Hacker News: des429

New comment by des429 in "Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore"

des429 — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:03:09 +0000

Yeah, it's very clear that the person that wrote the above comment didn't actually grok what the purpose of the article was. Thanks for providing a counterpoint that I think actually summarizes the article correctly.

New comment by des429 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

des429 — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:06:57 +0000

What's your point

New comment by des429 in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

des429 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:38:23 +0000

The author discovered plan mode in cursor.

New comment by des429 in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

des429 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:25:53 +0000

This title is so click bait-y and misleading compared to what the actual article is about it's tough not to feel disappointed this is on the front page. @dang

New comment by des429 in "I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0"

des429 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:19:17 +0000

This reads like a useful guide, not an answer to the question "why use Claude code over cursor" that the author includes at the beginning.

New comment by des429 in "Go Cryptography State of the Union"

des429 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 02:10:32 +0000

Who are u expecting an answer from?

New comment by des429 in "Cursor Raises Funds at $29.3B Valuation"

des429 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 03:52:00 +0000

It’s literally just vscode so u didn’t bounce out of anything but vscode.

New comment by des429 in "Should we revisit Extreme Programming in the age of AI?"

des429 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 01:24:09 +0000

Interesting! What tools are using to make this collaboration easier?

New comment by des429 in "Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview"

des429 — Sat, 10 May 2025 01:21:15 +0000

What’s a blind exception?

New comment by des429 in "270GB of source code from The New York Times leaked to 4Chan"

des429 — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 20:37:43 +0000

Repos are cheap to create

New comment by des429 in "OKRs Are Bullshit"

des429 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:51:03 +0000

Fad? “OKR” is from the 70s lol

New comment by des429 in "Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016) [pdf]"

des429 — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 13:29:37 +0000

Yep, the top comment in this thread is a fantastic example of typical HN comments. Naïveté masked as expertise.

New comment by des429 in "Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff"

des429 — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:23:09 +0000

Speaking ill? He’s speaking literally about what THEY did lol. There’s nothing subjective about it.

Managers need to do a better job explaining the engineering paths available

des429 — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 19:30:46 +0000

Article URL: https://des.wtf/post/1-12-23-engineering-paths.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34404542

Points: 3

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New comment by des429 in "Puter"

des429 — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:30:59 +0000

Chill out

New comment by des429 in "Google to lay off 10k “poor performers”"

des429 — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:53:59 +0000

I was told at some point by someone that a layoff can’t be done based on performance, because that would mean it’s a firing instead. An amazon manager told me they were careful to avoid mentioning perf as a factor in their latest layoffs. Is that accurate and if so how does this jive with that at all?

New comment by des429 in "Amazon built a new unit to fix its engineering culture"

des429 — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:32:44 +0000

> As I tell their recruiters I'd rather eat a cactus than work for them.

wow, hardcore.

New comment by des429 in "Technicolor Tokyo"

des429 — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 15:19:46 +0000

Well, to each their own. I find Tokyo's greenery and street gardens to be the most attractive parts of the city ;-). You're right about the lights and it's kind of hard to believe people think Tokyo looks like these pictures.

New comment by des429 in "Detecting Node Event Loop Blockers"

des429 — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:15:50 +0000

fyi to anyone seriously considering using these: neither is going to work as expected if something blocks the loop indefinitely. In other words, you won't know how long something blocked the loop until that thing has finished blocking. Timeouts for async code or limits on loop statements are still relevant.

New comment by des429 in "Why I Prefer Makefiles over Package.json Scripts"

des429 — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 17:24:23 +0000

Yeah this seems to miss some of the biggest features of npm scripts. Access to the project's local packages is probably the biggest feature not mentioned IMO.