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New comment by reinhardt in "Ask HN: Is there a quiet market for 'no enforced AI' dev jobs?"

reinhardt — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:14:35 +0000

> Those mandates were rarely the reason people joined.

But they are a reason people won't apply in the first place, or decide to opt out once they find out in the interview process. Pretty sure I'm not the only one that wouldn't join a Windows-only shop or one that mandates using a corporate laptop with always-on spyware.

New comment by reinhardt in "Ask HN: Is there a quiet market for 'no enforced AI' dev jobs?"

reinhardt — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:48:53 +0000

This sounds great in theory, in practice the number of companies hiring is not infinite and it comes down to supply vs demand for your criteria. Being a vocal contrarian may be a good strategy if the contrarian take is shared by say 20% of companies but probably less so if it's 2%.

> The concept of the "vocal minority" seems to be at play these days, as for every dev I know and work with who is positive about AI, 2 others are negative about it.

Oh I am aware it's unpopular with a growing fraction of devs. The question is whether this sentiment can tip the balance for companies and hiring decisions too, similarly to how COVID tipped the balance for remote/hybrid work in a way it was inconceivable before.

Ask HN: Is there a quiet market for 'no enforced AI' dev jobs?

reinhardt — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:05:10 +0000

It seems to me that the dissenting voices from software engineers burned out after having the AI hype shoved down their throats have been growing louder lately. Just this week I read several posts both here (e.g. [1], [2]) and on Reddit (e.g. [3], [4]) with hundreds of comments from devs who have long moved past skepticism and ambivalence into one or more of the five stages of grief.

That's not to say they're the majority by any means: the "I am 100x more productive with AI," "I haven't hand-coded in months and love it," "adapt or become irrelevant" posts by True Believers haven't slowed down and still make up the lion's share, especially on places like LinkedIn, where voicing dissent can have real-world consequences for your job and future employability (I may have learned this the hard way after being laid off for nebulous "misalignment" reasons). But still, the non-believers, from mild skeptics to full-on haters, do seem more vocal than, say, six months or a year ago.

Questions:

1. Have you noticed this shift too, or is it just my social media algorithm surfacing these more?

2. What can we (devs) realistically do before accepting this as the new normal? Early retirement is one option, and some have already taken it ([5]) or plan to in the coming years.

I'm seriously considering early retirement too (at least from tech) but I was recently contacted by a recruiter for a role that, among other things, mentions "zero AI-assisted coding." My eyes lit up, but it also got me thinking: are there more companies like this just keeping a low profile? Could a critical mass of vocal, defiant devs proclaiming "I will not be bullied, shamed, or forced into agentic coding" actually shift the narrative that AI coding is inevitable? Could contrarian companies and founders start advertising "organic, human-written" code as a quality signal and a perk for attracting experienced craftsmen who refuse to bow to AI mandates? Maybe I'm just daydreaming and the answer to all of the above is no but I'm still early in the grieving process, somewhere between denial and anger rather than depression, let alone acceptance.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668199

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651675

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ueidyv/software_engineers_are_facing_an_identity_crisis/

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ufed4k/software_engineers_are_facing_an_existential/

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1uew891/older_tech_workers_are_tapping_out_taking_early/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697527

Points: 7

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New comment by reinhardt in "Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?"

reinhardt — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:33:03 +0000

You could if you were a Deist. Deists believe in a creator who set the universe in motion via natural laws but no longer interacts with it. A sentient, conscious Big Bang if you will.

New comment by reinhardt in "Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?"

reinhardt — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:39:45 +0000

By "believe", do you mean just hold the belief that it somehow exists, as in "I believe black holes exist / dinosaurs existed (but this belief has zero effect in my day to day life)", or something more consequential?

New comment by reinhardt in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

reinhardt — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:01:23 +0000

Same lack of desire to go out and I don't even have wife and kids, or even friends for that matter; just one friend I see once a week. Whatever the appeal/reward of socialization is for most people, I don't get it.

Decoding Academic Papers with AI: A Practical Guide

reinhardt — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:45:03 +0000

Article URL: https://joshtuddenham.dev/blog/hashmaps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643694

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by reinhardt in "Migrating to Postgres"

reinhardt — Sat, 17 May 2025 22:04:23 +0000

Also curious why every comment mentions just the number of rows as the only factor that matters. A 100M rows table of 3 integer columns is quite different from 50+ columns, 5 of which are text up to a few MB long.

New comment by reinhardt in "Python 3.13.0 Is Released"

reinhardt — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:32:33 +0000

Getting a cyclic import error is not a bug, it's a feature alerting you that your code structure is like spaghetti and you should refactor it to break the cycles.

New comment by reinhardt in "Python 3.13.0 Is Released"

reinhardt — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:27:15 +0000

That's not a problem, let alone the biggest one. You should just use relative imports explicitly.

New comment by reinhardt in "Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator"

reinhardt — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 14:24:04 +0000

I haven't used Airflow for years but it used to be quite clunky, not sure how much it's improved since. I'd look into Prefect and/or Dagster first, both are more modern alternatives built with Airflow's shortcomings in mind.

GPT-4 Can’t Reason: Addendum

reinhardt — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 21:05:51 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@konstantine_45825/gpt-4-cant-reason-addendum-ed79d8452d44

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37385063

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

AWS Glue/Athena/Redshift outage

reinhardt — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 21:03:00 +0000

Article URL: https://status.aws.amazon.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20298719

Points: 82

# Comments: 15

BlackSheep: Fast async Python microframework using Cython/uvloop/httptools

reinhardt — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 17:13:55 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/RobertoPrevato/BlackSheep

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20196597

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Rewriting the Slack Python SDK

reinhardt — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 05:59:43 +0000

Article URL: https://slack.engineering/rewriting-the-slack-python-sdk-ea000f587de7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20067529

Points: 50

# Comments: 54

New comment by reinhardt in "Scrum is fragile, not Agile"

reinhardt — Mon, 27 May 2019 10:43:23 +0000

I'd guess career-progression points, or even keep-getting-a-paycheck points at worst.

New comment by reinhardt in "5M Bid request/s, 2ms max response time – The Road to Damascus"

reinhardt — Sat, 25 May 2019 14:55:42 +0000

> Its a massive amount of state aggregated from billions of events that needs to be served at extremely low latency, but couldn't it be partitioned somehow???

The bidder/pacer state is not necessarily massive, and certainly it does not consist of all the gazillions of past events. Depending on the strategy/bidding model, it can range from a few MB to several GBs, something that can fit in a beefy node.

> Google Fi/Spanner and BigTable have certainly been developed to support these issues.

I doubt any external store can be used with so low latency constraints (2-10ms) and high throughput (millions RPS). Perhaps Aerospike but even that is a stretch to put it in the hot-path. At this scale you're pretty much limited to fetch the state in memory and update it asynchronously every couple of minutes/hours.

Source: I also work in ad tech.

The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy)

reinhardt — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 16:38:03 +0000

Article URL: https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2012/06/12/the-care-and-feeding-of-software-engineers-or-why-engineers-are-grumpy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19185267

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Twitter kills off ManageFlitter

reinhardt — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 05:18:32 +0000

Article URL: http://status.manageflitter.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19083162

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by reinhardt in "Mara: A lightweight ETL framework, halfway between plain scripts and Airflow"

reinhardt — Thu, 10 May 2018 06:24:02 +0000

Why PostgreSQL only? The mara-DB dependency [1] claims to support more.

[1] https://github.com/mara/mara-db