Hacker News: breckenedge

New comment by breckenedge in "Do teams still use scrum and sprints?"

breckenedge — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:53:17 +0000

Those terms became way too ambiguous to actually mean anything. Every team does it different.

New comment by breckenedge in "Ask HN: Will AI trigger mass IP protectionism in software?"

breckenedge — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:34:45 +0000

Yes, and not just code. It’ll be Gnosticism all over again.

New comment by breckenedge in "Ask HN: What AI automations have you kept running in production?"

breckenedge — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:13:27 +0000

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New comment by breckenedge in "The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here"

breckenedge — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:25:50 +0000

I get it doesn’t appeal to you. Why do you think it shouldn’t appeal to anyone?

New comment by breckenedge in "Waymo – Dallas Open to All"

breckenedge — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:47:58 +0000

Service area is still miniscule.

New comment by breckenedge in "AI PR reviewer is looking at the diff, not the intent"

breckenedge — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:13:58 +0000

Yes, I fetch Jira tickets and epics via API call in the reviewer’s action. Both Codex and Claude can then reference it. Source is public here:

https://github.com/BiggerPockets/.github/blob/main/.github/w...

Still a bit nicer to just do these yourself rather than reusing someone else’s project.

New comment by breckenedge in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

breckenedge — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:19:51 +0000

Like a junior engineer, I find the models to be too ambitious and unable to steer themselves at a high level yet. What I’ve done to address this is prompting the model to break down its plans into more atomic steps. For whatever reason, they’re still lazy at planning.

New comment by breckenedge in "Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me"

breckenedge — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:11:38 +0000

Programming is human. Obviously there will be cultures (and cults) that spring up and die down all the time. I probably pissed off a few colleagues over the years by rejecting their arguments because they were “appeals to authority” that I did not recognize as authorities in the particular problems we were solving at the time. Hate cargo cult programming, but admit I fell into that trap often enough in my early years. Gotta start somewhere.

New comment by breckenedge in "Oracle shed about 20k roles globally in the last year"

breckenedge — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:43:48 +0000

Oracle overcommitted on behalf of OpenAI, taking on debt to meet their obligations. Not that healthy companies are not also doing ridiculous layoffs, but in this case, Oracle does have to do some drastic things to get out of this tailspin.

New comment by breckenedge in "I built a small road chaos game in the browser"

breckenedge — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:46:44 +0000

Fyi the homepage is too small for my mobile browser (chrome, iPhone 15 pro) and appears to not support scrolling

New comment by breckenedge in "The software industry: annealing, but wrong"

breckenedge — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:28:25 +0000

It’s amazing how often I’ve discussed this from the perspective of “binary search”: you gotta make big jumps before you do narrow jumps.

Same for being stuck in local maxima: getting out of that requires big changes, not small-step optimizations.

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.