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New comment by s1ngular1ties in "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?"

s1ngular1ties — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:19:20 +0000

Amen. I feel like I live in a different world than many of the commenters here. AI has made it such that most code “vibe coded” follows our root architectural practices by default. I couldn’t be more thrilled, and watching how enabled people are with this in their hands is amazing! I feel for the people in the thread who aren’t getting or feeling that experience.

New comment by s1ngular1ties in "The Last Technical Interview"

s1ngular1ties — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:31:55 +0000

Steve Yegge writing a self-applause post? Well, I never! =)

New comment by s1ngular1ties in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

s1ngular1ties — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:15:08 +0000

Sorry, I can’t tell if you’re replying to me or to the parent - HN interface is hard to figure out…maybe the parent since it was flagged? - but I assure you that my comment wasn’t satirical in the slightest.

New comment by s1ngular1ties in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

s1ngular1ties — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:03:58 +0000

You might want to read my earlier comment in the overall thread re: delivering business value and moving the needle features while still building with solid architectural principles. As I mentioned above, the AI stuff - with the rails I’ve put in to guide it - has actually lessened tech debt introduced, not made it worse.

I’m well aware of what you’re saying, but we are definitively moving faster in the correct direction. If this hasn’t been the case for where you’ve worked, my sympathies!

New comment by s1ngular1ties in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

s1ngular1ties — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:30:46 +0000

> just x number of employees are generating y number of pr's with z% ai code + this quarter we made a profit = ai productivity boost...

TBH, if x,y, and z led to your company making an increase in profits over the quarter (im not saying it did, just that your recounting of it implies the connection was made), then it pretty much did its job. The last one is a more than meaningful metric for bosses, companies, and shareholders =)

New comment by s1ngular1ties in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

s1ngular1ties — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:27:13 +0000

I’m surprised that lines removed isn’t something your bosses at the time weren’t also advocating for, TBH. I don’t blame you for looking around.

New comment by s1ngular1ties in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

s1ngular1ties — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:26:19 +0000

Yeah I’ve experienced much the same as you. Like it’s overwhelmingly clear from everything it’s enabled for us that we’re going far, far faster than we ever have, and the guardrails we have in play have helped guard the architecture and make it even harder to commit a bad PR. Sometimes in reading these comments I’m left wondering what sorts of experiences people are having elsewhere that’s left them this soured on its usage in business.

New comment by s1ngular1ties in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

s1ngular1ties — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:22:50 +0000

100%. My engineering teams velocity (and I mean this in terms of bug free, valuable needle moving features shipped) has gone up immensely. TBF it was already a very talented senior group of people, but having that kind of group embrace the tooling for what it is has made a massive difference.