Hacker News: devin

New comment by devin in "The bottleneck was never the code"

devin — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:35:43 +0000

No. "Plays well with others" is part of being a functional member of any engineering team that I'm on.

New comment by devin in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

devin — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:22:53 +0000

The model is optimized in a different way to "partially meet expectations". Sycophancy coupled with only really "knowing" what it has been trained on assure a different kind of mediocrity.

New comment by devin in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

devin — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:12:21 +0000

> If you can go from producing 200 lines of code a day to 2,000 lines of code a day, what else breaks? The entire software development lifecycle was, it turns out, designed around the idea that it takes a day to produce a few hundred lines of code. And now it doesn’t.

It is so embarrassing that LOC is being used as a metric for engineering output.

New comment by devin in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

devin — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:07:36 +0000

This is wishful thinking. The force of the market is "number go up". Quality increasingly has less and less of a role in the equation. You will eat your slop, and you will like it. It will be the only choice you have.

New comment by devin in "The bottleneck was never the code"

devin — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:53:29 +0000

The people I know like this are people I consider to be "advanced juniors". They are held back by their inability to work with other parts of the business and understand customer needs. In order to be successful they need to be spoon fed requirements. What I've seen from the limited sample in my orbit is that they've actually doubled down on AI and are creating little private worlds of agents and further isolating themselves from the business, not talking about how great collaboration and such are.

New comment by devin in "Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server"

devin — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:21:03 +0000

My first website was for my guild on Chesapeake, and I hacked together scripts for macroing various skills as my first "actual programming" project. It is also what led me to join IRC for the first time, which then later led me to freenode.

New comment by devin in "The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left"

devin — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:21:26 +0000

Flagged as sensationalist AI hype slop. No original or useful thoughts detected.

New comment by devin in "Warp is now open-source"

devin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:44:44 +0000

I thought the negative sentiment being shared here was hyperbolic, but you look absolutely ridiculous in these comments.

"Actually, we are sure people who were critical to our success are happy they received nothing in return for their labor." <- This is you. This is what you sound like.

New comment by devin in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

devin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:33:24 +0000

If anyone reading this is curious of their own, you can go to https://api.github.com/users/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE and fetch it.

My ID is just over 10,000. Crazy to think of the journey that I've had in computing since I signed up for GitHub.

New comment by devin in "Warp is now open-source"

devin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:28:49 +0000

I sort of can't tell if this is supposed to be a joke or not. It seems like you're explaining that in addition to not supporting the project from which your company spawned 50M, they also supplied free work for which they were never compensated. That's supposed to be better or something?

New comment by devin in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

devin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:37:49 +0000

Big same. I have been doing a lot of clojure development, and hooking up my app to a live REPL has given me an absolutely fantastic feedback loop for the LLM. I don't think a lot of people understand what they're missing.

New comment by devin in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

devin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:37:26 +0000

That's what the 7 figure salaries are for.

New comment by devin in "10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026"

devin — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:51:38 +0000

What is today right now in Australia? How about where you live? You have not thought enough about what you’re saying and are probably not aware of all the weird time issues we have in our world.

New comment by devin in "10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026"

devin — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:13:18 +0000

or, maybe, it signals insufficient thought about the boundary conditions that should or shouldn't trigger test failures.

doing random things to hopefully get a failure is fine if there's an actual purpose to it, but putting random values all over the place in the hopes it reveals a problem in your CI pipeline or something seems like a real weak reason to do it.

New comment by devin in "10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026"

devin — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:09:32 +0000

Are you joking? This is the kind of thing that leads to flaky tests. I was always counseled against the use of randomness in my tests, unless we're talking generative testing like quickcheck.

New comment by devin in "Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It"

devin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:21:22 +0000

I'm not really sure what point you're making. Is the point that it is harder to to secure more things? Is it that security events happen more frequently the higher your number of employees goes?

If so, I bristle at this way that many developers (not necessarily you, but generally) view security: "It's red or it's green."

Attack surface going up as the number of employees rises is expected, and the goal is to manage the risk in the portfolio, not to ensure perfect compliance, because you won't, ever.

New comment by devin in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

devin — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:50:08 +0000

Not a party to the conflict? Are you joking? Don’t focus on what the US says. Focus on what it does.

New comment by devin in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

devin — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:47:00 +0000

Could you explain parallel branches vs what git offers today?

If it's to enable multi-agent scenarios, don't worktrees (at least in the local sense) allow for this?

New comment by devin in "Mysteries of Dropbox: Testing of a Distributed Sync Service (2016) [pdf]"

devin — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:18:35 +0000

One of the authors, John Hughes did a talk on property-based testing at Clojure West some number of years back. Worth a watch if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi0rHwfiX1Q

New comment by devin in "What game engines know about data that databases forgot"

devin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:12:46 +0000

Nitpicking: Once articles which are _obviously_ AI-written stop, the comments calling it out will (should) stop.

It is far more likely that AI-written articles will become harder to spot, not that they will stop being written.