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New comment by iExploder in "Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November"

iExploder — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:07:52 +0000

Thanks, number of incidents and rollbacks is interesting, whats the field, how many customers?

PRs merged and reviewed is a bit of a joke :)

New comment by iExploder in "Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November"

iExploder — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:01:45 +0000

Technology, including LLMs is a tool, without agency of its own, as such it's netheir intrinsically good or bad. What defines that is the entity with agency, despite what labs would have you think this is still employees, corpos and governments.

Imagine for a moment star trek like society where one needs not toil for corpos to have their basic needs met. In such a scenario is better LLM good or bad? Would you fight to go back to cubicle then?

I posit we should not scrutinize technological progress itself or try to resist it's adoption, but rather look at people who shape the policies around it and how our society is structured, which is politicians and to larger extent us who live in democracies around election time.

In fact, I believe we should accelerate AI adoption in order to emphasise the impacts of the disruption and shortcomings of current societal structures and norms thus shortening the Unstable Era ushering a new AI driven heaven on earth...

... or we all just get marched into the recycling vats, it's a coin toss at this point I guess...

New comment by iExploder in "Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November"

iExploder — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:13:55 +0000

> All metrics are up.

Kindly enumerate the metrics.

"All metrics is up" is a message The Communist Party approves wholeheartedly. 5 year plan delivered in 1 year, give this comrade a medal! anyone?

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: Many SWEngs out there are considering re-training"

iExploder — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:32:31 +0000

> Unless AI automates SWE completely. Which I don't think will happen. If AI is that powerful, it would be a completely different world.

This is stated main goal many are persueing at this point.

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: Can I tell my managers to skip the corporate bs and get to the point?"

iExploder — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:23:25 +0000

It's a choice, if you want social status you need to participate in the dance. I haven't made the rules .

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: Can I tell my managers to skip the corporate bs and get to the point?"

iExploder — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:20:05 +0000

You'll be put in a box with the rest of the worker bees, useful for the time being, but not sophisticated enough and able of displaying higher behaviours and definitely not worthy elevating into the inner circle.

New comment by iExploder in "Astra still fails at creating acceptable Rotational Ambigram"

iExploder — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:15:19 +0000

good observation, it also cant produce flux capacitors of acceptable cochrane factor, quite puzzling

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: Can we direct AI on our personal projects during work hours?"

iExploder — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:48:20 +0000

Is it ok to send DMs to your side piece when your partner is away?

Employer relationships are not much different, if you choose to do it, do it on the sly or suffer the consequence ;)

If you are a contractor (bachelor) situation may be different...

New comment by iExploder in "What's Happening with IT Hiring?"

iExploder — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:52:50 +0000

right, but what I mean more specifically is AI assisted or conducted interviews and specifically in the EU, which is notoriously behind US on tech adoption.

New comment by iExploder in "What's Happening with IT Hiring?"

iExploder — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:28:32 +0000

I would say hiring is picking up now at least in europe. partially driven by re-arming and deep tech efforts.

think we gonna see a lot of AI interviews very soon, which I think is a bit meh, but probably better than what we had before with grinding leetcode, which is a complete waste of time.

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: Sectors that are inherently resistant to AI-ification?"

iExploder — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:20:30 +0000

Anything in physical world, digital is lost forever..

Robots will eventually encroach on physical too, then the subset will shrink to "physical world with required human interaction".

For me the question now is whether we will ever get a place where humans will prefer to interact with embodied AI robots over other humans.

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: Is Zig worth it over Rust in 2026?"

iExploder — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:01:29 +0000

My read is that If your codebase needs a lot of unsafe - on intersection of hw, need a lot of memory allocations with custom memory allocators, can take advantage of comptime, using a lot of c dependencies anyway. Maybe zig makes sense? It's a very niche space.

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?"

iExploder — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:02:11 +0000

Arch for last 5 years, never had issues, but I also buy laptops specifically with Linux support.

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: How to make AI better at writing prose?"

iExploder — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:43:31 +0000

Pompous and full of air really sums it up well. As such I usually have to completely ignore and rework generated README / code comments.

Is this just an elaborate scheme to increase in/out token churn or are we hitting some kind of LLM limitations I wonder?

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: Are you emotionally attached to AI code?"

iExploder — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:25:57 +0000

Code was garbage before AI, now it's still garbage, but I don't have to take it out anymore. Amazing.

Juniors are doomed, nobody is writing anything ever again by hand.

New comment by iExploder in "Fable 5 is insanely good"

iExploder — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:11:22 +0000

Still requires a human in the loop to make coffee...

New comment by iExploder in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

iExploder — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:57:58 +0000

Looking forward to being sent to a foggy planet in foreign start system to collect alien eggs for a daily nutripaste and bunk bed with corporate issuesd blanket.

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: How much coding should beginners learn in the AI era?"

iExploder — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:03:35 +0000

depends on the industry .. for 80% of jobs 0 coding knowledge will be needed in 10 years.

for ai research, safety, aerospace, military, trading, gamedev .. those will probably still need coding for a bit longer.

New comment by iExploder in "AskHN:How do you handle skill atrophy from using coding agents?"

iExploder — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:15:18 +0000

I suppose one would have to work in a very specific novel and niche area to go against the grain and chose stacks that are not chosen by majority.

New comment by iExploder in "AskHN:How do you handle skill atrophy from using coding agents?"

iExploder — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:15:43 +0000

I suppose work organisation, leadership, soft skills, working in areas with inherent uncertainty will be key for defending employment in near future