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New comment by unsloppable in "We should be more ambitious with the software we build"

unsloppable — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:43:15 +0000

I've been harping on about async review for so long now. Glad to see it finally becoming a thing. Code review as a gate doesn't work for remote teams or AI lead development.

You need to decouple it, but you dont need to remove it.

New comment by unsloppable in "We should be more ambitious with the software we build"

unsloppable — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:39:49 +0000

Keeping the backlog funnel full has been nearly a full ltime job for me for about 5 years now. Both pre and post AI. Once you get a team together that knows how to execute keeping the backlog full of well defined and groomed tasks becomes the problem management rarely sees and subsequently doesn't know how to solve.

New comment by unsloppable in "Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?"

unsloppable — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 08:11:59 +0000

I built a tool for this due to having to read through huge amounts of AI generated text at work and actually comprehend it.

The text is AI models produce is incredibly dense and the way it structures sentences just makes long form reading excessively hard.

I basically wanted something that could expand copy into components of "meaning" and then dump the output back out in more normal language.

What I came up with is still "AI generated" but the readability is something passable.

Will definitely be taking a look through this and the recommendations.

New comment by unsloppable in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

unsloppable — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:03:33 +0000

I remember less than 1% of the code I ever wrote. AI hasn't changed anything for me.

New comment by unsloppable in "Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo"

unsloppable — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:24:09 +0000

Cool and clever.

One question: what do you use your old refs for?

We just delete them when we get too many.