15:[[48122103,{"by":"BrunoBernardino","descendants":51,"id":48122103,"kids":[48122587,48125459,48169019,48125187,48124212,48123845,48145859,48128266,48130837,48132727,48122889,48143445,48158967,48127734,48161681,48125475,48127901,48125470,48125882,48131148,48148010,48128687,48124422,48131656,48125250,48132668,48148754,48125935,48127247,48129992,48124859,48127496,48131298,48128238,48142420,48125031,48126117,48125499,48127096,48154747,48170278,48164945,48125345,48129504,48129477,48129580,48122288,48125770,48126214,48124749,48124980,48122623],"score":43,"text":"Please don't turn this into an inflammatory post.

Regardless of "AI" being good or bad (it's not even just one thing as many of you know), I feel like the "What are you working on?" posts are drowning in things that use AI for something and/or are clearly "AI slop".

I'd like to look at things other humans have been doing (even if they used a bit of some kind of AI for assistance), that aren't a product or tool that uses AI for something.

I know it exists (and I use and build some), but it's incredibly hard to find nowadays. Can you help me?

Thank you.","time":1778681272,"title":"Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?","type":"story"}],[48085993,{"by":"david927","descendants":1103,"id":48085993,"kids":[48087657,48088915,48092260,48089329,48088485,48092746,48087399,48086783,48091712,48087292,48090168,48091339,48090009,48089796,48092628,48175154,48086277,48089951,48090318,48088705,48167362,48088370,48094357,48087134,48089662,48090225,48087163,48089336,48087988,48176291,48092783,48090342,48089505,48092990,48096089,48089156,48088768,48095024,48087282,48088127,48087260,48092981,48091547,48088239,48088998,48086017,48091620,48088962,48106434,48090011,48088461,48098088,48087347,48087835,48092647,48092237,48088374,48097158,48088926,48093449,48090283,48087749,48090474,48094811,48088401,48095066,48089358,48089142,48099552,48094331,48100416,48094581,48089929,48096737,48099391,48090068,48088706,48086775,48091492,48145343,48089172,48098575,48087451,48093746,48088382,48093264,48100590,48089936,48093815,48086194,48086780,48099543,48087706,48094207,48087945,48091921,48088895,48090665,48090933,48151636,48090025,48092255,48089567,48090287,48088568,48087862,48115975,48086401,48098057,48091340,48099228,48090881,48144683,48087536,48088244,48087223,48098262,48129954,48091058,48089057,48110114,48097622,48086133,48090378,48088921,48090921,48099316,48094785,48092137,48090452,48089609,48096778,48089046,48156561,48088658,48099315,48087105,48089008,48086993,48088907,48088874,48091755,48112449,48089227,48089165,48089032,48086867,48088060,48089151,48088591,48096635,48087221,48096428,48158951,48091554,48093377,48117329,48090535,48092515,48096589,48089657,48087568,48087588,48100811,48089036,48087714,48087152,48092691,48086884,48098635,48125528,48089503,48091125,48138153,48091532,48088148,48093187,48113112,48092977,48095833,48088081,48102736,48146560,48118546,48094595,48088346,48090109,48086931,48097485,48090681,48090733,48087128,48088598,48088481,48087582,48094583,48093344,48089214,48097087,48090803,48091694,48088356,48092023,48099841,48090269,48087365,48087783,48088802,48088731,48092198,48106056,48086881,48086795,48089645,48149418,48092141,48091478,48091242,48086914,48111130,48101150,48092002,48092472,48148427,48097003,48089033,48093857,48092353,48086971,48092135,48088275,48093051,48108495,48087857,48093499,48087784,48