Hacker News: frigg

New comment by frigg in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

frigg — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:30:14 +0000

>they're just as capable as using AI as anyone.

This is a very naive take. AI output still needs to be guided and iterated over, architecture decisions (even at the code level) still need experience to judge correctly.

New comment by frigg in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

frigg — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:48:41 +0000

>battery electric vehicles >if it is the wrong thing you produce

Says you and not the guys with the big pockets that actually do market research? Until you solve the charging times problem, the mileage problem and the amount of available charging stations problem you will not see wide adoption. Most people don't want them and petrol is still king for many years to come.

New comment by frigg in "How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe"

frigg — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:02:17 +0000

I have a hard time understanding what "increased productivity by 4%" actually means and how this metric is measured. One low-digit does not seem high when put into the context and promises, is it?

New comment by frigg in "Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it"

frigg — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:09:35 +0000

They are doing this so they can eventually remove the feature entirely in the future.

New comment by frigg in "LLMs as the new high level language"

frigg — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:12:20 +0000

Most serious banking apps and financial services are still written in Java, it hasn't displaced much of anything. Big data is a relatively 'new' fad that is already becoming less and less relevant.

New comment by frigg in "LLMs as the new high level language"

frigg — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:25:11 +0000

>Following this hypothesis, what C did to assembler, what Java did to C, what Javascript/Python/Perl did to Java, now LLM agents are doing to all programming languages.

What did Javascript/Python do to Java? They are not interchangeable nor comparable. I don't think Federico's opinion is worth reading further.

New comment by frigg in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

frigg — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:38:29 +0000

Someone might join if they are desperate enough and hop at the next better opportunity, that's what I would do. Aren't you worried this will be a waste of time?

New comment by frigg in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

frigg — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:41:36 +0000

59K for a senior fullstack engineer in Hamburg is crazy low.

New comment by frigg in "Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point"

frigg — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:10:29 +0000

>Probably checking in about 10 to 15k lines of code per month on average.

God, these claims are so ridiculous. You guys are probably doing it wrong if you write that much code.

New comment by frigg in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?"

frigg — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:56:55 +0000

Or "what will surely not happen in 2026". HN crowd is atrocious at predicting anything.

New comment by frigg in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

frigg — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:02:06 +0000

What I've learned from all these disaster stories: have backups for everythig. I have an iCloud+ subscription but also a OneDrive subscription, photos are sync'ed to both storages. On gmail, I set up fwd for all emails to another email address (non-Google related) just in case. Of course you can't do this for every service but do it for the ones you can.

On a meta note, Fuck Apple, I'm so glad I didn't pursue an iOS developer career 10 years ago.

New comment by frigg in "Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign"

frigg — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:57:34 +0000

Why is Anthropic not legally responsible for damages here?

New comment by frigg in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

frigg — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:13:04 +0000

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New comment by frigg in "Ask HN: Choosing Between Two Jobs"

frigg — Mon, 13 May 2024 11:35:08 +0000

These types of problems you usually bring forth in retros. Have you done that, what was the outcome?

New comment by frigg in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)"

frigg — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 08:26:36 +0000

Hi there! I was checking one of your job posts for Germany[1] and I see that you are asking if I am hispanic/latino. Can you please share some light as to why this would be relevant for EU? Thanks!

[1] https://tulip.co/careers/job-posting/?gh_jid=4160922003

New comment by frigg in "Ask HN: Is it worth it to learn C to better understand Python?"

frigg — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 14:49:02 +0000

Would you learn how to fly a plane to better understand how a car works? The answer is no of course. You learn more of Python and its internal workings to understand Python better.

New comment by frigg in "Ask HN: Why has Europe suffered so much from Covid?"

frigg — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 19:49:20 +0000

This was in the news just 2 days ago: "U.S. reports 1.35 million COVID-19 cases in a day, shattering global record". I'm not sure why you're focusing so much on Europe, it's happening in other places as well.

New comment by frigg in "Ask HN: Future-proof my skills for work"

frigg — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 11:14:00 +0000

>I imagine they will be the first to be automated.

This has been said over again since the 90's when all sort of tools and "codeless" solutions started popping up. While you can automate some stuff for smaller shops, I suspect web development will trump all the rest simply because of how ubiquitous it is.

I agree with deep technical knowledge but at the same time make sure you don't dig a hole too deep where jobs are few.

In my opinion the best way to future-proof your skills is to stay up to date with market trends and notice when your tools of choice (even in your current job) start to become obsolete or used less and less. I would also pay close attention to the number of jobs for a particular skill.

New comment by frigg in "MongoDB extra funding round/IPO"

frigg — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 07:47:30 +0000

Just an FYI, HN is staunchly against mongodb. If this is good or bad you decide but you won't hear good things about mongodb from HN.

New comment by frigg in "Ask HN: Moving to Front End Engineering after 10 years in back end, worth it?"

frigg — Mon, 29 May 2017 17:51:02 +0000

Did I say I don't know the space? Does it sound like I never did front-end development? You should learn how to parse properly. I tried it, it sucks, and that's why.