WesleyJohnson (u/WesleyJohnson)

WesleyJohnson commented on Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts · Posted by u/digitaltzar

digitaltzar · 3 months ago

Great questions, indeed this is a kingdom of red tape. We realized that our fist users likely will be small providers but who currently lose $$ on denied/delayed claims. Talked to the first cohort of them - rehabs, allergy clinic, men's health clinic, nursing home, etc. We signed the first rehab just 2 weeks after meeting them because we offered to solve their problem in the same way as their 3rd party billing provider does (manually finds mistakes and circles them back to clinicians) for 2x lower price tag. Then we realize this is common situation for many rehabs.

WesleyJohnson · 3 months ago

My FIL ran his own prosthetics and orthotics business for a couple decades and then had to shutter his doors due to all the insurance provider red tape. If all the Ts weren't crossed, or Is not dotted - denied. And the appeals/resubmission process was, IMHO, deliberately drawn out to deter anyone from doing it. US healthcare and insurance is such a shit show, but I digress. He now works for the VA, making much less - but at least he's still helping people and working in his field.

Glad to see something like that taking shape, and hopefully helping other small businesses (and larger too) get a leg up on these insurance companies. As well, of course, avoiding real-world medical dangers as you've mentioned.

Kudos on launching.

WesleyJohnson commented on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/perihelions

giarc · 6 months ago

Putting aside the whole idea that Elon "bought" his way into this position, it's crazy this is the path that Trump is taking. He has a house and a senate that would likely happily cut all these programs, and it could be done legally and without all this mess. Why let Elon run roughshod over the government?

WesleyJohnson · 6 months ago

It's in the Project 2025 playbook. They're trying to overwhelm everyone so you can't possible keep track of all they're doing. Store security could handle one shoplifter at a time; but when you have a riot and mass looting - you have fewer options and often just step aside and let them loot. Then deal with the mess later.

Also - he's a narcissist and he wants all the credit.

Also - he's a wannabe dictator, and on his way to making it a reality, so he's demonstrating that he does not need permission or help.

WesleyJohnson commented on Apple files emergency motion to become defendant in US vs. Google [pdf] storage.courtlistener.com... · Posted by u/zdw

y33t · 7 months ago

There's the idealized America that we learn about in school, then there's America as it is.

I guess ideals are a nice tool to compare something against to measure something's relative value. But they can also be used as a whitewash. Maybe the difference is how engaged an informed citizen body is with the government.

WesleyJohnson · 7 months ago

Ideal or not, it's propaganda. We're lead to believe only other countries use propaganda to control their citizens, shield them from truths, and paint foreign countries as "lesser than" or, worse "the enemy". All the while, we're doing the same thing. Maybe I've had the wool pulled over my eyes my first 4 1/2 decades, but it seems pretty clear now.

WesleyJohnson commented on Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent jasonthorsness.com/20... · Posted by u/jasonthorsness

WesleyJohnson · 7 months ago

> Your Hacker News referrer screams "I argue in the comments unironically," your 12 CPU cores confirm you need all that power to procrastinate on Catalina like it's 2019, and Richmond's only quirk here is hosting a Mac that somehow hasn't died of FOMO from missing software updates.

I'm on an M4 MacMini, running MacOS Sonoma. It's definitely a little confused, but that could be Arc failing to properly report the User Agent? Not sure. Kinda funny, none the less.

WesleyJohnson commented on Explainer: What's r1 and everything else? timkellogg.me/blog/2025/0... · Posted by u/Philpax

WesleyJohnson · 7 months ago

Someone should author an ELI5 (or slightly older) guide to how LLMs, RL, Agents, CoT, etc, all work and what all these acronyms mean. And then, add to it, daily or weekly, as new development arise. I don't want to keep reading dozens of articles, white papers, tweets, etc, as new developments happen. I want to go back to the same knowledge base, that's authored by the same person (or people), that maintains a consistent reading and comprehension level, and builds on prior points.