096080,48087725,48086857,48096580,48092845,48088859,48092446,48087309,48095964,48102041,48089055,48088136,48165324,48087954,48091571,48094942,48094222,48089533,48099577,48088350,48095126,48093375,48088830,48088070,48096337,48086960,48090581,48127143,48089569,48095359,48087787,48096929,48086830,48088582,48096476,48089301,48086876,48089536,48155966,48091779,48088371,48090308,48089403,48097382,48094053,48090654,48087252,48092040,48092341,48087497,48087356,48149525,48087374,48091273,48096407,48100532,48091136,48099670,48099212,48096242,48093204,48089529,48087383,48087550,48097204,48087413,48087419,48100322,48087345,48088385,48087450,48088726,48087720,48092523,48143451,48087246,48090215,48098157,48096770,48086813,48091768,48089968,48087433,48087279,48088601,48088493,48086767,48089044,48090217,48095974,48116670,48091574,48095107,48090966,48122032,48088523,48099572,48094033,48095358,48087457,48089820,48087420,48091389,48090462,48089917,48136849,48114879,48088939,48088256,48091695,48086835,48088872,48090396,48095064,48089523,48087392,48088695,48094592,48092184,48087127,48087436,48089797,48088647,48092029,48088012,48087599,48090264,48116997,48087951,48091457,48098162,48089262,48096629,48089030,48092161,48099913,48087445,48143599,48088505,48089441,48087731,48116556,48089228,48086602,48096194,48093364,48087363,48089114,48089647,48091068,48088624,48086819,48092025,48088048,48095473,48089240,48089073,48095616,48087674,48088364,48089223,48091010,48095602,48088031,48092937,48087217,48098143,48087555,48088879,48094506,48104961,48091900,48087895,48089919,48090511,48087501,48090185,48091793,48092661,48091471,48088681,48098186,48089773,48090186,48093172,48088597,48093306,48105793,48088765,48087324,48088630,48087244,48091868,48089426,48088965,48086774,48092857,48112136,48089384,48089729,48090964,48090963,48121781,48087898,48087262,48089945,48092232,48095313,48089689,48134204,48092229,48087775,48087931,48091160,48091300,48088468,48092056,48090872,48089206,48087896,48095198,48090931,48088088,48091231,48099660,48097086,48092102,48086828,48095754,48088294,48103054,48104516,48090954,48090151,48091092,48088588,48090834,48088111,48088268,48094567,48088987,48098693,48091109,48090823,48088004,48096125,48089180,48126727,48087201,48094126,48086791,48093702,48087897,48091746,48087199,48088905,48089086,48087412,48095682,48139159,48103147,48087753,48095480,48092957,48089211,48088727,48090609,48091284,48090880,48088471,48086730,48088125,48089035,48098861,48090167,48087360,48087404,48090969,48095752,48087489,48086763,48088453,48087687,48087923,48086782,48086758,48091346,48100740,48097525,48108333,48092634,48090256,48097303,48087148,48089019,48092480,48087791,48087230,48094405,48086865,48091800,48086848,48099725,48086175,48087625,48092590,48087535,48097624,48088777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are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?","time":1778434481,"title":"Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)","type":"story"}],[48084086,{"by":"mc-0","descendants":15,"id":48084086,"kids":[48085258,48085239,48115317,48085889,48085079,48085088,48104076,48107733,48119166,48084307,48085349,48105935,48086087,48084910,48108498,48119911,48092640,48095817],"score":19,"text":"Internally transferred to a new team in a top-10 F500 company. This team is pushing incredibly hard to be seen as "AI-First" & is very opinionated about what other teams should be doing.

