Re:What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
by simonw on Sunday July 26, 2026 @06:24PM
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OK, you won't except Linus. How about DHH, Max, Nolan, Steve, Mitchell, and those five HN commenters?
Or to strengthen the case for Linus, here he is on June 16th 2926 saying: https://youtu.be/YKkEe-PxW10?t=1687
> we certainly saw more junk being generated by LLMs than we saw useful code up until the like early this year
Re:What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
by 3ff3 on Monday July 27, 2026 @12:43AM
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Man who cares what they are saying?
The world needs to SEE what is coming out of all this spending. Guess what? It aint much! Thats why firms are in a hurry to review their expenditures and switch to chinese offerings.
I hate to break it to you - but wake up. You are not living in reality.
Re:What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
by wolvesechoes on Monday July 27, 2026 @01:15AM
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> How about DHH, Max, Nolan, Steve, Mitchell
Oh yes, dev celebs that rely on constant validation through social media. Very reliable source of data.
Re:What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
by simianwords on Monday July 27, 2026 @04:17AM
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What about Uncle Bob of clean code? This is a bit embarrassing for you.
Re:What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
by wolvesechoes on Monday July 27, 2026 @08:08AM
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Uncle Bob was a dev celeb before there were dev celebs.
Re:What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
by simianwords on Monday July 27, 2026 @12:41PM
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So far you have ignored celebs/stalwarts and normal people as well. So it is quite convenient to draw boundary that exactly includes people like you
Funny coming from a guy using Linus saying "There's no doubt AI is useful today" and interpreting that as "Yeah last year AI coding agents were garbage but now they're really useful".
There's no denying AI is useful. I use AI, my project at work is all about using LLMs. They're even useful for coding, when I don't give a fuck about the quality of the output (which is almost never in a work scenario).
But to claim that there has been some magical shift late last year is simply laughable. Anyone working as a software engineer and claims that is either lying to themselves or simply bad.
Oh and don't try with the "you're not prompting it right".