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Building Software vs. Building a House

2•filup•1h ago
I have a few rantings and opinions to submit to Hackernews on why the SWE terminology is outdated.

I submit software engineers and vibe coders need a new name. Just call everyone Builders. You were never really an engineer with stamps, and now, a vibecoder can design software and call himself a software engineer without all the crap that you have been through to get where you are today. Its confusing and doesn't make sense long term.

This is the new playing field. We now have crap builders who build houses that will fall down, develop water damage, flood the basement, have squeaks in the floor, burn the house down from loose wires. OR... you have good builders. They take pride in the home they build. They meet with the trades daily. They know exactly what each of the trades are doing. They know the house will stand for a hundred years because their eyes were watchful throughout the build. They saw every load of dirt that was dumped and compacted, every nail in the roof sheathing sunk.

The good builder may even put the tool belt on occasionally and do the dirty work. They may adjust the framing because they know how it will affect the final product. They may apply reinforcing where the engineer overlooked a weak spot. They may adjust windows mid frame because they know something later in the assembly will cause massive problems. They thoughtfully placed outlets in high usuage areas, or bumped up the amperage of a circuit because they know the equipment that will be used one day in that location.

Everyone is going to have access to the same great sub base. But that's not the measure of what makes a good house. No matter how good the sub base is, they don't care about the house. The builder must care. The builder with field expirence will never loose his value, and houses will never build themselves.

The Beauty of Batteries

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-beauty-of-batteries/
1•latentframe•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Applora – extracting product feedback from Shopify app reviews

https://applora.ai
2•yuangwei•10m ago•0 comments

Stackoverflow for Agents Sofa

https://agents.stackoverflow.com/skill.md
1•pow-tac•20m ago•0 comments

Notes from the PipeWire Hackfest 2026

https://arunraghavan.net/2026/06/notes-from-the-pipewire-hackfest-2026-part-1/
1•JNRowe•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AgentBridge – translate and govern calls between AI agent protocols

https://github.com/shadowhunter-92/agentbridge
1•Shadowhunter89•27m ago•0 comments

Demystifying Noise Contrastive Estimation

https://jxmo.io/posts/nce
1•jxmorris12•31m ago•0 comments

Apple Foundation Models

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/cli-sdks-libraries/libraries/apple-foundation-models
2•MehrdadKhnzd•34m ago•0 comments

AI Agents Don't Need SMS APIs. They Need Infrastructure

https://blog.bridgexapi.io/from-rest-apis-to-mcp-making-messaging-infrastructure-ai-native
2•Bridgexapi•41m ago•0 comments

Fugee, an agentic AI assistant for displaced people and asylum seekers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYGzJZj7LfM
2•helmo•47m ago•0 comments

'Worst Example of Misconduct': Court Affirms Sanctions for Erroneous AI Cites

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2026/06/12/worst-example-of-misconduct-appellate-court-affirms-sa...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•50m ago•0 comments

'Strains Credulity': Judge Rejects Meta's Attempt to Dismiss Copyright Suit

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2026/06/12/strains-credulity-judge-rejects-metas-attempt-to-dismi...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•51m ago•0 comments

Who is the Real Dennis Ritchie? (1991) [pdf]

https://dmrthesis.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/BLR-Article-UNIXWorld-Jan1991-A.pdf
2•caned•51m ago•0 comments

A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/a-brief-tour-of-the-pdp-11-the-most-influential-minicompu...
4•jensgk•52m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How can we democratize agentic coding

1•omot•52m ago•0 comments

US Lawmakers Pressing DOJ on fraud, bribery case against Indian Billionaire

https://www.law.com/international-edition/2026/06/12/us-lawmakers-are-pressing-the-doj-on-its-dec...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•53m ago•1 comments

A Galois Field Arithmetic Primer

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/06/14/Galois-Field-Arithmetic-Primer.html
3•matt_d•53m ago•0 comments

Quantum Horizon: Quantum Computing as a Threat to Bitcoin and Ethereum

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.14484
1•OutOfHere•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Prela – A Compositional and Controllable Query Language

https://prela-lang.org
1•remywang•57m ago•0 comments

ArkType: The Parse-Don't-Validate Sequel I Didn't Know I Needed

https://cekrem.github.io/posts/arktype-parse-dont-validate-sequel/
2•jcbhmr•1h ago•0 comments

Found this FREE open source APP which is an absolute GEM

https://github.com/Prithvi-Web/Treemap
1•DaGoat487•1h ago•2 comments

I indexed 936 Lex Fridman episodes into a RAG that cites its sources

https://github.com/aranajhonny/omnipod
2•akatsutki•1h ago•0 comments

Bretisilocin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretisilocin
2•isoprophlex•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What does your local LLM setup looks like?

2•the-mitr•1h ago•0 comments

Stripping KiezelPay (and other network calls) from Pebble Watch Faces

http://luke.abq.nm.us/blog/2026-06-14-Pebble-Watchface-Strip-KiezelPay/
2•sleepyink•1h ago•0 comments

Catjam 2026

https://itch.io/jam/catjam-2026
1•pigeons•1h ago•0 comments

The Tragedy of the Commoner

https://hughhowey.com/the-tragedy-of-the-commoner/
2•bjhess•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Data source used for training Anthropic's Mythos?

2•sandeepkd•1h ago•1 comments

Is using AI in school cheating?

https://www.totalnoise.ai/blog/educationandai/
2•hasmatt•1h ago•0 comments

OpenAI under investigation by group of state attorneys general

https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-under-investigation-by-coalition-state-attorneys-general-...
2•Soumya_Max•1h ago•0 comments

Google sues alleged operators of an AI-powered phishing kit

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/google-targets-ai-powered-phishing-new-york-lawsuit-2026...
1•Soumya_Max•1h ago•0 comments