Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — apf6

apf6

HN member
Joined
Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 5:00 AM UTC
HN karma
30
Public activity
24 items

About apf6

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #48987486

    you don't have to compare whether stochastic fuzzing or agentic testing is the best. You can just do both of them. They both have enough ROI to be worth the trouble. That's why I s…

  2. comment
    Comment #48987464

    It reminds me of how AI will estimate that a coding project will take "4 weeks" and then proceed to finish the task itself in 15 minutes. AI models are changing the world much fast…

  3. comment
    Comment #48871761

    It’s 2026, so another basic technique that every team should add to their testing strategy (in addition to proven techniques like fuzzing) is agentic user simulation. Set up an AI …

  4. comment
    Comment #48754965

    Yeah I think this is a good approach. I’m pretty AI-optimistic when it comes to making code changes. But reading AI generated descriptions (including pull requests) is absolutely t…

  5. comment
    Comment #48348883

    Slowing down development is the wrong goal. I see a desire for slowness come up a lot with developers. If you pursue that goal all the way to its logical conclusion then eventually…

  6. comment
    Comment #48346547

    old and inaccurate knowledge.. - Skills do take up space in the context. The name and description of every skill goes into the system prompt. You can't add unlimited skills without…

  7. comment
  8. comment
    Comment #48170583

    Good question but people are doing it anyway. It's a fact that right now tons of people are buying Mac Minis specifically for this use case, to treat them as their personal data ce…

  9. comment
    Comment #48170432

    That's a lot of assumptions. I think there are also people buying new hardware specifically for this purpose, and their motivation to do it is thinking it will be cheaper in the lo…

  10. comment
    Comment #48156613

    The time difference does matter though. There were some recent worm attacks in NPM that spread very quickly because they used post-install. I don’t remember how long it took NPM to…

  11. comment
    Comment #47980577

    There’s a difference between: 1) the minimum number of employees it takes to maintain the core product Vs 2) All the employees that it makes sense to hire for revenue and market ex…

  12. comment
    Comment #47884698

    Offshoring has been a common practice for decades, it works great for some functions and not great for others. Why would it suddenly have a massive uptick in 2027?

  13. comment
    Comment #47509867

    If you look at IOS app store submissions then there is a pretty obvious increase that lines up with recent AI tooling (especially the release of Claude Code): https://www.reddit.co…

  14. comment
    Comment #47432817

    In a world of AI coding I think rule 5 is still as important than ever. I don’t validate everything Claude does but I do put attention on data structure design since it’s so import…

  15. comment
    Comment #47431511

    Hiring a human is gambling too.

  16. comment
    Comment #46736579

    Lol anyway, the point is that even in a scenario where all the major models disappeared tomorrow (including OpenAI, Anthropic, etc), we would still keep using the existing open sou…

  17. comment
    Comment #46736187

    > it's the running costs of these major AI services that are also astronomical There's wildly different reports about whether the cost of just inference (not the training) is expen…

  18. comment
    Comment #46642542

    Great analogy. I've never worked at a company as large as Google but in my experience things can be a little more optimistic than the post. When earn enough trust with your leaders…

  19. comment
    Comment #46317209

    It was just a few months ago that the MCP spec added a concept called "prompts" which are really similar to skills. And of course Claude Code has custom slash commands which are al…

  20. comment
    Comment #46089990

    to some degree this is a "market correction" on the inherent value of these papers. There's way too many low-value papers that are being published purely for career advancement and…

  21. comment
    Comment #45601585

    > AI as a product isn’t viable Yeah I don't know about that, the model providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, etc, literally sell intelligence as a product. And their business model is …

  22. comment
    Comment #45582666

    Simplest version of Kubernetes is zero Kubernetes. You can instead run your service using a process manager like PM2 or similar. I think even using Docker is overkill for a lot of …

  23. comment
    Comment #45568733

    That's a good concept but I don't think Markdown is expressive enough for all the layouts & formatting that people typically want in PDFs. More likely that the source format would …

  24. comment
    Comment #45564827

    Working on dev tools for MCP servers. As a building block I recently published a library to help write tests for MCPs - https://facetlayer.github.io/expect-mcp/