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New comment by pech0rin in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

pech0rin — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:40:45 +0000

The misunderstanding is that people equate what these companies are saying and what they are doing. In reality this is the perfect time to fire people under cover. This happens every X years where as leadership you can say this tech is displacing you, when in truth its just that you arent needed anymore.

This is a capitalism functioning correctly as labor as in then moved to places it is needed more. Its sort of shocking to see devs complain about getting laid off. Thats the point of a high variance career. Great and terrible outcomes go hand in hand, if you want one you must expect the other.

New comment by pech0rin in "Cisco workforce reductions"

pech0rin — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:27:52 +0000

Cisco fires people all the time. They have a huge workforce this isn’t really newsworthy.

New comment by pech0rin in "Getting arrested in Japan"

pech0rin — Sun, 10 May 2026 03:57:22 +0000

I love how this starts out by listing “innocent” laws that you can break. Its your job to know the laws of the country and if you break them you should be punished. US people love visiting Japan and talking about how safe it is. Why exactly do you think its so safe?

New comment by pech0rin in "GTFOBins"

pech0rin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:14:56 +0000

Because you have to have shell access to the server to use any of these.

New comment by pech0rin in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

pech0rin — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:15:52 +0000

This is insanely dumb. Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you. So if people want to do it anyway who cares. I understand the cafe and indoor space bans but not allowing anyone to do it seems stupid. I don’t smoke but UK has really gone off the deep end recently with social controls, what is the point?

New comment by pech0rin in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

pech0rin — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:46:08 +0000

Strange how many people are comparing code to art. Software engineering has never been about the code written, it’s about solving problems with software. With AI we can solve more problems with software. I have been writing code for 25 years, I love using AI. It allows me to get to the point faster.

The author is right, eliminating all this framework cruft will be a boon for building great software. I was a skeptic but it seems obvious now its largely going to be an improvement.

New comment by pech0rin in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

pech0rin — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:37:06 +0000

I ran linux for 15 years on a range of different machines. Desktop the most successfully. For laptops I tried everything but once I switched to a mac I’ve never gone back. The hardware is at least twice as good as any other laptop.

I’ve seen framework getting a lot of mind share recently. Especially with DHH singing their praises. I have come to loathe apple software over the years but can’t get over terrible build quality.

I thought framework was supposed to be the premium linux option but after reading this it looks same quality as all those windows turned linux machines.

New comment by pech0rin in "Cloudflare was down"

pech0rin — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:57:22 +0000

Rewriting in Rust is paying dividends.

New comment by pech0rin in "We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months"

pech0rin — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:17:02 +0000

8 months of a huge bull market. Not exactly indicative of any real insight.

New comment by pech0rin in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

pech0rin — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:13:17 +0000

Depressing how many comments are supporting this practice. The point is tests are supposed to be hard and fair. Everyone gets the same amount of time, same preparation for a presentation. Then you are judged based on your ability, preparation and skill. Pressure leads to growth, competition to effort. I hate this new world where we bend over backwards to make everything “fair”.

New comment by pech0rin in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

pech0rin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:17:38 +0000

Look Bun is a great product but something hilarious about the company that is “going to replace all software developers with AI” BUYING software. You are building a product that is supposed to make software cost 0 right? Why wouldn’t you just “vibe” code yourself Bun?

New comment by pech0rin in "Left to Right Programming"

pech0rin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:48:42 +0000

I guess I’m so old that I remember time without autocomplete. Where programmers just knew what functions existed and how to use them. Usually by looking them up in a manual and then -gasp- remembering them. Languages shouldn’t be optimized for laziness or not using your brain.

“Shut up old man” yes yes okay.

New comment by pech0rin in "-2000 Lines of code"

pech0rin — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 05:08:01 +0000

I'm sick and tired of all these AI generated comments. Oh you got the AI to use lower case! Wow it still writes the exact same way.

New comment by pech0rin in "How I use my terminal"

pech0rin — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:54:32 +0000

this is cool but acting like this is some insane usage is funniest part for me. emacs and 100 other tools can do this easily and have been doing it for 30 years

New comment by pech0rin in "Show HN: I’m 16 years old and working on my first startup, a study app"

pech0rin — Sun, 11 May 2025 09:56:33 +0000

Fake reviews and fake pictures makes me never want to use your app.

New comment by pech0rin in "What it's like working for American companies as an Australian"

pech0rin — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 02:10:16 +0000

Also the Americans don’t work barefoot

New comment by pech0rin in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

pech0rin — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 03:01:35 +0000

This is the most childish thing I’ve read. And shows a lot about he doesn’t have any people relying on him or community to support. He takes one hike and throws away 60m. Doesn’t try to find anything interesting to do at Atlassian just calls his coworkers NPCs. This is zero-empathy Peter Pan syndrome at its worse.

Sad how he just goes adventure hopping to try and find meaning. The problem is no matter where you are you are also there. Time to look inward and not outward.

New comment by pech0rin in "Tokyo University Used "Tiananmen Square" Keyword to Block Chinese Admissions"

pech0rin — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 11:40:28 +0000

why is this site allowed to be posted? most of his stories are completely fabricated with no evidence. he doesn’t even live in Japan but just cosplays as being a resident here. so frustrating seeing his content taken seriously anywhere online.

New comment by pech0rin in "Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study"

pech0rin — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 11:23:42 +0000

this is like the study about water making you hydrated. quite possibly the most obvious outcome of all time.

New comment by pech0rin in "Rewrite It in Rails"

pech0rin — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 08:08:22 +0000

Rails (and possibly Django and Laravel) are just light-years ahead of any other stack for building web apps. They have dealt with all the tedium, know all the requirements, and actually get out of your face when building an application. I have been developing web apps for 15 years now.

I have tried Meteor (back in the day), Remix, Nextjs, Node w/ Express, etc. Always talking about how much better they are. But in my mind web dev is a solved problem. The js stuff is mainly just developers wanking off, driven by a bunch of dollars from big companies.

Systems stuff, deployment infra, etc. is great for stuff like Rust & Go, but shoehorning into web dev makes no sense. I would love to just move on from this debate but it seems thats going to never be possible.