Hacker News: esmiz

New comment by esmiz in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

esmiz — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:09:05 +0000

While agents are able to take over a large part of code writing, software development skills themselves are still a moat. How to design systems for the future, for team collaboration, for cost efficiency, hosting strategies, security… these are decisions that will still have to be made by a software expert.

New comment by esmiz in "Simple, fast and open-source PHP framework frozen in C-extension"

esmiz — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:10:36 +0000

It has Twig, a wonderful and solid template engine.

New comment by esmiz in "The fuck off contact page"

esmiz — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:03:12 +0000

The rise of AI has a lot to do with how these pages keep inventing new ways to avoid offering real support. And along with it comes their close cousin: the “go-away” chat agent—full of useless answers and designed specifically to prevent you from reaching an actual human.