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New comment by judahmeek in "Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post"

judahmeek — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:48:32 +0000

Are you referring to the antitrust breakup of AT&T in 1982?

New comment by judahmeek in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

judahmeek — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:15:51 +0000

Check out https://ai-2027.com/

New comment by judahmeek in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

judahmeek — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:06:13 +0000

The latter

AI is crushing a generation of startups built before ChatGPT

judahmeek — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:34:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/ai-startup-valuations-pre-chatgpt.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362289

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New comment by judahmeek in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

judahmeek — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:22:34 +0000

The foundation of human rights, universal equality, & democracy is empathy, which is basically a peer-reviewed scientific theory at a personal level that those with similar capabilities to you deserve equal respect ...or else, violence.

How did you miss out on learning this life lesson as a child?

New comment by judahmeek in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

judahmeek — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:18:00 +0000

> AI itself could subsume what we collectively consider as Engineering Taste.

Only if AI feeds on more taste than garbage.

New comment by judahmeek in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

judahmeek — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:14:34 +0000

How did that business evaluate that the juniors were actually mastering concepts they had not known before?

New comment by judahmeek in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

judahmeek — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:09:41 +0000

I think it's odd that your company has a fairly decent promotion metric (those who seek to spread knowledge through docs & meetings get promoted) and you seem to want nothing to do with it while also complaining that your coworkers don't respect your opinion.

I kind of get it as you have expressed that promotion is not your goal. However, organizational influence comes through promotion as your org & only those with influence at your org can change that.

What do you think would be a better system, that decoupled promotions from influence & enabled you to provide your experienced opinion without getting into management?

New comment by judahmeek in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

judahmeek — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:50:10 +0000

I'd bet my life savings that the person who is forced to use a tool by top-down edict is less likely to find a valuable use case than the person who is sincerely curious about said tool.

New comment by judahmeek in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

judahmeek — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:46:08 +0000

Your argument that bad processes can't possibly be improved is contradicted by all of recorded history.

New comment by judahmeek in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

judahmeek — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:43:04 +0000

Yes, leaders can & should be expected to devise experiments to determine what processes might possibly be optimized though AI-assistance.

But doing so properly requires expending a serious amount of cognitive effort & agile methodology, which is the exact opposite of what Amazon's management has demonstrated here.

New comment by judahmeek in "Checkmate in Iran"

judahmeek — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:15:02 +0000

> When is the last time Trump invited someone for diplomacy ... then had that person executed?

When Trump approved Israel's strike on the Hamas negotiators...

New comment by judahmeek in "Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?"

judahmeek — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:37:44 +0000

Do you think that can actually be automated? Seems like a judgement-heavy process to me.

New comment by judahmeek in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

judahmeek — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:40:32 +0000

Market forces won't apply to American models either if the American government bans Chinese-created models due to "national security".

New comment by judahmeek in "Our principles"

judahmeek — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:42:56 +0000

> I remember reading that Boeing's commercial division

This sentence appears to be unfinished.

New comment by judahmeek in "Five men control AI. Who should control them?"

judahmeek — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:01:05 +0000

https://ai-2027.com does a solid job of demonstrating the existential risk of the singularity. If it is actually approaching, we need leaders who will give potential black swan events the severe caution they are due.

I sure hope the theoretical timeline is compressed because the singularity under Donald Trump likely means that we're all dead due to misalignment.

New comment by judahmeek in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

judahmeek — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:19:55 +0000

Time to ship, change failure, rework rates, mean time to resolve, code complexity, code churn, average age of dependencies - there's a ton of reliable metrics for technical debt, but they have to actually be looked at to do any good.

The problem is that technical debt is a more complex concept & thus requires more metrics to properly measure than a simple concept like velocity.

New comment by judahmeek in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

judahmeek — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:08:23 +0000

Something is missing in the common test suite if this can occur, right?

New comment by judahmeek in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

judahmeek — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:16:29 +0000

The term you're looking for is "homesteader"

New comment by judahmeek in "What 81,000 people want from AI"

judahmeek — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:06:33 +0000

> If Average Joe were to delegate most of their life decisions to the chatbot, it'd probably turn out better, or in the worst case, more informed.

Even if true, no one is ever going to do that because of Dunning Kruger, so it's still not magically solving problems.