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I was among the last to resist, but then I was given a subtle hint that if I won't "improve my productivity and be on par with my colleagues" my work will be at risk. So I started to use Claude Code about a year ago. At…

Dear HN, For the past months, maybe a year, I have lost any interest in technology, software and hardware. When I was a teenager, I had very big passion to software engineering, and have seen technology as something…

Dear HN, I have a question: Does it still make sense to write code purely by hand? Let me clarify. First of all, I'm not talking about environments where you need to "move fast" or where your required to use LLMs. I'm…

Feels like malware and security vulnerabilities are thriving recently. Are we witnessing a potential collapse of the way software is being developed, or am I just stuck with selection bias and it was always a shit show?

I, like many engineers, dream about turning my love to programming into a side business. Nothing crazy, but enough to replace an average SWE income. And I, like many engineers, fell into the "build, and they will come"…

When I start to program as a teenager, and it became my job in my early twenties, I was happy over the moon. I never made it my career because of money or prestige, teenagers rarely care about how much things pay in…

I love technology. But I'm no longer optimistic about the future. It seems like AI is not going to go away, and instead of building reliable software, managers seem to push people to use AI more, as long as they ship…

Recently, I started to use AI coding agents. They are really great, and I feel like this is the best $100 month I spend for my career. And yet, I understand that I don’t fully know how they work and what they do behind…

I have been mostly anti AI. I did experiment a bit with aider and free models, but my results were inconsistent, and nothing to worry about. However, recently I have purchased the max plan from anthropic and have been…