Hacker News: DandyDev

New comment by DandyDev in "Show HN: Yaak – An open source, Git-friendly desktop API client"

DandyDev — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:24:28 +0000

"Is still open source"

Does this mean that you anticipate Yaak not to be open source anymore at some point?

New comment by DandyDev in "Mark Zuckerberg Announces the "Beginning of the End" for Programmers"

DandyDev — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:58:05 +0000

I'm arguing against it with the other two arguments you didn't address.

Yes, AI will change the role of software engineers - and it's my personal belief that in the next couple of years this change will be smaller than many people think. But no, AI will not replace engineers like Mark Zuckerberg thinks.

Why not? Because AI makes too many mistakes and AI is not going to support and maintain your code.

New comment by DandyDev in "Mark Zuckerberg Announces the "Beginning of the End" for Programmers"

DandyDev — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:33:55 +0000

Can you re-read my comment and then re-read your own response. Do you think your reply is a thoughtful way of engaging in an interesting discussion?

I don't think your reply spawns meaningful discussion

New comment by DandyDev in "Mark Zuckerberg Announces the "Beginning of the End" for Programmers"

DandyDev — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 07:28:40 +0000

I don't understand why so many people subscribe to this "prediction". It seems unsubstantiated hyperbole to me.

There are a few reasons why I don't believe AI will replace programmers anytime soon:

1. The job of a developer/engineer entails so much more than writing code. Figuring out what the business wants, turning that into a good (system) design, etc. takes up more time than the actual coding itself. Unless of course you take "programmer" literally, but I have not seen many companies that still hire programmers in the most narrow sense, that only focus on writing code.

2. Support and maintenance is a huge part of the job that I don't see AI doing. Theoretically you could let humans focus on that part, but I believe support and maintenence will become much more costly if the people doing they job have no familiarity with the code because they didn't write it.

3. As evidenced by many comments in the thread elsewhere on HN about the announcement of Claude Sonnet 3.7 AI still routinely makes mistakes that are super easy to spot and verify. As long as that remains the case, it's going to be detrimental to the success of you company if you give AI too much autonomy.

I know people will argue that AI is evolving so fast that the above will be solved soon. But I think all three aspects I mentioned are such fundamental roadblocks that they won't be solved soon.

What I do believe in is engineers becoming so much more productive as AI evolves.

New comment by DandyDev in "Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code"

DandyDev — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 06:55:26 +0000

What tool/editor/IDE did you use to do this?

New comment by DandyDev in "Didn't realize it was this bad"

DandyDev — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:23:44 +0000

I experienced the same in my previous job. And it makes me wonder: what do those applicants hope to get out of this ruse? It's not like hiring managers will think "oh, we've gotten this far into the process, we might as well arrange a lengthy and expensive visa process for them"

New comment by DandyDev in "Sunsetting Create React App"

DandyDev — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 08:23:16 +0000

So now you need a framework on top of React - itself a framework. Has React really become so complex that mere mortals cannot comprehend it without another abstraction layer on top?

And the first suggestion for this extra abstraction layer is NextJS, developed by a company with a vested interest to make it hard to run your app on anything else than their own service.

Seems to me that the time is ripe to disrupt frontend development yet again and introduce a simpler stack.

New comment by DandyDev in "[dead]"

DandyDev — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:12:13 +0000

That is fine as long as they don't mention any dates that are only relevant to certain cultures. Christmas and Easter? Remove it.

Serving the Country

DandyDev — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 19:53:57 +0000

Article URL: https://world.hey.com/dhh/serving-the-country-9faa5ef3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42985683

Points: 5

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New comment by DandyDev in "Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance"

DandyDev — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 06:55:58 +0000

Because it's better for humanity? Because it's morally the right choice?

New comment by DandyDev in "Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge"

DandyDev — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:42:40 +0000

In a way that makes it worse. A community fork that is repurposed by a select few to make money off of work that those few did not do for the most part.

New comment by DandyDev in "TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work"

DandyDev — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 07:03:16 +0000

In certain areas of the US maybe. I believe the average wage in the EU is actually higher than in the US. Need to look up the Source, which is hard because I'm on mobile right now.

New comment by DandyDev in "TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work"

DandyDev — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 07:00:42 +0000

Because they normally have mandatory work-from-office days during which you're not allowed to WFH. So now you can get an exception for that

New comment by DandyDev in "A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024)"

DandyDev — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 06:48:57 +0000

And you don't have to pay for it? The lower tiers that Kagi offers doesn't have AI stuff it seems.

New comment by DandyDev in "A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024)"

DandyDev — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 06:41:25 +0000

I find it interesting that another comment states that they love Kagi exactly because Kagi uses all their search terms as opposed to Google. Not doubting your experience here, but I wonder how those experiences can differ so much.

New comment by DandyDev in "3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation"

DandyDev — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 07:18:06 +0000

If you hire someone to so a job for you, you are accountable. Unless they bring their own car and accept liability.

New comment by DandyDev in "Zasper: A Modern and Efficient Alternative to JupyterLab, Built in Go"

DandyDev — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 07:36:24 +0000

Honest question: what is not modern about JupyterLab? I know JupyterLab has existed for a long time, but continuous development has kept it modern.

Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery

DandyDev — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 08:31:45 +0000

Article URL: https://charity.wtf/2023/03/09/architects-anti-patterns-and-organizational-fuckery/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42355857

Points: 2

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New comment by DandyDev in "Llama-OCR: Document to Markdown"

DandyDev — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 08:07:56 +0000

I can't read this either.

Edit: at a distance it's easier to read

New comment by DandyDev in "Show HN: Jelly – A simpler shared inbox for small teams"

DandyDev — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:58:56 +0000

I'm not sure if you realize that this is _not_ a per user price, but a flat monthly fee. To me, that seems insanely cheap.

If you have a small team of 3 people who get paid 4k gross (severely under paid in all likeliness) then Jelly is 0.3% of your total cost.