15:[[48235988,{"by":"ddp26","descendants":0,"id":48235988,"kids":[48236155],"score":1,"time":1779458505,"title":"History doesn't repeat itself as often as LLMs think","type":"story","url":"https://futuresearch.ai/blog/history-doesnt-repeat/"}],[48236076,{"by":"m3h","descendants":7,"id":48236076,"kids":[48238238,48236157,48236286,48236356,48236348,48236557,48236119],"score":5,"text":"When I look at what engineers and non-engineers are doing with LLMs (Claude Code and friends) at any company, I'm finding more and more instances of busywork.

Burning tokens is equated with making progress. More conversations are treated as more "issues" handled. Coding sessions have changed into speccing, PRD, test plan, code plan, code generation and review pipelines. Only for every single piece of artifact to be double-checked by a human. This is considered "agentic engineering". And agentic engineers' token maxing is becoming the norm and is treated the same as "employee performance/efficiency".

It is like we've handed every engineer (and non-employee) uncapped credit, burning at dozens of dollars per minute. No one is talking about whether the costs are justified. No one accounts for the tokens (and money) spent. All for what feels more and more like busy work.

Am I the only one seeing this?","time":1779458898,"title":"Ask HN: Are LLMs creating busy work?","type":"story"}],[48077205,{"by":"lo1tuma","descendants":36,"id":48077205,"kids":[48106416,48107564,48109125,48106517,48077275,48108164,48107886,48107602],"score":34,"time":1778352301,"title":"Optimize for change not application 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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"}],[48076651,{"by":"cuechan","descendants":84,"id":48076651,"kids":[48077173,48077059,48077143,48076989,48077274,48083252,48082873,48081247,48077222,48077340,48077252,48077752,48081434,48081441,48078199,48078717,48081774,48078704,48082065,48082596,48080920,48079335,48077710,48083754,48079492,48083156],"score":274,"time":1778347839,"title":"Zed Editor Theme-Builder","type":"story","url":"https://zed.dev/theme-builder"}],[48071940,{"by":"pretext","descendants":274,"id":48071940,"kids":[48072400,48072225,48073789,48072075,48072471,48073497,48072293,48075079,48074926,48072214,48072197,48075652,48074807,48073090,48072681,48073811,48072515,48072970,48073830,48073049,48072061,48072224,48072077,48075335,48075635,48087370,48074483,48075629,48076752,48084297,48077528,48075567,48076609,48075578,48076505,48080955,48072527,48072467,48081932,48072542,48075221,48075332,48072826,48073019,48076636,48082973,48074109,48073213,48072184,48072254,48072107,48080948,48072701,48072811,48075367,48076922,48077694,48075813,48080889,48075684,48072352,48075683,48074309,48074761,48081488,48075260,48072637,48073540,48077073,48074160,48075739,48074708,48073943,48073501,48077500,48081658,48075706,48079298,48077559,48075139,48073289,48076209,48076041,48075983,48076128,48077345,48075803,48075690,48084208,48072368,48078487,48072280,48072123,48075849,48078190,48075883,48075570,48101217,48074706,48079500,48072661,48180259,48076921,48072649,48076560,48072175,48076430,48076733,48072933,48075909,48076004,48073992,48108604,48073528,48079441,48107774,48073686,48074308,48082043,48072429,48076893,48083132,48075992],"score":528,"text":"Examples: https://thariqs.github.io/html-effectiveness/

Related: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/8/unreasonable-effectiven...","time":1778302432,"title":"Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML","type":"story","url":"https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935"}],[47824943,{"by":"zdw","descendants":162,"id":47824943,"kids":[47866819,47867985,47870989,47874404,47869783,47866864,47866960,47866918,47866982,48000359,47868218,47868078,47866853,47868935,47824953,47871355,47874214,47868796,47870128,47871737,47873778,47866962,47889185,47867654,47867256,47875684,47878118,47875531,47880462,47869422,47873944,47870463,47870429,47867500,47872287,47870538,47869099,47876937,47868059,47870081,47866973,47866650,47867555,48024135,48024131,47873705,47869885,47867202,47866441,47868176,47875432,47866738,47868586,47866778,47867691,47871314,47874190,47872127,47868906,47871588,47873564,47876731,47870240,47872717,47866711,47872486,47868189,47874915,47871256,47872894,47867905,47870166,47876631,47867634,47867690,47869729,47870143,47870160,47870479,47872414,47867752,47871987,47871189],"score":822,"time":1776611968,"title":"5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens","type":"story","url":"https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcufont/"}],[47862274,{"by":"Rperry2174","descendants":3,"id":47862274,"kids":[47864129,47867091,47864582,47875942,47888669],"score":7,"text":"Objectively, cloud-based agents have several functional advantages over local ones: persistent environments, asynchronous execution, longer-running tasks, shared context across teams, easier access to compute, and the ability to operate while you’re offline or doing something else.

Yet a lot of discussion around AI coding tools still seems centered on editor UX, autocomplete, and whether something is “just” an IDE, GUI, or TUI wrapper.

Especially as many major tools are now investing in cloud agents it makes me wonder if people are underestimating where the real leverage may be or if cloud just isn't actually "the future".

