A company invented the role of "forward deployed engineer" to solve this problem.
Readit Newspyb commented on Ask HN: How do you get your devs to understand your customers? · Posted by u/ghiculescu
pyb commented on Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews? · Posted by u/_swfb
This isn't 2021 anymore. You need to recalibrate your world view.
There are probably 300 people interviewing for the job you interviewed for. So they need to not just pick someone who checks the boxes, but the BEST of all the people who checked the boxes.
Assuming you checked all the boxes, you weren't the best and someone else was chosen. That's all it is. What makes them the best? Who knows. There's likely 50 of them they had to choose from.
Job hunting has always been a numbers game but now it's worse by a factor of 100x. Don't take it personally, and keep going.
There are 300 random candidates but probably only 3 viable candidates.
pyb commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
Both these countries have really high population densities. Japan's is around 330/km2 and South Korea's is about 530/km2.
Just like the UK, they would probably be better off with less people, geopolitical considerations aside.
Have you been to Korea ? Or even the UK ?
pyb commented on The current state of LLM-driven development blog.tolki.dev/posts/2025... · Posted by u/Signez
People that comment on and get defensive about this bit:
> Learning how to use LLMs in a coding workflow is trivial. There is no learning curve. You can safely ignore them if they don’t fit your workflows at the moment.
How much of your workflow or intuition from 6 months ago is still relevant today? How long would it take to learn the relevant bits today?
Keep in mind that Claude Code was released less than 6 months ago.
A fraction of the LLM maximalists are being defensive, because they don't want to consider that they've maybe invested too much time in those tools ; considering what said tools are currently genuinely good at.
These presenters all give off such a “sterile” vibe
They look nervous, messing this presentation up could cost them their high-paying jobs.
pyb commented on Developing our position on AI recurse.com/blog/191-deve... · Posted by u/jakelazaroff
I wonder how this will work for visa waiver programs like the ESTA. I have family visiting next year and if they have to pay an extra $1k, it won’t happen.
No fee according to TFA
pyb commented on Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users torrentfreak.com/cloudfla... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza
Why is Cloudflare providing its services to known pirate sites?
Unless by "democracy" you mean "sleepwalking administration everyone hates" the current UK government is unusually undemocratic.
As we saw in the case of the Winter fuel Payments : if a policy is unpopular with voters, it is abandoned. The Online Safety Act is popular, so it will stay.