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ojr

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About ojr

https://olaji.de

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49144090

    IDEs can autocomplete tailwind classes but eventually you just memorize them, also with AI assisted coding I don't even write the classes anymore just small adjustments like changi…

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    Comment #48796092

    the resale market for disk has been on a downtrend for years, you can sign into someone's else psn account too and share games, you are a washed up gamer, its okay I am washed up t…

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    Comment #48710130

    it just a higher level of abstraction but not high enough that it replaces developers, I don't think the LLMs are even capable of reaching that level. Saying the creative process i…

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    Comment #48558576

    This truly shows how king making in venture capital is done, kids have the MIT pedigree but sometimes this is not enough for certain demographics, give them a ton of money to explo…

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    Comment #48548596

    I can use Gemini 3 Flash with the harness I built for around 8 years and still not exceed the cost of a Mac Studio with 128GB, the price for privacy is very high. Agentic flows tha…

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    Comment #48376080

    I spend around $20 a month through API fees using my own harness, https://slidebits.com/isogen . Nothing too special, I prompt it produces file changes using grep and vector search…

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    Comment #48375153

    I use Gemini 3 Flash, I've seen the Claude Code setups, bullish on Anthropic people are driving up tokens but I am able to produce outcomes with a fraction of the money.

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    Comment #48181753

    well 2026 is easily the most software I shipped so AI is definitely making the process faster. Sad if you with agree with the post, I'm outlier though AI has enabled me to build se…

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    Comment #48099551

    I was able to release two new iOS apps including a game, and a cross desktop application just this year. I refuse to go back to writing code by hand. If it doesn't help your produc…

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    Comment #48008492

    I don't think it surprisingly easy at all unless you are running multiple background tasks overnight, I think Gemini will eventually be the default agentic coding agent in the futu…

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    Comment #47898055

    I am an early Gemini daily driver type engineer, feels like Node, Firefox, React and Tailwind all over again, Claude Sonnet is 10x more expensive, quick thought experiment do you t…

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    Comment #47745746

    They say programming is dead... I built an AI Streamer platform that responds to a twitch chat https://slidebits.com/ai-streamer Not a trivial thing to vibe code without any domain…

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    Comment #47585946

    I used regexes in a similar way but my implementation was vibecoded, hmmm, using your analysis Claude Code writes code by hand.

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    Comment #47566953

    hackernews has a good signal to noise ratio, noise is bad

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    Comment #47144221

    last time I tried to use nextjs in a cloudflare worker there was a lot of issues

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    Comment #47102473

    I guess all the publishers and advertisers are worried and complaining about nothing

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    Comment #47102438

    almost always wrong is just incorrect. Ask it who made Hackernews and it says Paul Graham with a informational paragraph it scraped from Wikipedia, without me clicking into Wikiped…

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    Comment #47102424

    For the average Google User, searching for things like who perform in the Superbowl it is not extra hoops and incredibly fast. It's going to power Siri soon, enjoy.

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    Comment #47102393

    hasn't been my experience, I am able to search for information faster, speed to correct answer has increased on average, I feel, if we start providing examples your argument starts…

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    Comment #47095675

    Google Search has gotten better unless you think AI mode is a downgrade, the alternative of having a wikipedia article, reddit post or random website as the first result is not bet…

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    Comment #47089348

    I don't use Stitch it doesn't have the context of my codebase, I just tell Gemini to make the UI directly and its able to do it. The only time it failed is when my prompt and goal …

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    Comment #47089157

    you can run into payload too large errors, ingesting bunch of context, I use vercel's ai sdk so I can interchange between models but have 0 OpenAI and Claude credits or subscriptio…

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    Comment #47082695

    I primarily use Gemini 3 Flash with a GUI coding agent I made by myself and its been able to successfully one-shot mostly any task I throw at it. Why would I ever use a more expens…

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    Comment #46958772

    AI web agent that lives in a wasm sandbox with predefined skills, it creates websites, mobile apps, powerpoint slides (.pptx files), word documents (.docx files), visualize csv dat…

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    Comment #46825295

    talk is even cheaper, still show me the code, people claim 10x productivity that translates to 10x of work done in a month, even with Opus 4.5 out since November 2025 I haven't see…