A year or two from now it will be trivial to copy your product
But what about their two year head start? If everyone is executing at the speed of light, there will still be winners and losers
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broast commented on Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter bitsnpieces.dev/posts/a-s... · Posted by u/random_moonwalk
So cool, I think all kids would love this
broast commented on Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web tweeks.io/onboarding... · Posted by u/jmadeano
Hey! Cool! I've been making this too: https://github.com/broast/aipageeditor
Looking forward to trying it and see how far it takes the vision. Tweaks looks capable of very cool and useful things :)
Good work. I've been thinking about this for awhile and also experimenting with letting the LLM do all the work, backend logic plus generating the front-end and handle all front-end events. With tool use and agentic loops, I don't see any reason this can't work where it meets the latency needs (which hopefully could be improved over time).
You didn't have to use to do this to your OS when Windows was still good.
It's only the absolute shitfest that Win 10/11 ended up being that you have to conjure 300 arcane powershell commands just to get the OS to resemble a productive environment.
I think every single Windows release has necessitated some registry hacks to bring back useful features from the previous version
I've had a flip 3 and flip 5 which both had screen and hinge problems within a year. I love the form factor but just don't take it to the beach.
My flip 5 inner screen is currently unusable so I'm stuck using the small square cover screen which I'm enjoying quite a bit too. I don't know if my next phone should be a flip phone or a small phone, but nothing gets as small or as good hardware as the front cover of these flip phones, vs other small phones
broast commented on Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio mitchivin.com/... · Posted by u/mitchivin
broast commented on Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio mitchivin.com/... · Posted by u/mitchivin
My mobile device is a square aspect ratio and thus there is no portrait mode to check this out :(
broast commented on AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore praf.me/ai-coding... · Posted by u/_praf
I really don't get it.
While letting the AI write some code can be cool and fascinating, I really can't undersand how:
- write the prompt(and you need do be precise and think and express carefully what you have in mind)
- check/try the code
- repeat
is better than writing the code by myself. AI coding like this feels like a nightmare to me and it's 100x more exhausting.
So basically what an engineering manager or product manager enjoys doing
broast commented on We put a coding agent in a while loop github.com/repomirrorhq/r... · Posted by u/sfarshid
There will be a a new kind of job for software engineers, sort of like a cross between working with legacy code and toxic site cleanup.
Like back in the day being brought in to “just fix” a amalgam of FoxPro-, Excel-, and Access-based ERP that “mostly works” and only “occasionally corrupts all our data” that ambitious sales people put together over last 5 years.
But worse - because “ambitious sales people” will no longer be constrained by sandboxes of Excel or Access - they will ship multi-cloud edge-deployed kubernetes micro-services wired with Kafka, and it will be harder to find someone to talk to understand what they were trying to do at the time.
> it will be harder to find someone to talk to understand what they were trying to do at the time.
These are my favorite types of code bases to work on. The source of truth is the code. You have to read it and debug it to figure it out, and reconcile the actual behaviors with the desired or expected behaviors through your own product oriented thinking