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8b16380d··on Half-Baked Product
Have you ever been in a situation where this was the case? The only time I've come close, the business was a dog.
8b16380d··on Jobs and Software Is Fucked
I was just involved in the hiring process for a new rec on a team adjacent to mine, and the HR/screening process was a complete mystery as to candidate filtering for outside applicants. So many AI tools making arbitrary judgments from resume content to psychological profiles of candidates, led us to 0 organic people “qualified” enough to interview for an SRE/Devops role. All we hire now is referrals as they are the only ones to get pass automated screening
8b16380d··on Ask HN: What coding agents are you using?
Claude code and open code with various models. Codex thrown in for good measure here or there and when I hit limits elsewhere
8b16380d··on Ask HN: Why won't you be replaced by AI?
My goal is to cope until retirement
8b16380d··on Ask HN: Is this the SWE workflow of the future?
Sounds close to my team. I just fall in line and let the agents do whatever while I sleep, do laundry or game. Check in occasionally to hit “yes” on prompts.
8b16380d··on Ask HN: Is Claude Getting Worse?
Yeah it’s hot garbage, I’ve moved to gpt5.4, which actually performs well enough for now
8b16380d··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
8b16380d··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
Israel
8b16380d··on Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading
Tool de jour, similar to web framework of the month etc. Gemini and ChatGPT are just as useful
8b16380d··on What do people usually do with spare Android phones? Any practical use cases?
Hahaha this is great
8b16380d··on Ask HN: Pivot from SWE to What?
It’s not hard to make equivalent (or higher) base, but you just lose out on the stock
8b16380d··on Quoted a client $43k to refactor their AI-built MVP. They did $11k MRR in 6weeks
At least that ai slop makes money. I’ve seen human-created slop make nothing and still require the same effort and cost to uplift architecture/code to a useable state.
8b16380d··on Cognitive load is what matters
This gives me PTSD
8b16380d··on The US Relies on 51 Forty-five-year-old ships to Transport its Military Overseas [video]
Thanks Jones Act
8b16380d··on AI for Coding: Why Most Developers Are Getting It Wrong
Slop blobs happen without AI tooling though, unless everyone in the org is completely dedicated to their craft and on the same skill level.
8b16380d··on AI for Coding: Why Most Developers Are Getting It Wrong
I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. For now, I think the time horizon is long enough that I can make it to retirement.
8b16380d··on AI for Coding: Why Most Developers Are Getting It Wrong
I tend to agree, but at the end of the day I am providing for my family first and foremost.

This means having to knock out tasks each sprint, whether they tickle my fancy or not. If I can offload that work to the AI “agent”, then so be it.

I don’t feel the need to make my vocation a core part of my identity, so the time savings is worth more than elegantly crafted code or whatever other intrinsic value comes from a hand crafted solution.

8b16380d··on Section 174 is reversed, mostly
They would have just extended them without the political baggage of keeping “trump cuts” around
8b16380d··on ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry
Agreed. It’s pretty gross tbh
8b16380d··on Why do small teams keep getting wrecked by AWS bills?
We’re not since cost controls are secondary to building features.
8b16380d··on Ask HN: I bought a website, how do I edit it?
Dm me
8b16380d··on LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
One of the best foss projects imo
8b16380d··on Fucking Tired of AI
Read a book from a good author and you will see how just how far AI is from relating to actual human experience.
8b16380d··on Ask HN: What makes for a great developer meetup?
Beer and food
8b16380d··on Ask HN: What were the top things you did or purchased for your baby/toddler?
Books and read to my child daily. Now he reads way ahead of his peers and love books
8b16380d··on The guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing 8k hours
Can’t help but think that amount of time is better spent elsewhere, and that goes for all video games. A bit sad really.
8b16380d··on Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why
Mmmmmmm mouse bread
8b16380d··on Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison
Funny, psilocybin has been largely detrimental to the mental health of everyone I know.
8b16380d··on 1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor
I mean, this existed long before acquisition. Maybe the response could have been different in the past, but there is nothing to indicate that would be true.
8b16380d··on Ask HN: How was your experience moving from fulltime job to being self employed
That is awesome thanks for this. I’ve been dabbling in freelance for the past year, but have yet to leap from my regular job. I need to get more comfortable with proactive outreach. I have enjoyed it so far, I just need to build up more clients and increase rates.
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