being there to communicate the information, efficiently.

If you outsource your sending of communication to SlopBot and I outsource my reading of said communication to another SlopBot to summarize or whatbeit we are adding so much noise it’s just more fucking work.

It’s not the same as pornography, I think it’s an odd thing to compare it to. Yes you _can_ replace “human connection” with pornography but this is human connection that is not required for things like your job ((i hope, haha)). You need to communicate information and people outsourcing their writing to LLMs is just adding extra fuzz for the people having to work with said information.

It’s a nice blogpost, the pornography comparison is just out of place.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-08-05 15:49:48+00:00
Absolutely right. However, it's not good to replace too much manual labor, either. There is also a balance between too much and too little (i.e. not learning enough manual skills to take care of yourself).

There is a balance in both the mental and physical domains. Those who have a high intellectual capacity will probably think otherwise because intellectual activities is what THEY like to do. But the truth is, some people enjoy manual labor and it's not good to completely replace them either because there is art in manual work as well.
by te_chris | 2025-08-05 15:50:23+00:00
100%. It's made me like dev again because my head can be used for things other than remembering arcania - this may be a curse of using languages like Ruby and Elixir which mostly don't have great tooling.

I enjoyed the article, fwiw. Twitter was insufferable before Elon bought it, but the AI bro scene is just...wow. An entire scene who only communicate in histrionics.
by kouteiheika | 2025-08-05 15:50:33+00:00
> To that end, we're exploring how we can make Genie 3 available to additional testers in the future.

No need to explore; I can tell you how. Release the weights to the general public so that everyone can play with it and non-Google researchers can build their work upon it.

Of course this isn't going to happen because "safety". Even telling us how many parameters this model has is "unsafe".
by kasey_junk | 2025-08-05 15:51:27+00:00
I believe that quote in Thomas’ blog can be attributed to me. I’ve at least said something near enough to him that I don’t mind claiming it.

I _never_ made the claim that you could call that 10x productivity improvement. I’m hesitant to categorize productivity in software in numeric terms as it’s such a nuanced concept.

But I’ll stand by my impression that a developer using ai tools will generate code at a perceptibly faster pace than one who isn’t.

I mentioned in another comment the major flaw in your productivity calculation, is that you aren’t accounting for the work that wouldn’t have gotten done otherwise. That’s where my improvements are almost universally coming from. I can improve the codebase in ways that weren’t justifiable before in places that do not suffer from the coordination costs you rightly point out.

I no longer feel like my peers are standing still, because they’ve nearly uniformly adopted ai tools. And again, you rightly point out, there isn’t much of a learning curve. If you could develop before them you can figure out how to improve with them. I found it easier than learning vim.

As for hallucinations I don’t experience them effectively _ever_. And I do let agents mess with terraform code (in code bases where I can prevent state manipulation or infrastructure changes outside of the agents control).

I don’t have any hints on how. I’m using a pretty vanilla Claude code setup. But im not sure how an agent that can write and run compile/test loops could hallucinate.
by danbruc | 2025-08-05 15:51:37+00:00
I am neither complaining nor trying them what to do with their money, that looks like a complete deflection to me.

If I am buying Apple products, am I contributing to their ad budget? If so, where does that money end up? Is it likely that some of it will end up as ad revenue on some website? What difference does it make whether or not I block ads? Or the other way around, if I am visiting websites and look at Apple ads but do not buy Apple products, am I contributing to the ad revenue of the websites?
by qingcharles | 2025-08-05 15:52:01+00:00
Did you try compiling all the test to native thru AoT? There are probably some optimizations to improve the Kestrel score by altering the config, or maybe changing how the API is written:

app.MapGet("/api/test/hello", () => "Hello World!");

As a general web server, I think I'd always go for Kestrel over this, but as another poster said, if you're trying to add an endpoint to some desktop application, this would be perfect.
by GMoromisato | 2025-08-05 15:52:17+00:00
I'm actually glad to be getting a lot of push-back on this idea.

Old men like me can afford to be cynical, but I'm glad the next generation has enough idealists that they reject the dark future I'm predicting.

Still, I'm forced to reply.

> The vast majority of people are already not harnessing more and more resources in order to reproduce more.

Considering that every other species larger than a rat is being driven into extinction, largely because we are converting their habitats into farms or strip malls, I don't see evidence that we've learned not to consume more and more.

Sure, over the next hundred years our population will stabilize, but as the great scientist Jeff Goldblum said, "Life...ah...finds a way!"

If you want to know how humans will evolve you have to ask, which genes will spread? Obviously, genes for raw strength aren't useful--that's what machines are for. What about genes for intelligence? Do the smartest people have the most kids? No, which means those genes won't necessarily dominate.

In nature, every species is constrained either by food availability or predators or both. If two rabbits have four baby rabbits, and those four have eight baby rabbits, then why aren't there trillions of rabbits now? Obviously, it's because eventually they run out of food or get eaten by coyotes.

