Hacker News: gabrieledarrigo

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

gabrieledarrigo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:32:57 +0000

> You can hire many minimum wage workers who are generally intelligent who dont even go to that level.

That's pretty rude to say, at minimum.

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"

gabrieledarrigo — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:58:27 +0000

Location: Milan, Italy

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node.js, Typescript, React, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Google Cloud Platform,

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gdarrigo/

Email: darrigo.g@gmail.com

I'm a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience; I worked with small teams and enterprises, and I successfully contributed to the success of many products, Hire me if you want to onboard a passionate, team player, used to wear hmany hats, colleague.

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)"

gabrieledarrigo — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:20:16 +0000

Do you think this is a good course? Or, what do you suggest as a structured course to learn how LLMs work?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

gabrieledarrigo — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:39:38 +0000

Does anyone still write code? I use agents to iterate on one task in parallel, with an approach similar to this one: https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey#today

But I'm starting to have an identity crisis: am I doing it wrong, and should I use an agent to write any line of code of the product I'm working on?

Have I become a dinosaur in the blink of an eye?

Should I just let it go and accept that the job I was used to not only changed (which is fine), but now requires just driving the output of a machine, with no creative process at all?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

gabrieledarrigo — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:45:34 +0000

So you are telling me that quoting the time spent to build a single square yard of fabric in the pre-industrial society is a contextualized comment to the % of co2 emission for the fashion industry?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

gabrieledarrigo — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:11:00 +0000

Man, I really can't see your point. And so...?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Software factories and the agentic moment"

gabrieledarrigo — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:04:30 +0000

What exactly do you do, and what's your role in an agentic software factory?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Software factories and the agentic moment"

gabrieledarrigo — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:41:45 +0000

What have they actually built?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

gabrieledarrigo — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:53:49 +0000

> i haven't automated anything here, but booking a table by talking to clawdbot is delightful.

Omg. Just get the phone and call the restaurant, man.

I really don't want to live in this timeline where I can't even search for b&b with my gf without burning tokens through an LLM. That's crazy.

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "San Francisco Graffiti"

gabrieledarrigo — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:15:01 +0000

Old time graffiti writer here.

There's nothing so wild, anarchic and energetic than painting illegally on some surface without any permission.

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)"

gabrieledarrigo — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:04:01 +0000

Location: Milan, Italy Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Node.js, Typescript, React, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Google Cloud Platform Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gdarrigo/ Email: darrigo.g@gmail.com

I'm a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience; I'm searching for a small, compact team where I can have an impact. I'm actively looking because the company I work for is laying off.

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)"

gabrieledarrigo — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 07:16:24 +0000

Location: EU

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Node.js, Typescript, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, GCP

Resume: www.linkedin.com/in/gdarrigo

Email: darrigo.g@gmail.com

I'm an engineer with 13 years of experience. I'm actively looking for a new job because the company I work for is laying off.

I would love to work with a small, compact team on an interesting product, having an impact on my daily job. Please, get in touch!

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "The rise of async AI programming"

gabrieledarrigo — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 22:25:02 +0000

> My workflow has changed since adopting async programming. I now work on four or five tasks simultaneously: one complex problem synchronously and three or four in the background.

Someone, please, try to convince me why this is a positive thing.

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Claude Code is all you need"

gabrieledarrigo — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:22:15 +0000

One thing is reversing a linked list during a white board interview. Another write a simple JOIN between two tables.

Come on guys, working on backend applications and not having a clue about writing simple SQL statements, even for extracting some data from a database feels...awkward

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?"

gabrieledarrigo — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:20:06 +0000

How is the routing to the hardware available? Let's say that a request hit the datacenter, how is it routed to an available GPU in a rack?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills"

gabrieledarrigo — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:56:52 +0000

> As with everything, it depends. Live coding interviews work

You cannot start your reasoning with "it depends" and then continue with an absolute. I could do the same:

As with everything, it depends. Live coding interviews don't work.

What's the difference?

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Nobody knows how to build with AI yet"

gabrieledarrigo — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:23:07 +0000

> A future framed as "inevitable" by a bunch of people whose job/wealth depends on framing it as such. Nah, hard pass.

I agree with you! I'm not saying that I like it; this is the perfect example of turbo capitalism applied to innovation.

I also like to code and to build software, and the joy that comes from the act of creation. Only, I'm quite sure it's not going to last.

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Nobody knows how to build with AI yet"

gabrieledarrigo — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:02:28 +0000

And that's fine, it's your choice. But everything, driven by multiple forces (from hype, to marketing, to real progress, to early adopters) is pointing to that future.

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Nobody knows how to build with AI yet"

gabrieledarrigo — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:16:03 +0000

I know, it's scary. But I guess it's the direction we are aiming for.

New comment by gabrieledarrigo in "Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking"

gabrieledarrigo — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:08:30 +0000

> I started a job at a demanding startup and it’s been several months and I have still not written a single line of code by hand

Damn, this sounds pretty boring.