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Pete Koomen
Personal blog · koomen.dev/essaysaistartups
Pete Koomen's personal blog at koomen.dev covers ai and startups. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “AI Horseless Carriages”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Pete Koomen's essays on AI and software, especially 'Horseless Carriages', which has interactive prompt diagrams. It is often cited as a reference for rethinking products built around AI.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Pete Koomen's website
Most-linked posts?
- AI Horseless Carriages5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-04-23
What Hacker News says?
It was mind blowing seeing the picture I had in my head appear on the page for e.g. this little prompt diagram: https://koomen.dev/essays/horseless-carriages/#system-prompt... MDX & claude are remarkably useful for expressing ideas. You could turn this into a little web app and it would instantly be better than any word processor ever created. Here's the code btw https://github.com/koomen/koomen.dev
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on “AI Horseless Carriages”Submitted AI Horseless Carriages as a story · 864 points
HN discussionThis is a really cool idea. I love that you expose the personal profile as markdown. Reminds me of this article and exposing the system prompt: https://koomen.dev/essays/horseless-carriages/ . Well done!
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on “Show HN: HomeBrew HN – Generate personal context for content ranking”It seems like it's worth taking some time to steel-man the AI argument, even if your CEO hasn't made it very well. E.g. If you don't work on AI now, and AI models keep improving, how likely is it that a competitor who integrates AI well will eat your lunch? If it's >50%, it seems worth it to shift some focus to AI regardless of the series C round. This post from a few days ago has some great tips on how to integrate…
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on “Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do?”Pete Koomen wrote about this phenomenon (“horseless carriages” instead of “steam horses”) here: https://koomen.dev/essays/horseless-carriages/
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on “I don't think AI will make your processes go faster”Inspired by interactive blog posts: https://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/ https://www.inkandswitch.com/potluck/ https://koomen.dev/essays/horseless-carriages/ I’m building a publishing stack for “vibe blogging”, think Bolt.new x Substack. It consists of: Authoring: users write Markdown, LLM turns it into interactive MDX post Sandboxing: MDX with generated widgets is rendered in e2b sandbox Pipelines: genera…
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on “Vibed.pub: Turn Markdown Posts into Interactive Apps”