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People don't appreciate how much of engineering is just as you've described.

When they imagine someone using AI (except for themself), they imagine the least curious, least inquisitive vibe-coder. And they invent the idea that the only way to be someone who asks questions or remains curious is to have paid the dues that they see themself as having paid. Therefore the world must always need them.

Well, all you have to do now is imagine the vibe-coder who has the same curiosity and inquisitiveness that you had especially when you were starting out and weren't yet a professional programmer. The only difference is that now you don't have to bootstrap a whole software career to understand how things work; you can skip that and merely ask.

Scared of wasting one's limited time on an ambition that can't pan out.

Well, it’s barely getting started. Go look up the state of the art of AI porn.

I saw something similar on Twitter responding to 45yo software engineers making comments of depair in that HN thread about the increased suicide rate of middle-aged men.

For some reason I'm stuck in a real depressing, doomer algorithm / homepage on Twitter. But everyone on my homepage seems to have a take on the HNer comments along the lines of "see, this is why you don't make your job into your identity".

But that's such an antihuman response. The only reason you can put decades into a field to grind and build expertise is because you have an identity-level interest in a subject.

It's also not a good thing if the optimal way to live going forward is to have no passion for anything lest it changes so that we won't feel bad. I don't think that's possible unless you remove the human part of our brains or make life so horrible that we're happy just to survive another day.

> Epic may have “vibe coded” a faster client, but Valve proved that targeted optimization on a decades-old ecosystem can still beat out AI speedruns.

Optimizing a project with AI is one of the most trivial things you can do with AI.

I also wouldn't buy it for a second that Valve engineers aren't using AI, especially for something as trivial as "hey claude rank the top causes of slow startup" -> "oh okay now fix". The most I'd grant is that everyone uses AI secretly as a sort of dark forest problem.

Once I had a good benchmark script, Opus 4.8 or whatever made my terminal app faster with less memory than ghostty and kitty. It's not even interesting.

160 points on a submissions pointing to a tweet from an NFT account posting a low information tiktok video.

Times are changing. I'm having nostalgia for the decades we were only worried about turning into reddit.

Man, I recognized the name from my first job out of uni at a Rails shop in 2011.

nvm added like 3+ seconds to my new shell startup, and one of the maintainers defended it with "so what, how often do you open new terminal windows?"

One thing I've learned about tech is that you can never assume something is too boring for opinions.

I keep lazygit open next to each Claude/Codex session that's working on a change, but over time scrolling the changes has gone from necessary to just out of curiosity.

At this point of 2026, if you're reading code and still catching things, then the problem was before the code was written. You should have decided more high level preferences like invariants before the work began.

And this is a good thing.

LLMs have changed the obstacle of doing something from (time, attention, expertise) to (time, attention, tokens).

I don't see what's unique about GTA6. It's just larger in scope if you wanted to decompile or greenfield a custom engine.

But at the end of the day you'll be able to unpack the assets yourself and immediately have the worldmap running in a browser in Three.js. And once you're there, you can vibe-code any game you want on top of it.

> Apple doesn’t seem too happy about agents

I don't get this reaction to Apple making Full Disk Access more explicit. Whether they're "happy" or "sad" about agents doesn't seem responsive at all.

Kinda seems like whenever you spend 10 seconds thinking about the average user, social media gets angry. The quoted justification by Apple seems reasonable.

It's a good habit to always create an upper bound on things (input max length, queue size, etc).

The person who wrote it just came up with 20 in the moment and forgot to go check, something everyone has done a hundred times.

I've probably never worked on a single system where the html validation, http server validation, and database constraint were synchronized on username max length. You choose a placeholder, an even number between 10 and 16, then forget to ever check.