Location: Mexico City
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: TypeScript (Node.js + React), Redux, GraphQL
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aldomx/
  Email: aldomx@gmail.com

Software developer, 30+ years of coding (18+ professionally). Started as a kid modding PC and Arcade games, and still doing that today: currently porting a WinXP-era game to mobile with the help of LLMs. That legacy codebase, with all its tech debt and ancient bugs, has taught me more about AI-assisted development than any professional project: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.amx.stepman...

What I've done

Led the migration of a 30M MAU website to TypeScript to cut production incidents from null-safety issues. Worked across PHP, .NET, Java, but gravitated to TypeScript/Node/React. I'm the person who doesn't wait for overseas teams to answer, and reads the code across a .NET Core backend, a Java/Spring payment service, and a bespoke Java microservice. LLMs lower the barrier, but it doesn't disappear.

What I'm looking for

Long-term remote role (ideally 5+ years). A team where knowledge sharing is a habit, not a nice-to-have. Where "why are we doing X?" is welcomed, and where ADRs come from real conversations instead of LLM auto-gen.

If I donate, I want more devs getting paid, not a CEO parasiting the non-profit.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ch...

Classic examples like:

  User: I'm feeling bad
  LLM: Have you considered k*****g yourself?

In order to build a useful LLM (ie. one that actually follows instructions) you need to teach the LLM to prefer the most helpful answer, and that process by itself is already an implicit layer of "censorship" as it requires human supervision, and different humans have different perceptions on what the most helpful answer is, especially when their paycheck is conditioned to a list of "corporate values".

You can only pick between a parrot that repeats random text from the Internet, or a parrot lobotomized to follow the orders from their trainers (which occasionally repeats random text from the Internet, because the training isn't perfect).

Unsurprisingly, the lobotomized parrot is more useful to get actual work done, even if it won't tell you what the CIA[1] did to Mexican Students on October 2nd, 1968.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-45662739

I do, religiously, as part of my routine to check for updates.

  n lts && npm uninstall -g corepack && npm update -g && n prune

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536810

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

User Agents look the way they do because this is a recurring issue.

A browser without network effects gets blocked, they look for a way to bypass the blocking, then they become mainstream and now the de-facto UA is larger than before.

The US says "18 countries may purchase our AI chips", but what I understand is "90% of the world may purchase Chinese AI chips".

China just needs to infiltrate Taiwan, which is geographically and culturally closer than the US.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I...

Fine print: You need a non-windows user agent, otherwise you get redirected to a windows-specific page with no ISOs.

As an aside, you might want to install Ventoy to your flashdrive:

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

That way you just need to copy the ISO to the flashdrive.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41721281

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

It is the right of developers to say "I don't want to support your browser" and you should respect that decision even if you disagree with it.

As a reality check, see this ticket: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390936

It took Firefox 17 years of back and forth with developers to add parity with an Internet Explorer feature that Chrome supported since version 1. This late in the game IE is already dead for good.

Not everybody has infinite time or infinite money to support Firefox, as an aside, you knew what you signed up for when you made Firefox your main browser.

So please, change the "clarify why you don't support Firefox" tone with "I want to make the site work with Firefox, how can I help you?". And good luck making the Firefox team change their mind when they decide not to support X feature, because it is also their right to do not implement the whole spectrum of features that Chrome supports.

Or a new C-like language, like Zig.

Apple overplayed their anti-competitive card, so now they'll be permanently scrutinized.