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Yes believe opus is the default judge

Yes does get expensive fast

Spent the weekend inspired by the new openrouter fusion model and wanted to see if it could run in Claude Code and if I could make it very easy for everyone else to try.

Built - claude-fusion-launcher — run Claude Code on a panel of models, not just one

Also shows cost

https://github.com/smorinlabs/claude-fusion-launcher

SteveMorinon Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS

https://boundaryml.com/

LLM to types and done

SteveMorinon Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

Batteries included python starter template `py-launch-blueprint`

- https://github.com/smorin/py-launch-blueprint

Features TLDR

  - Bootstrap commands
  - Command Runner
  - Dev Tools: Ruff (linting/formatting), MyPy (type checking), Pre-commit hooks
  - AI Ready: Default configs for Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code
  - Production: Python 3.10+, uv package manager, testing setup
  - DX - Developer Experience: VS Code integration, sensible defaults, quality documentation
  - CI/CD: GitHub Actions workflows, automatic testing, version management
  - Task Templates, PR Templates
  - License and Contributor License Agreement Checks

SteveMorinon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)

  Asana Head of Mobile and Engagement Engineering

100 person Org

  Former: Instagram, Founder, CTO Series C, ATT, Yahoo!
  Location: San Francisco 
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Fullstack
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebmorin/ 
  Email: steve at stevemorin.com

SteveMorinon Ohm: A library and language for building parsers, interpreters, compilers, etc

Know anyone trying to use it to generate Erlang/Beam byte code? Or compiling wasm to beam?

SteveMorinon Elixir and Phoenix can do it all

Elixir/Erlang is great and excited for types. A project that would help webassembly run natively on the beam with an actor model interface.

Have a proposal here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1adXQGiDoqyJ37r8XWYthFFZf...

SteveMorinon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://productivegrowth.substack.com/feed

SteveMorinon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://productivegrowth.substack.com/

ProductiveGrowth is for leaders and entrepreneurs or aspiring to be on one. My newsletter explores the topics of productivity, personal development and scaling through processes.

SteveMorinon Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

https://type.ai It has embedded GPT4 in a way that more natural for long form content.

Have tried about another 7 ai text generators/editors and so far is the best

SteveMorinon Ask HN: How to deal with regret of not having kids

My wife had our first child at 38 and second at 40. Friends have had kids at 44 and 48. Dr in SF said sees a lot of people having kids in their 40s.

It's great unless you or your wife have a specific medical condition you can sill have kids. We didn't need IVF, but have many friends that have used it very successfully.

SteveMorinon Ask HN: Which mailing lists would you recommend to subscribe to?

https://productivegrowth.substack.com/

For productivity, personal growth and process building. Basically all things to help make you 1% better every day and a few things about management

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/

For all things product management

SteveMorinon Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Hook hoax claim

So glad for that verdict. Lies should be allowed to that degree.

SteveMorinon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)

Asana | Remote (US) | Full-time | Mobile Engineering Manager | Experienced team that rocks

  Looking for a remote mobile engineering manager role, elevating mobile to the next level experience with a very senior engineering team?

  Hi my name is Steve and am the head of mobile engineering at Asana. Apply directly and or email me at my email address below. Looking for an experienced manager.

[1] https://asana.com/jobs/apply/2705051

[2] stevemorin at domain asana.com

SteveMorinon Ask HN: I realise data science is not for me and feel depressed

1) Finish your degree 2) Get a entry level role in SWE or internship (your degree is very compatible with that) 3) Program something you can demonstrate in the mean time (will help get you in the door and build skills) 4) keep building and applying 5) realize you might not like SWE either, that’s okay you can switch again.

SteveMorinon HashiCorp – S1

Yes that's exactly the reason. I know them through friends

SteveMorinon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)

Asana Inc | Eng, PM, Design, User Researcher | San Francisco | Full-Time | https://www.asana.com/

Hi my name is Steve, Head of Mobile Engineering at Asana, We are hiring multiple roles in Mobile. Email me for more information or apply online:

Email: stevemorin (at) asana.com

  - "Asana Mobile Teams"
  - 3 Product Management Roles Mobile
  - 1 Engineering Manager Mobile
  - 1 User Researcher UXR for Mobile
  - Multiple iOS/Android Roles for Mobile

See all the roles here: https://asana.com/jobs/all

SteveMorinon Clubhouse Payments

I wonder how this will compete with things like substack.

Will creator support like clubhouse's payments, undermine or enhance things like payments from platforms like substack.

I use both for my newsletter: For example my newsletter ProductiveGrowth , weekly stories about productivity, leadership, motivation, and anything else that helps us and our teams grow and be more productive.

I don't use either payment option now, but make me wonder which to use.

