I can play with my 7yo, or help the 11yo with his homework, or go for a run!! - while LLM is cooking a well-spec'ed agentic task. This sounds embarrassing, but LLMs have made our lives healthier, unbelievable.

PS. Not to mention all the "boring" sh*t that I used to postpone/stretch indefinitely, like writng docs or polishing copy for my website... No more stress, no procrastination, just let the LLM do it.

Coding has never _stopped_ being a passion for me, but my increasingly limited time becomes an issue.

And Claude code (and cursor) saves me So. Much. Time.

I only have 10-20 active years ahead of me, so this is really, really important. Young ppl don’t get it.

As a European I’m kinda... concerned now.

For example, in Safari showModal for a dialog tag causes recalculating layout for EVERY element on a page, it’s up to 59x slower than chromium…. :(

But I love the idea

"You're not imagining it."

"But my days got harder. Not easier. Harder."

"Now?" as the paragraph opener

"Why? No reason." as the paragraph opener

Nice try OP, submitting your own post to HN.

I pretend to be “Jason from reception” and that “other guests are complaining about the noise”. Works every time.

I do have a friend (very popular drummer-YouTuber who makes covers, has millions of subs) who did get an O visa because he actually is a, kinda, celebrity, so I guess this is indeed happening occasionally. But nothing is being “dominated” here.

My team has relied on the Microsoft stack for over a decade (dotnet, GitHub Actions, VS Code, MS extensions), and I can say that the overall quality and “polish” of their releases has declined.

I try to help where I can—filing issues for outdated docs, contributing to dotnet/core, joining discussions about .NET 10 still not being available in Ubuntu APT feeds, reporting and helping resolve issues with MSSQL drivers and SqlClient on GitHub, etc.

But every time I interact with someone at Microsoft, I can’t help but read between the lines: they seem slightly demotivated by the company's shift toward an AI-first focus.

It's sad.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927345

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P.S. I'm an open source maintainer myself, and I used to think, "oh, OSS developers should just stop whining and fix stuff." Fast forward a few years, and now I'm buried under false-positive "reports" and overwhelmed by non-coding work (deleting issue spam, triage, etc.)

P.P.S. What's worse, when your library is a security component the pressure’s even higher - one misplaced loc could break thousands of apps (we literally have a million downloads at nuget [1] )

[1]: https://www.nuget.org/packages/AspNetSaml

No, really, I'm facing more issues from Cursor based based on a year-old upstream version of VSCode than from this, heh...

We were even able to downgrade our cloud servers to smaller instances, literally.

I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma.

So stories like this are no longer possible? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734582

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45751959

Points: 6

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Some background: I have a master’s in math and 30 years of full-stack software engineering. I have a (very) basic understanding of relativity, quantum field theory, gravity, electricity etc.

I’ve also founded a moderately successful software company, so I can basically work for free. Intern, lab assistant, unpaid engineer - anything! I'm good at explaining complex things in simple ways to students, but I'm also fine just making coffee for some professor for the rest of my life if it means being around scientific research.

So... Do universities have volunteer positions like that? Do I just send CVs to local universities? Or is there a better way to get involved? (I’m in Europe, if that matters)

The problem is that I'm actually 48 which is super old by today's standards.

Thanks.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45719784

Points: 1

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That said, while C# (and the dotnet runtime) are awesome, MS is doing it a disservice lately (poor tooling, Cursor/VSCode controversy etc. etc.) C# could've been so much bigger...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44756753

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For context: last month they banned Cursor and all other forks from using C++, C# Dev Kit, Python and other extensions. Guess this was preparation for this move.