It seems like the AI space is moving impossibly fast, and its just ridiculously hard to keep up unless 1) you work in this space, 2) are very comfortable with the technology behind it, so you can jump in at any point and understand it.

WesleyJohnson commented on DeepSeek-R1 github.com/deepseek-ai/De... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

joshstrange · 7 months ago

> actual working application

Working != maintainable

The things that ChatGPT or Claude spit out are impressive one-shots but hard to iterate on or integrate with other code.

And you can’t just throw Aider/Cursor/Copilot/etc at the original output without quickly making a mess. At least not unless you are nudging it in the right directions at every step, occasionally jumping in and writing code yourself, fixing/refactoring the LLM code to fit style/need, etc.

WesleyJohnson · 7 months ago

This is how I use Cursor Composer Agents. Detailed outline up front and see what it comes up with. I then use it to iterate on that idea. Sometimes it breaks things, so I'll have to reject/revert the change and then ask it again, but tell it not to change XYZ. If it starts going down the wrong path, I'll step it and code it myself. But I've ran into cases where the next question I ask it seems to be based on the state of the code form its last change, not the current state as I have changed it. So that can be frustrating.

I've really only done greenfield hobby projects with it so far. Hesitant to throw larger things at it that have been growing for 8/9 years. But, there's always undo or `git reset`. :P

WesleyJohnson commented on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline cnbc.com/2025/01/17/supre... · Posted by u/kjhughes

WesleyJohnson · 7 months ago

I don't have a list of factors or research in front of me, so let me just state that upfront.

It's widely understood that Meta, X, and plenty of other companies are collecting, and selling massive amounts of data. Meta builds profiles on people that have never even used Facebook, simply by monitoring their activity across the web through Ads, Embeds and Sign-Up w/ Facebook widgets, etc. This data, if I recall, has been sold many times over, and likely stolen, many times over, in data breaches - both disclosed and undisclosed. Which almost assures that China has it already.

Where is the outrage there? The laws, and fines, there? Why not ban that kind of pervasive data collection and digital finger printing, regardless of where it originates, to avoid the potential misuse of that data?

Obviously a company, like ByteDance, running businesses and Apps inside the US, while also being legally bound to helping the CCP - is cause for concern. But clearly we have our concerns right at our front door - and - nothing? Either or government believes access to this kind of data to be a threat, or they don't.

I know that's a gross over simplification, probably misses some key points, and probably falls under the dreaded "whataboutisms"... but it just seems like, its okay of US companies do it, as long as they give that data to OUR government, and losing that data is a just cost of doing business.

I'll take my tinfoil hat off now. :P

WesleyJohnson commented on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday reuters.com/technology/ti... · Posted by u/xnhbx

smoovb · 7 months ago

As China bans TikTok too, this move shouts “We don’t want this app either.”

WesleyJohnson · 7 months ago

Because neither government wants a well-educated, knowledgeable population. Carlin was trying to teach us that for decades and it still rings true.

WesleyJohnson commented on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday reuters.com/technology/ti... · Posted by u/xnhbx

gretch · 7 months ago

We live in a democracy. If you get enough people to vote for this platform, then sure let's do it.

You can't compare a popular bipartisan law to a hypothetical thing you just made up.

Peoples' votes matter

WesleyJohnson · 7 months ago

The popular vote for president would like a word. And, yes, I know Trump won that too, but the point still stands that it doesn't matter.

WesleyJohnson commented on Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable? newsletter.goodtechthings... · Posted by u/forrestbrazeal

xnx · 8 months ago

That's a very good concern to have. Grounding[0] helps a lot with this and will continue to improve. I'll also add that I've had human teachers who were confidently wrong about things.

[0] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/facts-grounding-a-new-...

WesleyJohnson · 7 months ago

Nice, thanks for sharing. I wasn't aware of this, but certainly anticipated we'd continue to see improvement in this area. And I completely agree on teachers being wrong, usually without realizing it, but not always. :)