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Re:Half-Baked Product on Friday July 03, 2026 @03:23PM (#48778920)
Have you ever been in a situation where this was the case? The only time I've come close, the business was a dog.
Re:Jobs and Software Is Fucked on Monday June 22, 2026 @05:25PM (#48636425)
I was just involved in the hiring process for a new rec on a team adjacent to mine, and the HR/screening process was a complete mystery as to candidate filtering for outside applicants. So many AI tools making arbitrary judgments from resume content to psychological profiles of candidates, led us to 0 organic people “qualified” enough to interview for an SRE/Devops role. All we hire now is referrals as they are the only ones to get pass automated screening
Re:Ask HN: What coding agents are you using? on Thursday June 11, 2026 @08:37AM (#48489512)
Claude code and open code with various models. Codex thrown in for good measure here or there and when I hit limits elsewhere
Re:Ask HN: Why won't you be replaced by AI? on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @08:16AM (#48460111)
My goal is to cope until retirement
Re:Ask HN: Is this the SWE workflow of the future? on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @06:15PM (#48115317)
Sounds close to my team. I just fall in line and let the agents do whatever while I sleep, do laundry or game. Check in occasionally to hit “yes” on prompts.
social media was a mistake
Re:Ask HN: Is Claude Getting Worse? on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @07:59PM (#47786971)
Yeah it’s hot garbage, I’ve moved to gpt5.4, which actually performs well enough for now
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
Re:Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading on Monday March 30, 2026 @08:11PM (#47581245)
Tool de jour, similar to web framework of the month etc. Gemini and ChatGPT are just as useful
Hahaha this is great
Re:Ask HN: Pivot from SWE to What? on Friday December 26, 2025 @03:13PM (#46395724)
It’s not hard to make equivalent (or higher) base, but you just lose out on the stock
At least that ai slop makes money. I’ve seen human-created slop make nothing and still require the same effort and cost to uplift architecture/code to a useable state.
Re:Cognitive Load is what matters on Monday September 01, 2025 @01:01PM (#45094461)
This gives me PTSD
Thanks Jones Act
Slop blobs happen without AI tooling though, unless everyone in the org is completely dedicated to their craft and on the same skill level.
I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. For now, I think the time horizon is long enough that I can make it to retirement.
I tend to agree, but at the end of the day I am providing for my family first and foremost.

This means having to knock out tasks each sprint, whether they tickle my fancy or not. If I can offload that work to the AI “agent”, then so be it.

I don’t feel the need to make my vocation a core part of my identity, so the time savings is worth more than elegantly crafted code or whatever other intrinsic value comes from a hand crafted solution.

Re:Section 174 is reversed! Mostly, that is. on Saturday July 19, 2025 @05:52AM (#44614037)
They would have just extended them without the political baggage of keeping “trump cuts” around
Agreed. It’s pretty gross tbh
Re:Why do small teams keep getting wrecked by AWS bills? on Sunday April 13, 2025 @12:08PM (#43673807)
We’re not since cost controls are secondary to building features.
Re:Ask HN: I bought a website, how do I edit it? on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:51PM (#43199959)
Dm me
One of the best foss projects imo
Re:Fucking Tired of AI on Sunday December 01, 2024 @01:23AM (#42286633)
Read a book from a good author and you will see how just how far AI is from relating to actual human experience.
Re:Ask HN: What makes for a great developer meetup? on Friday November 29, 2024 @05:18PM (#42277621)
Beer and food
Books and read to my child daily. Now he reads way ahead of his peers and love books
Can’t help but think that amount of time is better spent elsewhere, and that goes for all video games. A bit sad really.
Mmmmmmm mouse bread
Funny, psilocybin has been largely detrimental to the mental health of everyone I know.
I mean, this existed long before acquisition. Maybe the response could have been different in the past, but there is nothing to indicate that would be true.

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