Michele Hansen
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Michele Hansen
@mjwhansen.com
👩‍💻 CEO & Co-Founder @Geocod.io

📚 Author of Deploy Empathy, a practical guide to interviewing customers (Updated and Expanded edition out now!)

Free time: bookworm, gymnast, being outside

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SERIOUSLY, the audacity of snacks to just sneak away and run off my desk when I’m not looking. Like did I get a snack or tricksy magical creature?
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
You can be productive or fed, choose one 😭
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
update: it is 3:37pm and I have finally eaten lunch, three hours after first getting hungry and an hour after warming up my food
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We incorporated a week after our daughter was born… maybe not the standard or recommended path, but hey! 🤷‍♀️
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 AM
💛💛💛
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
ooooooo 👀
November 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
honestly the most likely explanation I’ve heard
November 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
it makes me feel better that other people also want to throw yaml out a window and it's not just not-developer-me
November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I can't control the outside world. I can barely even influence it.

But I can make my company a place I would have wanted to work at as an employee and a product I would have happily used as a customer.
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
But this isn’t messing with the prompt, it’s messing with the training data 🤔
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
lolwut?!?!? That’s wild
November 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
and the way we defeat them in that war is to feed their context windows with content that tells it it doesn’t need to put punctuation in quotes

(is there a snappy word for this yet? malicious training data?)
November 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
lolllllll
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
fucking yaml
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
@codemonkey.io made the front page! You know what to do news.ycombinator.com
Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
happy GitHub outage day to all who celebrate
November 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM