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New comment by tkiolp4 in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

tkiolp4 — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:32:41 +0000

Don’t be naive. Anthropics (et al) mission is to make us unemployable. They need to sell their tools to companies so that they can finally discard 90% of their workforce. It’s a win win for companies and for anthropic (et al). Obviously we are the losers in the middle. And people around here on HN may think they cannot be affected, that they are the elite class of developers… they are gonna get hurt

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

tkiolp4 — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:29:12 +0000

You won’t be able to enjoy your free time playing with computers if anthropic et al make you jobless.

The “you” doesn’t necessarily refer to you. Im addressing 90% of the developers out there. We love playing around technology… but I doubt we will be thinking the same once we become unemployable. But here we are, having fun with the tools of companies that want to finish us. How ironic

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

tkiolp4 — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:23:43 +0000

Are you sure you will be able to spend time playing around that kind of stuff when anthropic/openai/google/etc make you jobless? (well, perhaps not YOU precisely, but 90% of devs, so there’s a high chance).

We always think it’s not gonna hit us… we may be wrong

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

tkiolp4 — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:16:25 +0000

It’s pure marketing. Don’t be naive

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

tkiolp4 — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:12:15 +0000

He is a puppet. Anthropic is making him a billionaire. No surprise no one here can notice the difference

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

tkiolp4 — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:10:34 +0000

How can you be so blind? This is all a marketing campaign by anthropic. No more no less. The developers doing the rewrite have no voice at all in this game.

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Security through obscurity is not bad"

tkiolp4 — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:48:01 +0000

The problem with security through obscurity (even if it’s just an “addon”) is that it pollutes your code base, system. It’s just not worth it.

Like moving ssh to a different port. If you are the only one working on it, sure fine, as long as you remember the port. If you re working with others, then everyone needs to know the new port, so it has to be documented somehow. It’s a pita

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Show HN: Ableton Live MCP"

tkiolp4 — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:44:59 +0000

Agree to some extent. At some point though we jump the thin line between creative expression and… magic?

Like if at some point I can just say “Generate a song similar to Smooth Criminal, different enough to not trigger copyright claims” and it just works, and everyone loves it… well is that creative thinking?

New comment by tkiolp4 in "AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights"

tkiolp4 — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:22:33 +0000

Metrics: I increased retention 2x; I reduced latency from X ms to Y ms; increased slo to 99.999… those are all meaningless. It was in fashion to put such numbers in cvs maybe 5-10 years ago. Not anymore

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Ask HN: How did the industry settle on weekly limits?"

tkiolp4 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:10:46 +0000

Just cancel your subscription.

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Simulacrum of Knowledge Work"

tkiolp4 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:06:27 +0000

I think this is pretty obvious for many of us in the industry. Unfortunately, there is so much money on the table that the big players will shove whatever they want down our throats

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks"

tkiolp4 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:29:48 +0000

That has never been true.

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks"

tkiolp4 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:27:48 +0000

When I was younger I was sold in the idea of data driven decisions. Everything needs to be measured, otherwise you are just biased, and bias is bad. Nowadays I do still rely on data and measurements but I also have experience and taste to judge things. Answering your question, the latter.

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks"

tkiolp4 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:19:58 +0000

> I can't be the only one to think it is silly to interact with tools in this way. Honestly, I see skills, "hooks", and other monkey-patch efforts as things that will be short-lived investments, weird kludges from an era where you had to "hand-crank" your AI, more often. Something to go the same way as using HTML tables as bastardized CSS

Agree. It’s sad to see our field plagued by this monkey patch efforts. I reviewed the other day a skill MD file that stated “Don’t introduce bugs, please”. Like, wtf is that? Before LLMs we weren’t taken seriously as an engineering discipline, and I didn’t agree. But nowadays, I feel ashamed of every skill MD file that pollutes the repos I maintain. Junior engineers or fresh graduates that are told to master some AI/LLM tool (I think the nvidia ceo said that) are going to have absolute zero knowledge of how systems work and are going to rely on prompts/skills. How come thats not something to be worried about?

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Ask HN: I burnt out from software development. What now?"

tkiolp4 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:45:22 +0000

Just stick. Get the paycheck, do the minimum. Learn to not give a fuck about companies. Im in the same position

Im in EU. For me there’s no fucking way I can get 100K/year in any other work except software engineering. So I wanna buy a house, I just need to stick a few more years to get there. Just smile, get they paycheck and go home. That’s my plan. I have learned to be more resilient. Lifes short but it’s not like I’m in jail or something like that

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Scotty: A beautiful SSH task runner"

tkiolp4 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:42:49 +0000

Just use (the good parts of) Ansible

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

tkiolp4 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:34:32 +0000

SAP, Salesforce, Booking.com… all awful products. We use them because monopolies.

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

tkiolp4 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:35:28 +0000

Please don’t.

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

tkiolp4 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:34:34 +0000

That sounds awful.

I got a promotion once for deleting 250K lines of code in less than a month. Now that sounds better

New comment by tkiolp4 in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

tkiolp4 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:29:20 +0000

The whole gsd/agents folder is hilarious. Like a bunch of MD that never breaks. How do you is it minimally correct? Subjective prose. Sad to see this on the frontpage