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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: The death of software development as a job?

Ask HN: The death of software development as a job? 14 by piratesAndSons | 24 comments on Hacker News. A lot of programmers I read here and elsewhere say LLM isn't going to change much, some say LLM is just going to make them more productive, and some even say not using LLM makes you some sort of relic. What is not debated is that LLM has changed our industry. Programming is a lot more accessible to a lot more people than five years ago. Someone who has never coded anything could sit in front of Claude and produce an entire app ready to be used today. Assuming software development becomes a commodity and the job becomes something like a fast food job where practically any adult who wants it can do it, what is your next move? Anthropic and OpenAI are working hard to redirect the salary you earn to themselves in the form of API costs, so let's assume that in the year 2030, the average yearly wage for a programmer is around the same as a McDonald's worker, because companies...
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New ask Hacker News story: Time to add option in Hacker News "AI excluded Show HN"

Time to add option in Hacker News "AI excluded Show HN" 8 by tukunjil | 1 comments on Hacker News. Bored of AI advertisement. Thinking to stop visiting hacker news just because these LLM projects and updates. There should be an option to users which will exclude AI related things. Even if that going to be done using artificial intelligence in backend, no problem. I’m satisfied!
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New ask Hacker News story: Codex's precision and attention to detail is *crazy* when set up correctly

Codex's precision and attention to detail is *crazy* when set up correctly 3 by ditchfieldcaleb | 2 comments on Hacker News. Lately I've been working on a Tower Defense game with Codex, in part to learn how game development works and in part to see how far I can get using just Codex, no manual coding at all. I've got my AGENTS md & my CODESTYLE md & six other ALLCAPS md files etc, and am working on some refactoring to keep the codebase clean & file sizes low, etc. And then I see this in the ExecPlan for my latest refactor: --- # Observations - Observation: The refactor made the screenshots pixel-identical after the baseline was recaptured correctly. Evidence: sha256sum screenshots/before-implementation-x.png screenshots/after-implementation-x.png reported matching hashes for before/after pairs 1, 2, and 3. --- Which is crazy! I've never told Codex to do an sha compare on before/after screenshots of the app, but I do have instructions in my PLANS.md to...
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New ask Hacker News story: .de TLD Issue Solved

.de TLD Issue Solved 3 by kaltsturm | 0 comments on Hacker News. works again with chrome
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New ask Hacker News story: How do you and your partner decide what to do on date nights?

How do you and your partner decide what to do on date nights? 3 by meashik | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?

Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption? 9 by ge96 | 6 comments on Hacker News. I feel like I don't have a choice to accept it. If I want to keep my job I need to use it. I felt pride in making things with code but now that you can just type in words into a prompt and code comes out, it just feels empty now. There's no joy in writing code anymore doing this. I know for my personal hobbies I can do that... I need money is the thing, I can't walk away yet but I think I will if this is how every job will be. I'm not denying its capability it's like today I need to make a bluetooth android app that can do HFP today, NOW. I can't do that with my current knowledge but AI can... and anybody who can type can use it so why am I needed kind of thing. So yeah right now my plan is to coast using these tools, do the things I enjoy to do then make enough money to get out. I'll write my own code for my own fun. I've been a developer/writing ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?

Ask HN: Best Embedding Models? 5 by devstein | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, which embedding models are people using? There has been so much development around foundational LLMs, but haven't seen much news about embedding models.
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