Jonathan Hoyt

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1. I stopped watching my agents work and started listening
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-08

What Hacker News says?

1. jonmagic · 2026-02-01

   I really liked this piece, and I share the concern, but I think “outsourcing thinking” is slightly the wrong frame. In my own work, I found the real failure mode wasn’t using AI, it was automating the wrong parts. When I let AI generate summaries or reflections for me, I lost the value of the task. Not because thinking disappeared, but because the meaning-making did. The distinction that’s helped me is: - If a task’…

   Comment linking /posts/designing-collaborations-not-just-automations/

   on “Outsourcing Thinking”
2. mooreds · 2025-07-03

   Submitted The uncertain future of coding careers and why I'm still hopeful as a story · 88 points

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3. jonmagic · 2026-07-08

   I was kind of waiting for Apple to ship something like this and using speechify in the meantime, so I was pleasantly surprised to stumble across Kokoro in a thread on HN a few days ago. The voices are better than the cloud provider IMO. I'm using it in an open source tool I built for listening to coding agents instead of watching them work, and it's been great. Local, private, free to run, and enough voices that I c…

   Comment linking /posts/i-stopped-watching-my-agents-work-and-started-listening/

   on “Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro”
4. jcorcuera · 2011-07-28

   Submitted Compiling executables on Heroku as a story · 40 points

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5. jonmagic · 2011-11-29

   Submitted How a small team is built, brainstorms, works, ships, and celebrates as a story · 3 points

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6. jonmagic · 2011-10-28

   Submitted Hubot Scripts Explained as a story · 3 points

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7. joshuacc · 2011-10-14

   Submitted AT&T Blames Apple as a story · 3 points

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8. joshuacc · 2011-10-03

   Submitted The History of Speaker Deck: How a product was born as a story · 3 points

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9. dangoor · 2026-07-08

   Submitted I stopped watching my agents work and started listening as a story · 2 points

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10. veverkap · 2026-02-28

    Submitted Stop Putting Secrets in .env Files as a story · 2 points

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11. baojian · 2026-01-28

    Submitted How I Work, 2025 Edition as a story · 2 points

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12. jonmagic · 2011-10-28

    Submitted Hubot, HipChat, and Heroku as a story · 2 points

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13. willf · 2026-04-13

    Submitted GitHub Copilot Session Search and Resume CLI as a story · 1 points

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14. mooreds · 2025-07-24

    Submitted Context Rules Everything Around Me as a story · 1 points

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15. jonmagic · 2011-09-12

    Submitted Stalled Web Dynos on Heroku as a story · 1 points

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16. bkeepers · 2011-07-27

    Submitted Moving Speaker Deck to Heroku // jonmagic.com as a story · 1 points

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