Hacker News: BinaryIgor

It has never been about code

BinaryIgor — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:55:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ufried.com/blog/never_been_about_code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657725

Points: 2

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New comment by BinaryIgor in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

BinaryIgor — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:09:04 +0000

Exactly. Verification is not cheap at all

The Internals of PostgreSQL

BinaryIgor — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:54:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.interdb.jp/pg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285855

Points: 2

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JSON Documents Performance, Storage and Search: MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL

BinaryIgor — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:05:49 +0000

Article URL: https://binaryigor.com/json-documents-mongodb-vs-postgresql.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217493

Points: 2

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New comment by BinaryIgor in "Yes, and"

BinaryIgor — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:04:20 +0000

"I have a hard time imagining a future where knowing how to solve problems with computers and how to control the complexity of those solutions is less valuable than it is today, so I think it will continue to be a viable career even with the advent of AI tools."

Exactly! So the nature of what we do might change; but, solving problems with computers will always be the thing. And the most capable people of doing that will be those we call programmers - what does it mean exactly, the nature of exact activities they perform will continue to change (as it arguably always have been), but there always be somebody who is significantly more adept at solving problems and create solutions using software - that somebody we will continue to call a computer programmer/software developer.

New comment by BinaryIgor in "There is no skill in AI coding"

BinaryIgor — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:04:42 +0000

That's a valid point - I largely agree with you, I can make it generate mostly corrected & acceptable code with a solid level of quality, given smaller & scoped features and detailed prompts. I'm just not at all convinced that it's a net productivity boost - you must take your time for these detailed prompts and then verify the output, which is less of the case when you write the thing from scratch.

It certainly speed up some things, slows down others; for learning - a great resource! For generating code I'm on the fence, still experimenting; for now, I write some code manually, some with Claude, working on the hybrid setup. My intuition tells my that a flexible use of this tool will prove to be the most optimal - writing some code manually, some with LLms, depending on both the task and the programmer knowledge, experience and skills.

New comment by BinaryIgor in "There is no skill in AI coding"

BinaryIgor — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:56:19 +0000

I think that the bottom line is that the bottlenecks are - the specific model you use & your skills, experience and reasoning capacity (intelligence); and you control only the latter, so focus on that!

There is no skill in AI coding

BinaryIgor — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:17:00 +0000

Article URL: https://atmoio.substack.com/p/there-is-no-skill-in-ai-coding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845036

Points: 5

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Data Consistency: transactions, delays and long-running processes

BinaryIgor — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:10:24 +0000

Article URL: https://binaryigor.com/data-consistency-transactions-delays-processes.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46778942

Points: 1

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New comment by BinaryIgor in "Text Is King"

BinaryIgor — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:23:26 +0000

"Perhaps there are frontiers of digital addiction we have yet to reach. Maybe one day we’ll all have Neuralinks that beam Instagram Reels directly into our primary visual cortex, and then reading will really be toast."

Even then, smart people will care about dissecting ideas, explore new concepts and broaden their understanding - and for most of it, Text Is King.

New comment by BinaryIgor in "Text Is King"

BinaryIgor — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:12:47 +0000

It also the most portable - no codecs, no formats and standards; most English texts are just ASCII :)

New comment by BinaryIgor in "What “The Best” Looks Like"

BinaryIgor — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:42:28 +0000

Hunger and drive can definitely lead to unexpected initially results; they cannot replace relevant experience, but if somebody has at least done something similar, it's often worth making a bet on them!

There also is an interesting paradox in experience and motivation; often the most experienced and best people on paper are unfortunately the least motivated, least hungry - burn out and boredom do their part.

New comment by BinaryIgor in "The Adolescence of Technology"

BinaryIgor — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:29:32 +0000

What makes you think that they will just keep improving? It's not obvious at all, we might soon hit a ceiling, if we haven not already - time will tell.

There are lots of technologies that have been 99% done for decades; it might be the same here.

New comment by BinaryIgor in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

BinaryIgor — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:08:08 +0000

I don't know whether I would go that extreme, but I also often find myself faster writing code manually; for some tasks though and contextually, AI-assisted coding is pretty useful, but you still must be in the driving seat, at all times.

Good take though.

New comment by BinaryIgor in "Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project"

BinaryIgor — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:35:07 +0000

Are guardrails, CI/CD, to make code at least compile-able and require minimal quality standards also possible to change via PR or managed somewhere else? With this possibility, it might went into oblivion indeed!

New comment by BinaryIgor in "Human Scale Software vs. Open Source"

BinaryIgor — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:53:10 +0000

Ahhh, the problem with incentives; maybe it's more the case that, had the Linux Foundation behaved in a more aligned with the pure open-source ethos way, Linux would not be so widely used and working so well? They problem of incentives in open-source is real - who, why and how should support your development? Especially for things like OSes, which require constant work.

I don't know whether we have figured out the best models here just yet; the results are mixed

New comment by BinaryIgor in "Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time"

BinaryIgor — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:25:58 +0000

Exactly this; for some tasks, it can speed up you dramatically, 5 - 10 x; with others, it actually makes you slower.

And yes, very often writing a prompt + verifying results and possible modifying them and/or following-up takes longer than just writing code from scratch, manually ;)

MySQL vs. PostgreSQL Performance: throughput and latency, reads and writes

BinaryIgor — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:51:28 +0000

Article URL: https://binaryigor.com/mysql-vs-postgresql-performance.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46511207

Points: 4

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New comment by BinaryIgor in "The Next Two Years of Software Engineering"

BinaryIgor — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:53:19 +0000

"The counter-scenario: as AI handles the routine 80%, humans focus on the hardest 20%. Architecture, tricky integrations, creative design, edge cases: the problems machines alone can’t solve. Rather than making deep knowledge obsolete, AI’s ubiquity makes human expertise more important than ever. This is the “high-leverage engineer” who uses AI as a force multiplier but must deeply understand the system to wield it effectively"

I would argue that:

- you cannot develop these skills without doing lots of development with minimal to no AI assistance

- this skills will atrophy, once you use AI too much and too often

I personally err on the side of using AI/LLMS rather too little than too much, to retain and further develop my core skills - time will tell which cohort made the right decision :)

New comment by BinaryIgor in "Ask HN: How do I convince my CTO to try AI again?"

BinaryIgor — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:48:31 +0000

Weird - it should be completely up to the developers, whether they write code by hand or partially/mostly with LLMs.

If the code meets set standards and the author understands it all - why does it matter whether it was written by a human or machine?