Stories by ronbenton

Quality is a hard sell in big tech

Ask HN: What are some good unintuitive statistics problems?

The Birthday Paradox, Simulated

Pre-Agent Nostalgia

Ask HN: Are you having existential questions about being a software engineer?

Features for no one (AI edition)

We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole

Ask HN: Do you feel an obvious "uncanny valley" when reading AI-generated text?

Cool project, will you actually maintain it?

Software Craftsmanship Is Dead

The Monty Hall Problem, a side-by-side simulation

I hope generative AI does away with SEO

Ask HN: How did you make yourself more marketable?

It's time for WA to ban cellphones in schools statewide at last

NPM needs an analog to pnpm's minimumReleaseAge and yarn's npmMinimalAgeGate

Make your PR process resilient to AI slop

VotingWorks open source election system

Show HN: Made MadLibs-style game to play with my kids

Ask HN: is this a common LLM-assisted development workflow?

Ask HN: Why are certain communities like Reddit so anti-AI?

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