Hackernews posts about sean goedecke

1. Good system design (www.seangoedecke.com)
   947 points by dondraper36 8 days ago | 390 comments
2. What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes? (www.seangoedecke.com)
   571 points by ingve 12 days ago | 194 comments
3. OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5 (www.seangoedecke.com)
   403 points by emschwartz 16 days ago | 221 comments
4. Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage? (www.seangoedecke.com)
   213 points by ingve 10 days ago | 180 comments
5. Don't feed me AI slop (www.seangoedecke.com)
   6 points by ingve about 9 hours ago | discuss
6. Can small AI models think as well as large ones? (www.seangoedecke.com)
   5 points by rbanffy 27 days ago | 2 comments
7. I use LLMs to learn new subjects (www.seangoedecke.com)
   4 points by henrebotha 3 days ago | discuss
8. Is using AI wrong? A review of six popular anti-AI arguments (www.seangoedecke.com)
   4 points by mwcampbell 12 days ago | discuss
9. Water Impact (www.seangoedecke.com)
   3 points by weasle 9 days ago | discuss
10. What kind of work I want (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by aamederen 30 days ago | discuss
11. What kind of work I want (in 2025) (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by ingve 30 days ago | discuss
12. Every service should have a killswitch – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    9 points by rbanffy 2 months ago | 1 comments
13. What did DeepSeek figure out about reasoning with DeepSeek-R1? – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    4 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | discuss
14. Engineers who won't commit force bad decisions – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    3 points by rbanffy 6 months ago | 2 comments
15. Every service should have a killswitch – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    3 points by rbanffy 2 months ago | discuss
16. Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    3 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | discuss
17. Practical AI techniques for daily engineering work – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by rbanffy 3 months ago | discuss
18. Crushing Jira tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | discuss
19. Practical AI techniques for daily engineering work – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    1 points by rbanffy 3 months ago | discuss
20. How I ship projects at big tech companies (www.seangoedecke.com)
    1425 points by gfysfm 10 months ago | 381 comments
21. Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases (www.seangoedecke.com)
    811 points by BerislavLopac 8 months ago | 368 comments
22. Knowing where your engineer salary comes from (www.seangoedecke.com)
    335 points by mooreds 5 months ago | 178 comments
23. Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally (www.seangoedecke.com)
    328 points by ingve 3 months ago | 227 comments
24. Getting things “done” in large tech companies (www.seangoedecke.com)
    315 points by swah 4 months ago | 218 comments
25. How I use LLMs as a staff engineer (www.seangoedecke.com)
    248 points by gfysfm 7 months ago | 195 comments
26. Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters (www.seangoedecke.com)
    232 points by rbanffy 9 months ago | 118 comments
27. The good times in tech are over (www.seangoedecke.com)
    185 points by swah 5 months ago | 252 comments
28. Diffusion models explained simply (www.seangoedecke.com)
    168 points by onnnon 3 months ago | 36 comments
29. What it's like working for American companies as an Australian (www.seangoedecke.com)
    138 points by gfysfm 7 months ago | 173 comments
30. Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies (www.seangoedecke.com)
    115 points by rbanffy 8 months ago | 41 comments
31. The first big AI disaster is yet to happen (www.seangoedecke.com)
    113 points by rbanffy 2 months ago | 134 comments
32. In defense of shallow technical knowledge (www.seangoedecke.com)
    108 points by swah 3 months ago | 78 comments
33. Great software design looks underwhelming (www.seangoedecke.com)
    102 points by pierremenard 6 months ago | 15 comments
34. Good engineers are right, a lot (www.seangoedecke.com)
    97 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | 63 comments
35. How I got promoted to staff engineer twice (www.seangoedecke.com)
    92 points by brunocvcunha 8 months ago | 83 comments
36. Crushing Jira tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact (www.seangoedecke.com)
    89 points by scarface_74 7 months ago | 81 comments
37. Using squeezed wav2vec2 to automatically detect owl calls (www.seangoedecke.com)
    77 points by gfysfm over 1 year ago | 8 comments
38. Patience too cheap to meter (www.seangoedecke.com)
    76 points by swah 3 months ago | 25 comments
39. What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't? (www.seangoedecke.com)
    74 points by gfysfm 8 months ago | 81 comments
40. Strengths and limitations of diffusion language models (www.seangoedecke.com)
    72 points by rbanffy 3 months ago | 7 comments
41. Glue Work Considered Harmful (www.seangoedecke.com)
    64 points by polyphilz 8 months ago | 48 comments