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vips7L··on Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?
I’d have to stop interacting with meat proxies and wouldn’t have to read copy pasted LLM text.
vips7L··on I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again
Big fan of Keycloak personally, but I'm also deep in the Quarkus/JVM ecosystem and Quarkus makes deving against Keycloak extremely easy.
vips7L··on I Used AWS Cognito for a Startup. I Wouldn't Do It Again
> just hook into the Auth library you use (library, not service).

I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of how this stuff works. You can't "just use a library". Your identity server is a service, open source or not and you have to align to how they do things.

vips7L··on I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again
I really whole heartedly disagree and if you think it’s silly I think that you don’t really fully understand the complexity of it. An LLM doesn’t solve everything. You still need to understand the spec, become a domain expert, and design your solution for the parts that the RFCs leave open with undefined behaviour. At the very least if this is your opinion you should start with an open source solution like Keycloak or authentic and fork it if you really need “control”.
vips7L··on I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again
This is a terrible suggestion. Rolling your own auth nowadays is like rolling your own encryption. It’s just a bad idea. OAuth and OIDC are massive specs that are constantly changing and you’re going to be stuck chasing and developing auth instead of your actual product.

I know because this is what my brain dead principal engineer did and I’ve spent the last 3 years chasing RFCs and am now going to spend the next year migrating to Keycloak because I’ve finally convinced my boss that we’re not an auth company.

vips7L··on VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents
“Usefulness”
vips7L··on Jaithon 3, a fast programming language with the perfect syntax
Generated Sloppies bro
vips7L··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
Does it? The only think I can think of not being in the standard library is a json parser
vips7L··on Slack Code
Can’t get left behind by people who can’t write a crud endpoint or an email by themselves.
vips7L··on Slack Code
Yes they will.
vips7L··on HTML Can Do That
Isn’t that because select wasn’t style-able?
vips7L··on Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
I think Source Hut has 0 ai features. Or time to start self hosting.
vips7L··on Jaithon 3, a fast programming language with the perfect syntax
Slop
vips7L··on Flutter 3.47
How do you know? Why are we inclined to believe you over him?
vips7L··on Flutter 3.47
The creator of flutter was on here saying that 1/3 of all apps on the App Store use it. That seems to be a lot more than “nobody”.
vips7L··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
I’ve worked at plenty of startups. It still does not matter, it never has.
vips7L··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
I genuinely doubt it. Amdahl’s law will always reign supreme.
vips7L··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
Same man. I hate everything about this career path right now, but even real (civil, structural) engineers get paid massively less. I think I’ve just come to a realization that software engineering salaries are just massively inflated, especially for those of us that just do the programming part and not the actual engineering part.

It just seems like there’s a reckoning coming for our field. I’m going to keep doing it, I don’t see any other choice right now.

vips7L··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
Speed doesn’t matter.
vips7L··on New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner
ANY push back is bots? Yeah this is boot-licker bullshit.
vips7L··on New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner
> Wonder how quick this will get removed off the front page

YC’s an investor after all

vips7L··on Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
People are lazy.
vips7L··on Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
If LLMs are any good, like many of you claim, they won’t need these comments. They will ingest the code and know what was done. They won’t need comments about what wasn’t done.
vips7L··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
You know there’s no quantitative data. It’s vibes from the top down.
vips7L··on Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If
Sad little world we live in tbh.
vips7L··on DConf 2026 in London
You might not see this since I'm rather late. What is a value type exception? Is it one that doesn't collect a stack trace? Or doesn't unwind in the usual way or something?
vips7L··on DConf 2026 in London
Java's problem with checked exceptions is that they didn't add them fully to the type system (the lambda problem), and they never added any syntax sugar to make them easier to deal with. I really love checked exceptions and wish we could get some improvements.
vips7L··on Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library
Except TS has much wider community support. The type definitions/wrappers are already written.
vips7L··on AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included
It seems like Java is thinking about it now that Valhalla is landing and they’re expecting more user defined mathematical types.
vips7L··on Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
> my criticism was that Java requires an overengineered GC to compensate for its fundamental language flaws that make optimization all but impossible.

Except this criticism will be outdated. (but then you moved the goal post to syntax).

> Go's GC is nowhere near as complex, and yet it performs much better

Benchmarks prove otherwise.

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