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Relevant https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted...

I'm not sure how you can believe that GitHub Copilot in VS Code is just a CLI interface when the former existed long before the CLI. It's not. For a certain amount of time, the two…

It instantly made me think this was either written by AI or heavily edited, and I hadn't gotten that sense until the moment I saw load-bearing. I hate that em dashes have been kill…

The Databricks thing was a ploy. They then pushed Azure Synapse Analytics and forced all internal teams to stop using Azure Databricks. Synapse was half baked and then they are now…

For GitHub to remain profitable they have to appease those shareholders you mentioned.

It's hilarious to me how we are recreating decades of IDE advancements such that they work on the terminal, only for us to end up with what is essentially an IDE.

Unrelated but your comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736176 related to the Terminal agents coding craze have helped me feel less crazy. People using GitHub Copilot…

And if software engineering has been solved by AI, why is Anthropic still hiring and employing SWE's? https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-code-founde...

I love this. The cognitive of understanding what this code does is super low, it solves the problem, presents no glaring performance issues, and isn’t trying to be cute.

I am writing this from a coffee shop where myself and others have gone well over 4 hours working. The business owners don’t care so long as you make purchases and don’t sit at a 10…

I disagree with the silence bit. I am a frequent remote worker at coffee shops across the USA and people working have noise canceling headphones usually, I have never seen anyone d…

That plus Microsoft PoweToys (which inexplicably isn’t installed by default) are the only things that make Windows useable to me.

I am personally refreshed reading through the comments here and seeing a nuanced, rational response to the ad rather than the manufactured outrage you mentioned.

Agreed. Great article title, the article itself falls flat. This is the sort of title where I expected a quasi research paper with links to sources rather than just plain text refe…

The level of writing isn’t up to snuff for what I think AI would generate. It’s rather…pedestrian.

After reading, I agree with im3w1l. The author did not do this subject justice. Its too short, makes some sweeping generalizations about the evolution of human culture, and never r…

About to start my read. What would you say he could’ve done better? Will revisit when Ive finished

> The biggest problem is that we have no idea how to value most of the work people do. I mean, we might know that what a developer should get paid for a year’s work, but how much i…

Enlighten me. Looking for some weekend reading.

Including X (formerly called Twitter)

Proud WashU grad here. Just happy to see us show up on Hacker News today.

Meta’s open source contributions stand on their own as great regardless of their obviously shady social media management and privacy tactics. The former are feats of software engin…

The world at large seems to hate Zuck but it’s good to hear from people familiar with software engineering and who understand just how significant his contributions to open source …

Recently introduced a friend to Desiring God. Changed their whole perspective on Christianity. Took things back to basics for them, here’s what Jesus actually said, here’s what the…

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