ex-aws-dude

Sometimes I catch myself doing this and it feels pretty silly in retrospect Or sometimes they fix a bug and I instinctively go back to tell them the fix worked even though I could just close the session at that point.

Whenever I use claude or copilot for a UI task I have to spent a lot of time getting the alignment and padding of elements correct The initial pass of the agent usually works but everything is slightly off and things…

Does using claude code make you more/less likely to use front end frameworks? I've been using it for a while to develop internal tools and I've been really impressed at how you can build complex applications with just…

I've started to notice a trend at work recently where non-technical people will vibe-code a feature on their own with Claude Code, then come to you and say "hey can you review this and help me get it committed" Would…

I've used Notion for a long time but I'm interested to hear what other alternatives exist in 2026? For me the main requirements are: * Backed up to cloud * Has a mobile app that is easy to make small changes (for…

Some things I don't understand with MCP vs. CLI Permissions: you can already scope CLI command permissions Discoverability: you can already discover commands/arguments with a help flag Why add a whole other process to…

Right now its mostly technical people using these agentic tools but if you extrapolate a few years into the future it seems likely to me that every day users of a computer will be using some user-friendly version as a…

I've seen a lot of people say that work like consulting building small websites, apps, and tools is likely to be affected by AI But on the other hand what areas/specialties/domains are less likely to be replaced in the…

I was too young to have experienced the era of BBS so I was curious about a few things 1) What was your typical routine for using BBS? How often would you log on and check it? What program would you use? 2) How did you…

Say hypothetically the productivity boost from AI is 2x per employee and a company has 10,000 employees. Wouldn't number of employees be a huge point of leverage? Why would you do a layoff when your 10,000 employees are…

Curious to hear how have things changed day-to-day with the recent push to use AI coding tools. Have you noticed faster pace of development? Have you seen changes to code quality or code review? Do teammates that use…

Say you run an agent on a PC and tell it to just do whatever it wants and give it complete control of the PC. What would it end up doing? Has anyone tried this?

I’ve had multiple times where I googled something about a movie, TV show, or book and the AI summary had spoilers of the ending as the first result For example I googled “What is book X about?” and the AI summary told…

I feel like reading HN sometimes there is the assumption that everyone who is a programmer by default works on web stuff (front end/back end). I'm curious to hear about what other jobs/domains exist outside of this and…