Are people here actually using cloud coding agents in real workflows yet?","time":1776858781,"title":"Ask HN: Are cloud coding agents useful in real workflows yet?","type":"story"}],[47793411,{"by":"meetpateltech","descendants":1452,"id":47793411,"kids":[47794768,47802834,47794908,47794755,47799909,47793749,47796699,47794728,47794800,47799123,47795270,47798387,47797378,47795947,47793692,47794000,47793917,47795735,47793619,47796472,47801558,47793791,47795738,47796869,47794706,47801557,47796360,47803755,47800337,47794204,47806472,47793822,47799866,47800974,47795079,47797637,47793929,47793653,47797184,47794581,47805012,47793634,47805673,47805342,47802678,47799521,47795886,47805248,47796969,47803074,47795530,47794491,47794874,47804014,47796106,47802606,47795140,47794043,47813972,47795118,47796060,47797722,47793771,47797167,47793849,47794055,47794078,47796704,47800823,47794223,47793693,47795110,47797401,47799366,47795460,47801841,47800933,47803810,47797980,47797867,47796073,47797110,47795684,47803128,47794421,47803584,47802029,47794784,47867110,47794428,47801214,47799223,47799969,47796043,47794290,47808509,47794363,47795862,47795154,47796307,47798923,47801316,47799049,47794916,47799752,47803442,47798870,47802487,47794366,47796439,47796931,47798186,47812130,47793594,47793801,47800945,47795580,47796629,47795195,47806187,47801518,47796502,47797414,47800454,47803120,47802768,47800193,47794667,47797748,47794485,47803468,47803915,47801608,47803850,47805616,47803985,47803907,47796408,47800673,47803878,47803802,47797737,47805953,47799534,47795442,47794437,47793904,47794962,47793790,47801291,47797560,47797191,47802710,47807434,47797697,47795517,47793646,47804115,47794894,47805364,47797618,47798804,47806587,47796678,47800667,47805293,47795480,47793553,47803478,47798531,47795447,47799050,47796746,47796535,47794944,47798249,47794748,47794791,47887950,47796424,47795635,47794722,47793905,47794032,47796979,47795250,47801853,47793875,47802598,47799124,47793765,47799904,47794212,47796058,47794843,47803586,47795964,47793928,47797693,47805890,47793606,47797316,47798574,47795284,47802042,47795894,47794054,47802293,47795054,47796038,47800937,47804665,47794497,47803367,47795230,47794711,47803843,47797649,47803958,47796120,47794282,47801445,47793579,47794081,47795526,47804992,47819807,47802956,47794920,47803035,47811262,47801361,47804426,47802908,47802275,47814899,47803989,47808062,47803467,47800798,47801396,47803449,47801531,47796936,47796126,47806627,47801910,47804186,47794650,47796934,47793781,47795767,47797689,47861857,47800499,47799254,47803498,47794108,47793684,47794794,47794819,47804268,47793729,47795022,47796613,47793860,47795292],"score":1959,"time":1776349430,"title":"Claude Opus 4.7","type":"story","url":"https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7"}],[47785397,{"by":"armcat","descendants":198,"id":47785397,"kids":[47786461,47786185,47786942,47788461,47786296,47786745,47786155,47786449,47788798,47786501,47787517,47786582,47798497,47789349,47786854,47788579,47791521,47786940,47796359,47796457,47792930,47787311,47786498,47786764,47789255,47786761,47792239,47788916,47788745,47786853,47789867,47786364,47803151,47788763,47786991,47786747,47786115,47794547,47786707,47789499,47786271,47790329],"score":341,"time":1776288065,"title":"ChatGPT for Excel","type":"story","url":"https://chatgpt.com/apps/spreadsheets/"}],[47791236,{"by":"surprisetalk","descendants":88,"id":47791236,"kids":[47793134,47792933,47792600,47792832,47792643,47792611,47792705,47792709,47792592,47794048,47803177,47796793,47793301,47803937,47797397,47806793,47792631,47796204,47841360,47808184,47792571,47796981,47794501,47803136,47792623,47794138,47796211,47795576,47799624],"score":241,"text":"Recent and related: Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769089 - (198 comments)","time":1776336480,"title":"AI cybersecurity is not proof of work","type":"story","url":"https://antirez.com/news/163"}],[47792764,{"by":"cmitsakis","descendants":532,"id":47792764,"kids":[47796844,47793082,47793254,47793190,47794925,47798787,47793259,47793721,47793521,47793114,47807247,47794130,47793176,47799461,47793507,47811387,47797974,47796726,47794947,47811779,47799623,47798111,47802434,47793168,47800761,47793044,47794612,47795711,47793569,47793096,47794492,47797075,47793554,47796389,47793198,47797631,47793775,47793575,47796391,47796241,47804662,47793626,47793806,47794952,47793338,47796785,47793645,47796577,47797900,47796960,47804919,47794911,47798514,47798230,47793232,47800646,47803110,47801088,47804331,47814902,47795348,47811327,47799883,47796503,47796685,47793839,47793845,47800539,47794814,47800749,47793179,47793204],"score":1274,"time":1776346587,"title":"Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all","type":"story","url":"https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b"}]]

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