Readit News logoReadit News
PeterStuer commented on How to effectively write quality code with AI   heidenstedt.org/posts/202... · Posted by u/i5heu
OptionOfT · a day ago
I wonder at the end of this if it's the still worth the risk?

A lot of how I form my thoughts is driven by writing code, and seeing it on screen, running into its limitations.

Maybe it's the kind of work I'm doing, or maybe I just suck, but the code to me is a forcing mechanism into ironing out the details, and I don't get that when I'm writing a specification.

PeterStuer · a day ago
Any sufficiently detailed specification converges on code.
PeterStuer commented on Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use   vecti.com... · Posted by u/vecti
crazygringo · a day ago
> I kept finding myself using a small amount of the features while the rest just mostly got in the way. So a few years ago I set out to build a design tool just like I wanted. So I built Vecti with what I actually need...

Joel Spolsky said (I'm paraphrasing) that everybody only uses 20% of a given program's features, but the problem is that everyone is using a different 20%, so you can't ship an "unbloated" version and expect it to still work for most people.

So it looks like you've built something really cool, but I have to ask what makes you think that the features that are personally important to you are the same features that other potential users need? Since this clearly seems to be something you're trying to create a business out of rather than just a personal hobby project. I'm curious how you went about customer research and market validation for the specific subset of features that you chose to develop?

PeterStuer · a day ago
"everyone is using a different 20%"

In my experience, what people use is very malleable to how easy/good the flows are they are presented with. Given 100 equal options, they might use 20, and nobody picks the same 20, but given 25 options, 20 of which present a very good experience, almost 90% will go with those 20 without complaints.

PeterStuer commented on GPT-5.3-Codex   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
turtle4 · a day ago
Did you set that up following a guide or anything you could share?
PeterStuer · a day ago
Easiest way I know is to just use LMStudio. Just download and press play :). Optional, but recommended, increase the context length to 262144 if you have the DRAM available. It will definitely get slower as your interaction prolongs, but (at least for me) still tolerable speed.
PeterStuer commented on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams   kirkville.com/i-now-assum... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
PeterStuer · a day ago
To be fair, it is not just Apple. Scams are rampant regardless of the channel serving the ads.
PeterStuer commented on The Waymo World Model   waymo.com/blog/2026/02/th... · Posted by u/xnx
PeterStuer · a day ago
Imagine driving in a Waymo 'out of a raging fire'.

Talk about edge cases.

But, what would you do? Trust the Waymo, or get out (or never get in) at the first sign of trouble?

Deleted Comment

PeterStuer commented on GPT-5.3-Codex   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
xd1936 · 2 days ago
I've also had the exact opposite experience with tone. Claude Code wants to build with me, and Codex wants to go off on its own for a while before returning with opinions.
PeterStuer · a day ago
In terms of 'tone', I have been very impressed with Qwen-code-next over the last 2 days, especially as I have it running locally on a single modest 4090.
PeterStuer commented on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems   wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft... · Posted by u/fortran77
ChuckMcM · 3 days ago
I expect this is the crux of the problem.

There aren't any "AI" products that have enough value.

Compare to their Office suite, which had 100 - 150 engineers working on it, every business paid big $$ for every employee using it, and once they shipped install media their ongoing costs were the employees. With a 1,000,000:1 ratio of users to developers and an operating expense (OpEx) of engineers/offices/management. That works as a business.

But with "AI", not only is it not a product in itself, it's a feature to a product, but it has OpEx and CapEx costs that dominate the balance sheet based on their public disclosures. Worse, as a feature, it demonstrably harms business with its hallucinations.

In a normal world, at this point companies would say, "hmm, well we thought it could be amazing but it just doesn't work as a product or a feature of a product because we can't sell it for enough money to both cover its operation, and its development, and the capital expenditures we need to make every time someone signs up. So a normal C staff would make some post about "too early" or whatever and shelve it. But we don't live in a normal world, so companies are literally burning the cash they need to survive the future in a vain hope that somehow, somewhere, a real product will emerge.

PeterStuer · 3 days ago
They bet the company on AI. If their AI push fails, everything else does not matter anymore. What you are seeing is desperation and Hail Marys.

My guess is every team's metric is probably reduced to tokens consumed through the products owned.

PeterStuer commented on Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out   boxc.net/blog/2026/claude... · Posted by u/fugu2
andai · 3 days ago
Yeah this is why I ended up getting Claude subscription in the first place.

I was using GLM on ZAI coding plan (jerry rigged Claude Code for $3/month), but finding myself asking Sonnet to rewrite 90% of the code GLM was giving me. At some point I was like "what the hell am I doing" and just switched.

To clarify, the code I was getting before mostly worked, it was just a lot less pleasant to look at and work with. Might be a matter of taste, but I found it had a big impact on my morale and productivity.

PeterStuer · 3 days ago
My very first tests of local Qwen-coder-next yesterday found it quite capable of acceptably improving Python functions when given clear objectives.

I'm not looking for a vibe coding "one-shot" full project model. I'm not looking to replace GPT 5.2 or Opus 4.5. But having a local instance running some Ralph loop overnight on a specific aspect for the price of electricity is alluring.

PeterStuer commented on Deno Sandbox   deno.com/blog/introducing... · Posted by u/johnspurlock
PeterStuer · 4 days ago
Never used Deno before, and searching through docs and their GitHub still leaves me with questions:

Can you configure Demo Sandbox to run on a self hosted installation of Deno Deploy (deployd), or is this a SaaS only offering?

u/PeterStuer

KarmaCake day10213October 5, 2015View Original