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New comment by patrulek in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

patrulek — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:25:06 +0000

Cooking another crypto bot on Solana, as with constantly changing market conditions, my previous bot basically stopped earning anything.

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

patrulek — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:53:18 +0000

> For example I have decades of Software experience, but wont know where to even begin what OP did.

Simple, you start by asking LLM for more info.

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

patrulek — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:42:25 +0000

It isnt programmers fault though.

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

patrulek — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:21:17 +0000

> mistakes as the programmers: taking 'rules' literally

Isnt it how we make stable, deterministic and predictable system? How do you want to create one with ambiguous rules?

New comment by patrulek in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

patrulek — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:58:24 +0000

Software engineering is a domain on its own, just a technical, not a business one. Good luck with looking for a once in a million data race or deadlock bugs. Good luck with synchronizing system distributed over a whole globe. And good luck with keeping your domain knowledge up-to-date while developing and maintaining your vibecoded system. Assuming you can even provide enough details and deterministic specification to AI agent, because understanding business and having knowledge is not equal to being able to write down specific and concise rules to make a system out of it.

And if you think LLM are (or will be) good enough to not care about software part, what makes you think that your domain will not be completely resolved by AI?

New comment by patrulek in "How to Write to SSDs [pdf]"

patrulek — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:33:28 +0000

This is why im using ramdisk for a browser cache.

New comment by patrulek in "How Complex is my Code?"

patrulek — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:32:01 +0000

To be honest, you can feel code is too complex even without reading a single line of it.

New comment by patrulek in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

patrulek — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:04:34 +0000

So its true what they were saying about bitcoin. It is used by criminals.

New comment by patrulek in "How Complex is my Code?"

patrulek — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:53:29 +0000

You dont need to measure the code complexity, you can completely hallucinate those numbers if you feel that code is too complex and then watch how LLM will respond.

New comment by patrulek in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

patrulek — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:58:18 +0000

But it would be also possible that sentinel value used for comparison changed because of bitflip, not data structure used by program.

New comment by patrulek in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

patrulek — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:42:42 +0000

Waiting for THChat

New comment by patrulek in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

patrulek — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:26:36 +0000

I would be angry too. Its definitely not that micro.

New comment by patrulek in "Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones"

patrulek — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:10:14 +0000

Not usable for me because im using "snake/slide typing".

New comment by patrulek in "Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass"

patrulek — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 08:44:31 +0000

If you cant break something, steal it.

New comment by patrulek in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

patrulek — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 06:36:06 +0000

Polishing my dashboard for tracking profit on Solana blockchain for set of wallets: https://imgur.com/813aQsO

I want to extend it with a simple overview of most recent profitable wallets to look for new "metas" that i could profit on. This project may or may not end as open source eventually, but i currently keep it private.

New comment by patrulek in "Ask HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be"

patrulek — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:47:59 +0000

If you're looking for feedback and ideas you can just ask ChatGPT. Or maybe you just crave human interaction and doing something together with other human?

New comment by patrulek in "I do not want to be a programmer anymore"

patrulek — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:20:58 +0000

Understood. I’ll end the conversation here. If you change your mind in the future, you can simply start a new chat. Take care.

New comment by patrulek in "We reverse-engineered Flash Attention 4"

patrulek — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 03:38:25 +0000

It seems that in spec-driven development era "reverse enginnering" gonna change its meaning...

New comment by patrulek in "Development speed is not a bottleneck"

patrulek — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 07:39:02 +0000

Im not a scientist, just a freelancer (kind of) and its similar for me. I know probably only 2 langauges fluently enough that i could write in them without constantly checking for syntax/docs, but over my whole programming journey i got to know multiple languages with different syntaxes, coding styles and patterns, so i can easily read code written in multiple languages and know whether given code will do what i want (and even if i wouldn't, LLM can explain the code for me and in the worst case send me to the documentation to validate it by myself).

Asking LLM for a code and then read/review it is a huge speed up for me in a lot of cases comparing to when i would need to write the same thing by myself (but i agree it may not work well in a big/complex systems... yet).

New comment by patrulek in "A Roman Gladiator and a Lion Met in Combat. Only One Walked Away"

patrulek — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 04:57:53 +0000

Lack of gladiators?