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Cron syntax sucks. Cron is good for a few small use cases but sucks for real world scheduling.

It’s really good. Was discussing it with a friend recently who said he thinks it works out cheaper because it takes less loops to get things right. I’ve been having better success with it so would recommend it over Claude Code for now.

This doesn’t feel like a competitor. Amp does tho.

Searching is buggy. Their api is buggy. Commenting sometimes fails in chrome.

Is notion still being developed? Seems to have stagnated and feels like there’s 0 investment now. It’s getting slow and buggy.

> Ever wonder why you never see a smartphone photo printed and framed on the wall?

I stopped reading here. Every photo on the walls in my house came from some smart phone.

I don’t see anything on that site that wouldn’t work as a website. We were building this type of thing 15-20 years ago just fine.

So you describe the 1%? Is this to refute the person you’re replying to?

Can do all that without a SPA.

Unless your FB/Google etc. no this isn’t why companies want a mobile app. They want the infinitely better experience and functionality it brings to their users to keep them as customers.

lol downvoted but undisputed.

Donno about your experience but mine was in China the BYD I drove looked fancier and had more features but the build quality wasn’t there. It felt cheaply put together. It didn’t feel like there was weight to the car. If I hit something would I survive? There was no weight to the door. Things felt loose. In Australia my friends BYD is great. Feels safe. Feels solid. Drive smoothly. Makes me want to replace my Toyota with one.

This is not true at all. Quality of cars in China is abysmal compared to what they ship to EU/AU/NZ. If you try driving a BYD in China vs say Australia. It’s like 2 completely different cars. What they ship internationally meets standards. But in China they don’t live up to those and standards.

I don’t know how seniors will cope. You seem to have a solid understanding that you can make use of AI. But most seniors on HN struggle with basic tasks using AI. Juniors are likely to out pace them quickly. But potentially without the experience or understanding.

Sigh. I thought you were being genuine. Sorry. Your post perfectly explained that you don’t know how to use AI. You’re at the stage where you hear stories. You try it. Don’t get the expected result on first attempt. Then decide it sucks. You give no information on the models you’re using. Nothing about the prompts or process.

It’s like you’re asking a junior to go build a house. So he goes off and uses bricks to create 4 walls. And you turn around and get angry because he didn’t use wood. So he uses wood and you get angry cos he didn’t add windows, roof, door.

I’m sorry that you picked up a career where you struggle to use new tools and technologies.

Edit: also thanks for actually replying with a great comment cos usually the replies are not even worth entertaining and only proving my point.

This is the classic example of “I want it to do everything. But it didn’t do what I wanted. So obviously it’s not helpful.”

It doesn’t solve /all/ problems. And some models are better than others at certain tasks. You see people talk about PRDs and they say “I got Claude to create a PRD and it sucked” but you sit them down with o3 and generate the same PRD and they are like “oh wow this is actually pretty decent”.

But difficult to help over HN. As a sort of related example. Back in May I had a requirement to ingest files from a new POS system we didn’t currently support. The exports we got are CSV but based on the first char decides the first type of line that needs to be parsed and how many commas will be in that data set line.

I used o3 and explained everything I could have how the file worked and how it should parse it into a generic list etc. got it to generate a basic PRD with steps and assertions along the way.

I then fed this into cursor using Claude sonnet 4 with the csv files asking it to look at the files and the PRD and asked it if there was anything that didn’t make sense. Then asked it to begin implementing the steps 1 by 1 and letting me check before moving onto the next step. Couple of times it misunderstood and did things slightly wrong but I just corrected it or asked Claude to correct it. But it essentially wrote code. Wrote test. Verified. I verified. It moved on.

Typically in the past these tasks take a few days to implement and roll out. This whole thing took about 1 hour. The code is in the style of the other parsers with the exception that it optimised some parts and despite being a bit more complicated runs faster than some of our older parsers.

While most of my usage is around programming. We also use AI for marketing, customer leads, I have scheduled tasks to give me summaries of tickets from the support system to know what should be prioritised for the day. So even tho AI doesn’t solve all programming issues we get value in almost all aspects of the business.

This is HN. Even with evidence people here get their feelings hurt and downvote. You cannot engage in conversation when one side is “the science is settled” mentality.

or in the case of AI, the majority of people are “wow this is useful and helpful” and then HN is like “it didn’t 1 shot answer from the first prompt I gave it so it’s useless”.

You only need to read every discussion on HN about AI. The majority here are against AI are also the same people who really have no idea how to use it.

So in the end there is no conversation to engage with because HN has tunnel vision. “Elon bad” “ai bad” “science bad” “anything not aligned with my political view bad”

Once again. Replies only proving me right. Desperately trying to justify “ai bad I’m superior” mentality.

I still haven’t found anyone who AI wouldn’t be helpful or that isn’t trustworthy enough. People make the /claim/ it’s not useful or they are better without it. When you sit down with them it often turns out they just don’t know how to use AI effectively.

So is here to stay. If you’re unable to write good code with it. Doesn’t mean everyone is writing bad code with it.

Just because Elon knows people doesn’t make it automatic corruption.

If you’re going to use a tool. Make an attempt to use it properly. If you do dumb things. Dumb things will happen. Example. This blog post. This is not a problem for everyone using LISTEN/NOTIFY. It’s a problem with not knowing how to use it, then spreading bad info.

You don’t need to hide it.

Damn that’s some ugly async syntax.

It’s not a thing.

Grok 3 is on Azure.

xAI has over 1000 employees. If he was polluting the model we would know about.

Why wouldn’t you?

The only reason you wouldn’t is because you get upset with Elon. It’s not a bad model. It’s leagues ahead of anything meta has managed to produce.

Thanks for proving my point.

Isn’t the game changer proton. Not the handheld.

And then there’s steam which sits at ~60% for windows 11. Or are we not talking about gaming?