Ask HN: Unemployed almost a year after graduating MIT – a rant

54 points by TimGubth 9 months ago | 39 comments

Ask HN: Tired of being a software engineer, what next?

35 points by throwaway99923 3 years ago | 35 comments

100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)(hyponymo.us)

29 points by yamrzou 1 year ago | 30 comments

Don't become an engineering manager(newsletter.manager.dev)

364 points by flail 7 months ago | 259 comments

A Manager.dev newsletter post by Anton Zaides arguing that engineers should reconsider accepting promotions to engineering manager roles.

I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)

705 points by jamesrandall 8 months ago | 556 comments

Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.

What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes(notnotp.com)

228 points by chmaynard 4 months ago | 173 comments

The Enterprise Experience(churchofturing.github.io)

458 points by Improvement 1 year ago | 130 comments

A personal blog post by a software developer reflecting snarkily on one year working at a large enterprise after a decade in startups and SMEs.

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do(human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)

1029 points by poisonfountain 4 months ago | 967 comments

A personal blog post by a software engineer with 10 years of experience reflecting on how LLMs are eroding their career and their uncertainty about what to do.

Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age(manuel.kiessling.net)

370 points by briankelly 1 year ago | 273 comments

Blog post by Manuel Kießling on how experienced developers can use their skills to get better results from AI coding agents.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left(fourlightyears.blogspot.com)

808 points by andrewstuart 5 months ago | 574 comments

Personal blog post by a former early AWS advocate explaining the frustrations that led them to leave AWS and why returning reminded them of those issues.

AI is making me dumb(jpain.io)

407 points by Eighth 5 months ago | 247 comments

A personal blog post in which a software developer argues that relying on AI for writing code, articles, and documents is eroding his own writing and programming skills.