Hacker News: jf22

New comment by jf22 in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

jf22 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:39:22 +0000

If there isn't a phrase then just say the numbers...

New comment by jf22 in "Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids"

jf22 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:12:48 +0000

You can tax reach though.

New comment by jf22 in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

jf22 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:12:00 +0000

The "overwhelming majority" standard for harm seems odd when you use 15% of smokers getting harmed as an example. 15% is not an overwhelming majority.

New comment by jf22 in "Ask HN: How much are you spending on AI coding at work?"

jf22 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:49:26 +0000

We are way past this question now.

New comment by jf22 in "Ask HN: Who is still using Windsurf and why?"

jf22 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:38:30 +0000

I kept a personal license for while because I thought Windsurf kept memories a little better than Claude.

But now since I use Claude at work I switched to keep my home and work stacks similar.

New comment by jf22 in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

jf22 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:33:17 +0000

All that cleanup can be done with AI and then you can add guidance to the codebase so that the next LLM will do a better job at conforming.

New comment by jf22 in "Ask HN: How is your team collaborating while working with coding agents?"

jf22 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:37:05 +0000

We are not.

New comment by jf22 in "Ask HN: How do you cope with the broken rythm of agentic coding?"

jf22 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:54:52 +0000

I feel like I'm a stone skipping across the water instead of being submerged deep in coding context.

I'm getting used to it but I don't like it.

I'm also much more tired at the end of the day. My mind feels broken. I don't know if our brains were designed for this.

New comment by jf22 in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

jf22 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:26:40 +0000

How are the architecture changes you are proposing improving the end result?

>but not being able to control the exact output worries me

Why?

New comment by jf22 in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

jf22 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:31:48 +0000

I have a physical goods side hustle already and I'm brainstorming ideas about a trade I can do that will benefit from my programming experience.

I'm thinking HVAC or painting lines in parking lots. HVAC because I can program smart systems and parking lot lines because I can use google maps and algos to propose more efficient parking lot designs to existing business owners.

There is that paradox when if something becomes cheaper there is more demand so we'll see what happens.

Finally, I'm a mediocre dev that can only handle 2-3 agents at a time so I probably won't be good enough.

New comment by jf22 in "Don't become an engineering manager"

jf22 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:20:11 +0000

I don't understand he comment.

AI produces code that people can understand and is easy to maintain if you ask it for that.

New comment by jf22 in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

jf22 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:56:52 +0000

I'm an 99% organic person (I suppose I have tooth fillings) and the new models write code better than I do.

I've been using LLMS for 14+ months now and they've exceeded my expectations.

New comment by jf22 in "Don't become an engineering manager"

jf22 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:13:14 +0000

I'm a former EM who would never go back in an AI age.

EMs deal with friction and from my experience more output is more friction.

You have org leaders and businessy people putting their foot on the gas because AI is so productive and then programmers shipping 2-3x more code.

These two forces collide and you're stuck dealing with the friction so 10x the amount of initiatives you did before.

The friction is like sandpaper on sandpaper.

New comment by jf22 in "Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?"

jf22 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:21:35 +0000

This is a really bad take (and bad faith) because all the failed tech initiatives you mentioned barely had any adoption whereas LLM based AI tools are used by a billion people a week.

New comment by jf22 in "Ask HN: Cognitive Offloading to AI"

jf22 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:17:17 +0000

I think the question is why didn't you ask the AI and then if you need more information ask the human including what you learned from AI.

New comment by jf22 in "Ask HN: How far has "vibe coding" come?"

jf22 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:49:39 +0000

Humans, with reliability, will ignore the patterns or best practices in your code and implement the same thing twice in different ways.

In 25 years I've never worked in a codebase where this wasn't true.

New comment by jf22 in "Ask HN: How far has "vibe coding" come?"

jf22 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:53:12 +0000

Sure but in my experience LLMs behave much more consistently than humans with regards to quality. LLMs don't skip tests because they have to make a deadline for example.

And now we have LLMs that review LLM generated code so it's easy to verify quality standards.

New comment by jf22 in "Ask HN: How far has "vibe coding" come?"

jf22 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:48:13 +0000

You can tell LLMs to conform to certain quality standards and code in a way you think is best.

Gold plating code with the best quality standards takes LLMs seconds whereas it would take you days doing it by hand.

New comment by jf22 in "Ask HN: How far has "vibe coding" come?"

jf22 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:46:55 +0000

The current AI tools extremely good at telling you about how an existing system works. You don't need that one super knowledgeable person anymore.

With the right MCPs or additional context you can have the tools go read PRs or the last 10 tickets that impacted the system and even go out and read cloud configuration or log files to tell you about problems.

The concept of a "bus factor" is a relic of the past.

New comment by jf22 in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

jf22 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:21:10 +0000

Because it's such a weasel "just asking questions" thing to do.

If you had a concern about the material costs of renewables you should know what they are and if you wanted to have a good faith discussion, you'd also be able to compare against legacy energy material costs.