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whattheheckheckon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

Thr future of programs

whattheheckheckon Why write code in 2026

Why did we even need bridges in the first place

whattheheckheckon Why write code in 2026

Ask the ai what the game theory is for training employees... the Nash equilibrium is under training and self funded certification/training for devs in low trust environments.

whattheheckheckon Who manages the agents?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16475

Pretty sure it can dumb it down to cave man speak for any concept

whattheheckheckon Who manages the agents?

What do you think the avg execs info exposure is to what's really happening

whattheheckheckon Show HN: Sdlc factory built on pi.dev:intent->DDD->architecture->tested code

What do you do when people say "my self agent harness set of .md can build more stuff faster better and cheaper than your collection?"

Is it really hooking it all up to swebench and letting it rip / cost money?

Its going to get really annoying having to argue about this stuff for real for work when anyone can propose some loop and now the question pops up on what makes it better and what makes it worse. Who knows? Try it and see?

whattheheckheckon Show HN: Kastor – Terraform-style specs for AI agents

Im wondering if you can expand it using TLA+ some how. I like the declarative language that compiles down to langgraph idea. Langgraph or hamilton/burr are two strong contenders for state machines. Maybe mix dbos or Temporal in there and you could almost have something to full declare the whole system

whattheheckheckon Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

And people clutch their pearls at ai not really understanding anything when people describe university experiences and lessons like this...

whattheheckheckon Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents

Have you seen marp? https://marp.app/

whattheheckheckon Show HN: Kastor – Terraform-style specs for AI agents

Why not just make an actual terraform module?

whattheheckheckon Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble

Ai guys would get torn apart by any sane copyright legal system. They have to go all in on the political favoritism play. They stole the content from the commons and continue to resell laundered IP via tokens

whattheheckheckon GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

Because these models are not going to stand up legally

whattheheckheckon AI coding is addictive. Engineers are paying the price

Can you share what other "sucky tools" would be on the same level? I understand they do kind of suck holistically but to explain it better to laymen how would you describe the whole thing?

whattheheckheckon The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode

Who is we?

whattheheckheckon Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me

They can slap it into ai and get the answer if they cant think of it themselves

whattheheckheckon Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students

Moderation in everything... including applying the phrase moderation in everything...

whattheheckheckon AI coding is addictive. Engineers are paying the price

Yeah do people not know how to do deep knowledge work? Look up Cal Newport habits

whattheheckheckon AI coding is addictive. Engineers are paying the price

You may be wise beyond your years and are sitting on a goldmine of consulting opportunity if you can actually get tasks done faster without ai given the exact same inputs

whattheheckheckon Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me

"Extremely bad"? What are the actual material consequences of the decision? Relate it to business outcomes

whattheheckheckon Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me

What do you prefer?

whattheheckheckon Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me

Yeah seriously what's the test of maintainable that couldn't be applied to the word clean?

What about the latest book Tidy First https://a.co/d/0b1hRqEV

whattheheckheckon What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

Is there an issue board for these bugs? I want to see what is a disgustingly large percent. 50%?

whattheheckheckon We all depend on open source. We will defend it together

Which one

whattheheckheckon AI in mathematics is forcing big questions

You can also pass pytest with assert 1 = 1...

whattheheckheckon AI in mathematics is forcing big questions

Complexity theorists are in a good spot

whattheheckheckon AI in mathematics is forcing big questions

And theyre ignorant. You want to be ignorant? They had a term for that in ancient Greece.

Reasoning by analogy...

whattheheckheckon Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

Feels like the universe did that and life spat out. Theres going to be a structure

whattheheckheckon AI's Affordability Crisis

More agents!

whattheheckheckon Show HN: Graphical SQL Builder and Debugger

Plans to support other sql flavors?

whattheheckheckon You're probably using Agent Skills wrong

What if I want a way to open up a latent space prompt without having to type it all out everytime?