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taariqlewis commented on Ask HN: Engineers working AI tools. Are you working more or less? · Posted by u/taariqlewis

ra0x3 · a month ago

Working the same, the nature of the work has changed. Less time spent on the minutia of syntax and project scaffolding. More time spent on how the minutia compose into a larger system.

taariqlewis · 24 days ago

This is a great indication of where engineers will be spending more of their time: complexity composing.

taariqlewis commented on Ask HN: Engineers working AI tools. Are you working more or less? · Posted by u/taariqlewis

ashed96 · a month ago

AI made us 10x more productive. Management noticed. Now we are expected to ship 10x more features.

The free time was a lie we told ourselves.

taariqlewis · a month ago

I am beginning to notice more "features" in apps that suspiciously raise questions: "Was that feature really needed and was the AI to sneak it in there!?"

taariqlewis commented on Ask HN: Engineers working AI tools. Are you working more or less? · Posted by u/taariqlewis

zerr · a month ago

Besides not wanting to give most enjoyable part of the work to LLMs, reviewing LLM-generated code is much more daunting compared to writing the code yourself. So, I only use it for a very narrow and specific 2-3 liners, e.g. some arcane Win32 API calls, where I'd otherwise be browsing some old forums.

taariqlewis · a month ago

This is my reflection as well. I find myself spending MORE time reviewing LLM-generated code and also spending time thinking through LLM generated choices, which, at many times are inefficient or bloated. Keeping the LLM on the right rails takes up more time, even with lengthy agent.md and claude.md files to manage behaviors.

Posted by u/taariqlewis a month ago

Ask HN: Engineers working AI tools. Are you working more or less?

taariqlewis commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) · Posted by u/david927

taariqlewis · a month ago

I have always wanted to learn Rust, but was too distracted to get started.

So, I started working with Claude on building a postgres database replication application. I'm learning Postgres internals as well as how brittle database replication and subscription can really be. Although this is for Seren, you can replicate between any PG databases. https://github.com/serenorg/postgres-seren-replicator

Big learning: Claude Sonnet with Rust is massively productive. I'm impressed, but code bloat is a thing.

Posted by u/taariqlewis 2 months ago

Show HN: SerenDB – A Neon PostgreSQL fork optimized for AI agent workloads github.com/serenorg/seren...

taariqlewis commented on I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' blog.daviddodda.com/how-i... · Posted by u/DavidDodda

taariqlewis · 2 months ago

Even if an AI wrote this, it's one more muscle memory for the subconcious to hold on to when we are off our guards. Good write-up!

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