jamestimmins

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by jamestimmins 1mo ago
Its reasonable to dislike a bad product experience, but its strange to draw a conclusion of AI altogether based on a tool with limited usage (I've never heard of it). That's like saying smart watches are useless based on trying ou
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by jamestimmins 1mo ago
This is a good point about quality of life. I focused on money in my original comment, but I've heard a lot of people complain that unions have kept them working with their worst coworkers. That alone is a dealbreaker for me.
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by jamestimmins 1mo ago
I've been laid off. It was fine because software is literally the most marketable skill in the world. Edit: But also, this was a pre-profit VC-backed company. If those companies can't lay people off, it's not like you make go
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by jamestimmins 1mo ago
As a California tech worker (where the article is focused), I have zero interest in joining a union and firmly believe that much of what has been possible as a tech employee (high paying, interesting career) is in part because we don't
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by jamestimmins 2mo ago
AI seems to struggle most when it has to make decisions with lots of trade-offs, especially where the context or implications of various decisions are nested, which is presumably why it struggles to write full software systems that are well
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by jamestimmins 2mo ago
The issue I have with loops is that for truly complex work, where I care about building a generalized solution for a complex problem, the agents frequently reward hack and end up burning indefinitely without finishing until I step in. Curio
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by jamestimmins 2mo ago
Telemetry tooling for local Claude/Codex usage so I can analyze old sessions and fill tooling gaps, make sure I'm using the right models for various tasks, update my processes, etc. I've also replaced Linear with a local sqli
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by jamestimmins 3mo ago
This looks awesome. I’m the ideal customer for this and am delighted it exists.
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Ask HN: Do you use any (semi) autonomous agents?
3 points by jamestimmins 3mo ago|0 comments
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by jamestimmins 4mo ago
My first thought was my finance professor telling us that companies always raise with equity when they think their equity is overvalued.
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Quitting my job to research AI software design(jamestimmins.com)
2 points by jamestimmins 5mo ago|0 comments
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by jamestimmins 7mo ago
The responses to this are wild. I have worked with and built smaller systems like this and it is an incredible speed up. So much reflexive hate against a genuinely transformative tech. Yes AI has annoying people and grifters, but it is genu
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by jamestimmins 7mo ago
The issue of it burning through tokens grepping around should be fixed with language server integration, but that’s broken in Claude Code and the MCP code nav tools seem to use more tokens than just a home-built code map in markdown file
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by jamestimmins 7mo ago
Haven’t done robotics, but this approach is also much more feasible now with AI, which I appreciate.
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by jamestimmins 7mo ago
Building a woodworking extension for SketchUp! I took a course in using it for woodworking, and just kept thinking “this should all be a single extension”, so I’ve been building that.
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by jamestimmins 7mo ago
I keep thinking about two very different cases wrt existing platforms: 1. My cousin who works for an enterprise real estate SaaS company. He said their main product has iirc 10-20,000 database tables. 2. Evernote users had famously little o
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by jamestimmins 7mo ago
1. I was prepared my to roll my eyes, but I actually think the framing is correct. AI hasn't replaced legacy vendors yet, but companies are now in a position to at least assess whether "Cheap External Tool + AI" beats "
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by jamestimmins 8mo ago
Jonathan Haidt recently made the point on Ezra Klein's podcast that while adults can take a break from phones and reset their attention/hormones in a couple of weeks, we don't know what impact similar addiction has on a devel
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by jamestimmins 8mo ago
Not snack bars, but tiny bars were absolutely one of my favorite things in Japan. The streets of 3-5 seat bars felt incredibly special and distinct from anything I've seen in the US, regardless of the presumably high % of their busines
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by jamestimmins 8mo ago
I think it's pretty unlikely that they visit bars who don't want the tourists. I often go on food tours in new cities (e.g. Secret Food Tours) and the restaurants they visit seem to like the consistent revenue stream during off-ho
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by jamestimmins 8mo ago
Yes at some point innovative software and naming are at cross purposes, and if your naming gets too extreme ultimately that will get all of the attention.
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by jamestimmins 8mo ago
I actually love the idea of totally new naming schemes for experimental software. Certain name types are so normalized (agent, worker, etc) that while they serve their role well, they likely limit our imagination when thinking about softwar
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Ask HN: How to spend L&D/Training funds before the end of the year?
2 points by jamestimmins 9mo ago|1 comments
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by jamestimmins 9mo ago
Excellent movie. Worth noting that it was written by Tony Gilroy, who created Andor and cowrote The Bourne Identity, so if you enjoyed those you're likely to enjoy this.
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by jamestimmins 9mo ago
My brother once suggested that there are probably bits of code/algorithms that would be world changing if they were released in academic journals, but instead were written by some unknowing programmer in an afternoon for their job codi
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by jamestimmins 11mo ago
I've been playing with the hypothesis that if information is controversial/surprising and targeted at laypeople, it is almost guaranteed to be misleading or outright false. The only way to convincingly make the case for new info
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by jamestimmins 11mo ago
This could be the premise for a fun project based infra learning site. You get X resources in the cloud and know that a certain request/load profile will run against it. You have to configure things to handle that load, and are scored
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by jamestimmins 11mo ago
By this point, we should assume that all companies with sensitive data that could theoretically help solve crime will be accessed by the government as a rule. That's just being a realistic technology user in 2025.
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by jamestimmins 11mo ago
For all the hate that Google (rightly) gets for some of their work in other domains, I appreciate that they continue to put major resources behind using AI to try and save lives in medicine and autonomous driving. Easy to take for granted,
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by jamestimmins 11mo ago
I agree with the sentiment, but sadly even in its watered down form, SB79 was the result of a brutal legislative battle over the course of years, and even then it barely passed. Getting Prop 13 overturned is about as likely as California

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