Hacker News: seattle_spring

New comment by seattle_spring in "DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security'"

seattle_spring — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:31:53 +0000

You're asking how breaking the law is cheating? If not, can you clarify your question?

New comment by seattle_spring in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

seattle_spring — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:15:56 +0000

Despite advertising themselves as such, the party hasn't been for actual small government at least during my entire lifetime (40+ years).

New comment by seattle_spring in "Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely"

seattle_spring — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:39:56 +0000

Can you elaborate on what you mean?

New comment by seattle_spring in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

seattle_spring — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:52:34 +0000

I mean... their stock is up more than 1,000% since 2014. Anyone who has been there for a few years should have multiple refreshers that have grown significantly in value.

New comment by seattle_spring in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

seattle_spring — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:45:37 +0000

They literally don't. Data is their moat; selling it would be counter to their financial success.

New comment by seattle_spring in "Ask HN: Corporate Disconnect Between "Tokenmaxxing" and Token Optimization"

seattle_spring — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:51:04 +0000

You think not being allowed to write any code manually is the norm?

New comment by seattle_spring in "Ask HN: Corporate Disconnect Between "Tokenmaxxing" and Token Optimization"

seattle_spring — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:49:46 +0000

> "You shouldn't be manually writing any code".

Can someone explain how this mentality could possibly be rational? It sounds completely asinine to me, and I use AI quite a bit for my job.

In fact, the team at my work that seems to be 100% AI writes the worst code, follows no standards, and doesn't seem faster at all than teams that are simply AI-augmented.

New comment by seattle_spring in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

seattle_spring — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:53:59 +0000

> The JS ecosystem is really, really complicated, so any non-trivial app is going to use multiple bundlers, node runtimes, native runtimes, etc, etc, etc.

This statement makes very little sense to me. I've worked on several of what are likely the largest JS monorepos in the world, and they all define a specific version of a specific runtime and package manager you should be using.

New comment by seattle_spring in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

seattle_spring — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:00:04 +0000

I've been seeing this sentiment since I got into professional software development nearly 20 years ago.

New comment by seattle_spring in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

seattle_spring — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:24:55 +0000

I'm one ban away from a permaban thanks to the Navy Seal copypasta

New comment by seattle_spring in "Ask HN: What Do You Struggle With?"

seattle_spring — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:30:32 +0000

Dishonest people.

New comment by seattle_spring in "Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"?"

seattle_spring — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:03:06 +0000

Why would a self-described "AI Engineer" be any more capable of building that sort of functionality over any other backend engineer, especially one who is familiar with agent-assisted development?

New comment by seattle_spring in "Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"?"

seattle_spring — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:56:41 +0000

Considering 99% of engineers are using AI tools, that would mean all engineers are now "Agentic Engineers." Are we really no longer putting any value on someone who has expertise in understanding the code it produces?

Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"?

seattle_spring — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:26:50 +0000

I'm seeing an enormous contingency of my LinkedIn connections change their titles to "AI Engineer." I know for a fact that they're not working on any models or even AI workflows, they're just building apps and backends using AI tools like Claude.

Is that what "AI Engineer" means nowadays? Is that what companies are looking for when they open recs for "AI Engineer"? Should I be marketing myself as an "AI Engineer" just because I'm very efficient using modern AI tooling to build good non-AI software?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312377

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New comment by seattle_spring in "Do they know we can tell it's AI slop?"

seattle_spring — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:06:06 +0000

Hopefully retire, because I'd literally rather be dead than go much deeper into this shitty corporate world borne of AI.

New comment by seattle_spring in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

seattle_spring — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:56:09 +0000

Reminds me of a car dealership talking about how good of a deal their extended maintenance plan and warranties are.

New comment by seattle_spring in "'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused"

seattle_spring — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:47:40 +0000

I'm seeing the exact same thing with colleagues past and present on LinkedIn. They know how to use Claude, so their titles are now "AI tech lead" or "Lead AI engineer" or whatever, even though they're still just building the same basic CRUD they've built their entire careers.

New comment by seattle_spring in "Sam Altman makes 'mic drop' offer to every Y Combinator startup"

seattle_spring — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:53:42 +0000

> Bogo sort, Canary, and Rubber-Ducking come to mind

None of those come from such a deep hell as the "looksmaxxing" community.

New comment by seattle_spring in "Sam Altman makes 'mic drop' offer to every Y Combinator startup"

seattle_spring — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:12:46 +0000

> i am excited to see what will happen with tokenmaxxing startups, both for how they work internally and the products they can build.

Am I the only one who gets a physical, visceral churning in their gut when they read/hear someone unironically using the term "tokenmaxxing"?

This is the absolute worst timeline, and I'm embarrassed to even be in an industry adjacent to these dorks.

New comment by seattle_spring in "SpaceX S-1"

seattle_spring — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:46:52 +0000

That number is grossly inflated for every S-1. It's about as close to meaningless as you could possibly get.

For example, I used to work for an insurance-related tech company. They claimed their TAM was $9T-- the value of the entire global insurance market.