I think you're spot on. They're hiring as much as possible to make numbers look better ("we're growing so fast!") and later on blame AI for layoffs ("we're way more efficient with AI now!"). That's the play in almost all VC funded companies. If you want to stay there, try to shift to a position that decides about the product and has a lot domain specific knowledge. Start looking for an enterprise job if stability is important for you.
Readit Newspabe commented on Ask HN: My YC company is hiring one engineer/day but there's not enough work · Posted by u/ta_jobstartup
Yes! Coding is just one of the tasks you've got to do when building a software business. You also have to find a good value preposition, identify a good channel to your customers, manage your resources etc.
Channels are becoming even more important as software has become easy to copy. But copycats always existed. When it wasn't created by AI, it was created in low wage countries.
pabe commented on CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021) newstatesman.com/business... · Posted by u/nis0s
There are CEO affect studies. Seems like the CEO effect on company performance is about 11.5%, see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104898432...
In my opinion, a lot of strategic work can be automated - and results would actually be better. Why? Because the strategic management agent would most likely follow a scientific process and make small bets instead of investing millions in initiatives without having a clear signal.
What you cannot automate is the human contact. Trust between humans. Enlighting the fire that burns inside you inside others. CEOs aren't necessarily the best strategic thinkers but they're very good in dealing with people and they are high-agency people.
pabe commented on Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it ajmoon.com/posts/mesh-i-t... · Posted by u/alex-moon
Sounds like this app wasn't a good fit for htmx. I have added it to the "On The Other Hand" section on the htmx website:
https://htmx.org/essays/#on-the-other-hand
Regarding the default swap behavior of "innerHTML":
https://htmx.org/quirks/#the-default-swap-strategy-is-innerh...
Our proposal to merge htmx functionality into the HTML spec uses outerHTML:
https://alexanderpetros.com/triptych/
Also consider datastar, it was written from an SSE-first perspective by a go engineer:
If only more people were like you <3
pabe commented on Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python github.com/plutoprint/plu... · Posted by u/sammycage
Will try it out - we're currently working with headless Chrome to render HTML to PDF.
There's also https://github.com/odoo/paper-muncher from Odoo S.A. (an open core ERP vendor) that seems to go into a good direction.
pabe commented on Python performance myths and fairy tales lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
The SPy demo is really good in showing the the difference in performance between Python and their derivative. Well done!
pabe commented on Why is every successful tech founder an Ivy League graduate · Posted by u/moneyhungry
Because they've got a strong network
pabe commented on New EU rules on digital accessibility to come into force rte.ie/news/technology/20... · Posted by u/austinallegro
These rules don't apply to businesses that make less than 2.000.000€ a year and have less than 10 employees and don't create physical products.
What a cool project with local processing! Will check it out, thanks!
pabe commented on My takeaways from DjangoCon EU 2025 zachbellay.com/posts/djan... · Posted by u/SCUSKU
Are people choosing Django for new projects much these days?
Yes. Still one of the best batteries included web frameworks for creating anything that's more of a website (e.g. E-Commerce) than a web app (e.g. Photoshop). No, you don't need NextJs and friends for everything ;)