frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Dev with 5 of experience switched to Rails, what should I be careful about?

1•vampiregrey•2m ago•0 comments

AlphaFace: High Fidelity and Real-Time Face Swapper Robust to Facial Pose

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16429
1•PaulHoule•3m ago•0 comments

Scientists discover “levitating” time crystals that you can hold in your hand

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/february/scientists-discover--levitating--t...
1•hhs•4m ago•0 comments

Rammstein – Deutschland (C64 Cover, Real SID, 8-bit – 2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VReIuv1GFo
1•erickhill•5m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam

1•Philpax•5m ago•0 comments

Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ)

https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq
1•Lwrless•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone

https://github.com/kjnez/django-rclone
1•cui•12m ago•1 comments

NY lawmakers proposed statewide data center moratorium

https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/ny-lawmakers-proposed-statewide-data-center-morat...
1•geox•13m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok – these scientists are listening in

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00370-w
2•EA-3167•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agent forgets user preferences every session. This fixes it

https://www.pref0.com/
5•fliellerjulian•16m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
2•DustinEchoes•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SSHcode – Always-On Claude Code/OpenCode over Tailscale and Hetzner

https://github.com/sultanvaliyev/sshcode
1•sultanvaliyev•18m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/microsoft-appointed-a-quality-czar-he-has-no-direct-reports-and-no-b...
2•RickJWagner•19m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent coordination on Claude Code: 8 production pain points and patterns

https://gist.github.com/sigalovskinick/6cc1cef061f76b7edd198e0ebc863397
1•nikolasi•20m ago•0 comments

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
7•jbegley•21m ago•1 comments

DevXT – Building the Future with AI That Acts

https://devxt.com
2•superpecmuscles•21m ago•4 comments

A Minimal OpenClaw Built with the OpenCode SDK

https://github.com/CefBoud/MonClaw
1•cefboud•22m ago•0 comments

The silent death of Good Code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
3•amitprasad•22m ago•0 comments

The Internal Negotiation You Have When Your Heart Rate Gets Uncomfortable

https://www.vo2maxpro.com/blog/internal-negotiation-heart-rate
1•GoodluckH•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Glance – Fast CSV inspection for the terminal (SIMD-accelerated)

https://github.com/AveryClapp/glance
2•AveryClapp•25m ago•0 comments

Busy for the Next Fifty to Sixty Bud

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/busy-for-the-next-fifty-to-sixty-had-all-my-money-in-bitcoin-...
1•mithradiumn•25m ago•0 comments

Imperative

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/imperative
1•mithradiumn•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I decomposed 87 tasks to find where AI agents structurally collapse

https://github.com/XxCotHGxX/Instruction_Entropy
2•XxCotHGxX•30m ago•1 comments

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

https://www.theverge.com/report/875077/linux-was-a-mistake
3•timpera•31m ago•1 comments

Octrafic – open-source AI-assisted API testing from the CLI

https://github.com/Octrafic/octrafic-cli
1•mbadyl•32m ago•1 comments

US Accuses China of Secret Nuclear Testing

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-has-been-clear-wanting-new-nuclear-arms-control-treaty-...
3•jandrewrogers•33m ago•2 comments

Peacock. A New Programming Language

2•hashhooshy•38m ago•1 comments

A postcard arrived: 'If you're reading this I'm dead, and I really liked you'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/02/07/postcard-death-teacher-glickman/
4•bookofjoe•39m ago•1 comments

What to know about the software selloff

https://www.morningstar.com/markets/what-know-about-software-stock-selloff
2•RickJWagner•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Syntux – generative UI for websites, not agents

https://www.getsyntux.com/
3•Goose78•44m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

In the era of "Vibe Coding", when Agents are writing code – what are you doing?

9•madagang•4mo ago
In the vibe coding era, AI agents are busy generating functions, wiring tests, and filling in boilerplate.

I catch myself just sitting there, scrolling on my phone — and it feels like wasted time.

So I wonder: what’s the right human role in this loop? Higher-level design? System thinking? Critical auditing? Or are we destined to be “idle supervisors” while machines do the typing?

How are you using those gaps when the Agent is writing code?

Comments

cranberryturkey•4mo ago
I smoke cigars and watch sports
smoovb•4mo ago
When taking a break from tending my agents, I like to eat lunch, some exercise or check on other work and emails.
adyashakti•4mo ago
maybe it can write code, but it still sucks at technical editing
Leftium•4mo ago
You can fill the gaps with more "Vibe Coding."

While one agent is busy, you can start another agent on a different task. (Or maybe even the same task with a variation in the prompt. To hedge against the unlikeliness of the first agent always one-shotting acceptable code.)

Even if you aren't verifying the resulting code, prompting six different agents and confirming their results should keep you busy. (I guess you could even do more if you wanted...)

I have seen various descriptions of this type of workflow. Most recently: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/45180353

> Now I see him spending most of his time doing what product managers traditionally do: talking to users, understanding their problems deeply, figuring out what's actually worth building. Coding has become maybe 20% of his job, and even that 20% is mostly about understanding requirements and translating them into clear specifications. The actual implementation work that used to consume 80% of his time is now handled by machines.

Also here is a short video of this type of workflow in action: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tP1fuFpJt7g

giantg2•4mo ago
There isn't any real gap time. It tends to generate things quickly, then you have to code review it all.
the__alchemist•4mo ago
I'm solving problems that LLMs assist with, but are unreliable. Using vibe coding or Agents sounds like a disaster.
patrakov•4mo ago
From a recent submission: https://donado.co/en/articles/2025-09-16-vibe-coding-cleanup...

And I am just a support person, so not directly affected. My core tasks are to support customers and to provide input to developers about the common points of struggling.

cdaringe•4mo ago
Imagine a job where all you had to do was take requirements and punch out code.

While i expect that to be the case for junior dev positions, it very rapidly is not the case for even entry senior developer roles.

To answer your question, I’m busy solving non coding problems.

mikeinseattle•4mo ago
Thinking deeply about architecture and trying more high-level prototypes out -> then if one really sticks digging in a bit more and injecting my own code is what I've started to do.

The downside is I don't really like starting from "scratch" without these tools anymore. They save so much time for drudge work / migrating changes across large portions of code - I miss the manual way but if I'm being honest not really.

I code as much as I can without ai tools in order to stay fresh for interviews though. It's really eye opening to see how lost non-technical people without a software background get even with the latest cursor tools.

In the future, architectural understanding and knowing how to scale a project will pay top dollar.