jayd16's comments

On: 10 years building vertical software: are we cooked?

[jayd16]

Now that this guy is selling AI, surprise, surprise, its going to revolution everything else...But its misleadingly written as "we" are cooked.

Its another ad, no?

[add-sub-mul-div → jayd16]

Look at his submission history, nothing but self promotion. His entire presence here is just an ad.

[tptacek → add-sub-mul-div]

You both need to take this stuff to hn@ycombinator.com instead of hashing it out here. I think you're wrong, but either way: stop crudding up the threads when all you've got to say is "this person submitted their own post". People do that all the time.

Again: if you think they've crossed the line, the guidelines specifically ask you not take to the threads with it. Mail Dan and Tom. They'll get back to you quickly.

On: WebMCP Proposal

[jayd16]

In theory you could use a protocol like this, one where the tools are specified in the page, to build a human readable but structured dashboard of functionality.

I'm not sure if this is really all that much better than, say, a swagger API. The js interface has the double edge of access to your cookies and such.

On: WebMCP Proposal

[jayd16]

Have any sickos tried to point AI at SOAP APIs with WSDL definitions, yet?

[chopete3 → jayd16]

Likely no.

Every generation needs its own acronyms and specifications. If a new one looks like an old one likely the old one was ahead of its time.

On: Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD

[jayd16]

Crypto didn't need vram did it? It was just about hash rate no?

Besides, a 1080 had 8GB, a 5080 has 16GB. Double in 10 years isn't ground breaking. The industry put VRAM into industrial chips. It didn't make it to consumer hardware.

What games have had to deal with instead is inference based up-scaling solutions. IE using AI to sharpen a lower rest image in real time. It seems to be the only trick being worked on at the moment.

I can't think of anything useful crypto did.

On: Breaking the spell of vibe coding

[jayd16]

One major difference is the code has an owner who might consider what needs a test or ask questions if they don't understand.

To argue that all work is fungible because perfection cannot be achieved is actually a pretty out there take.

Replace your thought experiment with "Is one shot consultant code different from expert code?" Yes. They are different.

Code review is good and needed for human code, right? But if its "vibe coded", suddenly its not important? The differences are clear.

[linsomniac → jayd16]

>perfection cannot be achieved

That's not what I get out of the comment you are replying to.

In the case being discussed here, one of code matching the tax code, perfection is likely possible; perfection is defined by the tax code. The SME on this should be writing the tests that demonstrate adhering with the tax code. Once they do that, then it doesn't matter if they, or the AI, or a one shot consultant write it, as far as correctness goes.

If the resulting AI code has subtle bugs in it that pass the test, the SME likely didn't understand the corner cases of this part of the tax code as well as they thought, and quite possibly could have run into the same bugs.

That's what I get out of what you are replying to.

On: I fixed Windows native development

[jayd16]

Yeah, seems like this is just ignorance around .vsconfig files. Makes life way easier. You can also just use the VS Build Tools exe to install things instead of the full VS installer, if you plan to use a different IDE.

[scotty79 → jayd16]

Can you use .vsconfig to tell Build Tools what your project needs?

Can you generate .vsconfig with Build Tools?

[jayd16 → scotty79]

You pass in the --config param to import it.

Exporting this way might be possible but it wouldn't be as useful seeing as it would just grab everything you have installed instead of some minimal set used by some project.

On: I fixed Windows native development

[jayd16]

Curl the VS Build tools exe, then run the build tools command to install what's in the .vsconfig.

On: gRPC: From service definition to wire format

[jayd16]

It does have discovery built in. Is that what you want?

[est → jayd16]

you mean grpc.reflection.v1alpha.ServerReflection? Close enough, sadly not generally enabled.

On: Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver

[jayd16]

You mean double parking waiting for passengers? Its a taxi, so I doubt it.

Maybe there's a way to tell Waymo that they keep using an illegal no stopping zone?

[devmor → jayd16]

In some cases, yes. This morning, though, I was stuck behind one that just decided to stop and turn on the hazards in the middle of a two-lane, bidirectional street with no parking. This has happened more than once.

I believe they are waiting for passengers - they usually have some kind of LED display with what looks like initials on the topmost sensor when they're doing this.

On: An AI agent published a hit piece on me

[jayd16]

That covers any random contribution claiming to be AI?

[falcor84 → jayd16]

Their docs say:

> If any suggestion made by GitHub Copilot is challenged as infringing on third-party intellectual property (IP) rights, our contractual terms are designed to shield you.

I'm not actually aware of a situation where this was needed, but I assume that MS might have some tools to check whether a given suggestion was, or is likely to have been, generated by Copilot, rather than some other AI.