Hacker News: RSHEPP

New comment by RSHEPP in "Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix"

RSHEPP — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:53:31 +0000

My first real job was in McKinney, sad to hear they are all dead.

New comment by RSHEPP in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

RSHEPP — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:03:41 +0000

Yes to all, but it's just me responsible for monitoring performance/cost. I either push back or fix it myself, but I am behind. So this is an attempt to give/push more ownership to the teams.

New comment by RSHEPP in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

RSHEPP — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:35:31 +0000

Startups have limited resources, we prioritize the best we can. As a staff engineer it's my responsibility to bring this to my company, but it's not an overnight process.

New comment by RSHEPP in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

RSHEPP — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:34:33 +0000

It's not the whole culture and product, it's specific teams that do it. And trying to push back on teams that are "producing" is not a simple task.

New comment by RSHEPP in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

RSHEPP — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:56:59 +0000

This 100%. I just requested a hackathon for performance improvement (might be wasted effort).

We are pushing tons of code and now our CPU usage has grown exponentially over the past year because the bad engineers just ship whatever Claude gives them and do not think about the consequences.

Our biggest consumer of CPU right now is HTTP connection churn because engineers are creating new clients every request we handle. If the engineers would just think for a second, push back on Claude, even Claude would tell them this is bad. But they don't... Platform engineering is now 10x harder with terrible engineers and unlimited code machines.

Don't even get me started on ffmpeg usage, engineers act like the resources are unlimited.

New comment by RSHEPP in "What is a product?"

RSHEPP — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:19:40 +0000

For my small team we are not creating our versions, we're just more likely to find a self hostable version and use an LLM to help setup in production. For us it's a middle ground between the build your own SaaS and paying $10ks. But in some instances we do still pay for the other company to own the on call.

New comment by RSHEPP in ".gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git"

RSHEPP — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:30:04 +0000

Interested in examples of the types of scripts others collaborators wouldn't be able to use? Like scripts for PR workflows?

New comment by RSHEPP in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

RSHEPP — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:45:43 +0000

I would ask for references for the suicide claims, so others can assess the impact themselves. That's a very serious claim to provide without any proof, especially to a group of people who very well be going through the same thing. I am not saying it did not happen, only it's the right thing to do.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

RSHEPP — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:12:03 +0000

Any other engineers just living life frozen at this point. I am unable to make any life decisions because it seems like I won't have a career in the near future. I am unable to purchase a home to settle down for my family, because dad might not have a job next week. I know I am fortunate to have a job, many don't, but fuck if this career isn't the worse thing ever for my overall health and happiness.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

RSHEPP — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:48:32 +0000

It's great, I'm in my 30's, two kids, relatively high income family, but can't make any financial decisions because it feels like on a dime we will be living paycheck to paycheck all while having zero debt. It's a stress I never thought I would have.

New comment by RSHEPP in "An Honest Review of Go (2025)"

RSHEPP — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:51:12 +0000

Guess I am scared to program for real since I don't use a "real" language like Rust. What a wild statement to make.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE"

RSHEPP — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:47:56 +0000

Feels like the most important thing we can do is document it all. Save multiple encrypted copies. There is so many things worth documenting, but don't let others tell 'you' what happened. Write it down.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans"

RSHEPP — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:31:57 +0000

Make sure to opt-out before handing your ID over to the agent. They will claim you can no longer opt-out at that point, even before scanning. I had one plead to my wife to go through, because they are being watched by management and it wouldn't look good.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)"

RSHEPP — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:14:28 +0000

Rockbot | Senior Engineers (Fullstack & Ads) | Remote (US) | rockbot.com

Media platform for businesses. Music, TV, digital signage, ads. Runs in restaurants, bars, retail chains across the country. ~20 engineers, real ownership, backed by Google and UMG.

Stack: Go, Vue, GCP, Kubernetes, NATS (future) for device comms.

Fullstack: Own features end to end. 5+ yrs backend, 2+ yrs frontend, cloud infra. https://grnh.se/kf32f5fk4us Ads: Ad serving, targeting, measurement, data pipelines. Ad tech background helpful (VAST, IMA SDK, SSAI). Distributed systems, SQL. https://grnh.se/f8msf4aw4us

$150K-$210K + equity + benefits.

Questions welcome, or email ryan dot sheppard @ rockbot dot com

New comment by RSHEPP in "GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst"

RSHEPP — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:14:58 +0000

This right here - I am migrating all of our GHA to use the mise action. Makes keeping the version of Go, linters, formatters etc. for the project so much easier. Haven't added the mise.lock yet, but on the list. Now getting my small team of devs to try using mise is much harder.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"

RSHEPP — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:16:33 +0000

Rockbot | Senior Engineers (Fullstack & Ads) | Remote (US) | rockbot.com

Media platform for businesses. Music, TV, digital signage, ads. Runs in restaurants, bars, retail chains across the country. ~20 engineers, real ownership, backed by Google and UMG.

Stack: Go, Vue, GCP, Kubernetes, NATS (future) for device comms.

Fullstack: Own features end to end. 5+ yrs backend, 2+ yrs frontend, cloud infra. https://grnh.se/kf32f5fk4us

Ads: Ad serving, targeting, measurement, data pipelines. Ad tech background helpful (VAST, IMA SDK, SSAI). Distributed systems, SQL. https://grnh.se/f8msf4aw4us

$150K-$210K + equity + benefits.

Questions welcome, or email ryan dot sheppard at rockbot dot com

New comment by RSHEPP in "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"

RSHEPP — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:26:55 +0000

I am a big fan of lunchmoney, built a TUI for it with their API too.

https://github.com/Rshep3087/lunchtui

New comment by RSHEPP in "The developer role is evolving. Here’s how to stay ahead."

RSHEPP — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:53:34 +0000

this is just marketing material for github products...

New comment by RSHEPP in "How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ"

RSHEPP — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 03:48:44 +0000

I would love to figure out why I don't see this at my company. People still shipping at the same rate as before, customers bringing up more and more bugs, problems that require planning for scale are not being thought about (more bugs), zero tests still being written. All the code I am seeing generated is like one shot garbage, with no context around our system or the codebase as a whole.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?"

RSHEPP — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:44:38 +0000

She says it's both. By new stuff, it's mostly one off programs that handle small changes to the way billing or claims are handled. It sounds like they have a library of programs to start with and she extends it to fit the new edge case.