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a_void_sky··on AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier
me and my team have wasted so many hours (days) working on some product features which was "definitely going viral" only to be forgotten after a few weeks

I believe if we had something like this we could go to market early and understand the user behaviour to build a more scalable and robust system once we were sure if it was even of worth

a_void_sky··on AI Didn't Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier
this is where years of experience working with freshers and junior devs helps, AI is smart enough to exactly do if you clearly tell it what to do and how

unless you understand every inch of system and foresee what issues can be created by what kind of change, things will break when using AI

a_void_sky··on AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier
"Coding was never the hard part. Typing syntax into a machine has always been the least interesting part of building a system."

and I think these people are benefitting from it the most, people with expertise, who know their way around and knew what and how to build but did not want to do the grunt work

a_void_sky··on Ask HN: Are AI "Chatbot Wrappers" ruining EdTech? I'm testing a proactive UX
I believe it is the way it is because it would cost too much otherwise. You can use the live API for continuously monitoring what the user is doing and if they are stuck but that would be expensive.
a_void_sky··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
Opus 4.6 but cheaper
a_void_sky··on I Quit My Job at OpenAI
"I once believed I could help the people building A.I. get ahead of the problems it would create. This week confirmed my slow realization that OpenAI seems to have stopped asking the questions I’d joined to help answer."

i see it happening everywhere

a_void_sky··on Radmon.org – free radiation monitoring website for enthusiasts
I would suggest you to also use English together with local language just like Flightradar
a_void_sky··on FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub
they waited for more than 1.5 years and they did not forgot
a_void_sky··on Understand CPU Branch Instructions Better
its such a fascinating thing that most people just ignore i too wrote (using AI) an article on Branch Prediction after i found out that most of my team members only read this in college but never understood
a_void_sky··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
do you really want to mention "zone" against all the zones in the zone column?
a_void_sky··on GCP Outage
asia-south is working for me
a_void_sky··on Why Your CPU Is a Fortune Teller
it "should" be elementary but it isn't, I got the idea to publish something on this because I recently had a conversation with a few new hires
a_void_sky··on Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'?
Nobody has mentioned that they were reselling the AWS credits they had. We had them as our billing partner with very good discounts. The day it happened, AWS sent us a mail to remove them as our billing partner.
a_void_sky··on Show HN: Novella – A platform for AI-generated stories
I'd love feedback on the design, user experience, and any feature suggestions before I publicly launch. Happy to answer questions!
a_void_sky··on Ask HN: What's your go-to message queue in 2025?
Kafka for communication between microservices, and MQTT (VerneMQ) for IOT devices
a_void_sky··on Show HN: I made a Wikipedia mobile app, but scrollable and AI summarized
the link is broken
a_void_sky··on Microsoft Confirms $1.50 Windows Security Update Hotpatch Fee Starts July 1
incentivizing themselves for building a broken system, you can do anything if you have a majority of market share
a_void_sky··on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail
it is, when the regulating authority is centralised