Hacker News: wreath

New comment by wreath in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

wreath — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:58:32 +0000

And what of the original author is not there anymore?

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

wreath — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:04:26 +0000

Even with enough money, you may not be able to attract/keep talented engineers who are willing to put up with such a work environment (the codebase itself, and probably the culture that led to its state) and who want to ship well built/designed software but are slowed down by the mess.

New comment by wreath in "Where does engineering go? Retreat findings and insights [pdf]"

wreath — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:27:17 +0000

PMs do different things in different organizations.

In my last job, PMs were responsible for identifying problems that were worth solving and align with the overall company vision and plans within the owned domain, and design+engineering decided how to solve those problems and what to build. Of course with collaboration w/ the PMs (and EMs).

The job before that, PMs wrote jira tickets and nagged engineering when tickets will be delivered. The "what problems to solve and what to build" questions came straight from CEO/CTO.

New comment by wreath in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

wreath — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:20:38 +0000

> i see how one they cannot think and feel clearly anymore if your neighbours dream constantly about your elimination. All sides just need to stop with that hatred. It leads to so much pain.

I think by now we all know this is a straw man, considering the disproportionate amount of power both parties have. There is absolutely no excuse left for what Israel has been doing in Gaza.

New comment by wreath in "Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?"

wreath — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:28:22 +0000

I dont think parent was questioning it, sounded they were more curious but thanks for explaining because i wasnt sure myself.

Re: safe from LLMs, id imagine the level of rigor in sys engineering is higher so maybe people are more wary of LLM produced code?

New comment by wreath in "Grief and the AI split"

wreath — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:48:06 +0000

Yeah to get the definitive answers, sure AI is quicker. Google is more like the librarian pointing you at possibly good resources to get your answers from after reading the materials and there are a lot of good learning opportunities there. LLMs just give you the answer and robs you of those opportunities.

New comment by wreath in "Agents that run while I sleep"

wreath — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:55:26 +0000

Technical debt is never a problem now since only AI reads code /s

New comment by wreath in "Agents that run while I sleep"

wreath — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:00:32 +0000

Exactly! How do other parts of the organization deal with this avalanche of features in terms of documenting, pricing and packaging, marketing, selling and getting feedback on them. How do users adopt these features and incorporate them in their workflows so fast? Never in my career was the speed of writing code alone the bottleneck.

New comment by wreath in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

wreath — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:38:43 +0000

It's hard to be engaged when you are constantly jumping from one thing/prompt to another vs you are actually doing the work.

New comment by wreath in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

wreath — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:41:22 +0000

I dont even think you need to be neurodivergent or anything to answer this question like the parent’s cofounder did.

From one side, we call ourselves problem solvers, on the other hand we are not satisfied with simple solutions to these problems. If im interviewing for a job, i should be expected to behave and solve hypothetical problems the way id do it on the job. If that screws up your script, you probably suck at hiring and communicating your expectations.

New comment by wreath in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

wreath — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:41:57 +0000

Thats interesting. While i do get mentally tired after a session of focused coding, i feel like i have accomplished something. Using AI for coding feels similar to spending hours doom scrolling reels. Less engaging but Im drained as hell at the end.

New comment by wreath in "Better JIT for Postgres"

wreath — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:35:02 +0000

I think reading queries that are always served from cache are CPU bound because it also involves locking the buffers etc and there is no I/O involved.

New comment by wreath in "AI is making junior devs useless"

wreath — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:23:55 +0000

You don't have to take 5 years off for it. Just continue same old business (assuming you don't have outside pressure to use this slop-machine) and keep your skills and judgment sharp until the tools and workflow stabilizes, and most of all, the money to fuel this hype runs out.

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

wreath — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:21:11 +0000

We already knew this, but in the light of this AI hysteria we pretend like coding speed has always been the bottleneck

New comment by wreath in "What AI coding costs you"

wreath — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:03:50 +0000

And not to mention that most tests available to AI training is trash, so no wonder AI-generated tests are not only worthless but costly in terms of false sense of reliability.

New comment by wreath in "Layoffs at Block"

wreath — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:48:50 +0000

He’s been building tech companies for 20 years, he sure knew smaller teams move faster when he was hiring thousands of more people during covid

New comment by wreath in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

wreath — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:55:59 +0000

Right on.. we already have open source alternative to all the major SaaS out there and companies still opt for the SaaS option instead to avoid the headache of self-hosting and all the other stuff. The extra resources that AI affords you will be directed to building more features for your customers.

New comment by wreath in "Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?"

wreath — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:21:11 +0000

This has been my experience as well. I get drained at the end, and I spent most of my energy and thinking capacity dealing with the LLM instead of the problem space.

New comment by wreath in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

wreath — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:53:48 +0000

More like the fresh parents who start schooling everyone else on how to parent…

New comment by wreath in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

wreath — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:52:31 +0000

> Then what will AI be trained on in let's say 20-30 years? Old code? It's own AI developed code for vibe coded projects?

I’ve seen variation of this question since first few weeks /months after the release of ChatGPT and I havent seen an answer to this from leading figures in the AI coding space, whats the general answer or point of view on this?