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New comment by aorona in "The looming college-enrollment death spiral"

aorona — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:09:26 +0000

but why

New comment by aorona in "AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths"

aorona — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:03:35 +0000

That would be a disaster for hiring and productivity I don't any upside to creating AI generated siloes from a business or developer perspective.

New comment by aorona in "AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths"

aorona — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:59:29 +0000

I have been using LLMs (chapt-gpt, perplexity, claude) for development for over a year. It is helpful for summary explanations of concepts and boilerplate for frameworks and library APIs. But it makes errors within those consistently.

Its a great tool and saves a great deal of time, but I have yet to go beyond generating snippets I have to vet, typically finding a made up library API call or misunderstanding of my natural language prompt.

I find it hard to pare down these LLM evangelizing articles into take aways that improve my day to day.

New comment by aorona in "California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones"

aorona — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 22:01:34 +0000

I was a gifted student in CA public school. Now I code for food :(

New comment by aorona in "Why is Apple so bad at marketing its TV shows?"

aorona — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:56:20 +0000

I think it was their exceptional design in the 2000s. They were never the first, but they were exceptional at appearing to be an innovator on the originality of their product design. I have not been impressed with apple design innovation for some time though, they've gotten stale.

New comment by aorona in "Why is Apple so bad at marketing its TV shows?"

aorona — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:54:07 +0000

The walled garden certainly keeps me out of the apple ecosystem. I love MacOS but I don't want to pay a premium for vendor lock-in and I infer that most (if not all) apple products are double-edged in that manner.

New comment by aorona in "Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go"

aorona — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:07:40 +0000

subpar semantics?

New comment by aorona in "Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research"

aorona — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 22:19:22 +0000

If they tripled teaching salaries I would 100% become a teacher because its fulfilling. But the pay is rather shit for the role and responsibilities

New comment by aorona in "Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research"

aorona — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 22:17:33 +0000

Some of them are great but then I remember when I was floating around research labs some grad students would cry and tell you not to do what they were doing because its miserable. But then life has many fun horrors does it not?

New comment by aorona in "What the The end of 0% interest rates means for software engineers"

aorona — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:50:21 +0000

agile "agile" is an oxymoron

New comment by aorona in "Take the Road Most Documented"

aorona — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:23:57 +0000

boring technology for work and whatever you want to explore outside

New comment by aorona in "Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos"

aorona — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:21:07 +0000

I like Anki but I feel like Duolingo has far too slow pacing to be practical