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geopsist

98 karma · joined February 23, 2014

Two-time founder. At Trent.ai - security analysis for AI-built systems (code, agents, runtime). Heavy Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini user. Opinions on agentic tooling earned by breaking things. george@trent.ai
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geopsist··on Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?
I dont think you can get into flow easily - not talking from the dev pov but rather from growth. I find my self multi tasking like crazy and having to click yes yes yes in claude prompts :/ One way is to relax those permissions and have less interruptions. the other is to try and listen good music throughout.
geopsist··on CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs
I've been a founder since before any of this existed, same flavor of small team then and now. What I see now is that anyone can produce more but less due to their skills from scratch (slop?). A big company sees the headlines and a CEO reads that as "fewer people", or force use of LLMs and people seeing it as a preparation for AI processes taking over (and rightfully so). But frankly probably for smaller teams it reads "same people, wider surface". Imo bad CEOs existed before AI and will exist in the future...
geopsist··on Ask HN: How are you preserving your skills while using AI?
coming from a different pov, I was (am) systems engineer who never became a proper coder, then founder, now mostly product/growrth. So AI and agents dint erode a mastery i had, they gave me one i never had. What you describe though makes sense for the skills I did have and I see a dependency as well. Things I used to work out myself, even slowly, I now reach for the agent first by reflex. The speed effect is indeed there. I get anxiety many times that I don't understand subject matters or I learn them slowly. Haven't found a good way other than keeping some of the writing or critical judgment calls to me. On a happy note i try not to push LLMs at all to my kids as I start reading such dependencies happening there.
geopsist··on Claude Fable 5
the post is live now https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5
geopsist··on Ask HN: High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile?
considering my journey (systems engineer / not coder -> founder -> product growth) if you are in the "technical side of things" you probably do need a notion of coding. Maybe you don't need to be an expert in Node for instance but at least have some nuances when Claude Code gives you code snippets to run. A good example is having Codex tell me how to repair my car and me not having idea of what is it talking about (I don't, cars are a black box to me). So I believe technical affinity, and flexibility in grasping technical subjects and moving around them is the way to go. At least this is what i say to my kids but I am not Pythia the ancient Greek oracle in Delphi :P
geopsist··on I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
Non-engineer here, doing growth at a small company, using these tools on side projects as well. The thing i find expensive is how to trust the output. I am not a coder so i cant rate the code to know if it's right. I end up running a second model to check the first one's output or testing. That takes time as well :)
geopsist··on Have LLMs made anyone's life substantially better?
imo helped in a matter of things professionally, as i managed to increase my output by reducing blockers (seeing this not from an eng pov but from a growth/marketing perspective). Have definitely increase anxiety that i am left behind and i don't know the best and latest.
geopsist··on Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters
windows user, not a dev, engineer doing growth. I use Claude, codex, Gemini in my projects. The failure modes I hit far more are 2: an operational one, ie shell confusion. Claude executes commands that do not work or fail in cmd / PowerShell, permissions issues etc. In code (and marketing / growth stuff) i find it many times that i will ask from claude to verify the code it proposes with codex and then come back with the results. Depending on the task i may ask for consensus from the three models - thats fun!
geopsist··on Show HN: Trent – Contextual architectural security reviews inside Claude Code
I'm on the GTM side at Trent, not engineering. I've been running our agents on my own side projects while the team builds this (a euroleague fantasy league app, and an affilaite site). Happy to talk about what that's like from a non-security-engineer angle.
geopsist··on Tell HN: Do not include co-authored-by Claude in your commits
You can always configure it per ^^^. And anyone can search by that flag as well so eitherway it should be a good practice.
geopsist··on Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter
A lot of people are posting links to microphones/headphones/stream-decks/etc... My personal experience from a series of podcasts at home and with 2 kids, a super duper mic would not solve my problem. A lot of the audio issues you see at events and streams like these stem from bg noise, echo, no pop-filter, stream lag. It's usually a case of repair, not replacing equipment. New microphones bring risk potential with excessive gain, headphones can make you too self-conscious or focus on the wrong thing. Like, rather than spending X amount on a new setup, just use some tools/plugins in post - most can be ran through OBS live, despite initially seeming like a post-production technical thing. I lost a lot of time repairing my audio in various tools when software plugin bundles like this - https://accusonus.com/products/audio-repair/era-bundle-stand... -gave me a way better recording upgrade, as opposed to a new mic.
geopsist··on Taking over the BART: why and how we ran a metro advertising campaign in SF
Great post and insights!
geopsist··on The epic startup story of Karl and Bertha Benz
You are right. It was just pure awesomeness that she did back in 1800s. Sorry for my bad writing :)
geopsist··on The epic startup story of Karl and Bertha Benz
nope it was not :) but you can agree that she did "see" it with another view. just my two cents :) no offence there
geopsist··on [dead]
You are mentionining the drones will Percepto connect with. Which Naza model is the best case scenario? thank you...

Good luck with your campaign!

geopsist··on BigStash offers 5TB of long-term file storage free for one year
Hi there, how does it compare to Amazon's Glacier?
geopsist··on Show HN: Morph – Integrate Services Without Coding
Hey its George one of the founders here. Our goal with Morph is to enable data transformation between WebHooks with no need to write code. Instead, you may use our visual configuration editor. Our purpose is to make simpler to connect arbitrary services together.

Specifically, with the editor you may: - Rename fields from the original response - Move them to a different place in the response - Remove them completely - Create new fields and structures

We plan to add more functionalities in the futre. So if you have any questions or comments I'd love to answer them.

geopsist··on Startups may have an Agile plan til they get punched in the mouth
Thank you... Glad you liked it...

Yes this one sprint per month good be great :)

geopsist··on Google was down for 15 minutes (+/- from 09:35 UTC)
I do not seem to have any kind or problems... But ... duckduckgo is a really great service!
geopsist··on Startups: "I Have No Idea What I Am Doing" by Buffer's CEO
"Looking back to when I started Buffer, even though I had learned a lot from my past startup experiences, I truly didn’t know what I was doing and I approached everything with that mindset. I was out there to learn and I knew that the only way I was going to progress was to adopt a very open mind. I’m writing this post because when I stray away from this mindset, I lose out as a result." Joel speaks almost for everyone. I feel sometimes the same and I am not in any way as accomplished as him.... Am I alone?
geopsist··on How we build an MVP on a budget with BizSpark and Azure
yes I agree
geopsist··on How we build an MVP on a budget with BizSpark and Azure
I agree... There may be many solutions available! In our case we found the best value for money case.
geopsist··on How we build an MVP on a budget with BizSpark and Azure
Yep this was my original thought. Thank you for the reply :)
geopsist··on How we build an MVP on a budget with BizSpark and Azure
Same here. Thank you for the feedback. We will try to make it clearer! :)
geopsist··on How we build an MVP on a budget with BizSpark and Azure
thanks a lot for your feedback! We are trying to make it better. Got your point ;)

PS. I hope the post info will prove useful :)