- https://productivegrowth.substack.com/ - https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/productivity-business

SteveMorinon Silicon Valley pay cuts ignite tech-industry Covid-19 tensions

Why?

SteveMorinon Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall

30 Yr Mortgage would be 2.75%-3.1% with very good credit right now

SteveMorinon A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”

Asana with its inbox workflow (most people don’t pay attention to this feature) will help all remote companies. It basically is a non noisy inbox for tasks , when paired with a culture of not providing immediate feedback works nicely. Didn’t believe it at first but after using it for onboarding all remote like how it enables async work. We also use slack and think the two pair really well. Allows for deep work even as a manager. Disclaimer I am a recent Asana hire that onboarded remotely.

SteveMorinon Software will eat software in a remote-first world

Asana with its inbox workflow will help all remote companies. Didn’t believe it at first but after using it for onboarding all remote like how it enables a sync work. Disclaimer I am a recent Asana hire that I boarded remotely.

SteveMorinon Show HN: I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers

Have some questions for you. What's the best way to get in touch?

SteveMorinon Why am I interested in Elixir?

Great language and importing other technologies though NiF to integrate c and rust (wrapping c or not) with Elixir. My old company build many systems on it and hope another will in the future.

SteveMorinon Goodbye Joe

Great piece Fred

SteveMorinon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2019)

Currently CTO for 50+ person startup/company. Been a manager of 35+ people 3 times. Looking for new engineering leadership role. I've worked a Yahoo, AT&T and started companies before, so have a nice variety of experience with platforms at scale, dealing with mature organizations and growing small teams to mature ones. I have also opened up international offices for companies for growth and expansion. I have a deep specialty in BigData and Data Systems engineering as I started an ran a large consultancy in the US that specialized in that for large companies. Have experience with Frontend, and Backend systems. I have a very large architectural breadth along with strong business skills.

  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Java, Python, Javascript/React, Elixir/Erlang, Perl, Clojure, Hadoop, Kafka, Spark Hbase, Elastic Search, Docker AWS , GCP, Ansible, Chef, Postgres, Neo4J ....
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebmorin/
  Email: steve@stevemorin.com

SteveMorinon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2018)

SEEKING WORK | San Francisco | Remote Okay | Steve Morin

Currently CTO for 50+ person startup/company. Been a manager of 35+ people 3 times. Looking for new engineering leadership role. I've worked a Yahoo, AT&T and started companies before, so have a nice variety of experience with platforms at scale, dealing with mature organizations and growing small teams to mature ones. I have also opened up international offices for companies for growth and expansion. I have a deep specialty in BigData and Data Systems engineering as I started an ran a large consultancy in the US that specialized in that for large companies. Have experience with Frontend, and Backend systems. I have a very large architectural breadth along with strong business skills.

  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Java, Python, Javascript/React, Elixir/Erlang, Perl, Clojure, Hadoop, Kafka, Spark Hbase, Elastic Search, Docker AWS , GCP, Ansible, Chef, Postgres, Neo4J ....
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebmorin/
  Email: steve@stevemorin.com

SteveMorinon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2018)

SEEKING WORK | San Francisco | Remote Okay | Steve Morin

Currently CTO for 50+ person startup/company. Been a manager of 35+ people 3 times. Looking for new engineering leadership role. I've worked a Yahoo, AT&T and started companies before, so have a nice variety of experience with platforms at scale, dealing with mature organizations and growing small teams to mature ones. I have also opened up international offices for companies for growth and expansion. I have a deep specialty in BigData and Data Systems engineering as I started an ran a large consultancy in the US that specialized in that for large companies. Have experience with Frontend, and Backend systems. I have a very large architectural breadth along with strong business skills.

  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Java, Python, Javascript/React, Elixir/Erlang, Perl, Clojure, Hadoop, Kafka, Spark Hbase, Elastic Search, Docker AWS , GCP, Ansible, Chef, Postgres, Neo4J ....
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebmorin/
  Email: steve@stevemorin.com

SteveMorinon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2018)

SEEKING WORK | San Francisco | Remote Okay Steve Morin, Currently CTO for 50+ person startup/company. Looking for new engineering leadership role. I've worked a Yahoo, AT&T and started companies before, so have a nice variety of experience with platforms at scale, dealing with mature organizations and growing small teams to mature ones. I have also opened up international offices for companies for growth and expansion. I have a deep specialty in BigData and Data Systems engineering as I started an ran a large consultancy in the US that specialized in that for large companies. Would consider fulltime in addition to consulting roles.

  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Java, Python, Javascript/React, Elixir/Erlang, Perl, Hadoop, Kafka, Spark Hbase, Elastic Search, Docker ....
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebmorin/
  Email: steve@stevemorin.com