tomwojcik (u/tomwojcik)

tomwojcik commented on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026? · Posted by u/mfrw

tomwojcik · 11 days ago

People's minds will become even lazier due to prolonged daily use of LLMs. They literally won't be able to think for themselves without AI assistance (that's why OpenAI won't fall, btw). Attention spans will drop even lower, causing severe psychological problems. Think 'Digital Dementia 2.0.'

Later, LLMs will be portrayed as something evil, yet everyone will still use them. Parents will use them, while telling their kinds not to do so.

Leetcode is already standard for SWE interviews, but other industries will need to adopt similar tests to verify that an applicant's brain is functioning correctly and that they're capable of doing the job. Maybe a formal confirmation from a psychologist specializing in 'fried brains' will be required.

tomwojcik commented on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026? · Posted by u/mfrw

magixx · 11 days ago

I think EVs will head in the complete opposite direction in that sales will slow down and they will continue to be a minority. Ford just killed off the F150 lightning and EVs (but also new cars) are still expensive purchases in a time with a lot of economic uncertainty. While Chinese companies are making affordable options all the markets seem to love putting tariffs on them in order to keep their homegrown automakers alive.

tomwojcik · 11 days ago

I just read on a Polish automotive portal that the government has concerns about cybersecurity in Chinese cars. I wouldn't be surprised if Chinese cars were entirely banned for some businesses in the future.

https://moto.pl/MotoPL/7,178770,32479760,minister-bije-na-al...

tomwojcik commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

tomwojcik · a month ago

  Location: Katowice (Poland, UTC+1)
  Remote: Yes (b2b freelancer)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: 8+ years exp in Django, FastAPI, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Celery, ETL, Docker, React, TypeScript, GCP, AWS, Hetzner, Heroku
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-wojcik/ | https://github.com/tomwojcik
  Email: hn2025december@tomwojcik.com

My dream jobs:

- Airflow/Temporal with Spark/Flink (Backend leaning into Data Engineer)

- high throughput backend for video games

- boring backend/fullstack with htmx

- tech lead in a small SaaS, responsible for coordinating ops, backend and frontend

- open source contributions or SDK (I maintain 1.7mln downloads/m python lib and others )

tomwojcik commented on Effective harnesses for long-running agents anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/diwank

_boffin_ · a month ago

…it really feels like they’re attempting to reinvent a project tracker and starting off from scratch in thinking about it.

It feels like they’re a few versions behind what I’m doing, which is… odd.

Self-hosting a plane.io instance. Added a plane MCP tool to my codex. Added workflow instructions into Agents.md which cover standards, documentation, related work, labels, branch names, adding of comments before plan, after plan, at varying steps of implementation, summary before moving ticket to done. Creating new tickers and being able to relate to current or others, etc…

It ain’t that hard. Just do inception (high to mid level details) create epics and tasks. Add personas, details, notes, acceptance criteria and more. Can add comments yourself to update. Whatever.

Slice tickets thin and then go wild. Add tickets as your working though things. Make modifications.

Why so difficult?

tomwojcik · a month ago

Did you mean plane.so instead of plane.io?

tomwojcik commented on Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files github.com/ventoy/Ventoy... · Posted by u/wilsonfiifi

LollipopYakuza · 2 months ago

Microsoft provides a tool called "Media Creation Tool" https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows11

But of course it’s highly simplified and designed solely for installing Windows.

tomwojcik · 2 months ago

For Windows and FROM Windows.

I swear the most recommended way of creating a bootable Windows USB on Linux changes every year, and usually doesn't work. I keep an old Windows laptop just so I can create bootable Windows usbs, whenever needed.

tomwojcik commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro

LostMyLogin · 2 months ago

It’s acting up for me but wondering if it’s unrelated. Imagines failing to post and threads acting strange.

tomwojcik · 2 months ago

Same. My Slack mobile app managed to sync the new messages, but it took it about 30 seconds, while usually it's sub 2 seconds.

tomwojcik commented on Now open for building: Introducing Gemini CLI extensions blog.google/technology/de... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

saberience · 3 months ago

Any Claude Code users who have tried Gemini CLI? Just curious as to how it compares.

I feel no desire to switch or learn a new thing but I'm wondering if people feel like it's on par with CC or Codex or behind.

tomwojcik · 3 months ago

Pricing

Gemini is about 10x cheaper per token. But for some reason it's using 8 times more input tokens than CC. They also have this thing called cached tokens, which is much cheaper than not cached tokens. It's a hot cache of your context on Google side, cached automatically. So at the end of the day you don't know how much you'll pay.

Models

Google is good for very complex topics and when the conversation is short. But both models are great. I prefer Claude and Sonnet 4.5 is great all around

CLI tools

Gemini cli is at it's very early days. Doesn't support hooks or subagents. Often runs into loops it can't break out from, essentially gets stuck but you still pay for the tokens.

Claude is just great. Allows you to write complex workflows they way they are supposed to be written. Handles hooks and subagents. MD file can reference another MD file, so you can DRY your files.

Nested plan mode works weird, sometimes the agent gets stuck if it asks for plan approval and thinks it's executing it, but displays nothing... So plan mode is not fully supported in subagents.

A nice thing is that .Claude directory is automatically understood by codex or cursor, you should be able to run your Claude command using openai models via codex or maybe even other providers via Cursor.

Summary

Overall Claude is the best all around, but the tokens are crazy expensive and the subscription model is a joke. You don't know how many tokens you can use when you're subscribed, but it's 'something', and last week they changed the limits, it's suddenly half of 'something'...

tomwojcik commented on Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?... · Posted by u/minki_the_avali

nurettin · 3 months ago

> Microsoft pretty much owns most of PC gaming.

So valve next?

tomwojcik · 3 months ago

As long as Gabe is alive, no way.

tomwojcik commented on Claude Opus 4.1 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

zarzavat · 5 months ago

Github Copilot and Claude code are not exactly competitors.

Github Copilot is autocomplete, highly useful if you use VS Code, but if you are using e.g. Jetbrains then you have other options. Copilot comes with a bunch of other stuff that I rarely use.

Claude code is project-wide editing, from the CLI.

They complement each other well.

As far as I'm concerned the utility of the AI-focused editors has been diminished by the existence of Claude code, though not entirely made redundant.

tomwojcik · 5 months ago

Opencode https://github.com/sst/opencode provides a CC like interface for copilot. It's a slightly worse tool, but since copilot with Claude 4 is super cheap, I ended up preferring it over CC. Almost no limits, cheaper, you can use all the Copilot models, GH is not training on your data.

tomwojcik commented on The Minecraft game score unexpectedly became big business for its composer billboard.com/pro/how-min... · Posted by u/tunapizza

Arainach · 5 months ago

How often are video game soundtracks created by well known artists? Especially without AAA studio resources?

Have there been that many big names in the space? Nobuo Uematsu for JRPGs, Jeremy Soule, Yasunori Mitsuda....who else has done enough that many people would have a chance of knowing their name?

tomwojcik · 5 months ago

Marcin Przybyłowicz for The Witcher. Borislav Slavov for BG3. Jesper Kyd Assassin's Creed.