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Article URL: https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/writing-advice-is-a-lie

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Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polanyi%27s_paradox

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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/magazine/ai-actress-tilly-norwood.html

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Article URL: https://nexo.sh/posts/agentpack/

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Article URL: https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/v100localllm/

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About 6 months ago I joined a new team within a top ten F500 company. My new boss strictly mandated AI use with the key principle being: "You shouldn't be manually writing any code".

Since then its been all agents, skills, MCP, harnesses, custom in-house frameworks, and running Opus 4.7 high non-stop.

Now at a company level, there are "encouraged attendance" workshops getting scheduled to learn how to optimize one's token use now that API pricing is becoming the norm at an enterprise level.

The direction I got from my direct leadership was very direct. AI / agents lead everything and the expectation is the team moves as quickly as it has. But the truth is most engineers candidly acknowledge: we don't fully understand anything. Especially because agents are also churning out the content of architectural documentation and user story requirements and acceptance criteria.

I feel like this is a situation where I am directly responsible for the non-deterministic output of these tools. The solution I get from my supervisor for any problem literally boils down to "You need to use an agent, skill, etc.".

Is anyone else going through this tug of war? How is it going?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345691

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Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/05/31/white-picket-fences-were-american-dream-now-people-want-higher-walls/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345690

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Article URL: https://www.homerockr.com

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Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-agents-agency-crisis-humanity/687379/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345682

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Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-05-brain-cells-play-doom.html

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Article URL: https://github.com/Light-Heart-Labs/DreamServer

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Article URL: https://frederikbraun.de/the-s-in-interoperability.html

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Article URL: https://mikeshuey.com/i-quit-my-successful-youtube-channel/

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Article URL: https://github.com/lo2589/AILOCK

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Article URL: https://metedata.substack.com/p/006-the-chat-bar-isnt-lazy-design

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I've recently been put on a legacy project that uses reactive programming and RxJS.

This is the first time I'm coming across this programming paradigm, it seems like it was trendy at some point [1], but the general consensus from the team is that it has become very hard to maintain, with a lot of side effects to manage.

Coming from an academic background and having some interest in functional programming, the idea seems interesting to me.

Does anyone still use this paradigm day-to-day (any example codebases, documented projects, tips on maintaining complex reactive projects in JavaScript would be appreciated) or has it mostly been moved away from?

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F02vz4nz&hl=en-US

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Article URL: https://kristoff.it/blog/fix-your-asserts/

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Article URL: https://cobaltinfx.com/

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1PDqzqhM4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345505

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Article URL: https://rpsychologist.com/d3/equivalence/

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