Hacker News: mlinhares

New comment by mlinhares in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

mlinhares — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:10:37 +0000

That's actually pretty important, if you're an eng doing compliance work and you don't have legal counsel working side by wide with you you might be putting yourself up for legal troubles down the line. I'm glad I can always rely on legal do do their job here when doing this kind of work, I wouldn't want to do work like this just out of my ass.

New comment by mlinhares in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

mlinhares — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:04:50 +0000

Given the amount of compute rented I doubt there’s anything meaningful left for the people there to do any AI.

New comment by mlinhares in "US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules"

mlinhares — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:00:26 +0000

Don’t think they care that much about that anymore.

New comment by mlinhares in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

mlinhares — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:56:38 +0000

Apple doesn’t sell general purpose computers outside of their own hardware so this doesn’t make any sense.

New comment by mlinhares in "Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I."

mlinhares — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:30:56 +0000

Broadway and off-broadway are the same.

New comment by mlinhares in "Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I."

mlinhares — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:06:49 +0000

So much so people do anything to try to become an actor, the ones that make i are an incredibly small fraction of the actual pool. Worse, most of those you see on the screen are also not rich or making bank, sometimes they're just paying the bills.

New comment by mlinhares in "Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking"

mlinhares — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:46:30 +0000

I wrote multiple answers to questions that weren't just "point to docs". And even when it is pointing to docs you are providing the reasoning as to why it works one way or another.

New comment by mlinhares in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

mlinhares — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:20:45 +0000

Only if your job was to write code alone, which isn't what most people do. Most of my job for the past 10 years was explaining to people what had to be done, how and then verifying they did it.

Any senior/staff engineer was already doing this, if they weren't they were on the wrong job or had the wrong title.

New comment by mlinhares in "AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn"

mlinhares — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:00:52 +0000

I'm surprised these companies still have people on devrel, it always felt like the easiest layoff to do as its very hard to tie direct results to devrel work.

If you're in a position like that, better start thinking about plan B cos it isn't getting any better.

New comment by mlinhares in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

mlinhares — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:06:34 +0000

I keep telling people that they have to design and think about it first and then go to the tool, but they keep saying “Claude can plan too” and obviously it produces some shit that requires a lot of changes while when I get it to go I can almost always one shot the stuff I want because I am actually putting in the time to give it a detailed plan of what to do.

Even just saving me the time to deal with CI is worth it.

Ask HN: Are Tech Meetups Dead?

mlinhares — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:39:30 +0000

I work with a bunch of people that just left college and we were discussing how to avoid deskilling and I said "well, you could go to local meetups". They're in NYC (I'm in Florida right now) and said there isn't much going on and I couldn't believe it. Asked some more experienced friends that have been living there for longer and they said that it all died during COVID and never came back.

I ran or helped organize meetups in multiple places, back in Brazil where I'm from, Boston and then Philadelphia. We used to joke you could have pizza and coke for dinner every night in PHL during the week for the number of meetups we had. You'd meet cool people, see people sharing their experiences, build your network and make friends all at the same time. During COVID we moved to Florida and got kids so I kinda got out of the loop with meetups, but I had no idea it was this bad.

How are these kids going to meet other practitioners, build their network and even put themselves out there by presenting?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256791

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New comment by mlinhares in "Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash"

mlinhares — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:36:09 +0000

Such an incredible write up, the piece about the importance of flying less technological planes to get a "sense" of what flying really is hits like a brick, specially in the world of LLMs producing code.

How do you get this "sense" of writing code and building systems by yourself if all you do is instruct some agent to do it? Are we all going to be like Bonin in the future where we just don't understand anything outside of the agent box?

This is both terrifying and sad.

New comment by mlinhares in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

mlinhares — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:45:22 +0000

Interesting that nobody on the conservative side hates immigrants but continue to vote on politicians with platforms built upon the hatred of immigrants. It’s almost as if they’re lying.

New comment by mlinhares in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

mlinhares — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:07:04 +0000

I usually go the other way, sometimes ignoring the wall of text completely or just exiting the conversation. I find it incredibly distasteful when people do this (i also have access to all the same tools), specially because its a lazy response where they copy the conversation, paste it at the tool and just vomit the response back.

Its also usually the dickhead nobody likes that does it as well.

New comment by mlinhares in "Apparently Google hates us now"

mlinhares — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:26:06 +0000

lol.

New comment by mlinhares in "[dead]"

mlinhares — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:59:07 +0000

Lived for 5 years next to a data center in Philadelphia and it was noisy and hot almost all year long, zero benefit from living next to it other than the building being nice on the outside as it is a historical building in the city. You'd frequently see heavily armed folks there, there was no movement of people (it really felt like an abandoned building) and it brought nothing useful to the area.

401 N Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19108 for the address - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Commerce_Building

New comment by mlinhares in "WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency"

mlinhares — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:51:53 +0000

The real issue with HIV is that you can easily spread it before being symptomatic, so far we haven’t seen hantavirus spreading before folks become symptomatic. The strain that spreads through humans has been active in south America for a while as well and hasn’t really gone anywhere yet.

New comment by mlinhares in "How an oil refinery works"

mlinhares — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:46:56 +0000

When all you can produce are finance bros this is the result.

New comment by mlinhares in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""

mlinhares — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:10:36 +0000

You're discounting the "being able to write properly and put ideas into inteligible text" skill piece here.

New comment by mlinhares in "US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous"

mlinhares — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:25:39 +0000

Poor Biden, couldn't do anything, but Trump fired thousands of government employees, killed USAID, is about to close the department of education.

People really have to stop saying this, he could have done it if he wanted, he and his team choose not to.