15:[[46119612,{"by":"server_man3000","descendants":17,"id":46119612,"kids":[46121244,46121246,46130362,46129291,46122749,46119936,46120036,46119649,46120606,46138614,46119645,46120263],"score":10,"text":"Hi HN. I’ve been battling depression for a few years now and have become pretty numb to most things.

I’ve tried exercise, sleep, drugs, social events.

I think a lot of it has to do with my job, feeling trapped and bound to the golden handcuffs to try and survive this expensive world while being forced to work on things I have little care for. Curious what folks have done to help escape this dark cloud.","time":1764670032,"title":"Ask HN: Battling Depression","type":"story"}],[45983118,{"by":"mcdow","descendants":13,"id":45983118,"kids":[45993529,45983940,45983341,45992873,45983145,45994606,45985473,45990810,46005029,45983794,45985876,46003369,45994558],"score":10,"text":"In my experience even the best software projects have a few skeletons in their closet, blemishes on an otherwise well-built project.

At the end of the day, we all have to build things that simply work and provide business value. Striving for perfect code is not the goal. But it does make me wonder: does perfect software even exist? If not, what's the gold standard?","time":1763577004,"title":"Ask HN: Have you ever seen a perfect codebase?","type":"story"}],[45977291,{"by":"keepamovin","descendants":12,"id":45977291,"kids":[45978267,45979240,45980015,45981327],"score":12,"text":"$16","time":1763542527,"title":"Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like a 'manager' now, with AI?","type":"story"}],[45913245,{"by":"me551ah","descendants":13,"id":45913245,"kids":[45920475,45919672,45921529,45913743,45926354,45915335,45924866,45914942,45926305,45914848,45916274,45925426],"score":8,"text":"I have been coding for more than 20 years now and nothing has changed my coding habit more than LLMs. I am a touch typer and use a blue mechnical keyboard since I love typing so much and have been used to writing a lot of code.

But ever since LLMs have released, I do find myself writing long prompts and then waiting for LLM to do the implementation. They are not perfect by any means and make a lot of mistakes, but I have found that verbose prompting does usually get the job done.

Now these sessions usually last a few hours due to how slow LLMs are and I usually work on larger pieces of work. I am used to working long hours and typing for a long time, but this is new. I find myself waiting for 70% of the time for an operation to happen.

I find myself watching tv shows or youtube videos or even doing some creative writing on the side while LLMs do their work.

So I was just wondering what other creative things the HN crowd has come up with to do while LLMs are doing the grunt work for you.","time":1763030229,"title":"Ask HN: What do you do while LLM is writing code","type":"story"}],[45924262,{"by":"shivajikobardan","descendants":20,"id":45924262,"kids":[45924321,45924720,45924439,45925556,45928108,45925050,45926008,45924690,45926067,45927969,45946604,45925454,45924348,45924328,45924850],"score":45,"text":"Race condition, producer consumer, and cool stuffs like that? I do java","time":1763099571,"title":"Ask HN: How to learn concurrency?","type":"story"}],[45740750,{"by":"yodsanklai","descendants":38,"id":45740750,"kids":[45749308,45741171,45759438,45745704,45748234,45756705,45743172,45745140,45742700,45748370,45742090,45740886,45741717,45741715,45744571,45742997,45743812,45748020,45742995,45759150,45740838],"score":25,"text":"In the span of a few months, my job has completely changed. Most of the code in my team is now written by agents. And most of the focus of my team is to integrate agents in our products.

I'm not interested in the products we're supposed to build, and I don't like the way we're building them. Code quality has suddenly became irrelevant, and you have to keep up with everybody who ship twice as much code as before.

At the same time, there's more pressure on SWEs to deliver as layoffs are looming. I think leadership really believes they'll be able to save a lot by ultimately getting rid of all of us.

I'm not sure what to do at that stage but I'm pretty miserable. It's crazy that this occurred so fast.","time":1761694626,"title":"Ask HN: AI has changed my job for the worse","type":"story"}],[45505314,{"by":"ultrasounder","descendants":27,"id":45505314,"kids":[45505588,45505880,45509079,45507666,45509813,45505472,45514708,45519490,45508632,45513462,45518176,45511814,45515983,45529795,45595159],"score":21,"text":"$17","time":1759854789,"title":"Ask HN: Career Burnout Looking for Options","type":"story"}],[45511029,{"by":"phoehne","descendants":1,"id":45511029,"kids":[45513182,45514578],"score":15,"text":"$18","time":1759886693,"title":"What modern programming feels like","type":"story"}]]

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