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New comment by baCist in "I Don't Vibe Code"

baCist — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:51:03 +0000

I don’t really vibe code either. I work a 9-to-5 and still shipped my own app to the App Store. Not sure why I’d want to speed things up if it takes away the enjoyment.

New comment by baCist in "Big Tech will spend nearly $700B on AI this year"

baCist — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:55:40 +0000

And the bubble just keeps growing!

New comment by baCist in "Things AI Is Good For"

baCist — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:32:58 +0000

Unfortunately, even AI-generated “bullshitting” still needs to be double-checked. I don’t really see how it saves time.

New comment by baCist in "Some Days You Just Have to Stop and Do Nothing"

baCist — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:17:38 +0000

For me, it’s meditation — it really helps me recover.

New comment by baCist in "Tin Can: a screen free phone for kids"

baCist — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:13:38 +0000

old-school phone reinvented!

New comment by baCist in "Do I belong in tech anymore?"

baCist — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:17:46 +0000

I see this as a temporary phase driven by AI hype.

In the long run, strong senior specialists — in design, development, and other IT fields — will likely be more valuable than ever. Meanwhile, those who rely entirely on AI without developing fundamentals may never reach that level.

AI isn’t really capable of creating truly complex solutions or top-tier UI/UX — it mostly recombines existing ideas.

So it’s probably better to focus on your craft and avoid burnout — that’s what will matter.

New comment by baCist in "In the AI Era, Shopify Is Investing in Junior Engineers–Not Cutting Them"

baCist — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:52:15 +0000

This actually feels like a winning strategy, especially in the era of AI.

New comment by baCist in "Ask HN: Am I getting old, or is working with AI juniors becoming a nightmare?"

baCist — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:45:32 +0000

I think all of this has a dark future. And this can be argued based on how AI works.

AI systems look at code on the internet that was written by humans. This is smart, clean code. And they learn from it. What they produce — unreadable spaghetti code — is the maximum they can squeeze out of the best code written by humans.

In the near future, AI-generated code will flood the internet, and AI will start training on its own code. On the other hand, juniors will forget how to write good code.

And when these two factors come together in the near future, I honestly don’t know what will happen to the industry.

New comment by baCist in "Google says 75% of its new code is AI written"

baCist — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:50:53 +0000

Big tech is inflating the AI bubble. Because of that, I find it hard to fully trust these kinds of claims — especially from complex systems like Google.

New comment by baCist in "Show HN: Irregular German Verbs – a simple app, no ads or tracking"

baCist — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:15:21 +0000

Thanks, appreciate it — tried to keep it simple and focused.

Show HN: Irregular German Verbs – a simple app, no ads or tracking

baCist — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:44:17 +0000

I built this based on requirements from my wife, who has been teaching German at a university for over 25 years. She genuinely needed a tool like this for this exact topic and started using it in her teaching right away.

The main idea was to make learning as comfortable and focused as possible. That’s why the app has:

– no ads – no tracking – no subscriptions – A1–A2 verbs are available for free.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859540

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

Building apps after a 9-to-5 without burning out

baCist — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:20:48 +0000

Article URL: https://bacist.com/avoid-burnout/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47527544

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by baCist in "Why Hasn't AI Made Work Easier?"

baCist — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:03:57 +0000

Because “AI” is largely a marketing label. Under the hood, it’s essentially a prediction model.

New comment by baCist in "Various Novel iOS Apps by Elvure"

baCist — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:25:41 +0000

Probably not the best site for promoting apps. The functionality isn’t very obvious — it’s hard to understand what to drag or where to tap. It also makes you wonder whether the apps themselves are just as “poetic”, when simple would probably be better.

New comment by baCist in "Businesses rush to rehire staff after regretted AI-driven cuts"

baCist — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:11:37 +0000

Since the beginning of the AI hype, I’ve felt that the real winners would still be real engineers.

New comment by baCist in "Coding Is Dead, Long Live Programming"

baCist — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:30:55 +0000

I’m pretty sure coding is doing just fine, despite AI.

New comment by baCist in "Who's a Better Writer: A.I. Or Humans? Take Our Quiz"

baCist — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:57:05 +0000

This feels like a flawed test. The paragraphs are taken out of context, so the main idea of the work disappears. And the authors are unclear — there are plenty of human writers who write worse than AI. It might be more productive to accept that AI probably won’t create, in the human sense, and move forward with that assumption.

New comment by baCist in "50 Years of Thinking Different"

baCist — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:27:23 +0000

They still deliver quality. There was a period when iPhones no longer felt unique — once smartphones became common, it seemed like progress had plateaued. But the M-series processors changed the game. Apple’s MacBooks now feel almost unbeatable again. And the ecosystem is still incredibly polished.

New comment by baCist in "Show HN: My Vibe Page"

baCist — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:39:24 +0000

Nope, sorry

New comment by baCist in "Show HN: My Vibe Page"

baCist — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:32:27 +0000

Glitch on second request. Request was "jupiter surface"