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New comment by conqrr in "Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand"

conqrr — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:10:03 +0000

True and only when you own the entire project, you can do whatever you want. Most codebases are shared and it sucks to be forced to look at slop.

New comment by conqrr in "Back to the 90s: The Software Engineer Has All the Roles Again"

conqrr — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:18:03 +0000

>> we are coming back to what software engineering really is: understanding a problem and building a good solution.

I wish this were true, most of the people I work with now don't understand the problem, don't know the implementation and definitely don't build a good solution. They appear to be doing everything but poorly. Excellent at check boxing everything for performative performance.

Ask HN: Ex-swe what part time did you pickup?

conqrr — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:08:42 +0000

For all burntout swe, what's a good paid part time that you are doing?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913004

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by conqrr in "Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model Advances"

conqrr — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:45:03 +0000

Meaning they realized they hit a wall. The next new model isn't that much better than the last in quality.

New comment by conqrr in "Measuring the sloppiness of code"

conqrr — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:51:05 +0000

Coding is not just the program running in memory, its also the process of distributing the mental model of understanding among the team.

If humans increasingly are kept out of coding, then who holds the mental model?

If AI holds the mental model, by definition human prompts will be over lossy channel. This is true without AI too. Software quality is directly dependent on good devs that translate from business/PM speak to technical decisions.

So is coding solved now? it was already solved decades ago.

New comment by conqrr in "Herdr Studio"

conqrr — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:02:50 +0000

I actually enjoy herdr a lot, and not just for agent management but the whole multiplexer is plenty powerful defaults and easier than tmux.

At some point though, it's too much information for my tiny human brain to process, even more than 3 agents is hard to manage and context switch. What is the point of managing herd of swarm of whatever I wonder?

New comment by conqrr in "Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?"

conqrr — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:00:37 +0000

Does a burger flipper enjoy flipping burgers all day? - Not unless you're a robot. But Making a Gourmet burger without time pressure? - yes No it is not enjoyable if you have enjoyed coding by hand earlier and like your craft. Maybe for some grunt work or work that you could never do it is great. I've given up trying to enjoy at professional work.

New comment by conqrr in "VC isn't VC anymore"

conqrr — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:54:33 +0000

This is it. Sustainability. Not everything has to be about more money quickly. You don't even need VCs for that. More win to bootstrappers! I see a lot of folks bootstrapping in the LLM era, but that can be defeaned in the VC noise.

New comment by conqrr in "Ask HN: Whats your SWE career plan B?"

conqrr — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:22:29 +0000

I do have lots of hobbies, but none would pay a wage. Maybe open a small business of some kind. Surf shop or bike rentals. How does one break into being an electrician? I do like electronic repairs, but not mechanical ones like cars

New comment by conqrr in "Ask HN: Whats your SWE career plan B?"

conqrr — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:52:47 +0000

Sorry to hear. Repairs do sound fun if you're physically inclined

Ask HN: Whats your SWE career plan B?

conqrr — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:40:13 +0000

For those of you who don't enjoy being an LLM manager and given the bad job market. What do you plan to do?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515138

Points: 5

# Comments: 7

New comment by conqrr in "Kobo can run apps now"

conqrr — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:02:41 +0000

Very cool and definitely useful. I'm not the audience but I'll say: I like my ereader to just have books that sync. That is all. It's my library room and peace time, the last thing I need is Claude to distract me.

New comment by conqrr in "AI Coding Without the Vibes"

conqrr — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:52:56 +0000

Unit tests are core. Of course depending on project size things change. I'm talking about just myself managing a large project gets difficult to do everything

New comment by conqrr in "AI Coding Without the Vibes"

conqrr — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:49:21 +0000

This article hits very close to what I have come up with myself and its good to see others thinking the same lines.

  Core modules: Coded by myself, AI reviews and AI to discover/learn.
  Stuff I don't care about Craft: API layer, CLI layer, Smoke tests, Integ tests - Dial AI heavy, and lighter human reviews accordingly

Obviously takes a lot of patience and very easy to sin, but on good days, its doable.

New comment by conqrr in "Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest"

conqrr — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:00:49 +0000

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)...

New comment by conqrr in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

conqrr — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:06:28 +0000

Agreed with Reading! This alone isn't enough though. PreLLM too it wasn't just reading code to review. Someone did the hard work or crafting the code and each unit test would tell you the weird corner cases to deal with and factor that into changing your code. One person owned a part of the codebase and was an expert. Not to mention reading isnt easy when the velocity of code pumping in is 3-5x more. Its exhausting and reading becomes skimming.

New comment by conqrr in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

conqrr — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:47:37 +0000

If only agents had a face that can give you more communication range like expressions and feeling so you can trust them more. And if they were cheaper. Oh wait, that's humans, we don't want those.

New comment by conqrr in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

conqrr — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:21:07 +0000

Agree with this fully, I'm sure a lot of software engineers do too. Yet software is dominated by the valley. It's funny how easily money and greed manipulate the narrative while the majority suffer.

New comment by conqrr in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"

conqrr — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:58:06 +0000

  Location: Relocating to EU
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Go, Python, Rust, Ruby on Rails, AWS stack 
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e8NeL7z7Gg3616-yTuismdd3c41fjD8Q/view?usp=drive_link
  Email: in my profile

I have a decade of experience in Infra and platform teams at AWS and Salesforce. I love building platforms and systems, dev tooling, cloud etc Apart from my skillset, I'm generally highly motivated to solve problems and a reliable worker. I'm looking to relocate to the EU and work remotely. Pls don't let my previous FAANG experience make you think I'm only chasing high pay or large companies. I'm more than willing to learn and get my hands dirty in the right environment.

New comment by conqrr in "Devtools must be open source"

conqrr — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:06:19 +0000

Well we can go a step further and say Devtools must not be VC funded too :) Till date, the best and greatest dev tools I've used have not been influenced by VC decisions.