Hacker News: thepeoplebook

New comment by thepeoplebook in "Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship"

thepeoplebook — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:41:28 +0000

A stable home life is a prerequisite for focused startup work; otherwise day-to-day worries take up too much attention.

New comment by thepeoplebook in "Stealing Is a Skill"

thepeoplebook — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:09:45 +0000

You have to copy before you can surpass. That's how every craft works. Painting, music, writing, code. You internalize the patterns first, then you start breaking them on purpose.

New comment by thepeoplebook in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

thepeoplebook — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:23:44 +0000

yes

New comment by thepeoplebook in "Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going?"

thepeoplebook — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:49:21 +0000

Same here. At our company, we've pretty much stopped writing code by hand. We hand the implementation to Claude and Codex now. Feels like the real skill is moving up a level: architecture, design choices, and knowing what should be built in the first place.

New comment by thepeoplebook in "Ask HN: I miss old days of blogging without promotions"

thepeoplebook — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:01:39 +0000

Agreed, and it's not just blogs. Amazon KDP is full of AI kids' books, junk self-help, novels run through a model.

I think the most valuable content still comes from people’s real-world experience.