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New comment by dylanowen in "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"

dylanowen — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:44:58 +0000

I definitely comprehend coding language better/faster when I want to fully understand a program. I usually skip docs and go to the sources when possible. I think it's deeper than just the code though, the biggest thing I haven't seen in using natural language is good organization to express the program.

New comment by dylanowen in "Bend – a language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUs"

dylanowen — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:05:12 +0000

100% agree. It's crazy so many Ai articles are heralding the end of code while at the same time defining more complex ways to write code under a different name.

New comment by dylanowen in "Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended"

dylanowen — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:11:51 +0000

Kind of ironic for these companies to make their moat software while at the same time saying that SaaS and software development in general is obsolete

New comment by dylanowen in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"

dylanowen — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:04:44 +0000

I have a hard time imagining anything where writing a browser wouldn't be an excellent transferable foundation. Even your example: writing css will never teach you as much as writing a css engine.

New comment by dylanowen in "The development pipeline is a production system"

dylanowen — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:42:51 +0000

I feel like your example exactly describes why the development pipeline is production. Just because the critical hours of the system are different doesn't mean it's any less important.

New comment by dylanowen in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

dylanowen — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:53:48 +0000

I was trying to debug/fix a segfault in the JVM which kept getting flagged

New comment by dylanowen in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

dylanowen — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:28:20 +0000

That sounds very dystopian. The ai teacher part, not the no devices part

New comment by dylanowen in "Car Seats as Contraception"

dylanowen — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:25:01 +0000

Last sporting event I went to I was able to check my car seat at the stroller check, the workers didn't bat an eye :)

New comment by dylanowen in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

dylanowen — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:20:32 +0000

I know right. I kept waiting for a sarcasm tag at the end

New comment by dylanowen in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

dylanowen — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:01:03 +0000

I've seen Bryan Cantrill present at a few conferences and his talks are always the best.

New comment by dylanowen in "The mythical AI-agent month"

dylanowen — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 01:04:23 +0000

This exactly matches my experience. I also suspected that it was my higher threshold for code quality but Ai generated code is just not worth adding to a project without very strict reviews, unless it's non production and I want to fully give the project over to Ai

New comment by dylanowen in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

dylanowen — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:11:24 +0000

But those are the parts where it's important to struggle through the learning process even if you're slower than AI. if you defer to an LLM because it can do your work in a new codebase faster than you, that code base will stay new to you for forever. You'll never be able to review the AI code effectively.

New comment by dylanowen in "The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV"

dylanowen — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:50:39 +0000

When I first heard about these I thought eink had gotten cheap and good enough for that to be part of the display. The fact that it's just a regular tv displaying a painting was so disappointing.

New comment by dylanowen in "Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)"

dylanowen — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:59:42 +0000

I use work trees so my prototype can be open while I build my final code, but I never thought of local remotes! That'll be so much easier!

New comment by dylanowen in "Touching the Elephant – TPUs"

dylanowen — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:40:09 +0000

I assume the nuclear reactors are to power the data centers using the new chips. There have been a few mentions on HN about the US being very behind in building enough power plants to run LLM workloads

New comment by dylanowen in "YesNotice"

dylanowen — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:22:53 +0000

That's if the website you're querying is a static html file but the web is much more dynamic and varied. Some of the questions I have: does yesnotice execute js, does it handle an answer appearing on a different page, does it handle ambiguous launch language. In essence: how does it work?

New comment by dylanowen in "Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs"

dylanowen — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:45:09 +0000

This seems a lot like what the scala libraries Zio or Kyo are doing for concurrency, just without the functional effect part.

New comment by dylanowen in "The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience"

dylanowen — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:07:40 +0000

For me it's a discovery problem. I have a hard time finding papers to read. Where do you go to find interesting or relevant papers?

New comment by dylanowen in "Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch"

dylanowen — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:51:07 +0000

Why not, if liquibase isn't directly completing with your company and your bug fixes help their business, why would they care?

New comment by dylanowen in "Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch"

dylanowen — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:48:08 +0000

The comments here are pretty surprising. a lot of commenters are very worried about something that seems like a very reasonable change. The license change is to prevent someone like AWS offering managed-liquibase. It might not be technically open source anymore but why does that matter? You can still read/fork/contribute to the source and leverage liquibase internally. The fact that liquibase the company exists and provides this library is great. They shouldn't have to live in fear of their hard work being co-opted into managed liquibase to pass some open source purity test.