I was explicitly told I am not to write any code by hand. Claude usage is mandatory coupled with a proprietary superpowers / speckit / GSD framework with 100+ agents and skill files.

All code reviews are agent driven. No one takes the time to actually understand anything. Documentation has become novel length slop, as have Jira tickets.

I ship stuff I don't understand. Management says there won't be a need for many SWEs in the future.

Am I alone in experiencing this? Is this the future of work?","time":1778421821,"title":"Ask HN: Is this the SWE workflow of the future?","type":"story"}],[48087925,{"by":"0-bad-sectors","descendants":32,"id":48087925,"kids":[48090472,48089255,48090619,48092715,48089264,48088509,48122447,48113304,48120862,48104550,48092591,48088066,48111205,48089607,48099681,48123667,48117315,48103563,48089045,48098825,48102406,48093286,48105926,48088820,48089638,48103041,48138481,48128254,48092673,48113429,48091247,48092450,48106916,48091463,48092646],"score":27,"text":"Now whenever I reach for customer's support chat or phone I get an AI agent replying to me and I get into a useless loop for a couple of minutes before I start begging it to link me to a real person.

Will companies start losing customers because of that or people will eventually get used to this?","time":1778446647,"title":"Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?","type":"story"}],[48008836,{"by":"omertt27","descendants":6,"id":48008836,"kids":[48009754,48008837,48010378,48017994,48010796],"score":7,"time":1777902923,"title":"Show HN:Privacy-First Pdf Converter","type":"story","url":"https://privapdf.net"}],[47979898,{"by":"evo_9","descendants":24,"id":47979898,"kids":[47981190,47983680,47982642,47982811,47983121,47981258,47980828,47979957,47984991,47981437,47979920],"score":69,"text":"Stuck in a situation at your current job that makes you want to leave / be fired? Here is your opportunity to get it off your chest, and if needed, seek some hopefully helpful feedback.","time":1777667514,"title":"Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)","type":"story"}],[47984463,{"by":"chistev","descendants":15,"id":47984463,"kids":[47985997,47988332,47984674,47992718,47984891,47984791,47984467,47984579,47984976,47984625,47986851,47984710,47984526],"score":5,"time":1777709689,"title":"Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?","type":"story"}],[47825001,{"by":"chairhairair","descendants":10,"id":47825001,"kids":[47825121,47825901,47837728,47861812,47832360,47844926,47830089,47845373,47860314,47847551,47886685,47829645],"score":11,"text":"The tech PM role is… difficult to define, but we’ve all worked with good PMs and bad PMs - it’s usually quite quick to tell where someone falls on the spectrum once you’ve worked with them for a few weeks. But, I find it difficult to describe the difference.","time":1776612445,"title":"Ask HN: What makes a good Product Manager","type":"story"}],[47845050,{"by":"sunny678","descendants":77,"id":47845050,"kids":[47847011,47846405,47845611,47845809,47852035,47845063,47864714,47847200,47845192,47879855,47876196,47878688,47848313,47879437,47847362,47845638,47974309,47874309,47845649,47845619,47845351,47874112,47866444,47857960,47897865,47872218,47847400,47845527,47846619,47850130,47849399,47894593,47857137,47847546,47887341,47845085,47845616,47845071,47848383,47847286,47847279,47877338,47861920,47867558,47885238,47861016,47854377,47846170,47845695,47873092,47845177],"score":46,"text":"For developers and non-developers alike: What's worth learning today to stay relevant in an AI first world","time":1776750584,"title":"Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?","type":"story"}],[47789816,{"by":"wasimsk","descendants":34,"id":47789816,"kids":[47790464,47790748,47790419,47797621,47790281,47789863,47803578,47805954,47799084,47791730,47791779,47792108,47791000,47808293,47797168,47791250,47790828,47805157,47791777,47790225,47792996,47789972,47789955,47790494,47793519,47798714],"score":14,"text":"I love Steve Jobs. His style, vision and overall charisma made me his fan.","time":1776324598,"title":"Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?","type":"story"}],[47780185,{"by":"RockstarSprain","descendants":25,"id":47780185,"kids":[47781464,47794334,47780595,47784691,47780461,47787595,47783486,47807635,47780453,47790920,47781224,47798998,47781001,47781229,47782868,47780531,47831668,47786133,47818390,47780808,47780615,47781965,47818206,47789264,47817469,47783544,47780665,47786329,47791956],"score":26,"text":"Not sure how to put it better but the more I read about AI the less motivation I have to either keep up with the tech advances or to try doing new things... I wonder how others keep or even foster the kind of motivation necessary to try new things and actually stick to doing them long enough? I would appreciate input on this in the most general sense possible.","time":1776265698,"title":"Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?","type":"story"}],[47736831,{"by":"devendra116","descendants":33,"id":47736831,"kids":[47739946,47753362,47742037,47751356,47739811,47749936,47772402,47738873,47751847,47737207,47741758,47738816,47739370,47736932,47738763,47846597,47737572,47747278,47749529],"score":17,"text":"are you ok sharing secrets or api keys to you ai agent via .env?

or is there any other tool or mechanism that one use to safegaurd from potential exploit or leaks","time":1775977024,"title":"Ask HN: Do you trust AI agents with API keys / private keys?","type":"story"}],[47688712,{"by":"ed_elliott_asc","descendants":23,"id":47688712,"kids":[47688737,47728428,47691492,47689730,47689501,47766212,47693813,47701121,47734034,47688897,47741328,47750319,47731719,47704945,47693681,47708859,47694910,47692822,47710867,47691179,47695024,47702802],"score":21,"text":"Something I’ve noticed (I’m using Claude subscription so no refunds but it applies to usage windows) is that sometimes AI makes mistakes so if something is important I tell Claude code to spin up a couple of sub agents and verify the information, often there will be a mistake and it gets rectified.

