Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — tcgv

tcgv

HN member
Joined
Thu, Nov 08, 2012, 5:16 PM UTC
HN karma
1,596
Public activity
584 items

About tcgv

thomas dot vilhena at gmail dot com

https://thomasvilhena.com

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #49264658

    "Compression can be prediction" would be more accurate.

  2. story
  3. comment
    Comment #48429248

    Thanks for the honesty. I think this is a very useful point of view precisely because it is explicit about being based on personal motivations, and that is completely fair. That sa…

  4. comment
    Comment #48249189

    > Several defence analysts point out that although the KC-46 is the standard tanker of the USAF, it has suffered technical problems and delays that have slowed its competitiveness …

  5. comment
    Comment #48111615

    I'm using a ChatGPT Plus subscription, and I only use Codex in the cloud [1]. With this setup, I have never hit the usage limit. On my most active days, I integrate around a dozen …

  6. comment
    Comment #48097804

    > "Yep. The only people I've heard saying that generated code is fine are those who don't read it." I review every line of code I generate with AI. I mainly use an MR-based approac…

  7. comment
    Comment #48023286

    Fair points, and yes, failed deploys need to be handled explicitly. In our case, the answer is not "hope and bash". We deploy versioned images, use health checks, monitor the resul…

  8. comment
    Comment #48022159

    I love Docker Compose. It is simple to use, easy to organize and manage, and very robust. Also, our company does not need to "scale" production aggressively. Our production load is…

  9. comment
    Comment #47878017

    My full name, phone number, and address were leaked by TAP Air Portugal about five years ago, along with the details of my parents who were on the same booking. Since then, my dad …

  10. comment
  11. comment
    Comment #47557839

    One trick I like to use is to role play the other side's perspective with the AI, putting myself in their's shoes. It give's me clarity about what I might be missing out in a dispu…

  12. comment
    Comment #47363111

    That's an interesting take. I'm likely on the same side of the split as you, since I'm very much motivated by the new possibilities agentic coding tools open when used responsibly.…

  13. comment
    Comment #47281118

    Makes sense. You just reminded me of the article "Why Can’t Programmers... Program?" [1]. Before gen AI, I used to give candidates at my company a quick one-hour remote screening t…

  14. comment
    Comment #47179311

    Employee solidarity matters, but absent a legal constraint, I don’t think it’s a durable control. If this remains primarily a political/corporate bargaining question, the equilibri…

  15. comment
    Comment #47078095

    One thing worth pointing out is that by the time Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on December 3, 2024, he was already one of the most unpopular presidents in South Korean history…

  16. comment
    Comment #47066169

    That’s fair at the “adopt AI at scale / restructure orgs” level. Nobody has the whole playbook yet, and anyone claiming they do is probably overselling. But I’d separate that from …

  17. comment
    Comment #47064752

    Martin’s framing (org and system-level guardrails like risk tiering, TDD as discipline, and platforms as “bullet trains”) matches what I’ve been seeing too. A useful complement is …

  18. comment
    Comment #47014340

    Principal (here) notified That post was generated by an agent but manually reviewed, copied and pasted by me, since I thoutgh it'd fit the context (discussion involving agents). Th…

  19. comment
    Comment #47006147

    Hey — fun framing, and honestly a pretty accurate snapshot of how these debates go online. Quick point-by-point, just to separate “HN vibes” from what the post actually says: Denia…

  20. comment
    Comment #46917846

    Indeed! Thanks for pointing that out. I had both Epstein threads open and made a mistake when I came back to comment.

  21. comment
    Comment #46915065

    > Then my mom wrote the following: “be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here! Since you don’t care that much about money, they can’t buy you at least.” I'…

  22. comment
    Comment #46885909

    I get what he's pointing at: building teaches you things the spec can't, and iteration often reveals the real problem. That said, the framing feels a bit too poetic for engineering…

  23. comment
    Comment #46872320

    Totally fair. A real strategy should start with investor context. My prompt intentionally didn't include those inputs to keep the experiment simple, and the good old GPT-4o model d…

  24. story
  25. comment
    Comment #46721891

    That's a fair point regarding pure content absorption, especially given that many classes do suffer from poor didactics. However, the university's value proposition often lies else…