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Natural Number Game: build the basic theory of the natural numbers from scratch (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
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After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
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3D-Printed Dune Chess Set (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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Moon (🔥 Score: 197+ in 43 minutes)
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MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style (Score: 152+ in 12 hours)
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Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)
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Using Guile for Emacs (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
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Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
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Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
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UK's Online Safety Act comes into force (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
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The Antikythera mechanism – 254:19 ratio (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
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"Nvidia is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed" (Score: 151+ in 11 hours)
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In Search of a Faster SQLite (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
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Droste’s Lair (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices (🔥 Score: 165+ in 1 hour)
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Crunch – a Scheme compiler with a minimal runtime (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
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How I used linear algebra to build an interactive diagramming editor (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
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Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
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Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team (🔥 Score: 162+ in 1 hour)
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Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
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Always go to the funeral (2005) (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
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Mirror bacteria research poses significant risks, scientists warn (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
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New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs up to 75% (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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Making a watch from scratch (❄️ Score: 154+ in 2 days)
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Ruby Video – On a mission to index all Ruby conferences (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs? (Score: 155+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6jCkh
LLMs are becoming a part of software engineering career.
The more I speak with fellow engineers, the more I hear that some of them are either using AI to help them code, or feed entire projects to AI and let the AI code, while they do code review and adjustments.
I didn't want to believe in it, but I think it's here. And even arguments like "feeding proprietary code" will be eventually solved by companies hosting their own isolated LLMs as they become better and hardware becomes more available.
My prediction is that junior to mid level software engineering will disappear mostly, while senior engineers will transition to be more of a guiding hand to LLMs output, until eventually LLMs will become so good, that senior people won't be needed any more.
So, fellow software engineers, how do you future-proof your career in light of, the inevitable, LLM take over?
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I want to clarify something, because there seems to be slight misunderstanding.
A lot of people have been talking about SWE being not only about code, and I agree with that. But it's also easier to sell this idea to a young person who is just starting in this career. And while I want this Ask HN to be helpful to young/fresh engineers as well, I'm more interested in getting help for myself, and many others who are in a similar position.
I have almost two decades of SWE experience. But despite that, I seem to have missed the party where they told us that "coding is not a means to an end", and realized it in the past few years. I bet there are people out there who are in a similar situations. How can we future-proof our career?
Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
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Silicon Valley Tea Party a.k.a. the great 1998 Linux revolt take II (1999) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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