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New comment by 8b16380d in "Half-Baked Product"

8b16380d — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:23:06 +0000

Have you ever been in a situation where this was the case? The only time I've come close, the business was a dog.

New comment by 8b16380d in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

8b16380d — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:25:35 +0000

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

New comment by 8b16380d in "Ask HN: What coding agents are you using?"

8b16380d — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:37:04 +0000

Claude code and open code with various models. Codex thrown in for good measure here or there and when I hit limits elsewhere

New comment by 8b16380d in "Ask HN: Why won't you be replaced by AI?"

8b16380d — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:16:50 +0000

My goal is to cope until retirement

New comment by 8b16380d in "Ask HN: Is this the SWE workflow of the future?"

8b16380d — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:15:15 +0000

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.

New comment by 8b16380d in "Ask HN: Is Claude Getting Worse?"

8b16380d — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:59:58 +0000

Yeah it’s hot garbage, I’ve moved to gpt5.4, which actually performs well enough for now

New comment by 8b16380d in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

8b16380d — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:21:36 +0000

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

New comment by 8b16380d in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

8b16380d — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:24:22 +0000

Israel

New comment by 8b16380d in "Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading"

8b16380d — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:11:28 +0000

Tool de jour, similar to web framework of the month etc. Gemini and ChatGPT are just as useful

New comment by 8b16380d in "What do people usually do with spare Android phones? Any practical use cases?"

8b16380d — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:01:34 +0000

Hahaha this is great

New comment by 8b16380d in "Ask HN: Pivot from SWE to What?"

8b16380d — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:13:37 +0000

It’s not hard to make equivalent (or higher) base, but you just lose out on the stock

New comment by 8b16380d in "Quoted a client $43k to refactor their AI-built MVP. They did $11k MRR in 6weeks"

8b16380d — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:32:28 +0000

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.

New comment by 8b16380d in "Cognitive load is what matters"

8b16380d — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:01:31 +0000

This gives me PTSD

New comment by 8b16380d in "The US Relies on 51 Forty-five-year-old ships to Transport its Military Overseas [video]"

8b16380d — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 21:02:49 +0000

Thanks Jones Act

New comment by 8b16380d in "AI for Coding: Why Most Developers Are Getting It Wrong"

8b16380d — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 23:36:10 +0000

Slop blobs happen without AI tooling though, unless everyone in the org is completely dedicated to their craft and on the same skill level.

New comment by 8b16380d in "AI for Coding: Why Most Developers Are Getting It Wrong"

8b16380d — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:37:12 +0000

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.

New comment by 8b16380d in "AI for Coding: Why Most Developers Are Getting It Wrong"

8b16380d — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:42:50 +0000

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.

New comment by 8b16380d in "Section 174 is reversed, mostly"

8b16380d — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 09:52:40 +0000

They would have just extended them without the political baggage of keeping “trump cuts” around

New comment by 8b16380d in "ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry"

8b16380d — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:22:40 +0000

Agreed. It’s pretty gross tbh

New comment by 8b16380d in "Why do small teams keep getting wrecked by AWS bills?"

8b16380d — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 16:08:09 +0000

We’re not since cost controls are secondary to building features.