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gusmally··on Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design
Echoing the wish for a Windows version. This is the first piece of software I've attempted to download in my ~2 years on this site. 90% of the software engineers I know are on Windows :-)
gusmally··on My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps
When I do this with places I've lived in before, especially in other states or countries, the nostalgia is so strong that it hurts!

It's pretty crazy how we are able to expose ourselves to memories and experiences (normally inaccessible) in so much stronger ways than previous generations.

gusmally··on Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees
Would love to hear more tips. This is me too, and I suspect some of my team members. I've been trying to build in more collaboration into tickets (e.g., an acceptance criteria that is "talk to the rest of the team about the decision you make on X aspect of implementation"), and I'm looking for more.

Those collaborative conversations are so often fruitful in ways I don't expect.

gusmally··on Help I accidentally a wigglegram
This was such a fun read, and wigglegrams are still popular on tumblr (although tumblr is no longer popular!)

To the people pointing out the lower quality of the author's wigglegrams: it's because they're accidental...

gusmally··on Never Give Them Your Face
The multiple uses of "it's worth X" made me question the authorship, for one
gusmally··on Claude Fable 5
lmao! thank you for the update; i was wondering why it was no longer viewable.
gusmally··on Grok 4.3
Since you seem interested in the ins and outs of English, I want to say that "retort" has a connotation of anger or sharpness. Your response reads more like a "rebuttal" to me.

This is not a correction; maybe retort is what you meant and I'm not trying to be the English police. I just like discussing the intricacies of language :)

gusmally··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
Such a fun site, thank you! I was surprised that Seedream4 passed the mermaid test since it's hard to tell whether they are in the water or submerged, and the mermaid has something funny going on with her left hand.
gusmally··on Push events into a running session with channels
Maybe it's less risk for them to offer the individual features. That way if people get inadvertent results, it's easier to blame the user, not the tool/company
gusmally··on Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
I guess we work in very different places!
gusmally··on Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
> When circumstances eventually require that understanding, when something breaks in an unexpected way or requirements change in a way that demands architectural reasoning, the organization discovers the deficit.

Maybe it's because I work in such a small team on a still-starting project, but even with the chaos of LLM-generated code, I can't imagine such a case as above that the LLMs couldn't also address.

Great read though and I appreciated the article.

gusmally··on Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
With the free time gained from not manually writing code, documentation should be part of the workflow. I should start doing this.
gusmally··on Layoffs at Block
you don't think LLM impacts on productivity were a factor at all?
gusmally··on Layoffs at Block
For real. Very worried about when other CEOs follow suit and there is a flood of people into unemployment.
gusmally··on Layoffs at Block
Square payment processing?
gusmally··on Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness
Which ones have you compared it against?
gusmally··on I'm 23, building my first startup with $0. Roast my plan
Who are your competitors? What makes you different?
gusmally··on Ask HN: Why does no one talk about the H-1B problem?
I don't have a macro-level answer for you but an interesting anecdote: we opened a job for a Software Designer and looked at the first 9 applicants. All of them were in need of H-1B sponsorship, most were Indian, and most were "software-engineers-turned-designers". So at a micro (company) level, we hire immigrants because those are the candidates we receive.

Note: One of my parents is an Indian immigrant. I have worked with many great Indian engineers and many not-so-great, just like every other nationality.

gusmally··on Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence
It's a great post, I will use it for the same. Thank you.
gusmally··on The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman
what do you mean?
gusmally··on The Whole App is a Blob
I also didn't understand the point the authour was trying to make about this method being superior at allowing a learner to remember things under pressure.
gusmally··on The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
Oh my god this article was bursting with them!

>It is not a “Platform.” It is a library.

>It isn’t a heavy observability platform. It’s a simple Python library

gusmally··on ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others
Yes! They are extremely susceptible to user influence, based on what I have read and experienced in personal use. If your initial message contains a seed, e.g., "Should I break up with my boyfriend? He doesn't listen to me," the LLM will stick with the seed of negativity and not make an objective analysis of the situation or take initiative to challenge your/its original perspective.
gusmally··on Claude Opus 4.1
They restarted Claude Plays Pokemon with the new model: https://www.twitch.tv/claudeplayspokemon

(He had been stuck in the Team Rocket hideout (I believe) for weeks)

gusmally··on Medical aid in dying, my health, and so on
The NYT recently did an interesting review of Canada's program: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/magazine/maid-medical-ass...
gusmally··on Medical aid in dying, my health, and so on
It must be hard to say one last permanent goodbye.
gusmally··on Medical aid in dying, my health, and so on
When reading the rest of his posts, I think you are right to ponder how his mental health is negatively impacting his outlook. He seems to be more ready to accept death than I'd expect, given how young he is. I wish him and his family the best; an unimaginable situation.
gusmally··on Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt
> Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome.

What does this mean? "Obsolescence" just in the case of the topic at hand?

gusmally··on The missteps that led to a fatal plane crash at Reagan National Airport
>especially since gender seems to be a contributing factor to the incident

Can you elaborate on that?

gusmally··on More Everything Forever
>I'm happy with them paying their taxes and trying to build tech that makes my life better.

But neither of those things is their goal. If they happen to build tech that makes your life better, it's because it makes them money (that, generally speaking, they try not to pay taxes on)

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