It feels unfair I have to pay (or lose some usage) for this.

Interested in other people’s thoughts.","time":1775647506,"title":"Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?","type":"story"}],[47667504,{"by":"lazarkap","descendants":112,"id":47667504,"kids":[47669134,47673244,47668158,47669998,47669239,47667588,47668654,47679414,47715069,47669786,47723971,47707738,47669873,47702709,47669211,47688007,47669966,47735406,47701252,47668136,47668972,47669587,47677327,47706413,47669893,47716683,47668641,47668076,47671456,47688593,47669855,47724047,47670811,47670221,47670737,47669201,47669877,47669781,47670342,47716498,47688454,47685476,47668715,47719623,47698324,47669543,47671970,47685784,47669126,47685712,47685835,47713056,47701486,47671525,47688612,47677056,47668685,47698049,47699141,47685288,47669847,47684295,47705670,47668917,47673203,47680529,47696935,47727413,47670718,47702064],"score":147,"text":"I've shipped multiple products over the past few years. Every single one followed the same pattern: build, post, get 12 likes from friends, a bit of organic traction, then nothing. Back to coding a new thing.

I know I need marketing help but giving equity to someone I met online feels like a huge risk. At the same time hiring a paid marketer when you have zero revenue feels just as scary. And I'm not dancing on TikTok, that's for sure.

Have any of you actually taken on a marketing co-founder? What made you say yes to that person specifically? Was it their track record, the way they pitched, a trial period first?","time":1775511407,"title":"Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?","type":"story"}],[47666811,{"by":"vixalien","descendants":13,"id":47666811,"kids":[47667220,47668612,47668682,47688418,47690584,47705170,47689727,47722714,47673989,47691822,47701065],"score":14,"text":"Hello all, been trying to switch away from Claude Code and have been trailing this:

- Harness: Opencode (via Openchamber)\n- Subscription: GitHub Copilot (50$)\n- API Usage (beyond subscription): Open router\n- Free models: Opencode go

Here's the models I've trialed and like:

- Large (alternative to Opus): GPT 5.3 Codex\n- Medium (alternative to Sonnet): Minimax 2.7\n- Smol: GPT 5.4 mini

these models are not yet on par to their respective Claude alternatives for me, but maybe I need to switch to something else or tune them, what have you been using?

Also looking for nice Opencode plugins, skills, completion providers (alternative to Cursor that I could use with Zen).

Happy to hear about your choices and experience","time":1775508281,"title":"Ask HN: Alternatives to Claude (Code)?","type":"story"}],[47628282,{"by":"acaciabengo","descendants":5,"id":47628282,"kids":[47628576,47658418,47660636,47638149,47648080],"score":6,"text":"I have built a pipeline that takes construction documents as PDFs, extracts out the floor plans.

It extracts out BIM data from the plans at pixel accuracy producing data on walls, floors, windows and doors accurately.

It also generates 3D impressions and a brief 10s 3D video of the floor plans.

I have had multiple discussion to build within a company already solving the same problem but not closed a deal yet and considering taking it to the market as a solo founder.

I am outside the UK and USA and was seeking a founder for market access and future fundraising.

