by phendrenad2 ·
I randomly opened LinkedIn, which has, for over a decade, been my go-to for job listings. Today, something was off. Search didn't work. The icons were overlapping with the search box. Clearly a product in decline, so what job sites are up and coming? (Besides the "Who's Hiring" thread, of course! :-]
by Hex08 ·
I used to be a software engineer, but these days I find myself being more of an agents manager: constantly switching between 3-4 tasks that my agents are working on, and making sure that the features get shipped, the bugs fixed, with correct and clean code. There's no doubt that I'm producing more value for the company, but I wonder if that's the best I can do for myself if the goal is staying relevant in the coming years.
I wonder: if the AI is writing all the code, what value am I bringing?
In an attempt to keep my critical thinking and coding skills sharp, I sometimes foolishly try to debug errors or implement a feature myself. But it feels like wasting time when an agent can do it in a fraction of time.
What is gonna be sought after in the coming years: someone that persevered with manual coding and debugging but is slow and uncomfortable around agents, or someone that has little coding and debugging skills left but knows how to orchestrate dozens of agents effectively?
I'm curious to hear what other software engineers on HN's approach is.
by mattm ·
I've noticed a lot more dead comments lately in cases where the person is writing reasonable comments. You'll need showdead turned on in your settings to see the examples.
Take this thread as an example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818698
The OP has a new account but all his replies are within the guidelines.
Here's another account with a dead comment in that thread. Most of their comments, while brief, seem perfectly reasonable. The account is 2 years old but most comments are dead https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=josefritzishere
In this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574167) all of this user's (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=backlava12) comments were marked as dead. The user has an established account and all comments seemed within guidelines.
Has anyone else noticed this more recently? Is it perhaps a result of trying to identify AI-bot accounts?
by skwasimin ·
by itsjeremiahs ·
Looking for something that runs on my device.
What's everybody using?
by skyfantom ·
Just saying every time I need to use it, it feels slow and buggy, and the UI/UX is honestly one of the worst I've used.
by grigio ·
I tried several but for me the biggest difference is the browser integration tool/skill. Because without that any model is quite limited to debug the code at runtime
by KenPainter ·
I started hacking with TRS-80 Basic long ago. By the time I went pro in my early 20's, I had already developed a strong preference for declarative systems, so much so that I would from time to time create one if it made the solution at hand more robust. Having studied Physics instead of CompSci, I came to this preference outside of any knowledge of the existing arguments for/against or the vocabulary used in the literature. For me it was a simple process: discern common patterns in the imperative code, establish a data structure that captured them, write something to process them.
The commercial motivation was always the correctness guarantee, but the yak-shaving exercise of building the system offered the satisfaction that purely commercial concerns could not provide.
Now, in the dawn of the age of LLM coding, I find the agents are "unreasonably effective" at coding to declarative systems. The entire reference for the data format or DSL can fit in context, and LLMs are naturally more reliable against a constrained system. Compare to CSS, highly unconstrained, where I find code duplication, then conflict, then the inevitable `!important` flags begin to proliferate.
Yet, as anybody who enjoys the benefits of declarative systems will tell you, it can be lonely. The world prefers a general purpose imperative system. I believe the biggest reason is that the open-ended imperative system does not force us into a mapping exercise before we get to work. The code is like a whiteboard, where ideas are tried and modified in flight.
But I'd like to hear from others. Which do you prefer and why? In what situations?
by semidror ·
I disabled Siri in the Settings app, and then further disabled Siri and its extensions in Settings > Screen Time.
Next, I disabled all Siri-related and Apple Intelligence-related services as per https://github.com/OleksandrKrupko/mac-os-debloat
But after restarting, I could still see a "Siri" process running in Activity Monitor. Upon further inspection, I found that it is the "Siri AI.app".
These "features", together with Apple's Personal Context sound very similar to Microsoft's Recall.
Does anyone have the same experience? Is it really impossible to fully turn off Siri, Siri AI, Apple Intelligence and all related services and features on macOS 27?
by xnx ·
I enabled Chrome reading mode for an article (https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-crypto-crash-the-blue-wave fwiw) on Substack and was confronted with an unspaced mess of text. Inspecting the original page revealed source like :<span>Will</span><span> </span><span>crypto</span><span> </span><span>crash</span><span> </span><span>the</span><span> </span>