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wmeredith

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Personal Site: WadeMeredith.com

Passion Project: SeekHiFi.com, BuildHiFi.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/wademeredith

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wmeredith··on Ferrari Luce
It's a $600,000 car. I don't think they're widening access.
wmeredith··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
> most of the tech leadership has to play along

Many of them orchestrated the situation.

wmeredith··on Google changes its search box
That's a pretty sinister system when the dam builders are suing the work of those downstream to build their damn. What happens when everyone downstream has been starved to death?
wmeredith··on The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
> If I start driving south from Seattle then I'll eventually reach Los Angeles. How long will it take me to drive to Honolulu?

I like this analogy, but I'll be replacing Honolulu with The Moon when I steal it in the future.

wmeredith··on Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
Eh, Topps did in the 1950s and The American Tobacco company did it in 1909.
wmeredith··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
This is what I sees getting missed in a lot of LLM conversations. They're amplifiers. Full stop. If you have good practices they supercharge them, if you had bad practices, same thing.
wmeredith··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
AxisCare | Senior + Mid-Level Software Engineers | Remote (US/Canada, ET/CT/MT) | https://axiscare.com/careers

We build the market-leading SaaS platform for the home care industry: scheduling, billing, payroll, CRM, and clinical documentation for agencies across all 50 US states and 6 countries. ~10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day; the agencies using our software help them stay in their homes.

We're are small, fast teams that have gone deep on AI-augmented development. Not as a talking point; as the actual way we work. We prototype aggressively, put working software in front of stakeholders before a traditional process would finish a PRD, and iterate from there. We're looking for engineers who already work this way: driving agents on real codebases, maintaining quality when the machine is doing the typing, and knowing when to throw the output away.

Stack: PHP (backend), React + TypeScript (frontend), MySQL, RESTful APIs, AWS. You'll work across the full stack.

Senior (5+ yrs): Product-minded, systems-thinking engineers. You'd lead 1–2 engineers while still taking substantial features from concept to production solo. You mentor others in code design, systems thinking, and driving AI agents effectively.

Mid-Level (2+ yrs): This is a senior-track role. You'll ship real features with mentorship from senior and staff engineers who are deeply invested in your growth. We want engineers who see where things are heading and want to get ahead of it; going deep on architecture, design, and understanding the problems, not just writing the code.

Both roles: We want concrete evidence you use AI as a real tool, not a novelty. Push the tools until they fail, then tell us about it. We care about quality software that's easy to change, clear writing, and engineers who get curious about the customers, not just the tickets.

Compensation: Salary TBD based on experience. Medical/dental/vision covered in full for the employee. Company-provided equipment.

Apply with a brief resume and a cover letter (written or video — video goes to the front of the line). The cover letter matters; we read it first. Tell us what you've built, how AI has changed the way you work with specific examples, and why this team at this moment.

Candidates only, no recruiters. Feel free to reach out directly via email to wademeredith [at] axis care [dot] com if you have questions. Apply through the website.

wmeredith··on Ask HN: Is Zuckerberg just a „one-hit-wonder"?
Being lucky can't be replicated.
wmeredith··on Claude Design
> their engineers are excellent... they work 12 hours plus a day regularly

What? In my experience people who are good at their job can get it done in a reasonable amount of time. Working 12 hours a day is obsession, no competence. There can be overlap, but there is no causation.

wmeredith··on Codex for almost everything
I think it's a given. OpenAI's product is their hype.
wmeredith··on The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
> ML assistance reduces our performance and persistence, and denies us both the muscle memory and deep theory-building that comes with working through a task by hand

On one hand I intuitively think this is correct, on the other hand these very concerns about technology have been around since the invention of... writing.

Here is an excerpt of Socrates speaking on the written word, as recorded in Plato's dialogue Phaedrus - "For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom"

wmeredith··on Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again
Implying that JIRA is reliable is... something.
wmeredith··on Ask HN: Have you cancelled any software subscriptions because AI replaced them?
Grammarly and Squarespace. I have a Gost Pro newsletter I am replacing next with my own custom solution.
wmeredith··on A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta
I'm sure it is. Thankfully I don't work for a company this large any more, but when I was employed by a multinational with 30K+ employees, our IT department was outsourced to India and you had to get through a couple layers of phone tree/webchat hell to actually talk to a real person. I could easily see companies of this size replacing their support with LLM nonsense.
wmeredith··on “Your frustration is the product”
> Have newspapers or magazines ever been financially sustainable on sale revenue alone?

Most certainly not. The hollowing out of classifies by Craigslist in 2000s is what killed most local newspapers.

wmeredith··on AI coding is gambling
I think this is a semantics thing. I feel the same way, but I wouldn't say that I feel like I'm good at programming. I'm most certainly not. What I am good at is product design and development, and LLM tech has made it so that I can concentrate on features, business models, and users.
wmeredith··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
Can verify. Am on a GLP-1 drug and I eat seek much more protein and fiber than before.
wmeredith··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
I never found it close enough, and it's expensive, and it's bad for you. So no thanks.
wmeredith··on macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses
Steve Jobs may have been the ultimate editor. Jobs was an expert at saying "No" when it came to product decisions. He is sorely missed at modern Apple. It took a while for the cracks to pile up, but the dam has fully broken now.
wmeredith··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
URL is too long. But this is a sister product to my newsletter: https://seekhifi.com
wmeredith··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
Awesome. Let me know what he thinks!
wmeredith··on Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
This is it for me. I burned out on chasing the latest stack about 12 years into my career. I went into management and concerned myself with system design, product design, and process design. LLMs let me use that knowledge to build things I care about: features and products, without getting (too) bogged down in things I don't: super elegant code in the hot new framework that users will never see or pay for.
wmeredith··on The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)
Boy I hope so. I miss my RSS reader. I'd love to see one made with the modern UX that makes the doomscrolling apps so engaging. (Or maybe I wouldn't.)
wmeredith··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
PC Part Picker for hi-fi stereos: https://buildhifi.com/

I've wanted this for a long time, so I finally started building it. I've had a lot fun!

- Graph-based signal flow: Products become nodes, connections are edges inferred from port compatibility (digital, analog, phono, speaker-level domains)

- Port profile system: Standardized port definitions (direction, domain, connector, channel mode) enable automatic connection inference

- Rule engine: Pluggable rules check completeness, power matching, phono stage requirements, DAC needs, and more

wmeredith··on Anthropic, please make a new Slack
Chesterton's Fence: https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
wmeredith··on LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first
Right here: https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/the-ai-ready-so...

This series of articles is gold.

Unsurprisingly, writing good software with AI follows the same principles as writing it without AI. Keep scopes small. Ship, refactor, optimize, and write tests as you go.

wmeredith··on Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
It's called busy-ness for a reason.
wmeredith··on Ask HN: How are you controlling AI agents that take real actions?
> A refund is a deterministic business rule — order exists, within return window, amount matches. That decision shouldn't be made by an LLM at all.

I feel like this is the real key. LLMs are good at some things and bad at others. Deterministic logic (e.g. don't ever do "x") is not one of them.

wmeredith··on Show HN: Unlock the best engineering knowledge in papers for your coding agent
I don't mean to be a jerk, I think this looks cool... but unless I'm missing something this is just a sign up page for something that may or may not exist someday?

From the Show HN rules: "Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead."

wmeredith··on Dow drops 600 points as confusion grows after U.S. tariffs
This is the only sane take. The DOW moving 1.5% is not really news. 600 points sounds like a lot, but isn't. It's clickbait.
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