<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jwoq9118</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jwoq9118</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:23:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jwoq9118" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Relevant<p><a href="https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted-for-simplicity/" rel="nofollow">https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:52:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600526</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure how you can believe that GitHub Copilot in VS Code is just a CLI interface when the former existed long before the CLI. It's not. For a certain amount of time, the two teams weren't even working together. The CLI was adding things customers were wondering when would it reach VS Code. So, it's not just a CLI harness. They added the ability to call the CLI from VS Code but GitHub Copilot in VS Code existed before the CLI and is remains a separate thing that's just interfacing with the CLI now.<p>All I can say is I know because I know. There's been some "synergizing" among the corporation about the CLI team running off to do their own thing and adding features to the CLI that amount to trying to force a Terminal to act like a GUI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 22:48:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261788</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "The bottleneck was never the code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It instantly made me think this was either written by AI or heavily edited, and I hadn't gotten that sense until the moment I saw load-bearing.<p>I hate that em dashes have been killed by AI as well. Hundreds of years ago Charles Dickens was using them in his novels and today someone will read his books and in ignorance actually think AI wrote it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 17:33:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039007</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039007</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Databricks thing was a ploy. They then pushed Azure Synapse Analytics and forced all internal teams to stop using Azure Databricks. Synapse was half baked and then they are now pushing Microsoft Fabric which is even less baked.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:55:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633938</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "GitHub is once again down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For GitHub to remain profitable they have to appease those shareholders you mentioned.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:22:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47510341</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47510341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47510341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's hilarious to me how we are recreating decades of IDE advancements such that they work on the terminal, only for us to end up with what is essentially an IDE.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:27:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47315792</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47315792</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47315792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unrelated but your comments on <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736176">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736176</a> related to the Terminal agents coding craze have helped me feel less crazy. People using GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code, they either never review the code or end up opening up an IDE to review the code, and I'm sitting here like, why don't you use the terminal in your favorite IDE? You're using a Terminal as a chat interface, so why not just use a chat interface? Or use the terminal in VS Code which actually now integrates very well with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI so you can see what's going on across the many files this thing is editing?<p>The hype is so large with the CLI coding tools I got FOMO, but as you were saying in that thread, I see no tangible improvement to the value I get out of AI coding tools by using the CLI alone. I use the CLI in VS Code, and I use the chat panel, and the only thing that seems to actually make a difference is the "context engineering" stuff of custom instructions, agent skills, prompt files, hooks, custom agents, all that stuff, which works no matter which interface you use to kick off your AI coding instructions.<p>Would be curious to hear your thoughts on the topic all these months later.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:51:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311613</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311613</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And if software engineering has been solved by AI, why is Anthropic still hiring and employing SWE's?<p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-code-founder-ai-impacts-software-engineer-role-2026-2" rel="nofollow">https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-code-founde...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:04:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105900</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105900</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "Don't Refactor Like Uncle Bob"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love this. The cognitive of understanding what this code does is super low, it solves the problem, presents no glaring performance issues, and isn’t trying to be cute.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:40:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40663483</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40663483</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40663483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "Are commercial "third places" a dying breed?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am writing this from a coffee shop where myself and others have gone well over 4 hours working. The business owners don’t care so long as you make purchases and don’t sit at a 10 person table for just yourself.<p>I see people get a morning coffee, get lunch and a drink, and then maybe something on their way out. It’s not a problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 14:55:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40441790</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40441790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40441790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "Are commercial "third places" a dying breed?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I disagree with the silence bit. I am a frequent remote worker at coffee shops across the USA and people working have noise canceling headphones usually, I have never seen anyone demand silence in a coffee shop. Libraries are a different story.</p>
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<p>That plus Microsoft PoweToys (which inexplicably isn’t installed by default) are the only things that make Windows useable to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 21:44:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40434419</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40434419</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40434419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am personally refreshed reading through the comments here and seeing a nuanced, rational response to the ad rather than the manufactured outrage you mentioned.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 21:00:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40323751</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40323751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40323751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed. Great article title, the article itself falls flat. This is the sort of title where I expected a quasi research paper with links to sources rather than just plain text references.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 11:27:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307070</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The level of writing isn’t up to snuff for what I think AI would generate. It’s rather…pedestrian.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 11:26:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307068</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>After reading, I agree with im3w1l. The author did not do this subject justice. Its too short, makes some sweeping generalizations about the evolution of human culture, and never really dives deep into answer the “How” that it calls out in its title. Great title, mediocre article.<p>I also think the suggestion that content creators, as in all of them (the author specifically calls out Charlie Damelio), don’t view their fans as anything more than a number is interesting. He calls out a content creator he perhaps views as part of the problem but fails to acknowledge the same extends to literally everyone you’ve ever heard of online that you follow but don’t know in real life, including people im sure the author would defend as being “really good guys”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 11:25:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307062</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>About to start my read. What would you say he could’ve done better? Will revisit when Ive finished</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 11:19:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307019</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "Why We Hate Working for Big Companies (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The biggest problem is that we have no idea how to value most of the work people do. I mean, we might know that what a developer should get paid for a year’s work, but how much is that work worth? The majority of the work done in modern corporations is incredibly hard to value, which is partially why companies are so inefficient and make so many bad decisions.<p>> That brings up an even bigger problem - companies today hire workers to make money from their labor. In other words, they generate profit because they pay their employees less than they’re worth. If everyone could trade their labor for exactly the amount of money it was worth, the corporations that employ them would have a much harder time making money.<p>Anyone else see an issue with this comment? We don’t know how to value the work of a corporate employee but we’re simultaneously all being paid less than we’re worth.<p>I like this article but I do feel the author leans too much into theory and what I hope is hyperbole. What I do love though is the admission at the end that we’re in a tough spot with modern capitalism and there’s no easy way to fix things by some “just do xyz” solution.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:45:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40197112</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40197112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40197112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "Big Tech and Silicon Valley are transforming the military-industrial complex"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Enlighten me. Looking for some weekend reading.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:03:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171746</link><dc:creator>jwoq9118</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171746</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jwoq9118 in "The man who killed Google Search?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Including X (formerly called Twitter)</p>
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