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syndacks

616 karma · joined March 8, 2018

Building SageNet:

- builds a personalized learning plan - adapts as you progress - generates short audio lessons - gives real projects - has a daily voice check-in agent - lets you share a public progress dashboard

https://www.sagenet.club

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syndacks··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
It was always a means to end. You do "work" to drive impact. You didn't think your job was to write code, did you? Your job is to be a cog in a machine that crushes competition. Your job is not about you or your feelings. You can do your "job" now faster? Great, figure out a way to do it with more impact. If you can't do that, find another job. If you can do that at your current job, great, figure out a way to do that. If you don't like this setup, you can do other jobs. Play the game or get destroyed. Read a history book or look at the guy bringing your your Chinese crap from Amazon for alternatives.
syndacks··on Ask HN: What to Build in the AI Era?
slap on some clay on each side: https://www.facebook.com/reel/4542445442748154
syndacks··on If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival
same as it ever was
syndacks··on RIP, vector database
loads just fine on my $10k laptop with 10g internet here in NYC
syndacks··on AI-written code is still your code
Yes.
syndacks··on Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
This is an AI written advertisement with a bunch of platitudes.
syndacks··on Starbase, LA
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-shocking-hazards-of-lo...
syndacks··on A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber
100p
syndacks··on A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber
smells of tokens
syndacks··on Terence Tao: Mathematics in the Age of AI [pdf]
can't forget SimonWilson-News!
syndacks··on Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
Totally. On the same page as you. His little shit Wario mustache is all part of the costume! We see through you Dex!!
syndacks··on Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
Same please
syndacks··on Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
Hierarchies are burned deep into our DNA little boy, u ever read Utopia?
syndacks··on Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
Dex you aren't part of the slop cannon, you _are_ the slop cannon
syndacks··on Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T
Yes, the men running concentration camps are 100% absolved of their culpability. Not their fault!
syndacks··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
So don’t use it!
syndacks··on Show HN: I made a heatmap of 3400 VCs who are open to cold emails
Jamaica Bay has _all_ the VCs in NYC!
syndacks··on The Last Technical Interview
From what I understand, this isn’t so far from what Germany does with their secondary schools
syndacks··on The Last Technical Interview
Serious question, tell me what you think of using IQ tests to hire SWEs? Should we just do that instead?
syndacks··on Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
Imagine the cognitive dissonance at play there, doing some DS work, realizing your product actively makes people depressed...all while driving back to your 5M+ home in a Tesla listening to podcasts about sunning your ballsack
syndacks··on The bottleneck was never the code
The archetype of the "jerk engineer" is over, because it turns out coding isn't all that valuable anymore. We now need "engineers" who understand much more than coding.
syndacks··on Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
it seemed HN was moving the right direction when we added the "no AI comments", and yet, every single post about a new model is from you and your pelican. it's tired. please stop, it adds no value and has become cliche.
syndacks··on Ask HN: Are AI mandates a good idea?
I think mandates are irrelevant. Unless you work at a monopoly or cutting edge domain, I don’t see how anything other than a “software factory” wins.

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

syndacks··on Ask HN: How are people forecasting AI API costs for agent workflows?
lowercasing doesn’t obfuscate the stench of LLM
syndacks··on Switch to Claude without starting over
I have a 20$ for both and like each for unique reasons. How do you all switch your programming paradigms for Codex vs CC?
syndacks··on AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
Ai shit post
syndacks··on Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)
Does anyone have any solid patterns they can share around the “scenarios”/holdouts concept from the Dark Factory, where you create external system(s) to verify your main one?
syndacks··on A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong
I largely agree with you. And, given your points about “not going back” — how do you propose interviewing SWEs?
syndacks··on Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
A lot of people here like this guys writing.

For a longer and more biting critique of SF one should read

Private Citizens (2016) by Tony Tulathimutte

“ Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century: call it a loving satire.”

syndacks··on Gemini 3 Deep Think
The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday, during Chinese New Year
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