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andyish commented on Ask HN: How far has "vibe coding" come?    · Posted by u/pigon1002
andyish · a month ago
I've 'vibe coded' some internal tooling apps and it feels like i've joined a new company and been given a legacy codebase to work on, despite it being a week old.

I just assume all the posts that claim they've got a 20k line project in a single weekend is just marketing spam.

andyish commented on Ask HN: What software / applications can you now build thanks to AI    · Posted by u/zarathustra333
andyish · 2 months ago
We’ve managed to put quite a dent in the feature backlog we had for our admin tooling. We knew what features we wanted, they didn’t require marketing or comms but did require time to spend doing them.

I did want it to improve our e2e testing but it didn’t make it as easy as I expected.

andyish commented on Dead Internet Theory   kudmitry.com/articles/dea... · Posted by u/skwee357
andyish · 2 months ago
I'm so torn with verification on social media. But i'm surprised companies whose main source of revenue is ads and original content aren't putting something akin to 'verified human' tags on users for all to see. Not just to show authenticity but also to be able to say to ad buyers: your ads have been seen by x real users.

I mean sure, the next step will probably be "your ads have been seen by x real users and here are their names, emails, and mobile numbers" :(

As well as verification there must be teams at Reddit/LinkedIn/Whereever working ways to identify ai content so it can be de-ranked.

andyish commented on Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control   theregister.com/2025/11/0... · Posted by u/pjmlp
andyish · 4 months ago
It's not just their flagship products. It extends to nearly _everything_ they release.

I have a relatively small workforce and office management platform. When MS Places was announced, we thought it was the end. We had a good run, but now one of the big players has entered the market and will wipe out all competition with a single swipe.

Anyway, it sucks. Potential customers who had waited for months tried to use it and immediately sought alternatives. Existing customers who told us they tried to use it and for one reason or another, gave up.

But it seems Microsoft's MO has been 'customer driven testing' for as long as i can remember.

andyish commented on Ask HN: How are senior SWEs using AI?    · Posted by u/JustinELRoberts
andyish · 5 months ago
Use it to get a primer in a new area If i'm debugging i'll feed it what i know and see what it gives me. If nothing else gives me some ideas to get started. Generate test data

I've tried it to generate html/css for an email and it kind of works but depsite asking it to doesn't work across all versions of outlook and gmail.

I'm overly cautious about what I paste in. Just like how you can find PII data in logs I think the amount of PII data that's being pasted into AIs will be crazy.

andyish commented on Ask HN: Is your company still hiring junior engineers?    · Posted by u/wafflemaker
andyish · 6 months ago
Total over saturation of that end of the market, and given it seems CompSci and SoftEng degrees are still in vogue it seems the trend will continue. Coupled with companies cutting back and wanting to maximize value they end up focusing on the upper end of the market (experience-wise).

Anecdotally, and from the companies I know that do have a graduate program, they've reduced the number of available positions, so there are still positions, but it's just much more competitive.

My advice would be to find any role roughly related to your target job and then pivot to what you really want. The difference in interviewing a candidate with no experience vs 12 months is night and day.

andyish commented on How Remote Work Died: A Girardian Tragedy in Corporate America    · Posted by u/la_joconde
andyish · 7 months ago
the office culture / remote workers don't collaborate always makes me laugh. It reminds me of a time when I worked in an office and a PR spent over a week waiting to be reviewed because one team didn't tell another team. They were literally sat two benches apart and the requesting team had to walk past them to go to the toilet, to the exit or each time they went for a coffee.
andyish commented on Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years?    · Posted by u/ipnon
andyish · 10 months ago
There are so many directions it could go in. I imagine we'll be revisiting trends from the past - LLM generated apps will be everywhere and behind the curtain, they'll be a lot like a VB6 app from the 90s - System Analysts will be back in vogue because you've got to feed the LLMs something.

10 years after that will be interesting. Can you imagine a $100m business running on dozens of apps generated by various LLMs. Are management going to sign off a rebuild from an LLM or are they going to get a team in to do it from scratch and consolidate the systems.

Agile principles will be back, "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" will be a popular line.

andyish commented on Ask HN: How will AI affect learning programming?    · Posted by u/kirso
andyish · a year ago
Very broadly speaking, I think it's going to have the same impact as search engines had where productivity increases but understanding decreases.

I very much doubt we're going to see a massive shift where everyone becomes a system analyst or service designer and we just punch in business requirements out comes a ready-to-release system.

I can see automated ui testing tools becoming truly amazing if AI Agents are even half of what they're hyped up to be. At the moment they kind of work, but also a bit of a headache.

andyish commented on Ask HN: What's your app idea that you don't have the time or motivation to build    · Posted by u/jasondigitized
quintes · a year ago
Ah yep agreed on the first but hard to build a platform like that without the network

I was just on LinkedIn now and gee the people are posting nonsense. That feed is full of ick

andyish · a year ago
If you could filter out everything except the automated 'new job' and 'new skill' posts and mix in some company press releases it would be so much better.

u/andyish

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