I'm a big fan of it for building micro websites with LLMs, since it can keep pretty much the entire thing in context (even including the docs) it seems to perform pretty well.
Readit Newsbontaq commented on Ask HN: Builders vs. Mercenaries – does this distinction make sense? · Posted by u/grandimam
I'd say you identified a difference with modern names. This split has certainly grown wider in the "code is cheap" AI era and changed meaning.
I'm firmly in the camp of actually enjoying programming. To me it was interesting to hear that some people actually don't like it all, and it's much nicer to have something "just do it".
Over my career I've leant much more heavily into programming as the art.
I wouldn't even say "how do you balance" is too much of a problem, as we all can vary between needs, you know?
bontaq commented on Show HN: I Built an Animated UI Library for React Lovers ogblocks.dev/... · Posted by u/ItsKaranKK
Sorry, but there's some things you could do better:
- display the components in a clean way on landing
- a landing that asks to pay without seeing anything does not make sense
- 25% conversion boost is meaningless
- absolute nonsense with a free 107 page ebook
bontaq commented on Ask HN: What are some modern technologies that you refuse to adopt? · Posted by u/catstor
Any new editor, airplanes, tablets, smart watches (as mentioned by catstor), VR, e-readers (though these are actually very good, mine just died).
It's not any particular reason, they don't seem to improve my life much? The e-reader was best for sure.
bontaq commented on Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-... · Posted by u/hansonw
> Claude basically disregards your instructions (CLAUDE.md) entirely
Does anyone know of a way to fix this? Claude constantly disregards my CLAUDE.md. I put a decent amount of time into it and it's pretty much worthless without explicitly telling it to reference it before each prompt.
I've found really hammering it with *important*, all caps, "NEVER", etc finally made it start using the tidewave MCP for elixir development well. It felt really heavy handed but it worked.
For an idea of how heavy handed it was, this is my claude.md (with some explanatory text before): https://gist.github.com/bontaq/77b56d90b30e29c84c53c86d7fe05...
I really hope they remain open source, but overall this seems like a bad sign
bontaq commented on Measuring political bias in Claude anthropic.com/news/politi... · Posted by u/gmays
Does anyone use Claude for something other than coding?
mostly sys admin things but yeah
I'm working on an AI-controlled VPS. It makes a lot of sense to let them run with full permissions.
bontaq commented on Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography words.filippo.io/claude-d... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
I understand the pitch here ("it finds bugs! it's basically all upside because worst case there's no output anyways"), but I'm finding some of these agents to be ... uhhh... kind of agressive at trying to find the solution and end up missing the forest for the trees. And there's some "oh you should fix this" stuff which, while sometimes isn't _wrong_, is completely besides the point.
The end result being these robots doing bikeshedding. When paired with junior engineers looking at this output and deciding to act on it, it just generates busywork. Not helping that everyone and their dog wants to automatically run their agent against PRs now
I'm trying to use these to some extent when I find myself in a canonical situation that should work and am not getting the value everyone else seems to get in many cases. Very much "trying to explain a thing to a junior engineer taking more time than doing it myself" thing, except at least the junior is a person.
I would say a lot of people are only posting their positive experiences. Stating negative things about AI is mildly career-dangerous at the moment where as the opposite looks good. I found the results from using it on a complicated code base are similar to yours, but it is very good at slapping things on until it works.
If you're not watching it like a hawk it will solve a problem in a way that is inconsistent and, importantly, not integrated into the system. Which makes sense, it's been trained to generate code, and it will.
One can make the point that Google, Meta and others are investing so much into AI as they know, we are facing the end of the ad-based internet economy. The investments are to create new buiness models, because their old ones are gone soon.