What is the best advice on how to go to market as a sole founder?","time":1775231795,"title":"Ask HN: Advice on Solo Launching","type":"story"}],[47633396,{"by":"firloop","descendants":827,"id":47633396,"kids":[47633987,47635320,47634002,47633867,47637555,47635372,47633682,47633952,47634826,47641008,47633466,47633849,47634154,47635454,47634590,47634260,47634722,47633760,47641395,47633812,47633981,47638513,47634874,47636113,47636595,47636490,47634071,47633905,47633455,47636382,47635817,47633625,47739405,47639134,47633709,47641560,47637905,47637600,47651375,47633814,47639541,47634676,47635045,47637703,47633798,47638558,47633875,47656607,47660433,47674934,47653611,47633824,47648869,47633789,47635201,47634892,47638581,47634380,47633924,47636407,47635760,47639348,47634050,47634856,47634015,47634443,47634490,47638180,47635561,47634433,47633481,47635439,47635812,47637476,47634616,47637609,47696001,47644649,47648950,47641852,47647400,47634334,47635624,47634279,47635608,47634192,47633491,47635116,47636387,47644278,47635115,47640999,47634889,47634338,47634876,47640990,47634772,47634882,47634858,47635169,47637901,47634341,47651144,47634044,47638140,47637071,47633988,47634649,47652936,47635291,47634782,47633982,47633562,47638422,47644215,47635396,47640769,47635647,47637652,47644812,47636914,47634533,47633965,47638050,47648108,47636225,47634117,47633929,47636698,47639183,47634160,47636165,47635344,47636648,47638680,47639958,47636464,47634829,47636636,47634014,47636857,47634917,47637211,47639318,47633831,47634529,47638931,47641443,47639266,47635392,47640836,47636132,47638734,47633618,47638060,47633935,47635398,47634356,47637069,47635557,47633770,47635865,47633719,47634381,47637683,47658661,47638116,47657587,47638980,47634541,47637154,47642774,47641447,47640394,47633817,47638157,47634317,47795605,47645217,47638667,47652524,47636461,47636440,47654297,47635989,47638199,47637205,47635276,47637948,47637444,47635695,47640332,47638614,47636198,47654318,47645778,47636466,47637748,47638068,47638618,47684416,47633955,47687685,47670943,47637053,47642364,47666515,47640082,47638489,47635896,47641874,47636657,47659353,47664312,47641564,47657323,47647560,47633926,47633829,47704238,47638279,47637067,47647208,47646247,47635095,47647353,47652204,47634216,47635316,47633705,47633672,47634151,47637372],"score":1099,"text":"$16","time":1775256924,"title":"Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw","type":"story"}],[47511075,{"by":"zane__chen","descendants":15,"id":47511075,"kids":[47522413,47565301,47533061,47513327,47516285,47518176,47515534,47527451,47538412,47541393,47514076,47511320,47547965,47517438,47526873,47515200,47515473,47513168,47511451,47514680,47525046],"score":5,"text":"As titled.","time":1774395030,"title":"Ask HN: Do you feel less happy when coding with agent?","type":"story"}],[47490278,{"by":"general_reveal","descendants":5,"id":47490278,"kids":[47501504,47498964,47502335,47497352,47514670,47490435,47500839],"score":14,"time":1774277155,"title":"Ask HN: How many of you are profiting with LLM wrapper apps?","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"}],[47484203,{"by":"habosa","descendants":11,"id":47484203,"kids":[47486551,47489340,47484686,47484713,47512242,47534749,47499390,47497550,47484221,47493009,47486057,47486708,47485664,47501447],"score":7,"text":"Jensen Huang recently said that he thinks an engineer who makes $500k should spend at least $250k a year on “tokens” which is an astounding figure. I personally don’t know how I could spend that much if I tried. Obviously he has a huge financial incentive to convince people that $250k per engineer is reasonable, but it got me thinking that it’s time for a survey.

How much are you and your coworkers spending on AI coding tools at work? I’m talking about Cursor, Claude Code, etc. Not all AI-powered SaaS, just the stuff that’s metered by token.","time":1774227744,"title":"Ask HN: How much are you spending on AI coding at work?","type":"story"}],[47486885,{"by":"nclin_","descendants":11,"id":47486885,"kids":[47492091,47501676,47512678,47486943,47510446,47488046,47487537,47506182,47487055,47563514,47500384,47493716,47507275,47493993,47488090,47507928,47486993,47486939,47499648,47501433,47486965],"score":6,"text":"I keep hearing all the rage about Openclaw but can't imagine a task I'd trust it with. What are people actually using it for?","time":1774256169,"title":"Ask HN: Are you using OpenClaw or similar agents? How?","type":"story"}]]

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