Hackernews posts about sean goedecke

1. Software engineers should be a little bit cynical (www.seangoedecke.com)
   299 points by zdw 9 days ago | 208 comments
2. You can't design software you don't work on (www.seangoedecke.com)
   294 points by saikatsg 9 days ago | 113 comments
3. Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter (www.seangoedecke.com)
   76 points by savanaly 5 days ago | 48 comments
4. Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter (www.seangoedecke.com)
   19 points by gfysfm 5 days ago | 1 comments
5. You can't design software you don't work on (www.seangoedecke.com)
   7 points by todsacerdoti 11 days ago | discuss
6. The Dictator's Handbook and the politics of technical competence (www.seangoedecke.com)
   6 points by lalitmaganti 2 days ago | 2 comments
7. It's Not Your Codebase (www.seangoedecke.com)
   6 points by alpb 5 days ago | 2 comments
8. Nobody knows how large software products work (www.seangoedecke.com)
   6 points by danielfalbo 14 days ago | 1 comments
9. The whole point of OpenAI's Responses API is to help them hide reasoning traces (www.seangoedecke.com)
   3 points by tensegrist 8 days ago | 1 comments
10. Software engineers should be a little bit cynical (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by swah 10 days ago | 1 comments
11. 2025 was an excellent year for this blog (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by lalitmaganti 2 days ago | discuss
12. Nobody knows how large software products work (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by vismit2000 13 days ago | discuss
13. The whole point of OpenAI's Responses API is to help them hide reasoning traces (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by breadislove 29 days ago | discuss
14. Every service should have a killswitch – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    9 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | 1 comments
15. What did DeepSeek figure out about reasoning with DeepSeek-R1? – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    4 points by rbanffy 11 months ago | discuss
16. Engineers who won't commit force bad decisions – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    3 points by rbanffy 11 months ago | 2 comments
17. Every service should have a killswitch – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    3 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | discuss
18. Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    3 points by rbanffy 12 months ago | discuss
19. Seangoedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by zuoxue 4 months ago | 1 comments
20. Practical AI techniques for daily engineering work – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by rbanffy 8 months ago | discuss
21. Crushing Jira tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by rbanffy 12 months ago | discuss
22. Practical AI techniques for daily engineering work – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    1 points by rbanffy 8 months ago | discuss
23. How I ship projects at big tech companies (www.seangoedecke.com)
    1425 points by gfysfm about 1 year ago | 381 comments
24. Do the simplest thing that could possibly work (www.seangoedecke.com)
    1111 points by dondraper36 4 months ago | 387 comments
25. Good system design (www.seangoedecke.com)
    957 points by dondraper36 5 months ago | 390 comments
26. Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases (www.seangoedecke.com)
    811 points by BerislavLopac 12 months ago | 368 comments
27. What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes? (www.seangoedecke.com)
    571 points by ingve 5 months ago | 194 comments
28. Everything I know about good API design (www.seangoedecke.com)
    429 points by ahamez 5 months ago | 160 comments
29. How good engineers write bad code at big companies (www.seangoedecke.com)
    407 points by gfysfm about 1 month ago | 320 comments
30. OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5 (www.seangoedecke.com)
    403 points by emschwartz 5 months ago | 222 comments
31. Seeing like a software company (www.seangoedecke.com)
    388 points by praptak 3 months ago | 122 comments
32. How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer (www.seangoedecke.com)
    353 points by facundo_olano 3 months ago | 205 comments
33. What is “good taste” in software engineering? (www.seangoedecke.com)
    342 points by olayiwoladekoya 3 months ago | 229 comments
34. Knowing where your engineer salary comes from (www.seangoedecke.com)
    335 points by mooreds 9 months ago | 178 comments
35. Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally (www.seangoedecke.com)
    328 points by ingve 7 months ago | 227 comments
36. Getting things “done” in large tech companies (www.seangoedecke.com)
    315 points by swah 8 months ago | 218 comments
37. How I use LLMs as a staff engineer (www.seangoedecke.com)
    248 points by gfysfm 11 months ago | 195 comments
38. Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters (www.seangoedecke.com)
    232 points by rbanffy about 1 year ago | 118 comments
39. Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage? (www.seangoedecke.com)
    213 points by ingve 5 months ago | 179 comments
40. If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents (www.seangoedecke.com)
    192 points by imasl42 4 months ago | 197 comments
41. The good times in tech are over (www.seangoedecke.com)
    185 points by swah 10 months ago | 252 comments
42. Diffusion models explained simply (www.seangoedecke.com)
    168 points by onnnon 8 months ago | 36 comments
43. Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews (www.seangoedecke.com)
    167 points by zdw 2 months ago | 174 comments