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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

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

iExploder — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:12:54 +0000

They can be easily replaced. I suspect we are just engaging in a form of self deception by thinking these choices we make are more than arbitrary decisions driven by nothing but our taste...

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: What is the AI adoption approach at your org?"

iExploder — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:44:56 +0000

> There is a clear multi-step skills roadmap everyone is following with expectations per role/department

interesting... I suppose this requires someone at the company actually knowing what the roadmap and desired end goal should be, I feel like exactly this is lacking in a lot of places right now

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: What is the AI adoption approach at your org?"

iExploder — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:42:41 +0000

interesting insights, thanks

Ask HN: What is the AI adoption approach at your org?

iExploder — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:49:02 +0000

I use Claude daily and generally not a detractor to reasonable use of AI where it makes sense.

However, when executive pushes AI onto an org it can feel like being told what compiler/IDE to use by people who have no idea about engineering, maybe there is something I'm not seeing tho, so my question...

What is the situation in your org and how is AI adaption driven at your company? I wonder what the split between companies adopting engineering driven approach and pray and spray approach to AI adoption is...

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New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?"

iExploder — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:45:36 +0000

hustle never ends...

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe?"

iExploder — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:14:21 +0000

market is genuinely tough right now, dont beat yourself over it. persistence is key right now.

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: What game have you replayed more times than any other?"

iExploder — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:31:39 +0000

Morrowind is something really special and unlike oblivion It. Just. Works.

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: What to learn and do, that makes me least affected by AI in STEM?"

iExploder — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:03:15 +0000

In my humble human opinion everything digital has been or shortly will be conquered by AI.

You can either embrace it, learn to how to use and deploy AI or try to find a way out into the real world, until robotics will inevitably catch you in several years, for some professions with manual aspect you could have maybe decades of time.

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe?"

iExploder — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:58:05 +0000

did you consider tier 2, semiconductor suppliers qualcomm, nxp or go tier 3 - arm? I would say these will allow more technical depth than tier 1s, but will remove you from the end customer product, and some people find that unsatisfying.

customer facing companies with engineering culture also come to mind, apple, google etc. I assume you are in Europe? you have Bosch Research, Fraunhofer or Dolby in US, this might overlap with your stated experience.

I dont have experience in quants or trading but I heard they can go pretty deep and hard.

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: Anyone else struggling with AI and work?"

iExploder — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:18:48 +0000

I focus more on specs, product and outside behavior these days. Colleague showed me a fancy plugin he made for emacs today at work. I congratulated his efforts and mentioned I dont open text editors anymore :shrug: ...

New comment by iExploder in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

iExploder — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:14:20 +0000

I'd feel better to have that kind of person out of my community.

First of all, did he not pick the language for Bun himself? Then introduced bunch of memory bugs, sound like skill issue cascade.

I remember some years ago in podcast touting how amazing Zig is to allow them being so performant which was the claim to fame for Bun, now to turn around and shit on the thing. Interesting persona.

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"

iExploder — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:29:32 +0000

it was running on fumes for almost a decade, now we are really at the end times...

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?"

iExploder — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:16:03 +0000

Every hour spent on acquiring hard skills is an hour wasted that could be otherwise better spent on licking someone elses boot!

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?"

iExploder — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:30:16 +0000

Soft / social skills. Any skill requiring engaging with the physical world (robots will take that over eventually but not just yet), digital world is already lost.

Anyway why do you want skills? If it's for economic purposes we are nearing cut off period after which no amount of skill will enable social mobility. Either u managed to lock in capital by now or ur done kind of situation...

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: What's your favorite number, and why?"

iExploder — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:12:44 +0000

if you know you know, if you dont know you are most likely B1ff :D

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: What's your favorite number, and why?"

iExploder — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:47:43 +0000

the coolest number ever - 1337. Approximate melting point of gold in kelvins.

New comment by iExploder in "Ask HN: what’s your favorite line in your Claude/agents.md files?"

iExploder — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:46:56 +0000

I usually issue this myself, maybe I should add it to my Claude.md, because it almost always finds something to fix:

"Check for bugs and unintended side effects introduced by our changes."

New comment by iExploder in "If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or build better products?"

iExploder — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:07:01 +0000

yes you fire if you are a burned out company that only needs to maintain its product and slowly die...

you hire more if you are growth and have new ideas just never had the chance to implement them as they were not practical of feasible at that level of tech (non-assisted humans clicking code and taking sick leaves)