Hacker News: sdevonoes

New comment by sdevonoes in "Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf]"

sdevonoes — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:29:36 +0000

So many things he got right (except you know what)

New comment by sdevonoes in "Beware Management Consultants"

sdevonoes — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:50:16 +0000

I won’t lie. I want to be Captain/Director, not the rower.

It’s very satisfying to get rich by doing pretty much nothing. And there’s some sadness when some rower does their best but doesn’t even come close to directors/captain positions.

Some excellent rowers can make it sure, but we all are not excellent. Oh well, I stop

New comment by sdevonoes in "Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview"

sdevonoes — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:37:54 +0000

Users don’t like shit, though.

New comment by sdevonoes in "More German than many Germans"

sdevonoes — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:26:51 +0000

I think it depends on the job one has. Working as senior software engineer for international companies? Any western european country is nice and all. Top p90 salary. English only needed. Working as a bank cashier? Well, then you will notice the difference between let say Germany and Portugal. Low salary. Need proficiency in the local language, etc.

New comment by sdevonoes in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

sdevonoes — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:45:21 +0000

The litmus test is this: do you enjoy consuming AI-generated stuff?

I don’t. Whether it’s written text, or video, audio, restaurant menus, clothing pictures, documentation, airport control, ads…

I do think there’s value in LLMs but as a sort of better search engines and q/a machines.

New comment by sdevonoes in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

sdevonoes — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:43:41 +0000

Im not so sure if this is a pro or a con. Take two extremes at product building: brute force vs deep research first. I guess llms allow you to experiment quickly with many approaches and see what sticks. Without llms, you need to spend more time researching and thinking what’s the most economical approach. Im biased towards the non-llm approach

New comment by sdevonoes in "A disturbing thought. A world where the marginal cost of software is free"

sdevonoes — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:17:34 +0000

Everyone can write; that doesn’t mean everyone can produce an interesting novel. If everyone can produce software via llms, that doesn’t necessarily mean that software is useful or interesting.

New comment by sdevonoes in "If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do?"

sdevonoes — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:10:49 +0000

Compilers also write code (they write machine code based on high level langs)… yet nobody asked the same question about them (or did they?)

AI needs to be instructed and then some kind of verification of the output is needed. Programmers do that

New comment by sdevonoes in "Golang Maps: how Swiss Tables replaced the old bucket design"

sdevonoes — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:06:54 +0000

So, if engineers out there are not even interested in the most immediate layer of code in front of their eyes (e.g., the code that is now written by LLMs), I guess more and more the kind of stuff like the one in the article is becoming like software archeology, isn’t it?

I love to learn these stuff, and pre-llm era it gave me a plus career wise. Nowadays I guess knowing this stuff pays less off (besides increasing your curiosity)

New comment by sdevonoes in "Our position on open-weights models"

sdevonoes — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:01:54 +0000

As someone who has never visited China or the US; yes. Why? Media. School shootings, ICE, crazy president… What do I see from China? Impressive multi-million cities… and true to be told, not much.

China had a worse reputation, but not anymore since Trump leads the US.

Im not saying that the above is objective, tho

New comment by sdevonoes in "Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed"

sdevonoes — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:48:50 +0000

Would that single person handle different topics such as: UI/UX, security, backups, distributed systems, data migrations, infrastructure, …?

Sure thing there are engineers out there that know some about all of the above (I personally do all of that on personal projects) but you still need specialists, otherwise it’s you alone with all the unknown unknowns that the llm may claim to solve, but you cannot verify

New comment by sdevonoes in "Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed"

sdevonoes — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:41:07 +0000

But searching on google or SO wasn’t the bottleneck either. It was searching on your own codebase (and dependant ones) for the exact place (a class, a file, a function) where to put/delete/update business logic without breaking production.

LLMs help, but they haven’t been trained on our own repos. I don’t need the LLM to help me with algos that are available online… I need them to help me with custom business logic

New comment by sdevonoes in "Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models"

sdevonoes — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:09:37 +0000

Got it. But then why Nike/Adidas/Quicksilver/etc cannot bring back clothes from the 90s?

Buying second hand is not that nice (smells that never go away) and “vintage” places sell min. catalogue buy way overpriced.

New comment by sdevonoes in "Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program"

sdevonoes — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:25:56 +0000

Another reason why LLMs suck. So far cons > pros

New comment by sdevonoes in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

sdevonoes — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:20:01 +0000

Im curious, since I don’t drink coffee nor take protein supplements and the like, my question is: is the plan you keep taking what you take, let’s say, “forever”? Because the moment you stop taking, wouldn’t you notice a big drop?

New comment by sdevonoes in "Ask HN: How do you as a normal swe use AI?"

sdevonoes — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:59:31 +0000

One could say it’s a way of “trust, but verify “

New comment by sdevonoes in "Dupes took over the world"

sdevonoes — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:59:25 +0000

I remember buying a Nike Tshirt in the early 2000s: good quality, and still looking decent today. Nowadays most of the Nike/Adidas/etc stuff is very low quality fabric and not necessarily cheap (at least in Western Europe)

New comment by sdevonoes in "Ask HN: How do you as a normal swe use AI?"

sdevonoes — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:23:08 +0000

AI as a replacement of Google. When I wanted to learn about something the usual path was: google it. Go through dozens of links, discard, filter the good ones, read them, and gain the knowledge.

Nowadays I ask the question to the LLM and for every answer I demand the links/urls where the LLM get the info from. I still read the referenced web sites. It’s faster.

New comment by sdevonoes in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

sdevonoes — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:17:57 +0000

We are the ones to get to decide. Do we want that? I don’t. But im just a single data point

New comment by sdevonoes in "Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)"

sdevonoes — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:20:59 +0000

How are (tech) consultants typically hired? They also go through the nonsense of live coding / systems design interview? Or they get asked specifically about the problem they need to solve and see if they are a good fit or not?