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Matt Shumer
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Matt Shumer writes matt shumer, a personal blog at shumer.dev about ai and programming. Since 2025, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Something Big Is Happening”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Matt Shumer's essay "Something Big Is Happening" on AI progress, widely shared on HN and X. HN threads link it as the reference for the debate over AI capabilities, coding and free versus paid models.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Matt Shumer is the CEO of OthersideAI (HyperWrite), an active angel investor in AI infra and dev tools, and a builder who ships fast, shares what he learns, and helps startups go from zero to launch.
Most-linked posts?
- Something Big Is Happening10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2026-02-10
- My GPT-5.2 Review: Impressive, but Too Slow2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-11
What Hacker News says?
As it turns out, IMHO, the debate in this thread is about 1 year behind the reality [1]. Personally, I was about a week behind in my reading of the landscape, so didn't realize this is all asked and answered [1]. A number of points that various folks have made in the posts in this thread - free vs paid capabilities, model choices etc. are addressed much more eloquently and coherently in this blog post by Matt Shumer…
Comment linking /something-big-is-happening
on “I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?”Submitted My GPT-5.2 Review: Impressive, but Too Slow as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's a response to this: https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening The post is silly, but I do not expect Zitron's commentary to be particularly illuminating as he is a charlatan himself. I could point to many examples, but here is a blog post I wrote about one case of him trying very hard to not understand a simple and familiar situation: https://crespo.business/posts/cost-of-inference/ .
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on “Something Big Is Coming (Annotated by Ed Zitron) [pdf]”Submitted Stop micromanaging Fable/Claude 5 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot just HN. This tweet yesterday says something similar and got 56M views: https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403 / https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
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on “Hacker News now thinks coding is solved”Submitted Something Big Is Happening as a story · 2 points
HN discussion5 duplicate posts in the last day. Hopefully the moderators will consolidate the posts. - Something big is happening in AI – and most people will be blindsided ( https://fortune.com/2026/02/11/something-big-is-happening-ai... ) | 2 points | FergusArgyll | 3 hours ago | 2 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46979564 - Something Big Is Happening ( https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403…
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on “Something Big Is Happening”Submitted Something Big Is Happening as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> And Matt Shumer is saying that AI is currently like Covid in January 2020—as in, "kind of under the radar, but about to kill millions of people" This is where the misrepresentation... no, the lie comes in. It always does in these "sensible middle" posts! the genre requires flattening both sides into dumber versions of themselves to keep the author positioned between two caricatures. Supremely done, OP. If you read…
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on “I guess I kinda get why people hate AI”Submitted GPT-5.2 Pro Deep Dive as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere’s a link to the original blog post (to avoid Xitter): https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
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on “Something Big Is Happening”Submitted My GPT-5.3-Codex Review: Full Autonomy Has Arrived as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's referencing https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
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on “Something Big Is (Not) Happening”Submitted My GPT-5.2 Review: Impressive, but Too Slow as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"This page is not supported. Please visit the author’s profile on the latest version of X to view this content. twitter is useless haha https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
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on “Something Big Is Happening”
