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bitlad··on Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools
You can do this in lovable too now. But i dont think it gets used a lot. I think it is not very unique, i have seen bunch of providers, some are selling ai workers, some are selling internal tools in different shape and form.

I think the moat for internal tools is not where you think it is. Also, i see self host option, it is a nightmare too, no one will do it just for internal tools now. It was valid before AI era.

I am also seeing non engineering staff actually building tools with claudecode, paas like railway and stuff. People have become more efficient with engineer tools.

bitlad··on Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed
I disagree. Coordinating 100 folks to align on a problems statement with "agile" and sprints was always the biggest bottleneck. Difference in opinion, internal politics is always a bottleneck.

I think now, code is the bottleneck. Just because you can generate million lines of code, people with different skill level think they are accomplishing the task, testing, merge conflicts, trust has become the bottleneck.

bitlad··on Claude Opus 5
Funny incident, was trying opus 5, it opened the chrome browser went to slack and installed claude's slack app.

Truly remarkable times we are living in.

bitlad··on Launch HN: Traceforce (YC S26) – Company-wide security monitoring for AI apps
I think you are going in the wrong direction. All EDR providers have this capability now. The actual example of the drop table command that you specified does not execute on the "user's endpoint" anymore.

The fact that you have install another EDR along with this is a no-go.

bitlad··on Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
Correction: is not going to, is already suffering.
bitlad··on ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2
OpenCode
bitlad··on ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2
Their tui is quite heavy and crashing quite often as compared to claude code.
bitlad··on Leanstral 1.5
Atleast the UI looks nice. But I'm having trouble navigating it.
bitlad··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
Silicon valley season 6 was on point.
bitlad··on Lore – Give your coding agent the decisions your team made
Yup. This works.
bitlad··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
>very far down the wrong path.

Absolutely agree. Have seen this first hand

bitlad··on Show HN: Waitlio – The waitlist software for your next launch
I am not sure if softwares are launched this way anymore.
bitlad··on MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
It is supposed to be a sandbox that you can invoke from agent, langchains of the world, coding agents etc.
bitlad··on Why software engineers are grieving
I dont think it is okay. If you spending 8-12h per week then you it needs to mean something. If you dont care, you are throwing away majority of your life without meaning.
bitlad··on Why software engineers are grieving
I think I have seen the transition. Google, facebook, et al genuine believed they were changing the world unless they became seen as evil big corp.

Then came the techbro, true nerds doing nerdy stuff got lost among the noise techbros created.

bitlad··on We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
You can start by paying maintainers really really well.
bitlad··on Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley
I think you are missing the point. I think the software business has become undesirable for VC investment. I am seeing that in the market from the otherside. People think there is no moat. Which I absolutely disagree but yea.

VC invest is same as buying a house. Someone has valued your house is worth x, thats why it is valued at x. There were people willing to invest at 1B valuation now they are not. Market has moved. Imagine, if the area where you bought the house, suddenly is not desirable or theres no one willing to pay for it, then value of your house will go down, in some scenarios to zero. It is as simple as that.

bitlad··on Lies, Damn Lies and Database Benchmarks
Reminds me of the recent Terminal Bench controversy [1][2][3]

If theres a benchmark, people will cheat, lie and optimize for that benchmark. Honest depends on the compliance enforced on teams. But if, compliance itself is weak, it is going to be taken advantage of. Like growing up india, you would optimize for the exam and not what you learn from it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920787

[2] https://www.tbench.ai/news/leaderboard-integrity-update

[3] https://debugml.github.io/cheating-agents/

bitlad··on PostgreSQL is enough (2024)
PostgreSQL is good enough until it's not good enough, when you realize all the bad design decisions that were made before it hits scale. It is the decisions people make around not partitioning, HA, replication that makes it not good enough.
bitlad··on I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
> And every time you use the AI to be ingenious or creative, that will be added to the training data That's part of evolution.

We as humans have always outsmarted the tools.

bitlad··on I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
I think AI is powertool. Period. If you give it to people who are skill, it will create a mess.

I think democratization of intelligence is going to be interesting. You could say the same with same about internet. I think it is part of evolution. May be intelligence or expertise is what does not make us special. May be it is that we are ingenious amd creative with tools and thats how we evolve.

bitlad··on A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding
You might as well handover the images to hackers.
bitlad··on Haystack: Open-Source AI Framework for Production Ready Agents, RAG
> Haystack collects anonymous usage statistics of pipeline components. We receive an event every time these components are initialized. This way, we know which components are most relevant to our community.

For an EU based company, this stands out.

bitlad··on Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine
Folks commenting on Hacker News are acting how VC investors are acting in the market now. Everything is doom and gloom for anything that is software.

Oh claude can do this, claude can do that. It is written by claude oh it is of no value.

No. Creativity matters. Originality matters. Serendipity matters. Execution can use claude, but it is does not displace value.

bitlad··on Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine
Having a cool idea, executing it and showcasing it to the world is not good anymore?

For serendipity still matters.

bitlad··on Why eval startups fail (2025)
Everything eventually fails. Nothing is constant, not even evals.
bitlad··on Claude Tag
At one point, doing everything has diminishing returns.
bitlad··on Claude Tag
You could use coworks for that. Use Tools please.
bitlad··on Claude Tag
What if you could do this:

@claude collect all the internal knowledge and context. And fire folks who are not required.

bitlad··on Software factories and the agentic moment
On a sidenote, congratulations to the strongdm team for getting acquired by delinea.
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