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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is anybody producing good code with coding agents?

Ask HN: Is anybody producing good code with coding agents? 4 by ruffrey | 4 comments on Hacker News. This is a genuine problem that I hear from senior engineers. I'm looking for a solution. -- The quality of ai-generated code is (claude, agy, copilot, codex a little better). It's exhausting to read. I used to love learning from my experienced colleagues and taking pride in what we made. We spent time on elegance and craftsmanship. Now I spend nearly the whole workday slogging through convoluted code riddled with footguns. I ride on hopes and dreams I might understand a changeset. It takes 5x longer to review Claude merge requests and I barely understand what I approve. Each day I drift further from understanding as I shovel the same into the codebase. The solution seems to be, reach "level 4 autonomy" and don't read or write code anymore. -- WHO HAS SOLVED THIS PROBLEM? PLEASE HELP!
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers

Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers 2 by esher | 2 comments on Hacker News. Since October 1 the OVH price increase also applies to running dedicated servers, at next renewal. A Reddit user posted that their two servers went up 54% in 11 months, no grandfathering. OVH's own post: an Advance-1 Gen 2024 renews at $114.99 instead of $89.99 (+28%). RAM options on new orders are up 68% to 652%, the Game range up to 87%. The stated reason is DDR5 costing six times what it did a year ago. Hetzner did the same in February and June, both threads had 500+ points here. I run a small PHP hosting company, so I am biased. But I wonder: Who here still runs OVH or Hetzner dedicated boxes? Sources: https://ift.tt/ifuGEVj https://ift.tt/OeLIQca https://ift.tt/zhitPsV https://ift.tt/EDxGvLw https://ift.tt/vExjIkX
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New ask Hacker News story: GitHub can f..k you and you are forced to love it. or live with it...

GitHub can f..k you and you are forced to love it. or live with it... 5 by anonymous_frust | 1 comments on Hacker News. In January, Hytale launched in alpha. The owner said: “We officialy support mod” and “As long as the code isnt obfuscated you can decompile it.” Those were his words. I was on the official Discord, among thousands of players wanting to create servers and mods. Everyone wanted to move fast. I saw an opportunity. A huge wave I could surf. So I decompiled the server JAR and started creating comprehensive modding documentation. Three sleepless nights. Two more days. Twenty coffees. My reverse-engineering skills, boosted by AI, working overtime. Finally, it was ready. I published it on GitHub and shared it with the community. Developers thanked me. Two people joined the project. Then I woke up on Sunday morning. Account suspended. Both collaborators? Suspended too. GitHub said my account had been suspended for violating the rules. No specific rule. No explanation. I’m a...
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New ask Hacker News story: Commadore64 vs. Nvidia GB10

Commadore64 vs. Nvidia GB10 2 by spottedmarley | 0 comments on Hacker News. One of my first PCs was a C64 (my very first was a TRS80) Today I have a Dell Pro Max GB10 (2, actually) I started thinking about how far tech has come since those days so I asked Grok to try and calculate for me how many C64s would be required to match the processing power of one GB10. Grok's answer: Between 10- and 50-billion C64s (depending on how you compare them, they are not strictly comparable) Anyway, that's quite a 40yr leap!
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now?

Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now? 2 by type4 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Going with the premise that "software engineer" or "developer" is a dead-end because code is very cheap to produce now, I need something to market myself as.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Ex-swe what part time did you pickup?

Ask HN: Ex-swe what part time did you pickup? 2 by conqrr | 0 comments on Hacker News. For all burntout swe, what's a good paid part time that you are doing?
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New ask Hacker News story: Factory AI vs. Cognition (Devin) board tussle

Factory AI vs. Cognition (Devin) board tussle 2 by pranshuchittora | 1 comments on Hacker News. Here are all the relevant tweets - Matan (CEO, Factory AI) - https://ift.tt/sTMbSUh - Chris Degnan's reply (who was allegedly fired) - https://ift.tt/NzcYi63 - Scott Wu (Cognition) - https://ift.tt/pUPybWh - Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures) - https://ift.tt/8OyYNkF
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