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New comment by aprdm in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

aprdm — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:42:38 +0000

question bank ?! lol, no wonder people complain about being performative.

If you have nothing to talk about, cancel it

New comment by aprdm in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

aprdm — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:39:24 +0000

Really depends on the team etc. I don't think every team needs to have 1-1, certainly not weekly as a mandate.

The best cultures I worked at didn't have 1-1 series by default

New comment by aprdm in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

aprdm — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:52 +0000

No. Because the investment to get into the game is too big and takes too long. The ones who can create the silicon are already oversubscribed.

New comment by aprdm in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

aprdm — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:28:36 +0000

great question, probably around 1998 ! How is it relevant to 2026 ?

New comment by aprdm in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

aprdm — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:12:22 +0000

Right, so I have to do manual work going over 10000000 of results ? Or trusting SEO / google algorthm instead ?

New comment by aprdm in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

aprdm — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:19:12 +0000

That hasn't been my experience. It has been working really well for what I need.

SEO optimization totally ruined google search for me for the past few years

New comment by aprdm in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

aprdm — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:59:15 +0000

How do you make it without AI ? Are you parsing through millions of pages yourself ?

New comment by aprdm in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

aprdm — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:58:40 +0000

I don't disagree with you, but google search has gone so downhill that I had stopped using it before they moved to the AI approach, which is actually pretty decent.

New comment by aprdm in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

aprdm — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:56:25 +0000

"Next 5y" doesn't apply to AI factories

New comment by aprdm in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

aprdm — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:54:07 +0000

They are until they aren't. My grandmother had a puncture and almost died

New comment by aprdm in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

aprdm — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:42:30 +0000

lol. AI just started in the kind of usage being discussed in this thread, how would it make any difference on something that is quarterly reviewed

New comment by aprdm in "DeepSeek v4"

aprdm — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:24:22 +0000

That seems like a you problem

New comment by aprdm in "DeepSeek v4"

aprdm — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:59:59 +0000

No one cares about this kind of stuff. 99% of the devs are not English native speakers, what do you expect ? It works and we all can understand it

New comment by aprdm in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

aprdm — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:35:00 +0000

Python existed for years before uv with a huge ecosystem, and will continue to do so after/if it dies

New comment by aprdm in "Nvidia NemoClaw"

aprdm — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:27:00 +0000

Do you feel sad for people who use a computer or a cellphone or file taxes online instead of paper ? How is this any different ?

I use those tools to make my life easier/faster

New comment by aprdm in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"

aprdm — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:28:13 +0000

That's true. Except that you can have Agents doing it 24/7 with no human input. The amount of repos/PRs is only limited by GPUs

New comment by aprdm in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

aprdm — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:58:47 +0000

Isn't that the premise of Fallout ?

New comment by aprdm in "Agents that run while I sleep"

aprdm — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:30:20 +0000

How much are you spending ? See initial post of the thread. My team has no problems with it, they are spending each 5-10k per month.

New comment by aprdm in "Agents that run while I sleep"

aprdm — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:34:52 +0000

I think the output of companies that can invest on tokens vs those who cannot will lead to crazy different outcomes in the next few years.

New comment by aprdm in "Agents that run while I sleep"

aprdm — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:33:07 +0000

Why read code when you are getting results fast ? See https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...

I am not kidding. People don't seem to understand what's actually happening in our industry. See https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johubbard_github-eleutherailm...