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New comment by docenttx in "Ask HN: Does spec-driven development still pay off with frontier coding models?"

docenttx — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:32:06 +0000

I tend to agree with bbor. I use the agent to build the spec, usually from unfiltered audio to text data dump. The spec also allows you to manage context by pre-defining scope. I would argue managing context is more important than a spec at a certain quality level of the spec. A high-quality spec should inherently help manage context. If you are leaning into full end to end automation, there is no substitute. I'm not sure "better" is the lens. A more capable model also has more paths of interpretation that it can conceivably take based on the framing of your rough goal.

New comment by docenttx in "The Unhired Index: Big Tech revenue-headcount trend suggests 185K missing hires"

docenttx — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:17:24 +0000

All of these types of reports are so over generalized to have zero value if not negative value.

New comment by docenttx in "ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system"

docenttx — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:16:52 +0000

Its also neccessary in many cases using any PCIe device with BAR-addressable memory on-board above the threshold, not just vram.

New comment by docenttx in "Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware"

docenttx — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:27:08 +0000

There is no spoon.

We have a remarkable tendency to believe that our particular technological moment is somehow unprecedented. Locke's labor mixing never required kinetic effects. Talent, skill, judgment, creativity, effort, and, more importantly, time; were always part of the concept.

Perhaps the mistake is not that technology ever changed what is valued, but that we have.