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New comment by ahel in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

ahel — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:05:14 +0000

1. People *across generations* had to skill up. 2. software being very opaque (very differently from agriculture/mechanized labour) imo is linked to having a plethora of support roles that cannot write software but "handle the human part" and help make it readable, while spreading accountability. Hopefully with a "more readable/more standardized" software development, those [product|project|people] management roles can stop being a drag/bottleneck. (code was never the bottleneck we repeat ourselves since age immemorial)

New comment by ahel in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

ahel — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:17:28 +0000

here is your scapegoat. no lesson learnt. another round please.

New comment by ahel in "A New Year's letter to a young person"

ahel — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:02:33 +0000

all good, but why `5. install twitter`? > it's a huge time sink but everything happens there in the open.

... ok? i don't get why the tradeoff is worth it?

New comment by ahel in "Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document"

ahel — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:19:54 +0000

You don't keep violent and intelligent animal as pets, you keep them in cages at the zoo.

New comment by ahel in "Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste"

ahel — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:41:38 +0000

yeah for headphones, I also feel the same. But for food and coffee, I really cannot go back to lower standards. It feels like I put myself in a trap with this attitude. I have not found a way out yet.

New comment by ahel in "Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste"

ahel — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:31:40 +0000

Tell me more! I need to hear this! I'm fed up with being a critic. It feels like a trap I set myself into without realizing. I'm at the point where I can only enjoy coffee brew at home with expensive toys and I'm becoming miserable about it: Id prefer the freedom to have anything anywhere while being able to enjoy. Applies to coffee but also other things. So yeah, pls tell us more.

New comment by ahel in "Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste"

ahel — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:26:36 +0000

yeah sometimes it can be that. but most of the time it's difficult to step back once you raise the bar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill and all that

New comment by ahel in "AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS"

ahel — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:20:51 +0000

with "dev wanting X" nothing happens. "leadership deciding X" then it needs to get done.

Startup Equity Compensation Analysis

ahel — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 11:20:34 +0000

Article URL: https://edmondop.github.io/startup-compensation-notebook/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45472503

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ahel in "All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair"

ahel — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:08:27 +0000

> But the only recourse for an IC under a bad manager is to quit or find another team to work on.

Agree but nothing easy about that.

New comment by ahel in "Concurrency in Haskell: Fast, Simple, Correct"

ahel — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:01:17 +0000

noice

New comment by ahel in "Two new PebbleOS watches"

ahel — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:33:45 +0000

I think I would like to be able to answer the following two questions:

1. what percentage of this object price is net profit? 2. is that percentage a "fair" proportion?

but atm, I don't have a "scientific" way to respond to those questions so I usually go with my gut, or do whatever other people in my circle do (which is not ideal and I'd like to change)

New comment by ahel in "Two new PebbleOS watches"

ahel — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:21:57 +0000

Hey, I completely agree and I also suffer from this same bias: it's ruining me from enjoying stuff that I would like to buy but in the end I just give up because it feels that any profit is a scam. What kind of resource can I study for me to understand and accept other people making profits?

New comment by ahel in "The “strategic reserve” exposes crypto as the scam it always was"

ahel — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:20:10 +0000

sold for whatever you want. Supposing the other party wants BTC (wild assumption) and you want 1Mton of lead, I guess the exchange would happen.

New comment by ahel in "Ask HN: How much employee resume verification is done in practice?"

ahel — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:06:09 +0000

welcome to the real world where no one does a good job and everyone is more or less impacted.

New comment by ahel in "Software development topics I've changed my mind on"

ahel — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:40:42 +0000

Thanks for writing this. It makes me question if I'm too much concerned with code hygiene vs my coworkers.

New comment by ahel in "OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’"

ahel — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:21:14 +0000

Why Meta decided to open source their Llama architecture and complete models? From a strategic business perspective, I'm trying to puzzle why they would give that up, a competitive advantage (even though it might not be as good as OpenAI product), rather than directly competing with OpenAI. What's the reasoning behind this decision?

New comment by ahel in "Alignment faking in large language models"

ahel — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:40:48 +0000

LOL

smart fridge anyone?

New comment by ahel in "Get your staff's consent before you monitor them, tech inquiry warns"

ahel — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:52:53 +0000

I hope so, even though I don't think I'll ever feel the need to perish on that hill, just to check if it's actually true.

Here's my signature.

New comment by ahel in "Ask HN: Are you tired of being fully remote?"

ahel — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 18:01:14 +0000

hey i'd want tips if you want to share. i'm remote since before covid. i've moved company months ago, but i don't have great ideas on how to "satisfy interaction" professionally.