Hacker News: buggy6257

New comment by buggy6257 in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

buggy6257 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:48:44 +0000

> Tonnes of frameworks around this concept, so I won't repeat what others have done decently already. Jobs To Be Done, Outcome Driven Innovation, and in the UX camp, empathy mapping.

Totally understand, but I would love if the author included links to these other things for articles/etc they thought did a good enough job not to repeat them!

New comment by buggy6257 in "Ask HN: What's your biggest pain point when joining a new developer team?"

buggy6257 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:33:48 +0000

You should take a look at CODEOWNERS file specs

New comment by buggy6257 in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

buggy6257 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:37:49 +0000

My 5 year old Subaru has been able to lane keep and auto follow to the point that a 2h drive on the freeway is me tapping the wheel every ten seconds to keep it enabled while I watch for idiots. It has been able to do this since I bought it, and I haven’t paid a dime extra. Car cost 30k.

New comment by buggy6257 in "AI Usage Policy"

buggy6257 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:15:47 +0000

Your boss sounds hilarious naive to how the world works.

New comment by buggy6257 in "Giving university exams in the age of chatbots"

buggy6257 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:41:12 +0000

Don’t compare LLMs to calculators. Only one of those is deterministic.

New comment by buggy6257 in "OpenAI will start testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers"

buggy6257 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:30:13 +0000

My dude adding ads to a free product after locking people into using it for free is LITERALLY the example used by Doctorow in his original article[1] that COINED the term “enshittification”. It couldn’t be more accurate if you tried.

[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai

New comment by buggy6257 in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"

buggy6257 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:27:48 +0000

Literally happened at work. Breathless thread of people saying how insane it was and then we got to link this and it immediately 180-ed and everyone was like “holy shit that’s messed up”

New comment by buggy6257 in "Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?"

buggy6257 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:34:31 +0000

A) no they can’t

B) if they can, how’s that working out for you?

C) you’re saying if I make myself suffer for several months I can have the privilege to work at one of the single worst companies on the face of this earth? _sign me the fuck up_

New comment by buggy6257 in "Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?"

buggy6257 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:41:59 +0000

Good lord based on these comments I am so glad to not live in the same bubble y’all seem to be in.

13 years as a dev, many jobs, countless interviews, and I have never once solved, been asked to solve, or even attempted to solve a leetcode problem.

Reading people talking about what they do here it sounds like voluntary torture. I would quit being a dev if that’s what it took.

OP: I’m saying maybe you don’t have to join them. Get out of the mindset. Find jobs that value your time.

New comment by buggy6257 in "Why we migrated from Python to Node.js"

buggy6257 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 01:40:13 +0000

I work at a company doing full-stack Elixir with most of our devs all heavily using AI as they please to augment their workflow, and our CTO was genuinely concerned that our main competitor, a Python shop, had a leg-up on us for this exact reason.

He spent time running benchmarks for 0-1 apps and all kinds of other metrics and found basically no appreciable difference in the speed or accuracy of AI at generating Elixir vs. Python. Maybe some difference, but honestly it just doesn't exist enough to matter.

New comment by buggy6257 in "My first impressions of Gleam"

buggy6257 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:48:13 +0000

See you in 9 months then to check back.

New comment by buggy6257 in "Why are there so many rationalist cults?"

buggy6257 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:30:36 +0000

well now i finally have a good blog name for the blog i'll never start.

New comment by buggy6257 in "Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?"

buggy6257 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:41:20 +0000

I would take Spacey's character from Baby Driver.

New comment by buggy6257 in "I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself"

buggy6257 — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 05:04:15 +0000

This is what I’ve been forced to do for years and I’m sick of it lol

New comment by buggy6257 in "I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself"

buggy6257 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:25:36 +0000

I specifically attempted to get a job at Discord so I could submit a PR to make giant emojis be a toggle setting rather than automatic. I know the feeling.

(If anyone works at Discord, please me and the rest of my server are begging you)

New comment by buggy6257 in "How Anthropic teams use Claude Code"

buggy6257 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 01:54:14 +0000

@dang looks like HN ate the leading “How” in the title.

New comment by buggy6257 in "Ask HN: What is a physiically disabled person to do in this job market?"

buggy6257 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:33:17 +0000

I do not have the same physical situation as you but was out of work for 7 months with similar experience level and got to the “offer or no” with 10 companies Before I finally got a job thanks to a referral and good interview.

What I’m saying here is that (a) your time in the market isn’t absurd for this current economy, and (b) it’s also not provably due to your disability so don’t go blaming that without proof or you’ll talk yourself into giving up. Shits HARD right now man just keep trying and focus hard on networking and referrals. It seems the only way to get a job right now

New comment by buggy6257 in "Thnickels"

buggy6257 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 06:28:27 +0000

you would be both surprised and deeply sad by how many downvotes and comments they would get if they removed the /s

New comment by buggy6257 in "Career advice, or something like it"

buggy6257 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:47:27 +0000

For me in every startup I’ve worked this ended up just being a self selecting group slack DM where we would mock things. We didn’t hate the places but there’s always stuff to have fun with like that. We would just recognize each other and keep adding people.

New comment by buggy6257 in "I started with a SQL question. He said "that's a dumb question.""

buggy6257 — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 14:17:12 +0000

Honestly if I was interviewing, even if you told me the future and this was the outcome of hiring the guy, I still wouldn't hire him.

It's clear he's brilliant, and experienced, and seems like he's just refusing to "play the game". Speaking truth to power works if you know when to also NOT do it, or how to do it in a way that gets people to listen.

It doesn't really matter how brilliant a guy is; if he's not capable of "playing the game", then he's going to be (and WAS) out on his ass within a short timespan. That's a sink on my team's resources having to hire AGAIN and train AGAIN so short after his hiring. I don't want brilliant jerks, I'd rather have someone decent who can stick around by not getting himself fired for saying the wrong thing to the wrong person.