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claudeomusicon A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center

This is the most American news story ever

claudeomusicon Launch HN: Sentrial (YC W26) – Catch AI Agent Failures Before Your Users Do

Agreed - fix fast. No way to take a tool seriously about taking care of production that has such a blatant production issue

claudeomusicon We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science

But we’re great now I thought?

claudeomusicon Breaking the spell of vibe coding

It’s a crude comparison but it’s a lot more similar to what I’ve done in my management roles than what I’ve done as a dev.

claudeomusicon Breaking the spell of vibe coding

To be a little less vague - I think the biggest difference I’ve seen is where time is spent. In the past since I know what I’m doing I’d go straight into dev mode pretty quickly .

Going straight into dev mode with an LLM pretty much always goes wrong - a lot more time is spent in planning and in setting up constraints for how an agent can operate before letting it loose so that once you set it free it can run.

claudeomusicon Breaking the spell of vibe coding

I think a big part of this discussion lost for a lot is a lot of people are trying to copy/paste how we’ve been developing software over the past twenty years into this new world which simply doesn’t work effectively.

The differences are subtle but those of us who are fully bought in (like myself) are working and thinking in a new way to develop effectively with LLMs. Is it perfect? Of course not - but is it dramatically more efficient than the previous era? 1000%. Some of the things I’ve done in the past month I really didn’t think were possible. I was skeptical but I think a new era is upon us and everyone should be hustling to adapt.

My favorite analogy at the moment is that for awhile now we’ve been bowling and been responsible for knocking down the pins ourselves. In this new world we are no longer the bowlers, rather we are the builders of bumper rails that keep the new bowlers from landing in the gutter.

claudeomusicon Show HN: Sandbox Agent SDK – unified API for automating coding agents

For the newly initiated - can you help explain some common use cases? I’m not sure I fully grok practical usage of this

claudeomusicon Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access

What services do people primarily use to accomplish these tasks today? All custom work?

claudeomusicon Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access

Can someone dumb this down a bit for a non data-engineer? Hard to fully wrap my head around who this is/isn’t best suited for.

claudeomusicon Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

Damn what a strange time to be alive. Juxtaposing this against the constant nonsense coming from RFK is as jarring as it gets.

claudeomusicon Notion Mail is out

Please fix how slow notion is before expanding your brand. It’s becoming unusable as it eats up all resources of my M2 mac

claudeomusicon The curious surge of productivity in U.S. restaurants

This sounds too similar not to be - Fukada?

claudeomusicon Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

I made a silly twilio app for my daughter’s 1st birthday party where guests had a set of photos in front of them and they had to guess the correct age ordering and could validate their guess to win a prize using the temporary number I had setup.

claudeomusicon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)

Fuzzy Pet Health | Full-time Remote US | https://yourfuzzy.com. We are pet parents building for pet parents. Our mission is to empower and educate our customers to enrich and extend their pets' lives. Through proprietary 24/7 live vet chat software, and vet-approved subscription boxes we help pet parents take proactive roles in managing their pets' health and wellness.

We are a team of about 35, we recently raised a series B, https://news.crunchbase.com/news/fuzzy-lands-18m-series-b-fo..., and we're hiring across many roles.

https://jobs.lever.co/fuzzypethealth

Stack: Ruby/Rails, Swift, Kotlin, Javascript, React

If you want to apply for an engineering role feel free to message me directly at christopher(at)yourfuzzy(dot)com. Please include a subject line of "HN Fuzzy Application" and some description as to your interest. I will likely ignore any auto-generated applications.

claudeomusicon Is presentation the cause of loneliness? (2017)

This is why I love dog tails. They can't help but show their authentic intentions

claudeomusicon Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering interviews”

A word of advice. You spent the time writing this post knowing full well it would get a lot of hits but it appears you haven't yet updated your resume. Little details like that go a long way towards winning over a lot of hiring managers.Good luck!

claudeomusicon Launch HN: Searchlight (YC W19) – Hiring based on past performance, not resumes

Best of luck! Just went through a lot of interviews with a number of engineering companies before finally settling on an offer, and can strongly agree a more human approach is sorely needed. I get that there is a strong fear of hiring under-qualified candidates, but the true cost is a loss of perspective on long-term hiring.