Adam Tal 🚀

Launching: UX, Product, Code, Emojis
Improving: Marketing, ML, Parenting
Naturally caffeinated

[Adam Tal 🚀 @TalAdam]

I wrote a short post a while ago titled "First make the change easy, then make the easy change" which is #1 Hacker News today 🤯 Wow

[Adam Tal 🚀 @TalAdam]

Any skills or agents out there with taste baked in?

[Adam Tal 🚀 @TalAdam]

Full report:
https://t.co/7EoOAlh93L

[Adam Tal 🚀 @TalAdam]

September 2026 Hacker News Hiring Index:

539 job postings in September. That's 25% more than August (430) and 25% fewer than September last year (722). The 12-month average is 700.

Median pay went up to $195k. (1/6)

[Adam Tal 🚀 @TalAdam]

Engineering was 60% of postings, up from 56%. Data and ML were 14.5%, down from 16.5%. Junior roles went from 7 to 23.

The October update will be out in early November.

[Jacob @jakecodes]

In the next version of Kai, the reviewer works like a teammate.

You can talk it through a finding. On this PR the author showed Kai the git history, and Kai said "Fair. Dropping the finding."

You can also ask it to fix things. It makes the fix itself instead of handing it off to someone else.

[Adam Tal 🚀 @TalAdam]

@Jobvo what about taste?

imagine high agency without taste.

[Adam Tal 🚀 @TalAdam]

@alanb Whatcha working on?

[Adam Tal 🚀 @TalAdam]

It's true

[Jacob @jakecodes]

🐛 Best benchmark for an AI code review tool: your own bug history.
Grab 5–10 PRs that later needed a fix. Run each tool on the code before the fix. See who catches it.

[Jacob @jakecodes]

🐛 Best benchmark for an AI code review tool: your own bug history.
Grab 5–10 PRs that later needed a fix. Run each tool on the code before the fix. See who catches it.

[Jacob @jakecodes]

😘 Saw tons of complaints about the top AI code reviewers.

🌞 Took all the top complaints solved them in @kaicontextdev.

🤩 Now @kaicontextdev scores higher on benchmarks and solves biggest complaints.

[Adam Tal 🚀 @TalAdam]

AI forces (exposes) personal taste and judgement.

... for now

[Adam Tal 🚀 @TalAdam]

@rtfeldman Look at your replies. This is like the bat signal!

[Adam Tal 🚀 @TalAdam]

@jakecodes The bar is always moving 😅

On the plus side, more opportunity for creativity and expression.

[Adam Tal 🚀 @TalAdam]

@alanb @suno Amazing

[Adam Tal 🚀 @TalAdam]

@alanb 🤯

[Adam Tal 🚀 @TalAdam]

@alanb What about the audio?