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Adapting to the New AI Landscape in Software Engineering

alexjray — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:46:00 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-vxazqwALKGivwedpGET4j1ipgab09C6RbLMTZ5ve5U/edit?tab=t.wi7nr0tm6qs7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359352

Points: 1

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New comment by alexjray in "Writing code is cheap now"

alexjray — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:19 +0000

"Writing" code is cheap but this just scratches the surface. Its a completely different paradigm. All forms of digital generation is cheap and on the verge of being fully automated which comes with self recursion loops.

Automated intelligence is now cheap....

New comment by alexjray in "Software Survival 3.0"

alexjray — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:21:37 +0000

Yeah I don't buy the build internally argument. Its not necessarily the building of an internal tool that is the problem it's the maintenance and service level guarantees that you get from a vendor that are arguable more valuable so you can focus on the thing that matters for your company. Product market fit is now more important than ever and there are so many additional options now; focus on the "right" thing is more valuable now than ever before.

Energy based AI reasoning model – Sudoku solver performance comparison

alexjray — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:29:55 +0000

Article URL: https://sudoku.logicalintelligence.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46801083

Points: 1

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New comment by alexjray in "Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)"

alexjray — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:41:36 +0000

Even if they automate all our current jobs uniquely human experiences will always be valuable to us and will always have demand.

The New "Full Stack"

alexjray — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:34:32 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ray_daze/status/2014813876878262301

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738243

Points: 6

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New comment by alexjray in "The unbearable frustration of figuring out APIs"

alexjray — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:56:41 +0000

Show me the incentive and I can likely guess how hard your API is to use.

New comment by alexjray in "Ask HN: What AI systems have you adopted across your work and personal life?"

alexjray — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:27:06 +0000

Yeah that feels like the right approach to enable the code generation to test itself which then becomes a matter of specification and functionality definition instead of worrying about code quality.

Are you doing all of this in cursor or something like Claude code?

New comment by alexjray in "Ask HN: What AI systems have you adopted across your work and personal life?"

alexjray — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:22:59 +0000

There is a common theme of "the end result is all that matters" but there are pretty big long term repercussions of design and implementation choices. For side projects and POC experiments this feels like the right approach but the risk flip flops for large scale projects that have the more risk associated with them. Maybe it is just through testing and validation checks?

Ask HN: What AI systems have you adopted across your work and personal life?

alexjray — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:31:09 +0000

I am incredibly curious what AI systems you have been adopting across your work and personal life?

It's obvious that the generation of work artifacts is largely going to be done via AI but I am finding it very hard to give up that generative control to AI.

For example I am still manually reviewing every line of code AI produces because half the time I need it to be reworked/regenerated because of gaps (context, pattern clarity, usage details etc..).

So my question to you all is; what systems and processes are you using to optimize your AI generative output and quality?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46493939

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New comment by alexjray in "Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop"

alexjray — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 02:42:49 +0000

Not trying to diminish the work at all because it works well but I hate this UX pattern. There is likely a reason this hasn't been done. If it wasn't for the pick -> scroll -> place instruction I would have no idea how to use it.

New comment by alexjray in "Open-Source Software Is in Crisis"

alexjray — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:00:49 +0000

Typical OSS is a luxury belief.

If it's not supporting a business it typically fails and is being supported by businesses as a proxy.

The core issue is that maintainers have a luxury belief counter to this. OSS is a strategy/tool for companies.

The only exception to that is fundamental software that creates entirely new markets that can sustain it like bitcoin.

That being said there is no crisis, sustainably supported OSS will continue to thrive.

New comment by alexjray in "T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activations and upgrades"

alexjray — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 16:31:16 +0000

I honestly think starlink is eventually going to replace major carriers

New comment by alexjray in "My dad's resume and skills from 1980"

alexjray — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:02:39 +0000

The fact that he lists his height and health cracks me up

New comment by alexjray in "Unemployment falls to 3.5% in Sept, payrolls rise by 263K, job market strong"

alexjray — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 02:45:27 +0000

They will do whatever it takes to stop the wage growth spiral

New comment by alexjray in "A prompt engineering guide for DALLE-2"

alexjray — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 22:37:52 +0000

The Open AI clear content policy is quite interesting to me. It's reasonable but clearly controlling.

New comment by alexjray in "Switching to a four-day workweek (2021)"

alexjray — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 20:09:01 +0000

I like the idea of having a four day work week that everyone is expected to work and one day that is a flexible optional deep work type of day. No required meetings and no shipping etc. The idea being that people can choose to take it off if they want to or work half the day etc.

New comment by alexjray in "California Considers Doubling Its Taxes"

alexjray — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 20:54:08 +0000

Doesn't matter, people are leaving and people aren't coming in.

Other states are seeing the exact opposite.

New comment by alexjray in "California Considers Doubling Its Taxes"

alexjray — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 20:28:24 +0000

It's a combination of a lot of things. But the data is clear people don't want to move to California and the people who do live there are leaving.

New comment by alexjray in "California Considers Doubling Its Taxes"

alexjray — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 20:23:23 +0000

https://www.capolicylab.org/pandemic-patterns-california-is-...