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Article URL: https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/how-recursion-got-into-programming-a-comedy-of-errors-3/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544123

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Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/15/1138953/man-als-first-power-user-brain-implant-speak-bci/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544121

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I've had a lot of discussions with peers about the possibility of us being replaced via ai agents and how to stay relevant, given a future where AI intelligence keeps improving to the point of being capable of replacing potentially any job.

My personal strategy is specialization, because I've noticed that I cannot work with AI in hard domains that I haven't got a background in. For example, I've tried to use claude opus to understand a phd thesis in quantum physics from a friend. My background is in engineering and later compilers/static analysis. Despite opus helping a lot to give me the high level idea behind it, I could see a few problems with my lack of background: - I couldn't verify if opus was right or wrong in its explanations - Even when asking the AI to simplify explanations, there was so much prerequisite knowledge I needed to absorb that there was little point to bother with its output - It was very hard to collaborate with the AI to understand what predictions can be made from the PhD. The model could produce a lot of output but I didn't really understand its answers. Asking follow-up questions did not really solve the issue because it felt like I was missing a mental model.

My thinking is that, no matter how much LLM intelligence grows, for sectors with inherent complexity, people will still need specialized expertise to understand, evaluate and use their outputs. I also doubt that the most efficient future is one where humans don't understand the outputs and delegate everything, because it will be both be hard to understand if the machines are aligned to the benefit of their users.

So specialization sounds like a good strategy for the future.

I'd like to hear some opinions around this topic. Have you observed the same? Do you disagree based on other experiences/data?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544117

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I've had a lot of discussions with peers about the possibility of us being replaced via ai agents and how to stay relevant, given a future where AI intelligence keeps improving to the point of being capable of replacing potentially any job.

My personal strategy is specialization, because I've noticed that I cannot work with AI in hard domains that I haven't got a background in. For example, I've tried to use claude opus to understand a phd thesis in quantum physics from a friend. My background is in engineering and later compilers/static analysis. Despite opus helping a lot to give me the high level idea behind it, I could see a few problems with my lack of background: - I couldn't verify if opus was right or wrong in its explanations - Even when asking the AI to simplify explanations, there was so much prerequisite knowledge I needed to absorb that there was little point to bother with its output - It was very hard to collaborate with the AI to understand what predictions can be made from the PhD. The model could produce a lot of output but I didn't really understand its answers. Asking follow-up questions did not really solve the issue because it felt like I was missing a mental model.

My thinking is that, no matter how much LLM intelligence grows, for sectors with inherent complexity, people will still need specialized expertise to understand, evaluate and use their outputs. I also doubt that the most efficient future is one where humans don't understand the outputs and delegate everything, because it will be both be hard to understand if the machines are aligned to the benefit of their users.

So specialization sounds like a good strategy for the future.

I'd like to hear some opinions around this topic. Have you observed the same? Do you disagree based on other experiences/data?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544106

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Article URL: https://ankitmaloo.com/fable/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544097

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Article URL: https://blog.bridgexapi.io/the-sdk-is-for-developers-the-mcp-server-is-for-agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544065

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Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/scaling-security-scans/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544057

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Article URL: https://davefriedman.substack.com/p/can-compute-commoditize-if-its-not

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544049

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Article URL: https://pldi26.sigplan.org/attending/live-streams

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544044

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I spent the past year building Micro Coach with two partners.

It creates personalized 4-week training blocks based on your goals, schedule, experience level, equipment, and preferences. Users can also generate individual workouts, track progress, and view training analytics.

I built it using my background in both software engineering and personal training.

I’d appreciate feedback on the onboarding, workout generation, and overall product experience:

https://microcoachapp.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544041

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Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/news/over-the-hill-preview-virtual-off-roading-that-will-lower-your-blood-pressure

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544033

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Article URL: https://swissarmytechtools.com/domain-intelligence-scanner/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544029

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Article URL: https://devops.com/stack-overflow-is-being-reborn-as-a-back-end-service-for-ai-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543999

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Honeytree was developed because I wanted a way to track my coding progress in an easy and delightful way, especially through AI coding tools that I often use.

I made it so that after planting 100 virtual trees, you can plant one real one through a reforestation API for $1 (which covers the cost of a real tree)

Fully opensource, and you get a public profile page at: www.tryhoney.xyz/[username]

I want to know if the planting flow is something that devs would want to truly contribute too, as that's what I'm most unsure about.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543976

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What's the worst that could happen if they were to allow unrestricted access to Mythos/Fable? A bunch of things vulnerabilities get exposed? And? A bunch of companies already had months of Mythos beforehand, and they probably fixed some issues it may have found on their codebase.

But ultimately why not allow people to use it to find vulnerabilities and then fix them? If mythos is so good and the average Joe can just hack NASA in 2 prompts, wouldn't you rather he did, and then fix the vulnerability? What good does it do any of us to just shush everyone instead?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543975

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Sure, us engineers can Claude Code up a storm locally on our laptops these days. But now with everyone trying to vibe code everything, there's quite a few people that don't have a "proper" local dev environment to do that same kind of development. Let's just take running a test suite. Our devs need a pretty beefy environment to run that.

So ideally, these environments are just in the cloud. But Claude Code web, is so "environment lite" that it really isn't a substitute. Or are you all having Claude Code web install a bunch of dependancies and even API keys to do things there?

I've got a system of VMs that get deployed now that I'm encouraging folks use, because Claude can just use those cloud VMs directly to work on code, run tests and things without a full slow CI workflow. But it seems so fragile.

What are you all using to power up employees at your company with dev environments something like Claude can use without those employees actually having local dev environments?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543969

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Article URL: https://www.modeloop.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543968

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I've just taken ownership of my org's (~100 engineers, ~13 teams) ops review process. I don't want to just continue the status quo of a weekly meeting where every team sends a delegate to talk through that team's incidents and SLO breaches while everyone else tunes out.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543958

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Article URL: https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-189-can-ukraine-isolate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543305

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Musk is already promising $1T revenue by 2030 https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/musk-says-spacex-could-bring-054636977.html

Same playbook from Tesla. Make outlandish statements to artificially pump the stock. There will be quarterly losses, but stock will continue to go up, and probably the company valuation will hit $4T soon.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543304

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