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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand? 3 by rzk | 9 comments on Hacker News. I saw this LinkedIn post from a Meta engineer and it resonated with me: https://ift.tt/LQdziJw > I'm an engineer at Meta and I never felt this uncomfortable doing my job. I'm writing code these days and it all feels like a black box. This new standard of shipping with AI is moving so fast that if we're going to spend our time checking each line of code, it's going to take forever. That means you can end up with systems you've built where you don't truly understand how all the code works. You understand the high level, but not every detail. And maybe this is becoming the new standard. It goes against every instinct of being a software engineer. I'm used to understanding what I'm building. Now I'm trying to figure out how much I need to understand before I'm comfortable moving forward. Are other engineers feeling this too? How are...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: New Outlook` sends everything through Microsoft Servers

Ask HN: New Outlook` sends everything through Microsoft Servers 2 by NicoJuicy | 0 comments on Hacker News. Did anyone knew about this? I'm honestly suprised I only found out about this today.
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New ask Hacker News story: Best way to get SMS verification codes without using your own number?

Best way to get SMS verification codes without using your own number? 2 by guler26 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What Got You into Rust?

Ask HN: What Got You into Rust? 2 by cloaky233 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Back in 2024 I was experimenting with prosthetic arms and trying to figure out how to build one with an EMG sensor. The problem I kept running into was that the EMG sensor kept crashing the Arduino IDE. It spat out data at an extremely high rate, and my RAM couldn't keep up with it, being on a potato laptop. That's when I thought, "Okay, maybe let's try Rust. What's the worst that can happen?" This is the first thing I ever built in Rust: https://ift.tt/Eft3sZg I used a sliding window: keep deleting the oldest values and keep pushing the newer ones onto the graph. It looked a bit like a snake chasing its tail, but it's what actually worked for us later at the Smart India Hackathon 2024 Hardware finals (we didn't win). Sharing something from back when trying something new and building something new felt exciting. Maybe we'll never get to build things quite the same way ag...
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New ask Hacker News story: Google Meet Enshittification

Google Meet Enshittification 3 by chrisjj | 0 comments on Hacker News. Google Meet Android app meeting join now claims to need Notification Permissions for incoming and outgoing calls. This claim is false. There's no such requirement. And if thete were, this would be needless and wholly unreasonable.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How can we stop UX people from changing UIs to get promotions?

Ask HN: How can we stop UX people from changing UIs to get promotions? 4 by ex-aws-dude | 0 comments on Hacker News. Every product seems to go through constant UI churn that has no benefit to users other than changing around whitespace or refreshing the look. If you have a full time UX person they _must_ change the UI of your product otherwise there is no way to get promoted. That is just an unavoidable fact of incentive structures. As a company how can you avoid that issue?
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New ask Hacker News story: How do you deal with AI Output of your boss?

How do you deal with AI Output of your boss? 5 by okr | 5 comments on Hacker News. So, my boss goes on a rampage. You can clearly see the joy and at the same time the rage and impatience. AI is the tool he always wanted. We are too slow. Process is out of the window. No need for sprints anymore. No planning, just doing. All people downstream must somehow adapt. Whenever i see now his automated messages in slack, my natural reaction is: why do i even bother reading that? Thats for machines to read. He does not need me? Clearly i am not made for that. What is he expecting me to do? To confirm how great the AI did the job? Should i remember all these perfect presentations AI has created and integrate it into my doings into the coming weeks? I am torn. Should i really free my AI and deal with all this incoming text? Is this the way to react on this perfection? I am not mad at him, it clearly frees him of all the burder of dealing with people. I just dont know how to deal with this outpu...
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