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New comment by unified101 in "Ask HN: How's Everyone Feeling Today?"

unified101 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:14:55 +0000

Heres something I learnt ont eh kids side for bedtime routine: choices and consequences. You can have a discussion with them about the choice they have on bedtime, and what the likely consequence can be (getting up late, not going to school etc). Then let them make the choice and bear the consequence. It's both trust building, and genuinely gives agency and outcome to the kids. Not sure if you can implement this, but if you can, it helps.

Don't wish for the period to pass, since parenthood is a sequence of these challenges, this will go and the next one will come. It's rather a chance to "upgrade" your parenting.

Wishing you the best.

New comment by unified101 in "DeepSeek API Pricing Update"

unified101 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:58:41 +0000

About 3x increase. Luna is now a much better deal. Hope they don't increase their prices in response.

New comment by unified101 in "Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?"

unified101 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:58:25 +0000

How's the money though, relatively.

New comment by unified101 in "Gemini API removes postpay billing"

unified101 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:55:16 +0000

Not a bad idea. reduces the "blast radius" of these api keys. People leak them rampantly.

New comment by unified101 in "Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects"

unified101 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:23:38 +0000

sure, when you run the server locally.

New comment by unified101 in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

unified101 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:27:40 +0000

There's trillions on the line. So you can be sure this will lead to trusted computing widewine style for ads till the pixels are lit up and the audio waves hit the speaker.

Pessimism wins when capital is opposite individual interest.

New comment by unified101 in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

unified101 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:54:06 +0000

Sorry, what model of microsoft? They're dead without their gpt deal.

New comment by unified101 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

unified101 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:58:32 +0000

You're treating asking questions on everything as "outsourcing your entire thinking". It isn't.

New comment by unified101 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

unified101 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:57:06 +0000

You're reading too widely for a simple point I'm making: what an engineer did in Aug 2025, they can do in a fraction of the time in Aug 2026.

Everything else is something else you care about, but producitivty is simply proven for almost every engineer on the above point.

New comment by unified101 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

unified101 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:02:08 +0000

Most people are currently too polite to ask the last part out loud. I suspect it will start changing soon.

New comment by unified101 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

unified101 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:58:35 +0000

Already seeing it in many places.

New comment by unified101 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

unified101 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:11:39 +0000

If you think A is not happening for a software engineer's role, then you are mistaken.

We are all scrambling to figure out what else we need to do (and so are many other roles).

New comment by unified101 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

unified101 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:09:00 +0000

Can you point to any place/post making this argument? I'm an active lurker here, and have not seen anyone arguing for layer-free/blob-of-code type of workflow.

The fact that some teams find themselves there is simply a realization of what I stated - inactive maintainership by not taking code reviews seriously.

New comment by unified101 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

unified101 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:31:40 +0000

> ask Claude if it makes sense to do X

This is a fantastic way of working with agents in my experience. It's like have a peer architect who can challenge you and help you improve. You're projecting your own feelings and fears by calling it infantalizing.

New comment by unified101 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

unified101 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:04:55 +0000

It's your code review process (with or without agents). If you don't hold this fort, the battle is lost, and the repo is going to devolve.

New comment by unified101 in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"

unified101 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:14:23 +0000

For a completely opposite take: https://yegge.ai/essays/model-welfare