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New comment by orangecoffee in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

orangecoffee — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:26:07 +0000

No you misunderstand me. I support such a view but cannot hold it because my pace at work is so much fast. And hand coding like this will make personal projects s slow and choreful with no visible progress. Like where is the joy in that?

New comment by orangecoffee in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

orangecoffee — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:13:42 +0000

But this way you move way slowly even on personal projects, like you will not even get the basic UI for the app done in a few days? Is that OK for you?

New comment by orangecoffee in "Don't be a meat proxy"

orangecoffee — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:42:45 +0000

When it comes to cost per implemeting SPEC, agents are far cheaper than human salary. So, it's not going to go well.

That said thankfully there's no way of measuring a good SPEC yet. If there is that will collapse the SWEs profession.

New comment by orangecoffee in "Sogen – High-performance Windows and Linux userspace emulator"

orangecoffee — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:12:15 +0000

very cool

New comment by orangecoffee in "Show HN: BlitzGraph – Supabase for graphs, built for LLM agents"

orangecoffee — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:04:34 +0000

SQL isn't an allergy. It's time test. Take medicine to fix your allergy.

New comment by orangecoffee in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

orangecoffee — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:04:52 +0000

Education is not knowledge either. Today market most directly pays for skilled work that increases revenue/profit. Correlation drops after that. It's a struggle I've been trying to reason for myself too.

New comment by orangecoffee in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

orangecoffee — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:39:03 +0000

You are making a wrong assumption that more knowlege leads to more comp, it never has or will.

New comment by orangecoffee in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

orangecoffee — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:59:21 +0000

Has there been anytime, when senior experts in a field, are consistently maintaining this time it's different? You can ignore this at your own peril.

New comment by orangecoffee in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

orangecoffee — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:41:23 +0000

The root cause if of course AI's role in loss of power on compensation (coding as a skill is no longer as valuable), and loss of power in labor vs capital.

It's hard to face this, specially for the one oasis in the job market that pays well.

New comment by orangecoffee in "CEO to staff: You're not getting a raise. We're spending on AI instead"

orangecoffee — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:14:17 +0000

The industry should give more security in exchange for reduced pay. We need a social movement for this.

New comment by orangecoffee in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

orangecoffee — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:00:13 +0000

This could have a shot if we also recommend to companies that, they should convert overall pay to ~2/3 for employees, and with the 1/3 extra hire more people. so every company that opts in has no higher people budget, but generates more employment.

This only requires that everyone take a pay cut to help their peer citizens. I would sign up for this. But would the majority - would you? yes/no - and why?

New comment by orangecoffee in "AI Engineers aren't safe from being replaced by AI"

orangecoffee — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:04:50 +0000

Someone is not let go with the announcement "you are replaced with AI". I know many teams that have downsized, or are not hiring after someone left. There is a reason why leverage of employees has drastically gone down. I myself am struggling in this aspect.

New comment by orangecoffee in "NLAB: The worlds smallest electronics lab"

orangecoffee — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:04:32 +0000

Wtf.. nauseating to see promise of ai proof roles. No way to guarantee that and irresponsible. Spam shit.

New comment by orangecoffee in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

orangecoffee — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:42:05 +0000

One idea we have discussed in my network is if as an industry reset we all said CS should become a 2X to 6X minimum wage career. So say 30k beginner to 100K senior/lead. This would keep many more jobs available and open. But I guess it would not be acceptable to many?

New comment by orangecoffee in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

orangecoffee — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:06:22 +0000

What is the alternative

New comment by orangecoffee in "Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?"

orangecoffee — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:34:05 +0000

This is not happening at least for 25 years, is what seniors I trust tell me.

New comment by orangecoffee in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

orangecoffee — Mon, 04 May 2026 06:51:59 +0000

I have asked more than a few dozen people on this, and the answer after some probing is that no other knowledge based career exists that one can move to which is not exposed to AI. While many talk about moving to a labour oriented career, no one has actually done this in my immediate network and friend of friends network. It's day-dreaming in my opinion.

New comment by orangecoffee in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

orangecoffee — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:31:20 +0000

you may be right on this hunch. but I think the old world is no longer there now :( more thinking is expected per unit time

New comment by orangecoffee in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

orangecoffee — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:19:04 +0000

Does not matter? I think the high compensation will be what will drive the compliance.

New comment by orangecoffee in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

orangecoffee — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:41:55 +0000

Noble thought, but words are empty. Have you perchance written up anything specific?

The only one who's written thus is Marx, but those ideas has not found broad socital support.