But a technological species like us has no predators, and we can continue to make more food by cutting down forests (where other species live) and turn them into farms.

The only limit we have right now is that we don't want to have too many kids. Unlike every other species, we can (mostly) control our reproduction, and we sometimes choose to have fewer children so that we can have a more luxurious life.

Of course, the desire to have children varies across individuals. We all know some people who want to have more kids and some who don't want any. It is likely, of course, that this innate desire is partly or mostly heritable.

Over long enough time-scales--maybe a thousand generations or 25,000 years--the genes of people who want to have kids will dominate. By then, of course, we will have run out of forests to cut down, so we'll have to start colonizing the oceans and other planets.

But like I said, I'm just a cynical old man.
by freedomben | 2025-08-05 15:52:21+00:00
Seriously, especially when the substring is in the title or filename. Google drive searching is infuriating for that. It will pull up barely related documents to my search term that has the word buried in the content, and not even show the file that has my search term verbatim in the filename or title. If there's one company I expect a really great search experience with, it's Google, and yet it's been this way for years and years...
by ItsBob | 2025-08-05 15:52:30+00:00
The Netflix documentary was great and the thing that I took away from it most was that in fractions of a second all the passengers literally blinked out of existence: They were here and then within a ms, they literally vanished (I assume... they didn't elaborate on it but I can guess!)

The temperature and pressure in that tiny fraction of a second was probably 10s of thousands of degrees and hundreds of jumbo jets smashing into them so fast that their bodies didn't even register the trauma.

Blew my mind.

Nearly forgot that they heard the explosion on the surface ship, 2 miles above the sub... that kinda screws with my head tbh!
by vouaobrasil | 2025-08-05 15:53:29+00:00
> I am not saying that LLMs are worthless—they are marvels of engineering and can solve some particularly thorny problems that have confounded us for decades.

Disagree with that, because firstly, they have not really solved any problems that outweight the negatives that they have unleashed and will unleash on society.

So they make programmers more effective: is that actually a good thing, though? Fact is, most software is designed to make consumerism and corporations more effective, and that's not really a good thing for the long-term health of the planet.

Your article also indicates a sort of independence between keeping intellectual tasks primarily human and allowing AI/LLMs to work in specific domains. However, those with the power don't care about principles. They just want to replace as much as they can and use the human instinct to get ahead quickly to do so. And no amount of priniciple will stop them. AI is just too powerful to be used in a way that is consistent with human beings keeping their intellectual environment healthy.
by uyendo | 2025-08-05 15:53:37+00:00
My Tech Stack:

- Built with React Native for cross-platform support

- Uses Yahoo Finance API and GLD fund filings to track gold prices and SPDR activity

- Market news is filtered using an AI agent via OpenAI, identifying gold-related content from Yahoo RSS feeds

- Price alerting and automation are handled via n8n workflows, integrating with Airtable and push notifications

- Backend Nodejs
by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-05 15:53:52+00:00
It seems that way because people are stuck thinking in terms of an operating system. Need access control? Put a file on the server. Need auditing? Log into the server. Need logging? A text file... on the server. None of these need be done this way, and in fact ways that make sense when you have a full operating system don't make sense with a unikernel. Hint: All of these things should be database-driven.
by zhivota | 2025-08-05 15:54:04+00:00
The existence of 10x engineers is something no one believes until they meet one, and they are extremely rare so I can believe many people have never met one.

The co-founder of a company I worked at was one for a period (he is not a 10xer anymore - I don't think someone can maintain that output forever with life constraints). He literally wrote the bulk of a multi-million line system, most of the code is still running today without much change and powering a unicorn level business.

I literally wouldn't believe it, but I was there for it when it happened.

Ran into one more who I thought might be one, but he left the company too early to really tell.

I don't think AI is going to produce any 10x engineers because what made that co-founder so great was he had some kind of sixth sense for architecture, that for most of us mortals we need to take more time or learn by trial and error how to do. For him, he was just writing code and writing code and it came out right on the first try, so to speak. Truly something unique. AI can produce well specified code, but it can't do the specifying very well today, and it can't reason about large architectures and keep that reasoning in its context through the implementation of hundreds of features.
by lordnacho | 2025-08-05 15:54:15+00:00
I'm getting a lot of side-quest productivity out of AI. There's always a bunch of things I could do, but they are tedious. Yet they are still things I wish I could get done. Those kinds of things AI is fantastic at. Building a mock, making tests, abstracting a few things into libraries, documentation.

So it's not like I'm delivering features in one day that would have taken two weeks. But I am delivering features in two weeks that have a bunch of extra niceties attached to them. Reality being what it is, we often release things before they are perfect. Now things are a bit closer to perfect when they are released.

I hope some of that extra work that's done reduces future bug-finding sessions.