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Re:Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"? on Thursday May 28, 2026 @06:06PM (#48316196)
Hi, I'm a AI Engineer at Poopshit dot com.

I graduated from Dickmuth with honors.

Outside design systems I rarely get good CSS from LLMs.

3D type stuff too, it's useless outside boilerplate.

Very little spatial reasoning training, no end-user subjective reasoning inference (Google is starting to though even in unrelated chats), so it's no surprise the LLM doesn't know what you want.

Since I don't even know what I want half the time until I saw it, the subjective reasoning piece is key - that is, being able to predict what I'll want to pretty good accuracy. Then you have your agents etc.

Re:Why AI Agents Cannot Change Software Systems on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @10:00AM (#48294514)
I would simplify to: Why agents cannot meaningfully contribute
The UI of that page is so nice, should build a github competitor.

The user profile / contributions and PR UX is pretty much the entire "hub" product since git is a fully separate offline app.

Re:The worst job interview I ever had on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @08:45AM (#48293412)
Horizontal scroll on your site bruh that is why you did not get hired
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially down again on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @08:41AM (#48293378)
YouTube was down for over an hour last night, and also 3 days ago. Not a peep!

Big Tech sites go down constantly, but are rarely reported.

Surprised some insufferable VC with govt ties hasn't got the down detector sites off the street yet - I know they hate when we have real time info on anything.

HN is cringe with their influencer marketing, always have been.

Kagi, Claude, Rust, and other Canadian trash nobody will ever use in the real world.