Hacker News: syndacks

New comment by syndacks in "Terence Tao: Mathematics in the Age of AI [pdf]"

syndacks — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:49:57 +0000

can't forget SimonWilson-News!

New comment by syndacks in "Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)"

syndacks — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:33:59 +0000

Totally. On the same page as you. His little shit Wario mustache is all part of the costume! We see through you Dex!!

New comment by syndacks in "Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)"

syndacks — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:30:12 +0000

Same please

New comment by syndacks in "Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)"

syndacks — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:24:40 +0000

Hierarchies are burned deep into our DNA little boy, u ever read Utopia?

New comment by syndacks in "Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)"

syndacks — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:52:56 +0000

Dex you aren't part of the slop cannon, you _are_ the slop cannon

New comment by syndacks in "Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T"

syndacks — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:48:34 +0000

Yes, the men running concentration camps are 100% absolved of their culpability. Not their fault!

New comment by syndacks in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

syndacks — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:50:46 +0000

So don’t use it!

New comment by syndacks in "Show HN: I made a heatmap of 3400 VCs who are open to cold emails"

syndacks — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:29:54 +0000

Jamaica Bay has _all_ the VCs in NYC!

New comment by syndacks in "The Last Technical Interview"

syndacks — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:54:35 +0000

From what I understand, this isn’t so far from what Germany does with their secondary schools

New comment by syndacks in "The Last Technical Interview"

syndacks — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:23:20 +0000

Serious question, tell me what you think of using IQ tests to hire SWEs? Should we just do that instead?

New comment by syndacks in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"

syndacks — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:58:52 +0000

Imagine the cognitive dissonance at play there, doing some DS work, realizing your product actively makes people depressed...all while driving back to your 5M+ home in a Tesla listening to podcasts about sunning your ballsack

New comment by syndacks in "The bottleneck was never the code"

syndacks — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:45:51 +0000

The archetype of the "jerk engineer" is over, because it turns out coding isn't all that valuable anymore. We now need "engineers" who understand much more than coding.

New comment by syndacks in "Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model"

syndacks — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:07:40 +0000

it seemed HN was moving the right direction when we added the "no AI comments", and yet, every single post about a new model is from you and your pelican. it's tired. please stop, it adds no value and has become cliche.

New comment by syndacks in "Ask HN: Are AI mandates a good idea?"

syndacks — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:25:57 +0000

I think mandates are irrelevant. Unless you work at a monopoly or cutting edge domain, I don’t see how anything other than a “software factory” wins.

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

New comment by syndacks in "Ask HN: How are people forecasting AI API costs for agent workflows?"

syndacks — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:21:37 +0000

lowercasing doesn’t obfuscate the stench of LLM

New comment by syndacks in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

syndacks — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:17:14 +0000

I have a 20$ for both and like each for unique reasons. How do you all switch your programming paradigms for Codex vs CC?

New comment by syndacks in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

syndacks — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:43:36 +0000

Ai shit post

New comment by syndacks in "Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)"

syndacks — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 03:40:25 +0000

Does anyone have any solid patterns they can share around the “scenarios”/holdouts concept from the Dark Factory, where you create external system(s) to verify your main one?

New comment by syndacks in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

syndacks — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:55:19 +0000

I largely agree with you. And, given your points about “not going back” — how do you propose interviewing SWEs?

New comment by syndacks in "Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking"

syndacks — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:54:26 +0000

A lot of people here like this guys writing.

For a longer and more biting critique of SF one should read

Private Citizens (2016) by Tony Tulathimutte

“ Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century: call it a loving satire.”