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This take may be frowned upon in HN, but I suspect it's much closer to the median sentiment.

>If they try a DOS attack on my time and sanity, I can reciprocate. Isn't it better just to tell them that instead of passive aggressively continuing the cycle? Granted, though, ha…

>artisanal home made slop Even in the depths of corporate life, the last beacon of light was interacting with a person who may be similarly philosophically placed as you, sharing s…

Maybe AI should replace some people.

I find this to be my current number 1 challenge when working on a terminal and seeking explanations for why a problem was approached in that way. the terminal only holds so many li…

Very cool. Explored a lot of nodes, rekindled some old bands. I was wondering how this was vibe coded, since it was done so well, art wise. Then I read your post. This has such a d…

Your take is cynical, but sensible in a massive org with dysfunctional culture that jades and burns out engineers until they only care about their own personal gains and everything…

Reminds me of this case: https://iqf.ie/the-man-who-stole-100-million-from-google-and... This opens that surface area of attack again, but now on a much larger scale, if not carefu…

That kind of captcha has a very short half life. Software ate the world now AI is eating software

Code gets stale really fast. Re-gathering context and re-aligning on old code is sometimes more painful than starting from scratch.

I'd say there's bottlenecks within the developer processes without even considering org processes. Code review, release, post release ceremonies. Feels like they absorb much of the…

I believe it's ultimately a tug of war between what the business wants (more features, faster, etc) and the engineers want (maintainability, documentation, scalable patterns etc). …

I believe the economic machine gives an edge to people who do more right things than wrong. Bob does things wrong, but given a 10x amount of output, the balance of right output vs …

I think this will become the prevailing sentiment when the dust settles.

AI writing feels like putting a michelin course into a blender and drinking it

Then this person better bet their entire life savings on them dying, since it would reduce incentive (profit). Crazy thought experiment, gave me lots to think about

This is what struck me as well. I got weird undertones of 'Now you don't even need to have real memories! Just fabricate them.' They even prominently showcase edits of placing you …

>then tell it to give you the top 10 things wrong with the code, then tell it to fix the five of them that are valid and important. I would be cautious of this. I've tried this mul…

Crappy spreadsheet is just the codification of business processes. Those are inherently messy and there's lots of assumptions, lots of edge cases. That's why spreadsheets tend towa…

>but couldn't care less if it disappeared tomorrow. Wonder how true that is. Some things incorporate in your life so subtly that you only become aware of them when totally switched…

What were the clues, in hindsight? I wonder if someone can get scent of 'want you to fail' early, so one can play their cards a bit differently armed with this knowledge.

It's hard to appreciate the difference in 'abundance mentality' between the median US and EU person. It always struck me as an interesting culture difference. While both EU and US …

Interesting thought. Do you have any anecdotes regarding it? Seems you're basing it off personal experience or something you've heard many times, curious to know what that is

I've been personally surprised that this doesn't come up more often. Most mature codebases span a decade or more, and especially in the web, there's so many layers of evolving tech…