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New comment by distantprovince in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

distantprovince — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:24:41 +0000

I think there is a de-facto distinction between different kind of programmers, we just need a clear names for them. Like, "builders" for folks who ship products and see code as an annoying intermediate step and "engineers" for people who build technically sound software.

New comment by distantprovince in "LLMs reward expertise"

distantprovince — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:52:59 +0000

That's a pretty good frame and makes me hopeful. Now it's even more important to figure out how on Earth we can promote expertise formation in the age of AI

New comment by distantprovince in "Can we have the day off?"

distantprovince — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:06:30 +0000

I'm fairly certain a lot of people do this. They don't literally take a day off, but just work fewer hours or less hard. And this makes sense, there is a strong incentive to not give away all the productivity gains to your employer.

New comment by distantprovince in "Have a Coherent AI Policy"

distantprovince — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:49:56 +0000

I'm fairly sure that if a compiler stops working or has a bug, the expectation is that an engineer is capable of handling it in some way. I don't think any stakeholder will have much sympathy for "compiler stopped working, we can't do our jobs now" argument.

New comment by distantprovince in "LinkedIn Fanfiction"

distantprovince — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:09:18 +0000

this is beautiful

A Farewell to Code Reviews

distantprovince — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:37:36 +0000

Article URL: https://distantprovince.by/posts/a-farewell-to-code-reviews/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289673

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

AI future will be nothing like present

distantprovince — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:26:57 +0000

Article URL: https://distantprovince.by/posts/ai-future-will-be-nothing-like-present/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707873

Points: 1

# Comments: 4

PostHog Elixir SDK is good

distantprovince — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:09:46 +0000

Article URL: https://distantprovince.by/posts/posthog-elixir-sdk-is-good/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783346

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by distantprovince in "Elixir 1.19"

distantprovince — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:44:36 +0000

these are all surprisingly specific questions that can actually be answered!

1. It's dynamic 2. It's compiled 3. Elixir script is just a file with Elixir code that compiles and runs right away 4. I've been writing Elixir for 7 years and barely know any Erlang. I even submitted bugs to OTP team with reproductions in Elixir, they're chill. 5. Preemptive scheduler, immutable data

New comment by distantprovince in "It's rude to show AI output to people"

distantprovince — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 19:32:14 +0000

> If it’s slop or they have incorrect information in the message, then my bad, stop reading here.

"my bad" and what next? The reader just wasted time and focus on reading, it doesn't sound like a fair exchange.

New comment by distantprovince in "It's rude to show AI output to people"

distantprovince — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 19:23:46 +0000

I can see the similarity yes! Although I do feel like the distance between handwritten letter and an email is shorter than between email and LLM generated email. There's some line it crossed. Maybe it's that email provided some benefit to the reader too. Yes, there's less character, but you receive it faster, you can easily save it, copy it, attach a link or a picture. You may even get lucky and receive an .exe file as a bonus! LLM does not provide any benefit for the reader though, it just wastes their resources on yapping that no human cared to write.

New comment by distantprovince in "It's rude to show AI output to people"

distantprovince — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 19:13:09 +0000

This feature predates LLMs though, right? Funnily enough, I actually find it hilarious! In my mind, once they introduced it, it immediately became "a list of things NOT to reply if you want to be polite" and I was used it like that. With one exception. If I came across an update from someone who's a really good friend, I would unleash full power of AI comments on them! We had amazing AI generated comment threads with friends that looked goofy as hell.

New comment by distantprovince in "It's rude to show AI output to people"

distantprovince — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 19:07:36 +0000

100% real life is much more grim. I can only hope we'll somehow figure it out.

I haven't personally been in this position, but when I think about it, looping all your reviews through the cursor would reduce your perceived competence, wouldn't it? Is giving them a negative performance review an option?

It's rude to show AI output to people

distantprovince — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 16:57:38 +0000

Article URL: https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617172

Points: 321

# Comments: 246