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Gareth Dwyer
Personal blog · dwyer.co.za · on HN as sixhobbitsaiwritingprogramming
Gareth Dwyer's personal blog at dwyer.co.za covers ai, writing and programming. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Claude Code is all you need”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Gareth Dwyer's posts on Claude Code and AI reliability, including one on Claude mixing up who said what, as examples of AI tools changing results or making things up.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Claude Code is all you need2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-11
- Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-09
- A working definition of slop, and what to do when you hit the slop wall2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-25
- Being 'good at business' can be bad for business – how enshittification happens2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-27
What Hacker News says?
I'm surprised at how negative a lot of people are around tutorial writers. In my (biased) experience, tutorial writers are a) relatively good at what they do and what they're teaching, even if they're beginners and b) definitely not driven by "showing off" or "building their CV" motivations. Tech is hard. There is a lot of it out there. It's always changing. There are a lot of variables in terms of your set up and y…
Comment linking /writing.html
on “Ask HN: Why do tutorial writers combine 10 technologies when 1 or 2 would do?”Submitted Claude Code is all you need as a story · 851 points
HN discussionI posted this question two weeks ago: "What is your plan when the AI you have implemented throughout your company changes the results you've come to trust?" ( https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/06/anthropic_claude_code... ). Since then, I had to add: "or won't let you log in?": https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/44257 "or makes stuff up?": https://dwyer.co.za/static/claude-mixes-up-who-said-what-and..…
Comment linking /static/claude-mixes-up-who-said-what-and-thats-not-ok.html
on “Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan”Submitted Learn about problems, not solutions as a story · 107 points
HN discussionToday’s AI systems probably won’t excel, but they won’t completely fail either. Basically give the LLM a computer to do all kinds of stuff against the real world, kick it off with a high level goal like “build a startup”. The key is to instruct it to manage its own memory in its computer, and when context limit inevitably approaches, programmatically interrupt the LLM loop and instruct it to jot down everything it h…
Comment linking /static/claude-code-is-all-you-need.html
on “Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation”Submitted What Is Value? as a story · 58 points
HN discussionI don't know why anyone is still using this - much less defending them.. In the last MONTH, I've asked how you can defend implementing (or even choose implementing) AI when: the AI you have implemented throughout your company changes the results you've come to trust? https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/claude_outage_quality... or won't let you log in?: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/44257 or mak…
Comment linking /static/claude-mixes-up-who-said-what-and
on “HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund”Submitted Slop is text you haven't read, not text you haven't written as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCan you confirm if that caused the same issues I saw here https://dwyer.co.za/static/the-worst-bug-ive-seen-in-claude-... Because that's the worst thing I've ever seen from an agent and I think you need to make a public announcement to all of your users and acknowledge the issue and that it's fixed because it made me switch to codex for a lot of work
Comment linking /static/the-worst-bug-ive-seen-in-claude-code.html
on “Claude Code Daily Benchmarks for Degradation Tracking”Submitted Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted WTF Google (a.k.a. another botched launch for nano banana Gemini flash preview) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Should Stop Doing Code Reviews as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is an AI Product Engineer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A working definition of slop, and what to do when you hit the slop wall as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being 'good at business' can be bad for business – how enshittification happens as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slop is code you can't work with as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being 'good at business' can be bad for business as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is an AI Product Engineer? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The worst bug I've seen so far in Claude Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vanilla CSS vs. Tailwind for Custom Radios and Checkboxes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Emergence (I asked Claude to impress me) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tortured Metaphors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Reaction Archetypes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimisations Are Not Solutions as a story · 1 points
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