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Sorry, this "Tell HN" is 100% a stealth advertisement and the usual bots in the comments confirm the ad.
Maybe the internet has made me too cynical, and I'm glad people seem to be having a good time, but at time of posting I can't help but notice that almost every comment here is suspiciously vague as to what, exactly, is being coded. Still better than the breathless announcements of the death of software engineering, but quite similar in tone.
I have integrated Claude Code with a graph database to support an assistant with structured memory and many helpful capabilities.
I have a freelance gig with a startup adapting AI to their concept. I have one serious app under my belt and more on the way.
Concrete enough?
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I would rather see regulations fixing incentives that create this problem (why does healthy food cost so much more than processed food?) than a bandaid like Ozempic that 2/3 of people can't quit (hello another hidden subscription service) without regaining their weight back.
The produce aisle has the cheapest food in the whole store. Inb4 you cite the price of some fancy imported vegetable as your excuse for eating pizza every night.
I am 80 years old and I use Claude for target selection in Iran. Sometimes it chooses schools, but men with a chest do not care. Since war is my passion, it keeps me awake at night. Sorry, this "Tell HN" is 100% a stealth advertisement and the usual bots in the comments confirm the ad.
Juniors prompt "build me X" and get frustrated when it goes sideways. Seniors architect the constraints first - acceptance criteria, test harness, API boundaries - then let the AI fill in mechanical work.
The real shift: AI makes the cost of prototyping near-zero, which paradoxically makes taste and judgment MORE valuable. When you can spin up 5 approaches in a weekend, knowing which one to actually ship becomes the bottleneck.
The folks who defined their value as "typing code" will struggle. The folks who defined their value as "knowing what to build and how to verify it works" are thriving.
As a principal engineer I feel completely let down. I've spent decades building up and accumulating expert knowledge and now that has been massively devalued. Any idiot can now prompt their way to the same software. I feel depressed and very unmotivated and expect to retire soon. Talk about a rug pull! My experience is that people who weren't very good at writing software are the ones now "most excited" to "create" w…
Nah man. I understand the frustration, but this is a glass is half empty view. You have decades of expert knowledge, which you can use to drive the LLMs in an expert way. Thats where the value is. The industry or narrative might not have figured that out yet, but its inevitable. Garbage in, garbage out still very much applies in this new world. And just to add, the key metric to good software hasn't changed, and won'…
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I would rather see regulations fixing incentives that create this problem (why does healthy food cost so much more than processed food?) than a bandaid like Ozempic that 2/3 of people can't quit (hello another hidden subscription service) without regaining their weight back.
It's the regulations and subsidies that created the very situation in the first place (in the USA, at least). Twinkies are cheap because we literally pay farmers to grow cheap carbs and sugar. It was design this way, well - lobbied.
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> late 40s This describes me nearly perfectly. Though I didn’t exactly burn out of coding, I accidentally stumbled upon being an EM while I was coding well and enjoying. But being EM stuck so I got into managing team(s) at biggish companies which means doing everything except one that I enjoy the most which is coding. However now that I run my own startup I’m back to enjoying coding immensely because Claude takes car…
If you don’t mind sharing, what does your startup do?
I run a business of giving out loan against stocks and mutual funds as collateral in India.
Please visit https://www.quicklend.in/ to know more.
To those of you reading the comment section thinking something like the following: >"Wait a moment! Being forced to use AI gave me depression, and I'm really aware of the fact that it's only going to become better and better the more developers are using it, to the point where the 10 job openings of yesterday are 1 job opening tomorrow. Why are people so excited", remember this: You are reading HN, the survivorship b…