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New comment by codegeek in "40 years of writing code. I didn't see the end coming"

codegeek — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:54:58 +0000

For me, so far AI has been a net positive. It gave me back control of my small company in a way that I really needed to continue. I am going to continue to implement AI across our company to make things more efficient but with the right guardrails. As a previous programmer who was average at best, AI has given me wings. I don't care what others think but it is helping me take my company forward.

New comment by codegeek in "Ask HN: Developers – Do you let agents write production code?"

codegeek — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:38:29 +0000

10x code is mostly overrated. The first goal of any code is to solve a problem for the customer/business and solve it fast enough. The second goal is to make it efficient/repeatable etc as needed. But if you never meet the first goal, the 2nd goal is moot. So, based on how real world works, Bob is going to be a lot more valuable to any company unless you are building something that is very core to the machine (like an OS etc). Then, may be Bill.

New comment by codegeek in "Ask HN: Has AI killed the front end engineer role?"

codegeek — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:15:22 +0000

No. AI is killing the average/mediocre/order taker roles whether frontend or backend or full stack. Nt because it is necessarily better than the mediocre ones but because it is 100x cheaper. Can't beat that. My honest answer.

New comment by codegeek in "Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify"

codegeek — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:42:25 +0000

Happy for Tailwind as this was possible the best outcomes possible for them at this stage. It is clear that most of the frameworks for software are going to struggle significantly because of AI. Especially CSS frameworks. No one cared about writing CSS code by hand before AI and now with AI, no one needs to care about frameworks as well. AI writes it for you so I don't care whether its tailwind or plain css.

New comment by codegeek in "Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post"

codegeek — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:34:58 +0000

This takes me back to early 2000s when HTML forms were submitted using GET request. Fun times.

New comment by codegeek in "25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA"

codegeek — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:00:09 +0000

I honestly feel that we living in twilight zone in the United States.

New comment by codegeek in "I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again"

codegeek — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:56:15 +0000

I like Keycloak a lot but didn't select them because I cannot use my own frontend framework.

New comment by codegeek in "I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again"

codegeek — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:10:22 +0000

I am going to be that guy.

8/10 times, you don't need these 3rd party providers. Yes, someone is going to tell me all about the SSOs, SCIMs, Audit Logs etc etc but the point is that 8/10 applications are simple enough to build their own Auth. The rest, go for these services. I never understood the appeal of these 3rd party providers who can hold you hostage just for your users to login ? In 2026 ? I don't get it. May be I am dumb.

New comment by codegeek in "Are you good at AI, or just using it?"

codegeek — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:39:06 +0000

I don't care what my level is. I fire it up, try to prompt what I need to and get things done. If it doesn't do what I want, I update my prompt accordingly.

New comment by codegeek in "Go 1.27"

codegeek — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:27:57 +0000

Exactly. I was talking more about readability.

New comment by codegeek in "AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it"

codegeek — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:55:05 +0000

"The worst part is that AI is covering up their deficiencies. They don’t know what skills they lack. They don’t even know what skills are required because they haven’t put the effort in."

This is the biggest issue with AI. It is incredible when in the right hands (Senior devs who know good fundamentals and know how to code) but really bad when in wrong hands (Juniors with no fundamentals but they are made to believe that they know what they are doing).

New comment by codegeek in "Go 1.27"

codegeek — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:55:39 +0000

Do it. It is just a beautiful language to write and much simpler to pickup than many others. I am a fan boy of course but I love Go.

New comment by codegeek in "PostgreSQL for Everything"

codegeek — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:16:32 +0000

These types of articles needed to be written because we have gone way too much in the other direction. The issue is that people use too many tools prematurely when they are not needed at their stage. So yea, in most cases, you are probably better off just with Postgres. I m a culprit of this myself so I wouldn't say that I know better. It is just too tempting to setup too many tools to feel cooler or feeling that "we must use elasticsearch as no one does search in db".

New comment by codegeek in "Why Don't We Version UIs?"

codegeek — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:08:22 +0000

I have seen some older Software/SAAS UIs displaying version numbers. But letting you switch may not make sense because usually a change happens both in backend and frontend and switching versions is not something vendors want to offer due to the complexity of switching required.

New comment by codegeek in "Ask HN: How would you market this service?"

codegeek — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:51:40 +0000

I looked at your landing page and I cannot understand what it does. What are you licensing exactly ? Is it a license for softsare product (e.g. license key etc) OR is it license as in restricting how many users can access the product etc ?

I think you need to be very clear on what problem are you solving exactly and for whom ? May be I am not your target audience but I have no clue what you offer from your landing page.

New comment by codegeek in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

codegeek — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:15:33 +0000

Thank you for sharing. I will take a look.

New comment by codegeek in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

codegeek — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:16:29 +0000

Is there an easy way to block any requests originating from VPS etc instead of residential/commercial IP from legitimate users ? I know cloudflare does a few things but I really want to figure out a way to block any request say at nginx or caddy (reverse proxy) from reaching origin servers if they are not from an IP that is not a VPS etc.

New comment by codegeek in "YC startups are abandoning .com"

codegeek — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:47:20 +0000

.ai is the new .io but nothing will beat .com. Even Paul Graham has said that.

New comment by codegeek in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

codegeek — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:00:34 +0000

I don't call that Heathcare. It call that Heath"Scam" run by Big Pharma and Insurance Mafia.

New comment by codegeek in "Ask HN: After 8 Years of Failed Apps, Should I Give Up?"

codegeek — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:41:33 +0000

"trying for eight years". "I tried to build tens of apps". "I started getting other ideas again"

I am running a bootstrapped SAAS for 11+ years. Since you asked for honest feedback, I will lay it on you straight. The fact is that most people who try what you have tried give up after few weeks or months on one project and then move on to another. That is not critical mass or time to build anything real. Most influencers/indie hackers peddling multiple products at same time or micro-saas or whatever are either inflating their numbers or outright lying.

Let me be very clear. It is very difficult to do multiple things at once. It is almost impossible to make money from multiple things at once especially if they are not already established and you are starting from scratch.

So the 1st question you have to ask yourself is: How bad do I want to do my own things and what is my goal exactly ? The only way possible to focus on 1 thing at least for 12-18 months minimum (ideally 2+ years) before you see anything real to even move the needle a little bit.

So again, ask tyourself: what can you work on for next 12-18 months without worrying about short term or overnight success ? If you cannot answer that, you don't have anything to try yet.