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Ask HN: What's a Dirty Secret No One Wants to Admit in the Tech Industry?
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#12Automation isn't having robots assemble things, it's laying off accountants who read numbers from spreadsheets, type them into their calculator, and enter the number back into the spreadsheet, and replacing them with a spreadsheet that was created by someone who actually knows what they're doing.
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#13People who work in tech aren't as interested in the tech as they are in the money.
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#14People who work in tech aren't as interested in the tech as they are in the money.
And those that did go into tech out of genuine interest would eventually love nothing more than to leave tech, but stay for the money.
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#15The same programmers that shame others for using AI tools like Codex, Claude are also secretly using it themselves. Whether at work or personal projects or anything else. Nobody wants to admit it, but they are using AI.
This is a huge cope
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#16Most production code nobody actually understands in full. People just know their part, and the rest runs on inertia and fear of touching it.
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#17The same programmers that shame others for using AI tools like Codex, Claude are also secretly using it themselves. Whether at work or personal projects or anything else. Nobody wants to admit it, but they are using AI.
This is a huge cope
It is real.
In the end you and I and everyone else will be using AI for work and personal use.
No amount of shaming others using AI would stop it.
The bigger cope will be engineers losing their jobs by not adapting to the change that is happening in front of them.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a huge cope
It is real. In the end you and I and everyone else will be using AI for work and personal use. No amount of shaming others using AI would stop it. The bigger cope will be engineers losing their jobs by not adapting to the change that is happening in front of them.
The only shaming I’ve seen are for people using AI badly or not at all.
I also think we should differentiate between programming to get a program you can do something else with, programming to understand the machine, and programming to give the programmer a logical challenge to keep their skills sharp.
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#19Virtually no one in tech seems interested in doing what Jobs suggested despite the level of success he delivered. Telling an average developer to work backward from the customer will generally be met with a foul mood. Especially when that constraint suggests that the currently preferred technical ideology or tribe is no longer suitable. The whole thing is one big ego trip most of the time.
A compounding factor is when requirements are filtered through B2B layers. At which point the end-user is not the customer and it turns into a game of telephone.
Apple sidesteps this issue with vertical integration.
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#20AI is not making engineers more productive. It makes them lazy and think less critically. Also leads to soft-mindedness.