Hacker News with Generative AI: Software Engineering

How should software engineers adapt to AI-driven layoffs? (ycombinator.com)
With major tech companies laying off mid-level engineers due to AI efficiency gains, what strategies are engineers using to stay competitive?
Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Layoffs, Career Advice
10 points by nguyentranvu 20 hours ago | 20 comments
Why Senior Engineers Should Stay ICs (codertocto.com)
Why the Individual Contributor path offers opportunities for technical mastery, direct impact, and meaningful career growth in modern tech organizations.
Software Engineering, Career Development, Technical Skills
26 points by kidsil 1 day ago | 22 comments
Software engineer pay heatmap for Europe (levels.fyi)
Empower workers like yourself by contributing your salary.
Software Engineering, Salaries, Europe
51 points by zuhayeer 3 days ago | 78 comments
When the Simplest Concurrent Program Goes Against All Intuition (wyounas.github.io)
I came across a fascinating and surprising aspect of a seemingly simple concurrent program when run on a model checker. Consider this:
Concurrent Programming, Model Checking, Software Engineering
17 points by simplegeek 4 days ago | 6 comments
Engineering "home-cooked" software (ownerofhappy.org)
Can you believe the pyramids have had 100% up-time with no human maintenance? If the pyramids can do it, why can't your notes app?
Software Engineering, Reliability, User Experience
48 points by kookiburra 4 days ago | 27 comments
Cheating Is All You Need (sourcegraph.com)
There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is.
Software Engineering, Programming, AI, Generative AI
73 points by sebg 4 days ago | 114 comments
Five years of React Native at Shopify (shopify.engineering)
Five years ago, we announced that React Native (RN) is the future of mobile at Shopify. Today, we are excited to share the progress we've made, lessons learned, and what the future holds.
React Native, Mobile Development, Shopify, Software Engineering, Case Studies
314 points by onnnon 4 days ago | 206 comments
Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers (businessinsider.com)
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the work of midlevel software engineers can soon be outsourced to AI.
Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Meta, Business
43 points by cryptoz 4 days ago | 100 comments
Takehomes and Algos Are Both Evil – and Other Lessons from 1000 SWE Interviews (gmfoster.com)
I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time and mental energy on recruiting top software engineers—first as an IC interviewing at Airbnb, and later while founding Graphite. Over the last few years, Graphite’s grown to around thirty people and continues to scale. This means I’ve coordinated and run interviews for 1,000+ candidates, primarily full-stack software engineers.
Software Engineering, Recruiting, Interviews, Startups
3 points by fosterfriends 4 days ago | 0 comments
The DevOps Engineer's Handbook (octopus.com)
DevOps is a set of practices, tools, and a cultural philosophy for software delivery. DevOps automates and bridges processes between software development and IT teams.
DevOps, Software Engineering, IT, Automation
176 points by MrBuddyCasino 5 days ago | 21 comments
Ask HN: Want to keep my software engineering skills sharp (ycombinator.com)
I currently started work as a data analyst. For a data analyst, the work is quite programming heavy actually (e.g. we don't use Excel but Jupyter). But for a software engineer, the amount of programming feels low. It's more like creating quick scripts.
Software Engineering, Data Analysis, Programming, Skills
19 points by mettamage 5 days ago | 33 comments
Meta will start automating the work of midlevel software engineers this year (businessinsider.com)
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the work of midlevel software engineers can soon be outsourced to AI.
Meta, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Software Engineering, Business
11 points by ProAm 5 days ago | 1 comments
Why can't programmers be more like ants? Or a lesson in stigmergy (2015) (ubiquity.acm.org)
In the good old days before the Internet vanquished time and distance, software developer teams were autocratic organizations as shown in Figure 1a.
Software Development, Programming, Software Engineering, Ants, Stigmergy
57 points by yamrzou 6 days ago | 34 comments
Ask HN: Pull the curtain back on Nvidia's CES keynote please (ycombinator.com)
I've spent 15 years building a career in robotics/software engineering along the "traditional path": writing software to solve problems, mastering fundamentals, and architecting complex systems. I stay on top of cutting-edge technologies to stay relevant, but I’ve mostly seen AI/LLMs as powerful tools for augmenting specific tasks rather than fundamentally reshaping engineering as a discipline.
