Hacker News: ahmadtbk

New comment by ahmadtbk in "AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs"

ahmadtbk — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:55:42 +0000

The field of software is slowly getting worse for some and better for others. I'm probably going to just contract myself out.

New comment by ahmadtbk in "Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?"

ahmadtbk — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:26:15 +0000

AI slop is very exhausting to understand. If it's well written maybe not. If its obviously AI then that should be flagged.

New comment by ahmadtbk in "Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?"

ahmadtbk — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:24:37 +0000

ai writing should be rewritten or polished at least as a form of respect for others.

New comment by ahmadtbk in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

ahmadtbk — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 04:33:46 +0000

Honestly homeschooling does sound 1000000x better due to social media in schools being cancer for young children.

New comment by ahmadtbk in "Timescale Is Now TigerData"

ahmadtbk — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:43:59 +0000

Timescale is a much cooler name. Also heres a conversation I just had with Jippity. There are some nicer names imo.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6852de93-1384-8004-ac63-4ae93a8373...

New comment by ahmadtbk in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)"

ahmadtbk — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:30:06 +0000

Location: remote or North Texas

Remote: preferred

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: go, python, k8s, profiling, grpc, rest

Resume: upon request

In my site https://blog.atbk.dev you'll see links to my LinkedIn and GitHub.

Hello my name is Ahmad tabbakha I've been writing backend code for almost ten years now. From real time virtual assistants (at Toyota) to building qr code apis for Bitly I've worked on products that are used by millions of people around the world. My primary strength is golang and I excel at teaching others what I know.

New comment by ahmadtbk in "The Goodness of Good Writing"

ahmadtbk — Sat, 24 May 2025 15:20:48 +0000

Good writing has the benefit of helping others for many decades and centuries. That's a realization I came to recently. My goal now is to write a variety of essays, articles, and books on topics that I excel in.

New comment by ahmadtbk in "The Next Abstraction"

ahmadtbk — Fri, 23 May 2025 00:14:11 +0000

This predictability problem is something no one seems to realize. You can't replace an individual that can master things to a relatively high level of accuracy. Everyone is obsessing over speed but driving fast gets you killed.

New comment by ahmadtbk in "Instagram Addiction"

ahmadtbk — Wed, 21 May 2025 04:26:02 +0000

After reading Cal Newports book on digital minimalism I've removed Instagram entirely cold turkey. It's been three years now and I occasionally use the desktop version to message some friends.

The great thing about it is that I've saved myself many hours. I use that time for reading and walking and a variety of other activities. Also my attention span and mental health improved drastically.

New comment by ahmadtbk in "GPT-4.5"

ahmadtbk — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 04:15:31 +0000

Will this pop the AI bubble?

New comment by ahmadtbk in "I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass"

ahmadtbk — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:33:41 +0000

Spending many hours not touching grass to build an app that makes you touch grass. I like it.

New comment by ahmadtbk in "Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: We don't care about professional coders anymore"

ahmadtbk — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:33:50 +0000

> Instead, he says it’s time for non-coders to begin learning how to use AI tools to build software themselves

More code and applications to maintain in the long run. Being a software engineer will be in more demand than ever. I've noticed many individuals want to create an MVP before committing fully.

Would this also mean more security jobs?

New comment by ahmadtbk in "Stimulation Clicker"

ahmadtbk — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:12:04 +0000

Google chrome is using significant energy help

New comment by ahmadtbk in "Using open source as a learning tool"

ahmadtbk — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:25:11 +0000

A short story about how I used open source to learn Golang.

Using open source as a learning tool

ahmadtbk — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:25:11 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.atbk.dev/chainlink/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42465819

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ahmadtbk in "Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them"

ahmadtbk — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:16:56 +0000

This might be why I do so well at a coffee shop sometimes.

New comment by ahmadtbk in "Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls"

ahmadtbk — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:23:16 +0000

The nice thing about real time calls is they help avoid confusion, convey more emotion and information than most messages can.

There is less ambiguity usually during a real conversation.

Conversations tend to resolve very quickly because in the span of five minutes we can go back and forth on multiple questions, get clarity and finalize how we want continue. Some things require this but not everything. There is a balance as with everything.

New comment by ahmadtbk in "Learning to Learn"

ahmadtbk — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 02:51:37 +0000

This is something that can be tricky for sure. Depending on the subject you might not need to start diving deep into every topic. Sometimes you'll have to first ask some high level questions like how do I get this data from this table and convert it to this format. Once you identify what problem you're trying to solve go and learn what's needed to solve it.

You won't always have an optimal solution but that's okay. The most important is to try and use the thing you're learning in some real way or with practice.

New comment by ahmadtbk in "How I Experience Web Today"

ahmadtbk — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 20:33:01 +0000

we need a how-i-experience-interviews-today