Why gatekeep like this? If you had developed an interesting account of some engineering topic and were told to leave it to the pros, you would find it deflating

And yet you would have little trouble distinguishing between those two categories if a range of food was put on a table in front of you

Yes: I'm 57 and my heartrate rarely goes over 150. ~135bpm is "run a 5k twice a week" pace, only maintained for 30 mins, and resting heart rate is ~50

Are you a MAGA bot? This is Hacker News, not Fox News

Any sufficiently interesting project won't be generated with a couple of commands though: you can still think about systems, about the _right_ way to do something. Then you can document your understanding and hand it to Claude Code to do the fiddly bits which you _could_ do, but they're not as interesting. You're already using a higher level language and leaving implementation details to the compiler: this is another step up.

What about code verbosity and vulnerabilities, I guess make smaller change sets.

Still I do like the process of typing things out, vs being like a checker of check boxes, looks good check, looks good check, kind of deal.

I don't mean typing as in typing a story but feel that I'm actively building it.

What's bad is I'm not 100% into it, I work in this field but I'm also skeptical of it at the same time. I'm not like "hell yeah Agents!" But also I work with them and it's the current hotness for high paying jobs.

> simultaneous with DEI obsession

there is a group obsessed with DEI, it's true. It's the MAGA folk

Here's some reading material[1] which is basically a direct refutation of that claim. However you want to characterize what happened between 2016 and 2024, it's not nothing.

If you think the efforts were not misguided, I'm just wondering, how is everything working out lately? Pretty sh*t if you ask me.

[1] https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

"Loss of privilege feels like oppression". I see the numbers showing hiring shifts, but i don't see any numbers backing up the claim that there was once an pure and fair "American meritocracy" that has now been "gutted". and this [1] seems to show that the privilege has not actually been lost

[1] <https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/what-does-th...>

Saying you shouldn't hire based on race, sex, or other immutable characteristics should be an obsession by everyone.

Hiring people based on their race is immoral and framing this as moral is strange. That’s where classical liberals, centrists and the right are coming from when they say the left is obsessed with DEI. I understand you think they are obsessed with dismantling it and that’s a reasonable view too.

soon he will be dead and the slow, painful, halting recovery will begin

People already thought once that Trumpism would disappear some years ago. They were wrong.

There are 30 million Americans who cheer on bombing Nuuk and killing Danish citizens... I think this is over! If you have any hopes of reestablishing any kind of relationship, you are delusional..

His mother lived to 88

Did she eat as much McDonald's? Anyway, the cat is out of the bag. Problem goes far beyond the man.

>My watch takes walking, cycling and running seriously — especially outside rather than on a treadmill — but a hard session at the gym barely registers. It will count my steps for me, but I have to count my own pull-ups

The Strava of weight training (not _counting_ the pull-ups for you, but recording them, helping you build workouts, track progress, social sharing) is the well-named Hevy: https://www.hevyapp.com

I would love to see self-driving cars start to incorporate thermal cameras for animal avoidance. A deer or a kangaroo can come out of nowhere visually, but would be easily detectable with a wide-angle thermal camera.

You are 100% right that we _should_ be focusing on reducing emissions, but the reason we would prefer to capture-and-sequester is... money. We make money by emitting C02, and it looks like we will also pay to have it captured again. Is this madness? Also yes.

Someone will make a trillion dollars out of this.