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New comment by neebz in "Orchestrating AI code review at scale"

neebz — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:21:16 +0000

do you also have separate prompts for each domain (security, architecture etc?).

would love to look into it if any part of it is open source

New comment by neebz in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

neebz — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:20:46 +0000

Once the plan stage is done is it fire-and-forget for you afterwards?

New comment by neebz in "Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS"

neebz — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:52:00 +0000

what a brilliant blog. the Lotus 1-2-3 screen brings so many memories of my childhood.

My father was a power user of Lotus back in the late 80's. He extensively used it as his job at GE. When we moved back to Pakistan, he setup a girls school and tracked everything from students to accounting to results in Lotus. In many ways, Lotus showed him the power of computers and made him buy a home computer when hardly anyone I knew had it.

Late in his life the world moved onto Excel and reluctantly he had to do it too but his love for Lotus never went away.

New comment by neebz in "The Future of AI Software Development"

neebz — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:58:15 +0000

I've faced the same but my conclusion is the opposite.

In the past 6 months, all my code has been written by claude code and gemini cli. I have written code backend, frontend, infrastructure and iOS. Considering my career trajectory all of this was impossible a couple of years ago.

But the technical debt has been enormous. And I'll be honest, my understanding of these technologies hasn't been 'expert' level. I'm 100% sure any experienced dev could go through my code and may think it's a load of crap requiring serious re-architecture.

It works (that's great!) but the 'software engineering' side of things is still subpar.

New comment by neebz in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

neebz — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:33:11 +0000

For window management, Aerospace has been a game changer for me. I could never work with multiple monitors before that.

New comment by neebz in "Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year"

neebz — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:39:48 +0000

We switched to solar in 2021 expecting a 3.5-year payback. Electricity prices rose so fast that we recovered the investment in under two years.

Also the national grid is notorious for it's frequent blackouts (load-shedding) since the early ’90s. Solar allowed us to have uninterrupted supply in the mornings and longer backups during night.

New comment by neebz in "Vibe engineering"

neebz — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:54:52 +0000

All these coding agent workflows really drive home how important a solid test suite is but who’s actually writing the tests? In my case Claude Code keeps missing key scenarios and I’ve had to point out every gap myself.

Also reviewing LLM generated code is way more mentally draining and that’s with just one agent. I can’t imagine trying to review code from multiple agents working in parallel.

Finally I’ve shipped a bunch of features to prod with Claude writing all the code. Productivity definitely went up, but my understanding of the codebase dropped fast. Three months in I’m actually struggling to write good prompts or give accurate estimates because my grasp of the code hasn’t really grown (code reviews only help so much). Curious if anyone else has run into the same thing?

New comment by neebz in "Jeena's Hyprland Demo"

neebz — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:09:53 +0000

Looks super interesting. Has anyone here tried a keyboard-first tiling window manager on macOS? Any recommendations?

New comment by neebz in "AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore"

neebz — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 07:32:02 +0000

Finally someone emphasized upon the cognitive load of AI-assisted coding.

It definitely makes me faster but it's consistent prompt->code-review->prompt->code-review->scratch->prompt-code->review cycle which just requires extreme focus.

New comment by neebz in "Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy"

neebz — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:01:06 +0000

We setup a solar on in our home in Pakistan back in 2023. Our primary driver was cost since it was getting extremely expensive during summers when the ACs were on. We expected to get the return in 4 years but inflation went so high in subsequent years that it took just 2 years.

New comment by neebz in "Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website"

neebz — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:03:30 +0000

I remember back in the summer of 1996 in Pakistan our household was one of the first few to have to internet.

At that time angelfire.com used to give free webspace. My brother got hold of a pirated version of CorelDraw and setup a fan website of his favorite rock band Junoon, which incidentally is still online: https://www.angelfire.com/pa/JUNOON

And then when my brother met the band at a concert and they actually recognized him due to the website. I guess first time we realized how impactful internet is going to be.

New comment by neebz in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

neebz — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:30:04 +0000

yup - some documentation/legal work remains but they should be able own the company abroad as a subsidiary soon.

how would you suggest we should pursue this once all the paperwork is done? hire an immigration lawyer? any recommendations? we are non-YC.

New comment by neebz in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

neebz — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:05:41 +0000

How are the odds for bringing your remote employees to US using the L1 visa? They've worked for us for more than 5 years in management role. Also the startup got acquired sometime ago, does that impact the L1 application?

New comment by neebz in "Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages (1991)"

neebz — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 09:33:21 +0000

Bertrand was one of my favorite people in the software field. I really wanted to do a Phd under his supervision.

New comment by neebz in "I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)"

neebz — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 10:50:00 +0000

awesome. thanks for sharing.

New comment by neebz in "The Code Review Pyramid"

neebz — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:01:49 +0000

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30674159

New comment by neebz in "Ask HN: Does your team use feature flags?"

neebz — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 16:20:04 +0000

Some feedback from our transition:

- automated tests are the pre-req of feature flags. kindly make sure that you have good test coverage. otherwise the team loses confidence in code & feature flags which defeats the whole purpose.

- as part of code review guidelines we added one major feedback item: can this PR be merged right now? why not? what can be done to merge it right away? as part of a cultural shift the code reviewers played a critical role. they kept engineers on the their toes at all times.

- feature flags should be part of user stories. in many cases you can't expect engineers to add a feature flag at the end of implementation. the product team should know this at the time of writing user stories.

- as mentioned in many other comments try to clean up code after feature flags become stale. otherwise the code (and respective automated test cases) becomes a huge mess.

- in our case we decided the granularity of feature flags (per-user, per-customer, per-region, per-server etc). we started with per-customer and went from there. worked out fine for us.

- feature flags have major two benefits: "release often, release small" & "decouple releases with big launches". please make sure to instill this in your team every day. mindset changes takes repetition and emphasis. if at anytime you feel that you are not achieving any of these please take a step back and figure out why.

New comment by neebz in "Ask HN: Does your team use feature flags?"

neebz — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:57:04 +0000

Yes. Feature flags changed the mindset of my whole team. I absolutely love the fact that it pushes the whole team towards release-small-release-often mentality. It's a technical solution with many benefits but I love the cultural impact the most.

New comment by neebz in "The most underused browser feature: reader mode"

neebz — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 12:04:52 +0000

In Safari you can set reader mode turned on for specified websites. I have done it for all the sites which I visit frequently. Unfortunately there is no way to to turn it on at global level.

The only minor gripe I have is the slide-above animation when reader mode turns on. It's jarring when you keep getting that on each navigation.

New comment by neebz in "Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?"

neebz — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:16:44 +0000

Personally I learnt to be less judgmental of people. From media you compartmentalize everyone into neat little boxes to make sense of the world. We find other people's values ridiculous when we hear/read about it but only when we go and live with them we find out it makes sense. It may be wrong but it makes sense. And there is a good chance if you were brought up in that same society you may have had the same behavior. I've learned to empathize only when I experienced this first hand.