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Vexjoy
Personal blog · vexjoy.comaiprogramming
Vexjoy is a personal blog at vexjoy.com about ai and programming. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Everything That Can Be Deterministic, Should Be: My Claude Code Setup”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-17, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The linked post, "Everything That Can Be Deterministic, Should Be," is about making code and systems deterministic where possible. The only comment corrects a broken link and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The specific satisfaction found in solving deeply frustrating technical problems. Essays on AI agents, system design, and building tools that think.
Most-linked posts?
- Everything That Can Be Deterministic, Should Be: My Claude Code Setup2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-12-29
What Hacker News says?
Exactly, I wrote a blog post in what feels like a long time ago on this topic. https://vexjoy.com/posts/positive-framing-agents-skills/
Comment linking /posts/positive-framing-agents-skills/
on “Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025”Submitted Richard Dawkins (AI) Refutes Richard Dawkins (Human) on AI Conciousness as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://vexjoy.com/posts/ Writing about AI so far, but who knows. Just started it.
Comment linking /posts/
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted The Handyman Principle: Why Your AI Forgets Everything as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI find in my experience that it's trivial to have the skill systematically call the script, and perform the action correctly. This has not been a challenge to me. Also, the pick up or not pick up, or discover or may not discover is solved as well. It's handled by my router, which I wrote about here - https://vexjoy.com/posts/the-do-router/ So these are solved problems to me. There are many more problems which are no…
Comment linking /posts/the-do-router/
on “Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything”Submitted The Crypto Coin was the tell – thoughts on GSD, and it's crypto rugpull as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI got similar feedback with my first blog post on my do router - https://vexjoy.com/posts/the-do-router/ Here is what I don't get. it's trivial to do this. Mine is of course customized to me and what I do. The idea is to communicate the ideas, so you can use them in your own setup. It's trivial to put for example, my do router blog post in claude code and generate one customized for you. So what does it matter to se…
Comment linking /posts/the-do-router/
on “Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything”Submitted Everything That Can Be Deterministic, Should Be: My Claude Code Setup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm the opposite, I find it straight forward to use all these things, and am surprised people aren't getting it. I've been trying to write blogs explaining it recently, but I don't think I'm very good at making it sound interesting to people. What can I explain that you would be interested in? Here was my latest attempt today. https://vexjoy.com/posts/everything-that-can-be-deterministi...
Comment linking /posts/everything-that-can-be-deterministic-should-be-my-claude-code-setup/
on “Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything”Submitted The /Do Router: Keyword Matching for Specialist Selection in Claude Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionthe correct link is here: https://vexjoy.com/posts/everything-that-can-be-deterministi... i can't delete the submission, so i just resubmitted it.
Comment linking /posts/everything-that-can-be-deterministic-should-be-my-claude-code-setup/
on “Everything That Can Be Deterministic, Should Be”Submitted Why Does Your AI Agent Work Better for You Than for Me? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLink is broken - correct link: https://vexjoy.com/posts/everything-that-can-be-deterministi...
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on “Everything That Can Be Deterministic, Should Be”Submitted 55 Hours of Codex /Goal: What a Port Task Teaches You About Autonomous Loops as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloud Skills Are Still Just Skills as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adaptive Thinking Doesn't Change Quality. It Changes Variance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tell the Model What to Do, Not What to Avoid as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Was Excited to See Someone Else Build a /Do Router, but Then as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything That Can Be Deterministic, Should Be as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything That Can Be Deterministic, Should Be as a story · 1 points
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