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iExploder

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About iExploder

I used to solve hardcore problems, now I just talk to Claude and try to dodge layoffs left and right.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49180214

    Is it ok to send DMs to your side piece when your partner is away? Employer relationships are not much different, if you choose to do it, do it on the sly or suffer the consequence…

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    Comment #49135469

    right, but what I mean more specifically is AI assisted or conducted interviews and specifically in the EU, which is notoriously behind US on tech adoption.

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    Comment #49131997

    I would say hiring is picking up now at least in europe. partially driven by re-arming and deep tech efforts. think we gonna see a lot of AI interviews very soon, which I think is …

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    Comment #49094368

    Anything in physical world, digital is lost forever.. Robots will eventually encroach on physical too, then the subset will shrink to "physical world with required human interactio…

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    Comment #49066006

    My read is that If your codebase needs a lot of unsafe - on intersection of hw, need a lot of memory allocations with custom memory allocators, can take advantage of comptime, usin…

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    Comment #49032091

    Arch for last 5 years, never had issues, but I also buy laptops specifically with Linux support.

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    Comment #49017737

    Pompous and full of air really sums it up well. As such I usually have to completely ignore and rework generated README / code comments. Is this just an elaborate scheme to increas…

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    Comment #48808525

    Code was garbage before AI, now it's still garbage, but I don't have to take it out anymore. Amazing. Juniors are doomed, nobody is writing anything ever again by hand.

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    Comment #48758123

    Still requires a human in the loop to make coffee...

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    Comment #48683252

    Looking forward to being sent to a foggy planet in foreign start system to collect alien eggs for a daily nutripaste and bunk bed with corporate issuesd blanket.

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    Comment #48665611

    depends on the industry .. for 80% of jobs 0 coding knowledge will be needed in 10 years. for ai research, safety, aerospace, military, trading, gamedev .. those will probably stil…

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    Comment #48557585

    I suppose one would have to work in a very specific novel and niche area to go against the grain and chose stacks that are not chosen by majority.

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    Comment #48554822

    I suppose work organisation, leadership, soft skills, working in areas with inherent uncertainty will be key for defending employment in near future

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    Comment #48554786

    They can be easily replaced. I suspect we are just engaging in a form of self deception by thinking these choices we make are more than arbitrary decisions driven by nothing but ou…

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    Comment #48525981

    > There is a clear multi-step skills roadmap everyone is following with expectations per role/department interesting... I suppose this requires someone at the company actually know…

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    Comment #48525964

    interesting insights, thanks

  17. story
    Ask HN: What is the AI adoption approach at your org?

    I use Claude daily and generally not a detractor to reasonable use of AI where it makes sense. However, when executive pushes AI onto an org it can feel like being told what compil…

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    Comment #48331955

    hustle never ends...

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    Comment #48299940

    market is genuinely tough right now, dont beat yourself over it. persistence is key right now.

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    Comment #48296698

    Morrowind is something really special and unlike oblivion It. Just. Works.

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    Comment #48245147

    In my humble human opinion everything digital has been or shortly will be conquered by AI. You can either embrace it, learn to how to use and deploy AI or try to find a way out int…

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    Comment #48245122

    did you consider tier 2, semiconductor suppliers qualcomm, nxp or go tier 3 - arm? I would say these will allow more technical depth than tier 1s, but will remove you from the end …

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    Comment #48228361

    I focus more on specs, product and outside behavior these days. Colleague showed me a fancy plugin he made for emacs today at work. I congratulated his efforts and mentioned I dont…

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    Comment #48081990

    I'd feel better to have that kind of person out of my community. First of all, did he not pick the language for Bun himself? Then introduced bunch of memory bugs, sound like skill …

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