burnerToBetOut

Chime in, HN, with the feasibility of the following idea for a side project…

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User Story

As a reader logged in to Hacker News on a locally running web browser, I want a process running on my device that polls for "Show HN" posts and automatically replies to them — as me — with the results of an LLM-analyzed critique of the posted projects discovered by the process.

Acceptance Criteria

• A brutally frank critique of the posted "Show HN" project is given by a state-of-the-art LLM

• A count of existing projects functionally identical to the post being critiqued is displayed

• A list of authoritative learning resources on whatever the LLM determined the author is probably trying to accomplish is provided

• …???…

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FWIW: Even with the well-documented initial inertia-reducing powers of today's coding agents, it's super, super unlikely that I'll ever get around to implementing this idea myself.

I'd be totally cool with somebody else taking a swing at it, though.

I wonder if or how AI-assistance might be used more these days. By either the freelancers in delivering their services, or by buyers who might be figuring they don't need to hire a freelancer for whatever reason these days.

Uncle Sam — by proxy — Wants You! Big Brother does, too…

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The Non-Negotiables: How We Work

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• …We leave video links open while we eat lunch. Our pets and kids know our coworkers…

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If the graphics on their site [1] are anything to go by, that company is essentially a defense contractor.

The CTO running that Onebrief shop is the guy [2] that prompted the prediction I made in another post [3].

Coincidentally, I came across a blog post recently [4] where the blogger describes the above job description's way of working playing out IRL.

[1] https://g2ww.short.gy/BigtechBro

[2] https://g2ww.short.gy/OM16G

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995623

[4] https://g2ww.short.gy/DonutPassGo

Today I got some insight into the code quality of Steve Yegge's Gas Town by running it through Sonar Cloud [1]

I followed that up with — appropriately — a vibe code review [2]…

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Brutal Verdict:

You’ve built a message bus out of duct tape and string. It’s "Booch-like" only in the sense that you’ve abstracted the concept of a channel, but the _implementation_ is pure "boot-camp-grad-on-their-third-Red-Bull."

You are using a high-performance versioned database (Dolt) to store... manually parsed colon-separated strings. _Why?_

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[1] https://g2ww.short.gy/CCWutUHalfDone

[2] https://g2ww.short.gy/ItsaGasGasGas