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Re:Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:38AM (#50244501)
> Client wrote down what they wanted

I have never seen this. Most of the time clients don't know what they really want.

this is like asking, if you make all picks and shovels why don't you build houses instead of just selling the tools.
Great idea. Does it work with any language? Or just English?
Re:Claude Duet on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:39AM (#50194511)
Well, cost of integration should be trivial. Agents can do that in seconds.
Re:LayerFS: The filesystem for AI coding agents on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:47AM (#50181964)
> Nice website

I disagree. Its full of AI slop. Too much animation (cute but distracting) I literally tried for 20 minutes and couldn't focus on reading. I just couldnt comprehend anything.

And also generate a shorter version.
Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:57PM (#49897574)
Is this the Jony Ive project?
Market
Re:Bodily Oddities on Saturday September 12, 2026 @11:11AM (#49673126)
Thanks for the word synesthesia. It led me to Lexical-Gustatory. I always felt some words have flavors. Like sweet/spicy/savory etc so for me January sweet, February coffee like taste, March spicy, April custard, May light sweet, June sweet, July sweet, August/September/October/November/December- no specific taste. certain words have a very specific taste. For example word Christmas reminds me of Eclairs pastry(i don’t remember having eclairs on Christmas, so don’t know where that connection came from). Now I know the name for this condition.
Re:Who Dung It? (Turdle.fun) on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:27PM (#49646417)
It's not cussing in this case, the website is quite literally about shit.
Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:05PM (#49646048)
what about San Fran?
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:02PM (#49646004)
this motivates me to rewrite my Flutter app in Swift. I gave up on deploying the app to Android because of their 20 testers requirement at that time (not sure if its still true).
Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:04AM (#49623487)
People are generally bad with acronyms. For the longest time I used to refer to San Francisco as SFO. On my first visit to Bay Area, I was talking to a local friend and casually said - last weekend, I went to SFO for sightseeing. He was confused and asked why I was sightseeing at the airport. That’s when I realized it’s SF not SFO.
Re: on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:07PM (#49556102)
Don’t you see the Done button?
Re:I'm Becoming AI-Blind on Friday August 21, 2026 @10:24AM (#49388627)
> A technical requirements document that describes a rather simple concept in a very verbose way.

This is not AI specific. I have come across many humans who describe a simple concept in a very complex and verbose manner.

Re:Incident with Github.com on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:41AM (#49331853)
> constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code

I find it hard to believe that github APIs don't have rate limits to handle traffic spikes.

Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? on Friday August 07, 2026 @11:29AM (#49212009)
Because most of us are middle aged with mortgages, kids etc. Not old enough to retire and live off of savings or 401ks, not young enough to start all over again.
Re:Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @11:36AM (#49184387)
> but who will execute it?

AI?

Re:2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @04:33PM (#49115381)
I think LLMS have reached to a point where now its just about money. you have to decide whether you really want to spend your tokens to do X or you can just do it yourself and use the tokens for something else.
Re:Claude Is Down on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @04:05PM (#49102330)
How does this help their PR?
Re:Recreating the math behind the first stealth aircraft on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @08:16PM (#49000177)
the footer says "made by hand, mostly." not sure what that means, though!
candy store, ice-cream place, kid's website?
Re:Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix on Sunday July 05, 2026 @10:30AM (#48794566)
Exactly! We have accepted British English, American English, Australian English …. Lets just accept AI English and move on.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) on Sunday June 14, 2026 @06:14PM (#48533409)
would love to see some Fibonacci ear rings
Re:Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher on Friday June 12, 2026 @08:52AM (#48503500)
I always think these airline people see passengers as fish and put baits all over the places.
Re:Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @10:05AM (#48476508)
may be he meant, doubled our users who actually submitted the form
Re:Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @09:18AM (#48460772)
> Half the code was written in a language you didn't understand. The other half was written using libraries you never heard of.

> As you waded through the slop, you browsed job postings and fantasized about leaving

Just because you didn't understand something or haven't heard about a library, doesn't mean its slop. How do you make sure your definition of "clean code" is not a slop to others?

Re:Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers on Friday June 05, 2026 @12:15PM (#48414605)
Give an abstract requirement and access to your AI tool. Ask the candidate to create a working solution and review the AI generated code. requirement analysis and code review are now the primary skills for developers.
Is anyone else confused by thier cookie consent banner? The switches start out gray and become black when toggled. which position means consent? It feels intentionally misleading.

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