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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are agents _still_ writing most of your code?

Ask HN: Are agents _still_ writing most of your code? 3 by etamponi | 2 comments on Hacker News. At the beginning it was very cool to see them write a lot of code for me, in particular while I was ramping up on a new codebase. But I am seeing myself using agents less and less as I get more acquainted with the codebase. I might use them as a glorified copy n paste or to get a tool running. And they're indeed very useful to get the gist of a part of the code I don't fully grasp. But I am back to writing I'd say 90% of the code myself. Is this your experience as well?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Thought Exercise regarding RX dependency

Ask HN: Thought Exercise regarding RX dependency 2 by Bender | 0 comments on Hacker News. Many of the prescription drugs as far as I know come from China and India. Should trade be cut off from China and India: - how long would each country have until they run out of prescription drugs? pharmacy, lab and national guard stockpiles - how long would it take each country to ramp up their own production of said drugs? - would some countries just let their supplies run out? Eugenics, allowing blood pressure rebounds and strokes among other things to run their course to reduce long term health care costs. just something that crossed my mind after listening to Doomberg for a while.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Should we collectively stop spell checking and fixing grammar

Ask HN: Should we collectively stop spell checking and fixing grammar 2 by sankalpnarula | 1 comments on Hacker News. I know this sounds strange, and this could have been a reddit post, but I have realized ever since I went back to not rewriting things for polish using AI. I have had more positive feedback from the community and any personal/professional email. people prefer reading short emails which doesn't have to be confusing. people dont wanna read AI slop. It sounds nice sure, but lately no one cares about the english language being nice everyone just wants to have a conversation/discussion with an actual human. I personally am gonna just stop fixing grammar, and not care about it! Thanks for listening to my rant. Written by a human, who's still in college, and might not get a job. :/ crying in the corner

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Can I say, "Thank You"?

Ask HN: Can I say, "Thank You"? 6 by ghastmaster | 0 comments on Hacker News. Thank you. To Y Combinator staff and all the Hacker News commenters, I say this. If you are reading this, I probably do not need to explain. Regards, Me

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How relevant is low code according to you in today’s world with Claude?

Ask HN: How relevant is low code according to you in today’s world with Claude? 3 by kinj28 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Disclaimer: I run a low code service and still many customers use us. But am curious what’s the developer /cto perspective on this? We do have a AI assistant to help build on top of platform but the primary appeal of low code was don’t bother about code and care about the app which with agentic sw development may also be achieved.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Should there be a temporary ban on new accounts?

Ask HN: Should there be a temporary ban on new accounts? 8 by l33tbro | 4 comments on Hacker News. Something something AI and quality of this forum. I'm not arguing that this is a good solution. But our user experience is being increasingly disrupted by squinting at comments and trying to parse their syntactic and semantic structure to discern if this account is a person or not. That is not what this place should be, and I think that is something we all agree on. A new account ban sounds rash and I agree that this could be a really dumb idea. I'm also certain dang et al will have considered it amongst other approaches. But this place is becoming less compelling by the day, and at least this measure plugs the holes until there is a strategy in place to address the issue of bots and agents being able to create accounts and spam and shill the ever-living fuck out of this once great site. Why even is there an urgency for new users? Especially given that many now are guaranteed t...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?

Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives? 28 by BrunoBernardino | 10 comments on Hacker News. I've used https://ift.tt/ya5oj3n in the past but I've found it impossible to submit anything there (I've got one submission "Waiting for Review" since July 2025), and I haven't really seen updates in categories/apps for at least 6 months, which is, at a minimum, strange. I've also reached out to the owner a couple of times (via chat and via email) over the last year and never got a reply. Has anyone else had a similar experience? If so, is there any other kind of listing you look for EU alternatives to US software/hardware? Thanks!