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ldjkfkdsjnv commented on Ask HN: Is anyone using Super Grok Heavy for code? · Posted by u/rickcarlino

jameshiew · 5 months ago

How do you find o3-pro for coding? I've also been taking the approach of hand building context and copying and pasting it in for complicated tasks where I want lots of reasoning, like bug/security audits.

I found o1-pro unbelievably good for coding, but when o3-pro was released, I saw the response length in ChatGPT was gimped severely compared to o1-pro, so didn't find it all that useful - it couldn't output long enough responses. I actually cancelled my ChatGPT subscription as it seemed like such a downgrade, though I'll probably try using again via OpenAI's API at some point, so long as the response length isn't capped. I'm tempted to try out Grok 4 Heavy.

ldjkfkdsjnv · 5 months ago

o3 pro is really good, but the context is really constrained, so its hard to use and doesnt output enough. This makes it suitable for ideating on good abstractions, but cant really make broad sweeping changes. Grok will output a full file. If you use the o3 pro API, its actually great, but it gets really expensive.

ldjkfkdsjnv commented on Ask HN: Is anyone using Super Grok Heavy for code? · Posted by u/rickcarlino

ldjkfkdsjnv · 5 months ago

I think its much better than opus. I would describe its code output as boring and to the point, no fluff. O3 Pro is better at abstraction, but grok heavy is better at bug hunting, and only doing exactly as needed. I swapped my openai pro license for grok, its good. Another big advantage is the context window size. Honestly I use these models all day long, and have felt that while sonnet 3.5 was ground breaking, but that anthropic is behind google, openai, and now xai.

For tools, I use repo prompt + grok website. Personally think claude code is overrated, and hand building the context by selecting the files is far better for complicated tasks

ldjkfkdsjnv commented on Co-founder exiting after pivot – what's a fair exit package? · Posted by u/throwaway-xx

icedrop · 5 months ago

Is it legal to dilute this to zero? Can't you sue post-exit (e.g. Saverin and Facebook)?

ldjkfkdsjnv · 5 months ago

It happens all the time, I have seen it in NYC. Usually its an early stage thing, cofounder leaves after 1 year etc. Much harder to do with a complicated cap table. Investors I could name even suggest it

ldjkfkdsjnv commented on Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M cnbc.com/2025/07/04/india... · Posted by u/bwfan123

whatever1 · 5 months ago

Someone has to pay for the OCAML maintenance

ldjkfkdsjnv · 5 months ago

all that OCAML we only hire the smartest is often a veil for what is really a simpler operation that is borderline illegal. probably alot of employees dont even really understand the systems they work on

ldjkfkdsjnv commented on Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M cnbc.com/2025/07/04/india... · Posted by u/bwfan123

CPLX · 5 months ago

As always in finance the secret ingredient is crime.

I wonder to what degree the lawsuit is what got this on the radar of the Indian authorities. Maybe they should have listened to Stringer Bell.

ldjkfkdsjnv · 5 months ago

I know someone that made 10 million a year for a long time on wall street. They said, generally you can assume anyone making a large amount of money is a criminal. Any large deviations from the typical returns you would see in an asset class was suspicious

ldjkfkdsjnv commented on Nvidia won, we all lost blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/po... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

tyre · 5 months ago

Okay let’s take off the tin foil hat for a second. HN has a very strong moderation team with years and years of history letting awkward (e.g. criticism of YC, YC companies) things stand.

ldjkfkdsjnv · 5 months ago

theres alot of shadow banning, up ranking and down ranking

ldjkfkdsjnv commented on We're all CTO now jamie.ideasasylum.com/202... · Posted by u/fside

hnthrow90348765 · 5 months ago

>And with those new skills, your old skills will start to atrophy.

Skills don't work like muscles, please stop with this thinking model of the world. No one is going to fire you because you don't have the same speed of recall of language constructs and have to look more things up. Speed of coding is not the damn bottleneck.

Plus have a little faith in your brain that you could get back to that point if you wanted to.

ldjkfkdsjnv · 5 months ago

This post is completely false

ldjkfkdsjnv commented on Ask HN: How to make money with SaaS without network or VC funding? · Posted by u/squareloop

ldjkfkdsjnv · 5 months ago

dont write any software until you have a product you are getting easy sales with, forget you even know how to code

ldjkfkdsjnv commented on OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D kbkg.com/feature/house-pa... · Posted by u/tareqak

seattle_spring · 5 months ago

Anyone who knows anything about software and has used AI for more than 24 hours knows that AI won't be "replacing" software engineering anytime soon.

ldjkfkdsjnv · 5 months ago

ive been coding 5+ hours a day almost every day for 15 years. i think ai will replace 70% of SWE in the near future. not employement, but 70% of the current work done by engineers

ldjkfkdsjnv commented on Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs? · Posted by u/jshchnz

jcadam · 5 months ago

Most US citizens applying for software engineering jobs can't even get a response to their resume, and then I read stories like this.

ldjkfkdsjnv · 5 months ago

all the jobs are being outsourced is why