15:[[47548481,{"by":"lukol","descendants":9,"id":47548481,"kids":[47548543,47567094,47557836,47562393,47558192,47550123,47551713,47560709,47559382,47553790,47579767,47554236,47551212],"score":9,"text":"Talking to developer (and increasingly non-developer) friends of mine, the following pattern has emerged:

Many of them are caught in a "just one more feature" loop that keeps them awake late at night, destroys their sleep cycles and has them wondering every waking hour if they spend their Claude Code Max subscription as effectively as possible. You could actually be building a feature while you're grabbing dinner or hitting the gym, so why don't you?

Combined with the fact that the current state of AI assisted coding is still far from perfect, this leads to exhaustion. Letting your agent do its thing fully unsupervised only works in few scenarios and reviewing (or at least: QA-ing) the countless things that were built while you were spending time with your friends / family / pets is mentally taxing.

How are you handling this?","time":1774646780,"title":"Fear of Missing Code","type":"story"}],[47555081,{"by":"acmerfight","descendants":88,"id":47555081,"kids":[47556028,47555767,47557074,47559069,47555714,47555692,47555812,47556208,47556071,47556040,47555922,47560856,47561424,47555936,47559329,47556112,47556709,47570889,47555981,47556418,47556918,47566617,47615254,47574184,47556058,47561560,47555389,47560493,47555778,47555793,47562058,47556100,47609622,47571698,47568126,47571706,47596863,47610645,47556889,47560691,47558692,47556993,47555621,47573397,47568529,47603684],"score":76,"text":"$16","time":1774709294,"title":"The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making \"lazy\" look productive","type":"story"}],[47559293,{"by":"bhaviav100","descendants":32,"id":47559293,"kids":[47577331,47559616,47589330,47595082,47595187,47566274,47559476,47560688,47565058,47562067,47563774,47559326,47571565,47576138,47560929,47560802,47560786,47564748,47659063,47600210,47576063,47570777,47563358,47585228,47560734,47693441,47583024,47596566,47561547,47564825,47582833,47572882,47568131,47569988,47560578,47560973],"score":8,"text":"$17","time":1774743740,"title":"Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?","type":"story"}],[47509345,{"by":"Vektorceraptor","descendants":20,"id":47509345,"kids":[47550868,47529733,47532136,47515204,47520175,47531858,47509435,47541080,47555283,47516231,47544894,47509681,47516173,47514553,47543932,47523848,47518922,47545743,47528727,47544318,47514446,47509409],"score":7,"text":"Is there a (natural) demand for more and more software?","time":1774386533,"title":"Ask HN: Does the World need more software?","type":"story"}],[47526588,{"by":"icwtyjj","descendants":39,"id":47526588,"kids":[47533622,47530348,47527976,47528001,47530171,47540386,47535349,47535210,47550839,47553177,47526624,47530236,47530685,47539880,47528530,47529952,47529653,47526752,47528140,47531860,47529561,47552721,47528911,47533364,47528808,47529794,47535950,47552582,47542217,47527861,47538391,47539463,47538453,47527206,47533682,47529167],"score":18,"text":"How does one decide their career path or personal goals in life when there are endless options, many of which probably will not work out?","time":1774498517,"title":"Ask HN: How did you figure out what you wanted to do with your life?","type":"story"}],[47543324,{"by":"midnight_eclair","descendants":6,"id":47543324,"kids":[47554257,47550813,47566325,47565183,47547067,47566001,47552233,47552935,47556097,47565208,47550703],"score":5,"text":"my current convictions are:

1. "agentic" development is here to stay, whether we like it or not

2. markdown prompts are a terrible way of driving such development, no matter how much structure and hierarchy you're trying to impose (whether chaining or fan-out into personas, etc)

3. jigsaw-puzzle approach is less terrible - declare the "boundary" of any component or subsystem in a normative language of your choice and let the agent fill the insides

it's fine if you think those convictions are incorrect, but i'm more interested in feedback from folks that more-or-less agree, with regard to the last point: what do YOU use for normative language to describe component boundary, function and cross-component interactions?

i've had mild success with openapi, but maybe there are better alternatives?","time":1774623042,"title":"Ask HN: What do you use for normative specs to drive AI agents?","type":"story"}],[47548095,{"by":"fujilovesapps33","descendants":4,"id":47548095,"kids":[47551595,47550108,47550782],"score":5,"text":"Someone on Reddit needed an app to solve a problem we both had.

That comment turned into a $15k project and months of DIY work.

Here's the story:

https://youtu.be/-W9NdAVG_is?si=ccf7g0--opem4RIi

I also ended up getting a dog too which is super cool. His name is Fuji, he's great.

Happy to answer questions or share more details. Enjoy!","time":1774644713,"title":"I built a $15k Mac app for a random Reddit user","type":"story"}],[47458595,{"by":"GaggiX","descendants":34,"id":47458595,"kids":[47460324,47459736,47460036,47465573,47459484,47459229,47459405,47467134,47465749,47461658,47462439,47466652,47466481,47462031,47464269],"score":241,"time":1774031021,"title":"Attention Residuals","type":"story","url":"https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Attention-Residuals"}]]

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