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New comment by ilovefood in "Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed"

ilovefood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:47:53 +0000

You're right about understanding. Where we might disagree is the conclusion. I think it's possible to build the understanding without having to type out syntax by hand (debugging, writing tests, etc). Maybe we're missing much better verification tools? LLMs will likely play a big part in those too (explain the codebase, walk me through A, B, C etc)

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ilovefood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:35:42 +0000

I'm really open to feedback. I checked your past comments and you posted:

> AI is good at coding if there's an oracle. If the system is ancient, unreadable, untestable, that's exactly the opposite. It won't get the exact set of corner cases.

I sort of mention this in the article, so I'm sure we're somewhat aligned on the core. How would you have worded things?

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ilovefood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:33:34 +0000

Agreed, which is why I also believe "token usage" and similar proxy metrics aren't the right ones for what's next.

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ilovefood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:30:31 +0000

Makes sense, perhaps I'll post the raw notes + more material with the next article, prior to any edit. I like to use local models, even if they are not that powerful precisely because of that, I'm forced to put in more thought and it's my signed off article in the end.

Thank you for the suggestion.

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ilovefood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:06:00 +0000

A genuine mistake. I make these posts for myself, mainly to structure & share my thoughts. Let me know if you find other errors, I appreciate the feedback.

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ilovefood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:56:37 +0000

Yes correct, Gemma. Will correct it shortly.

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ilovefood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:55:25 +0000

You are correct, my bad. I meant to write Gemma 4. I'll update.

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ilovefood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:53:44 +0000

I can't change my name, but happy to change the hero picture :))

New comment by ilovefood in "Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed"

ilovefood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:50:32 +0000

I've written this myself, Gemini 4 did a bit of editing:

> What follows is a cleaned-up version of notes I accumulated over the past year. Gemini 4 helped with the editing.

The image is made by an AI image generator on fal.ai. It's better I spare you all my design skills :)

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ilovefood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:49:33 +0000

Thank you very much for the kind words :)

Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed

ilovefood — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:16:16 +0000

Article URL: https://karimjedda.com/engineering-management-after-cost-of-code-collapse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976723

Points: 2

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Datamining a flat in Munich – 10 years later

ilovefood — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:53:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.munich-datageeks.de/talk-from-bias-to-bots/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077488

Points: 1

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New comment by ilovefood in "Show HN: Strange Attractors"

ilovefood — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 10:12:22 +0000

Super cool and well done. They are much better in 3D! :)

I made a similar experiment a while ago and randomized the parameters. Given it's difficult to stumble on a stable arrangement, I turned it into a small game to find pretty ones: (big disclaimer: this involves NFT tech, please skip if you're against that sort of stuff) https://karimjedda.com/symmetry-in-chaos-my-first-generative...

New comment by ilovefood in "DIY AI Containment Box"

ilovefood — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:07:22 +0000

Sharing a small experiment that somewhat attracted a lot of attention yesterday, perhaps you'll like it too.

Thesis: Many devices or apps listen in while not in use. We're assured these only do topic matching (ie: identifying keywords) but who knows.

Observation: Today, generative AI can be used to generate a bunch of things, text, code, video but also audio. So why not bid local algorithms against remote algorithms?

Solution: I put my phones in a metal box i'm dubbing "Gaslight Garage", where a speaker plays randomly generated Elevenlabs audio to the phones. The pipeline is fully automated and sometimes hilarious. While white noise generators and other things are detectable, I believe this is much more difficult to detect on-device.

I've yet to see the results but maybe it'll give the one or the other a few ideas. This is pretty much in line with my local LLM extensions (on my blog) to use local-AIs as countermeasures against remote AIs, they love data, right?

Enjoy your Sunday!

DIY AI Containment Box

ilovefood — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:07:22 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/KarimJDDA/status/1974540908084515221

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480104

Points: 2

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New comment by ilovefood in "Show HN: Building a Deep Research Agent Using MCP-Agent"

ilovefood — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:42:23 +0000

Great write-up! Gives me a few ideas for a governance bot that I'm working on. Thanks for sharing :)

New comment by ilovefood in "Ask HN: Does Anyone Use Bitchat?"

ilovefood — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:11:39 +0000

Same problem here :)

New comment by ilovefood in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

ilovefood — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:14:11 +0000

I fully agree. It's difficult though because I genuinely believe that the solution space overlaps with cryptography, which is quickly discounted as viable option because it is now laden with negative connotations.

New comment by ilovefood in "We accidentally built the wrong internet"

ilovefood — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:50:11 +0000

Fair point and it's still a domain of research. The GNU project works on something quite cool I think, called Anastasis. If we solve these things & make them easy, it's a win.

New comment by ilovefood in "We accidentally built the wrong internet"

ilovefood — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:49:11 +0000

Vault doesn't use emails, usernames or anything like that. It's just shared as an example of a signer. It doesn't have to be that app per se, but it's the closest example I know of.