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Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
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Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
How are you using AI and what sort of software are you building? I have similar years experience and regularly try out AI for development but always find it’s slower for the things I want to build and/or that it produces less than satisfactory results. Not sure if it’s how I use the models (I’ve experimented with all the frontier ones), or the types of things I’m building, or the languages I’m using, or if I’m not sp…
If anything, the LLM is cool because it keeps me moving forward.
Yes. This is something they are good at. Also helping with brainstorming.
Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
#203- MANDATORY: Re-learn focus. I will not self-diagnose but I exhibit ADHD symptoms and I started actively fighting them back (they mostly come from the phone). I am not going to just deny myself access to apps on schedule -- my brain never clicked schedule, not even once in my life -- but through a persistent and sustainable self-change from deep within. It's slow but it's beginning to work. - MANDATORY: Get more inti…
I feel like I could’ve written exactly this myself.
The first point is the hardest. It affects every aspect of my life and I have no idea how to really tackle it. This is the first year where I feel the need to take drastic action to achieve some kind of improvement.
What’s your plan? How is it working?
Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
#204Write an operating system in Forth. I've digested Wirth's THE paper. And the XINU book, as well as the BSD book. Anyhow it's for my own use on my own hardware, but it must be beautiful. I've been encouraged by feedback on my Forth code's clear Forthiness, in the way of small, comprehendable word units. That add up to poetic top level loops like OVER PROCESS OVER SCHEDULE IDLE
That sounds like fun! Which is THE paper by Niklas Wirth?
Likely Project Oberon
Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
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> I want to learn driving. Two low-risk and cheap ways to develop relevant driving skills are bumper cars[0] and go-karts[1]. This may appear to be silly at first, but both involve the same hand-eye coordination and decision skills of vehicular driving (though the latter is no where nearly as fun as the others). 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper_cars 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-kart
The real way is just to ride a bike. You can ride it on the road so you'll learn how the road works as well as how to operate a vehicle. When I got in a car the only things that took time to learn were operating the clutch and manoeuvres in tight spaces (you need to develop spacial awareness that you won't get from cycling). If I had learnt to drive an auto it would have been trivially easy after years of cycling.
The biggest pro of a bike is it teaches you to read the road and traffic ahead for energy conservation (and defensive driving).
On a bike, this mostly reduces pedaling; in a car this can reduce unnecessary braking, safer driving distances, which make you a more predictable driver.
Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
How are you using AI and what sort of software are you building? I have similar years experience and regularly try out AI for development but always find it’s slower for the things I want to build and/or that it produces less than satisfactory results. Not sure if it’s how I use the models (I’ve experimented with all the frontier ones), or the types of things I’m building, or the languages I’m using, or if I’m not sp…
I am guessing: Maybe you are not used to or comfortable with delegating work? You will certainly understand a program better where you write every line of code yourself, but that limits your output. It's a trade-off. The part that makes it work quite well is that you can also use the LLM to better understand the code where required, simply by asking.
There is probably a case of people both being right here, just having gotten to, or found, different end results. For me, Claude has been a boon for prototyping stuff I always wanted to build but didn’t want to do the repetitive plumbing slog to get started, but I have found you hit a level of complexity where AIs bog down and start telling you they have fixed the bug you have just asked about for the sixth time without doing anything or bothering to check.
Maybe that’s just the level I gave up at and it’s a matter of reworking the Claude.md file and other documentation into smaller pieces and focusing the agent on just little things to get past it.
Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
#207I'd like to get a full QPSK based OFDM modulator/demodulator implemented in an FPGA. Means improving my Verilog skills, my FPGA tool familiarity, and really understand how to implement OFDM modulators. Create a blog and post at least 8 times to it over the next 12 months, which would be improving my skills with writing and illustration. Design at least two boards and get them through the prototype stage into bringup…
Here's my ATSC 3.0 transmitter in C++.
Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
#208I want to learn proper programming. Maybe Go, then C(++). I have never had a proper formal IT education, just learned everything on the go. I can write essentially everything in Python or Bash using AI. I know most (data)concepts and what data to move where in what fashion, I just don't have the hours in it to be able to do it from the top of my head. I feel the AI is great, but it's also holding me back. Like how dr…
I've been learning Go for about 4-6 months. So far I've been really enjoying the language. I'll suggest to you to work through the go tour in the beginning, then gobyexample is a great reference resource. I've also heard good things about the book "100 Go mistakes" which is for advanced users.
Obviously, Go has its own quirks but if you can enjoy them and make the language work for you, it's really fun!
Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
#209I'd like to get a full QPSK based OFDM modulator/demodulator implemented in an FPGA. Means improving my Verilog skills, my FPGA tool familiarity, and really understand how to implement OFDM modulators. Create a blog and post at least 8 times to it over the next 12 months, which would be improving my skills with writing and illustration. Design at least two boards and get them through the prototype stage into bringup…
> Become conversational in Ukrainian. This one caught my eye! What is your motivation?
There's some thought that Ukraine could become a tech hub after the war due to their drone technology.
Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
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As a technical manager, I'm liable for every line of code we produce - regardless of who in the team actually wrote the code. This is why I review every pull request :)
This is interesting. At what level and team size? There's going to have to be a point where you just give in to the 'vibes' (whether it's from a human, or a machine), otherwise you become the bottleneck, no?
Better a bottleneck than constant downtime.