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New comment by diehunde in "Technical, cognitive, and intent debt"

diehunde — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:19:26 +0000

It's very nerve-racking for people who like to have a deep understanding of everything they ship. A modernization project that would take you 2 months now can be done in a week or less because you don't need to go deep into the business logic to replicate it and instead you can just focus on designing the boundaries and interfaces properly. Then like the article mentions, just create a good test harness to test parity as much as you can. I was feeling very conflicted about this myself, but then I thought: I have these other systems I have to maintain on a daily basis and I also don't understand the internals and business logic that well because I wrote them years ago and haven't changed much. I just rely on the test suite if something needs to be changed or the code structure if I need to see how something in particular works.

New comment by diehunde in "Laws of Software Engineering"

diehunde — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:26:11 +0000

I guess that's why confirmation bias is also listed?

New comment by diehunde in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

diehunde — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:25:39 +0000

You should use seconds to make it even more dramatic

New comment by diehunde in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

diehunde — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:42:56 +0000

I’m guessing https://oneuptime.com/blog

OpenAI Cap Table leak reveals Microsoft's 18x return

diehunde — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:34:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2026/04/02/openai-cap-table-leak-reveals-microsofts-18x-return-softbanks-50b-gain-and-a-ceo-who-owns-nothing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634240

Points: 30

# Comments: 4

New comment by diehunde in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

diehunde — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:34:33 +0000

Well clearly not everyone is saying it's a bubble (you maybe?) so I don't know where that leaves us. Also, IIRC there are massive lawsuits underway so there's definitely people doing s.th. about it

New comment by diehunde in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

diehunde — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:03:09 +0000

At least you didn't go with electricity or the internet. Respect.

New comment by diehunde in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

diehunde — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:02:52 +0000

Love the confidence. The logic can catch up later.

New comment by diehunde in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

diehunde — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:55:47 +0000

Could this be the start of the AI bubble bursting? There are so many rumors going around about data centers not being built, GPUs waiting to be installed, debt, and much more. Crazy times.

New comment by diehunde in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

diehunde — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:16:58 +0000

Did the whole thing. I got IBM Plex. Actually looks great

New comment by diehunde in "Having Kids (2019)"

diehunde — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:47:09 +0000

Such a corny take. People should have kids when they know for sure they want to become parents. If they are unsure because the life they want for themselves seems incompatible, then it becomes a gamble. So many miserable parents out there who hide their experiences because they are afraid of social punishment or because they need to convince themselves that this permanent life-altering decision was the right one. That's my take as someone who for 35 years didn't want kids and one day woke up knowing for sure I wanted a kid in my family.

New comment by diehunde in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

diehunde — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:09:29 +0000

As an employee of a big tech company doing this, it's all fear mongering. We are being told that if everyone doesn't use these tools, our competitors will wipe the floor with us because they are using them and will ship features 10x faster. But many engineers are suspicious as well.

New comment by diehunde in "Shall I implement it? No"

diehunde — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:46:13 +0000

Many of us are literally being forced to use it at work by people who haven't written a line of code in years (VPs, directors, etc) and decided to play around with it during a weekend and blew their minds.

New comment by diehunde in "Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?"

diehunde — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:59:40 +0000

I started reading the second edition of Designing data-intensive applications. I believe only the digital edition is out right now.

New comment by diehunde in "“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill"

diehunde — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:44:33 +0000

Aren't they required to make their stock trades public?

New comment by diehunde in "FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices"

diehunde — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:25:33 +0000

Right, but even when they do have your zipcode (because you added beforehand for checking stock for example) they don't update the prices. It would be nice to have the option

New comment by diehunde in "Ask HN: Better ways to extract skills from job postings?"

diehunde — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:13:47 +0000

A while ago I built a prototype app to extract songs and artists from Reddit posts with thousands of comments. I used the Anthropic API, and it was pretty easy to set up and wasn't very expensive. I think you can get a pretty good estimation of how much it would cost beforehand or after a few test runs.

New comment by diehunde in "Ask HN: Better ways to extract skills from job postings?"

diehunde — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:55:57 +0000

Have you considered using an LLM model API? You could just send it the posting text and come with a good prompt to extract the most likely required skills.

Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?

diehunde — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 03:01:39 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41013691

Points: 15

# Comments: 36

New comment by diehunde in "I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews"

diehunde — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:26:31 +0000

What are you going to google though? For most of these LC questions you only need to know how to use arrays, maps and loops. If I'm interviewing you and you tell me you need to google how to append something to an array or check if the element is in a map then I'll think you just haven't written enough code yet.

There are better questions where I do think google should be allowed but they aren't LC-style. Some examples are building APIs or operating on files