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New comment by breckenedge in "Career Isn't Eroding – You're Just Holding the Wrong Moat"

breckenedge — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:36:58 +0000

References Claude 4.7 … written June 8 … ok cool can stop reading.

New comment by breckenedge in "Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints"

breckenedge — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:44:04 +0000

Link to the editorial: https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/49/6/901/164764/Mi...

AI Hiring Tools Can Yield Racial Bias and Systemic Rejection

breckenedge — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:29:43 +0000

Article URL: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-hiring-tools-can-yield-racial-bias-and-systemic-rejection

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411503

Points: 2

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New comment by breckenedge in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

breckenedge — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:39:23 +0000

I agree with this take for experienced and capable engineering teams. Three times over the last three years, I have told my senior engineers to skip code review, and nothing catastrophic happened, and recovery from bugs was rapid. Three times I have been told by engineering management to reimplement code review. Now that management is either gone or about to be gone.

New comment by breckenedge in "Ask HN: Are SaaS businesses going to zero?"

breckenedge — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:06:07 +0000

Yes. Probably not free, but yea, whatever it costs to keep the agents running to keep the lights on.

New comment by breckenedge in "Claude Platform on AWS"

breckenedge — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:06:00 +0000

Nice, might give managed agents a try now.

New comment by breckenedge in "Optimization of Elevator Standby Scheduling Strategy in Smart Buildings"

breckenedge — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:04:37 +0000

New comment by breckenedge in "Tech boss uses AI and ChatGPT to make his dog a cancer vaccine"

breckenedge — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:04:16 +0000

Uses AI and two researchers. Give me a break…

New comment by breckenedge in "CEO Asks ChatGPT to Void $250M Contract, Ignores Lawyers, Loses Terribly"

breckenedge — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:11:21 +0000

Wait these guys made Natural Selection? Damn that was a hot mod.

New comment by breckenedge in "Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack"

breckenedge — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:59:57 +0000

This? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313750

New comment by breckenedge in "Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack"

breckenedge — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:58:12 +0000

Four years ago I was a reluctant maintainer of a Cloudflare workers setup. At the time, my thoughts were “Cloudflare is not my app, yet because of these workers, it’s performing business logic, which doesn’t feel right. I want Cloudflare to just be a dumb shield preventing DDOS attacks.”

Now that I’ve used it for a few years professionally, my opinions are much more nuanced and hard to put into words. Cloudflare’s products are mostly pretty good, and the cost savings are very attractive. You just have to be willing to work at their level.

New comment by breckenedge in "Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One"

breckenedge — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:08:25 +0000

I use Claude Code on a 900kloc Rails/JS monolith and it’s still pretty pleasant. However if it wasn’t already structured well, I could see that being a worse experience.

New comment by breckenedge in "Running WordPress under a Next.js app as /blog (without SEO penalties)"

breckenedge — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:24:21 +0000

Thanks for sharing. We do the same thing at BiggerPockets but via Cloudflare workers to do the proxying.

New comment by breckenedge in "I program on the subway"

breckenedge — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:36:08 +0000

Claude does this, at least on an iPhone. They added Code to the app about a month ago. I used it to get a Pebble Watch project started.

New comment by breckenedge in "Duplication Isn't Always an Anti-Pattern"

breckenedge — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:32:26 +0000

Sandi’s books and conference talks are excellent. My faves:

https://www.poodr.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJjHfa5yxlU

New comment by breckenedge in "Klarna says AI drive has helped halve staff numbers and boost pay"

breckenedge — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:12:45 +0000

There’s really nothing in the article that speaks to savings due to “AI” per se, and the timeline really doesn’t work out. I suspect this is just another executive wanting to jump on claiming “we’re AI now!”

New comment by breckenedge in "Klarna says AI drive has helped halve staff numbers and boost pay"

breckenedge — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:06:53 +0000

> with average compensation – including employee-related taxes and pension contributions – rising by 60% over the past three year

> Average compensation for each employee has jumped from $126,000 (£96,000) in 2022 to $203,000 today, Klarna said.

New comment by breckenedge in "Ask HN: What do you think of this Christmas movie idea involving AI?"

breckenedge — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 21:48:57 +0000

Why not have Veo make it?

New comment by breckenedge in "Help, My Boss Started Programming with LLMs"

breckenedge — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:27:06 +0000

Sounds like a great way for non-technical employees to begin not only wasting their time but engineers’ time too. I gave a clever PM read only access to our codebase and instructed him on using Claude to access it and do research, but he doesn’t have enough context to form correct questions for the LLM. Add in hallucination and it’s a recipe for a lot of time wasted.

New comment by breckenedge in "Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players"

breckenedge — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:23:51 +0000

Gotta call them “Weighted Undies”