Nvidia, CES, Robotics, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence
54 points by btbt 6 days ago | 15 comments
It's Not Your Fault You're Behind in Life – A Software Engineer's Struggle [video] (youtube.com)
Software Engineering, Career Advice, Personal Development, Video
6 points by _venkatasg 7 days ago | 0 comments
How to miscompile programs with "benign" data races [pdf] (usenix.org)
Programming, Data Races, Security, Software Engineering
26 points by todsacerdoti 7 days ago | 4 comments
Formal Methods: Just Good Engineering Practice? (2024) (brooker.co.za)
Yes. The answer is yes. In your face, Betteridge.
Software Engineering, Formal Methods
211 points by aiono 8 days ago | 133 comments
Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior engineer? (ycombinator.com)
I'm switching companies, onboarding a team in a senior position. I would like to approach my entrance in a more deliberate manner than I did on the past.
Software Engineering, Career Advice, Onboarding, Management
115 points by rolothrow 8 days ago | 64 comments
Ask HN: Work on robotics or agents? (ycombinator.com)
I'm a recent Mechanical Engineering / CS graduate working in the Sales Engineering space for a cybersecurity company.
Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Careers, Software Engineering
79 points by _js4b 8 days ago | 64 comments
Missing out on jobs because of LeetCode (skarlso.github.io)
At the end of the last year, my previous workplace ( Weaveworks ) went bankrupt. I found myself without a job.
Job Hunting, LeetCode, Software Engineering, Layoffs
27 points by skarlso 8 days ago | 28 comments
The Two Rules of Software Creation from Which Every Problem Derives (asktheuxer.com)
Scrum has been having a bad time for the last ten years, and thus so has Agile. My favorite article on this is truly exhaustive about all the problems we have encountered in the last two decades trying to deliver software of any kind using these methodologies. (I know nothing about the writer, this could totally be a Milkshake Duck experience; some algorithm just recommended this insanely long post to me one day and I went “Uh huh. Uh huh.
Software Development, Agile Methodologies, Software Engineering
17 points by srijan4 9 days ago | 2 comments
Why aren't we all serverless yet? (varoa.net)
The median product engineer should reason about applications as composites of high-level, functional Lego blocks where technical low-level details are invisible.
Serverless Computing, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing
48 points by srvaroa 9 days ago | 133 comments
Not every user owns an iPhone (perfplanet.com)
As software engineers and technologists its common to have access to some powerful devices and super fast bandwidths. It’s highly likely that you will be developing/testing on a high end Mac (or similar) or pulling out an expensive mobile device such as an iPhone from your pocket.
Software Engineering, Mobile Development, User Experience
59 points by todsacerdoti 9 days ago | 100 comments
Ask HN: What is the Most "Impressive" Person you know working on? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What is the Most "Impressive" Person you know working on?
Ask HN, Careers, Software Engineering, Personal Experiences
16 points by Jaedon_Proctor 9 days ago | 11 comments
Six Sins of Platform Teams (serce.me)
Software Engineering, Platform Teams, Best Practices
58 points by kaycebasques 10 days ago | 27 comments
How do non-software engineers feel upon reflection, about their degrees? (ycombinator.com)
To set the scene: I wanted to build my own devboard for my own projects. I'm sat here looking at my screen after having opened KiCAD with some of the documentation for an STM32H7 MCU. It dawns on me that I have absolutely zero clue of what I am looking at and have no idea where to start beyond watching youtube. Here I am now writing this.
Electronics, Software Engineering, Education, Personal Projects, Learning
20 points by AdobiWanKenobi 10 days ago | 38 comments
Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases (seangoedecke.com)
Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer.
Software Engineering, Codebases, Mistakes
808 points by BerislavLopac 10 days ago | 368 comments
Show HN: I built a tool to rank cities based on purchasing power for SWEs (techcities.app)
Ranking the best tech cities in the world based on local purchasing power for software engineers.
Software Engineering, City Rankings, Purchasing Power, Tools
14 points by mohamed3on 12 days ago | 14 comments
AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths (pragmaticengineer.com)
Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, we cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of software engineers and engineering leaders. To get articles like this in your inbox, every week, subscribe:
AI, Software Engineering, Programming, Big Tech, Startups
91 points by pseudolus 12 days ago | 109 comments
Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you (stackoverflow.blog)
It’s easy to generate code, but not so easy to generate good code.
Generative AI, Software Engineering, Programming
24 points by gpi 13 days ago | 2 comments