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canterburry

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  1. story
    Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler?

    Programming languages, frameworks etc are just there for developer ergonomics, code reuse and human understanding. If we generate so much code using AI that no one is really lookin…

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    Comment #47162997

    This is an automated form of violating my 1st amendment rights.

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    Comment #47098495

    Very impressive new format. 10,000 years...wow. That's great. Now, can someone please help me get some data of this Iomega ZIPdrive disc?

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    Comment #46948738

    I wonder if the incident root cause analysis will point to vibe coding?

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    Comment #46676785

    Finally...a dedicated app to bitch at people.

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    Comment #45936358

    I vibe coded for months but switched to spec driven development in the last 6 months I'm also old enough to have started my career learning the rational unified process and then pr…

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    Ask HN: I Love Refactoring Days

    Anyone else? Sure, I've added no new functionality, but my patterns are clean, signatures become more symmetrical, I take time to think about some odd choices and really figure out…

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    Comment #45290159

    Could someone relate KDE to PopOS or Ubuntu for me? I've been on Ubuntu and PopOS for the last 15 years.

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    Comment #45221615

    Like...why? Why do we need to try this?

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    Comment #44920626

    "The “Smart Agent” Trap: I tried making agents that could “figure out” what to do. They couldn’t. Be explicit." So what about this solution is actually agentic? Overall, it sounds …

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    Comment #44719589

    I have tried all sorts of UI based workflow and orchestration tools over the last 20 years. As someone technical, I start, I build something simple quickly but then start thinking …

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    Ask HN: How are you doing code gen in the Enterprise?

    Lots of people showcasing their CRUD apps and prototypes built using AI. How are things on the enterprise side? Large existing codebases, detailed requirements, lots of interconnec…

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    Comment #44177489

    According to your stats, when is the best time to post to get noticed?

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    Comment #43924097

    How about put it on the roadmap for v4?

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    Comment #43920908

    How about we just stop creating non type safe languages. Would save everyone so much hassle. [bring on the downvotes]

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    Comment #43878409

    The reasons we suffer these accountability challenges are often rooted in that anyone holding someone else accountable, may experience negative consequences to self...and those are…

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    Comment #43676063

    I wouldn't be surprised if someone tries to leverage this with their customer feature request tool. Imagine having your customers write feature requests for your saas, that immedia…

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    Comment #43546063

    All I am saying is that being lightweight , when you have been around for less time than a mature solution, is a mute point. It's a cop out way to differentiate because you are cle…

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    Comment #43545494

    Most new frameworks start as the "lightweight" option to whatever more mature options exist at the time. This is no argument for adoption. Please post again 10 years from now after…

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    Comment #43386941

    Ironically, if you look at Sysco's stock price during the dotcom days, it's often correlated with Cisco spikes because clueless traders would accidentally buy the food logistics co…

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    Comment #43193362

    Not really, but in the days before open source was as accepted as today, many large companies had policies against using open source. I was working as a consultant at a Fortune 500…

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    Ask HN: How are you authorizing AI agents?

    I have been contemplating how to properly permission agents, chat bots, RAG pipelines to ensure only permitted context is evaluated by tools when fulfilling requests. How are peopl…

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    Comment #42924327

    What is the purpose of accountability?