Hackernews posts about sean goedecke

1. How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer (www.seangoedecke.com)
   347 points by facundo_olano 4 days ago | 204 comments
2. What is “good taste” in software engineering? (www.seangoedecke.com)
   342 points by olayiwoladekoya 9 days ago | 228 comments
3. Seeing like a software company (www.seangoedecke.com)
   269 points by praptak about 21 hours ago | 82 comments
4. If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents (www.seangoedecke.com)
   192 points by imasl42 18 days ago | 197 comments
5. GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me (www.seangoedecke.com)
   62 points by codeclimber 1 day ago | 36 comments
6. Endless AI-Generated Wikipedia (www.seangoedecke.com)
   28 points by Twixes 13 days ago | 24 comments
7. What I learned building an AI-driven spaced repetition app (www.seangoedecke.com)
   7 points by ingve 15 days ago | 1 comments
8. What is "good taste" in software engineering? (www.seangoedecke.com)
   7 points by SlackingOff123 10 days ago | discuss
9. What is "good taste" in software engineering? (www.seangoedecke.com)
   6 points by dondraper36 10 days ago | discuss
10. AI coding agents rely too much on fallbacks (www.seangoedecke.com)
    5 points by zdw 11 days ago | discuss
11. Seeing Like a Software Company (www.seangoedecke.com)
    4 points by Townley 1 day ago | discuss
12. The whole point of OpenAI's Responses API is to help them hide reasoning traces (www.seangoedecke.com)
    3 points by Muhtasham 28 days ago | discuss
13. The whole point of OpenAI's Responses API is to help them hide reasoning traces (www.seangoedecke.com)
    3 points by renehsz 29 days ago | discuss
14. AI is good news for Australian and European software engineers (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by zdw 18 days ago | 2 comments
15. Pure and Impure Software Engineering (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by yurivish 29 days ago | discuss
16. Off-peak GPU hours give EU/AU engineers an edge with AI tools (www.seangoedecke.com)
    1 points by mustaphah 17 days ago | discuss
17. Every service should have a killswitch – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    9 points by rbanffy 4 months ago | 1 comments
18. What did DeepSeek figure out about reasoning with DeepSeek-R1? – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    4 points by rbanffy 8 months ago | discuss
19. Engineers who won't commit force bad decisions – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    3 points by rbanffy 8 months ago | 2 comments
20. Every service should have a killswitch – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    3 points by rbanffy 4 months ago | discuss
21. Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    3 points by rbanffy 9 months ago | discuss
22. Seangoedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by zuoxue about 1 month ago | 1 comments
23. Practical AI techniques for daily engineering work – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | discuss
24. Crushing Jira tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by rbanffy 9 months ago | discuss
25. Practical AI techniques for daily engineering work – sean goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com)
    1 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | discuss
26. How I ship projects at big tech companies (www.seangoedecke.com)
    1425 points by gfysfm 11 months ago | 381 comments
27. Do the simplest thing that could possibly work (www.seangoedecke.com)
    1111 points by dondraper36 about 1 month ago | 387 comments
28. Good system design (www.seangoedecke.com)
    957 points by dondraper36 about 2 months ago | 390 comments
29. Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases (www.seangoedecke.com)
    811 points by BerislavLopac 9 months ago | 368 comments
30. What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes? (www.seangoedecke.com)
    571 points by ingve about 2 months ago | 194 comments
31. Everything I know about good API design (www.seangoedecke.com)
    429 points by ahamez about 1 month ago | 160 comments
32. OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5 (www.seangoedecke.com)
    403 points by emschwartz 2 months ago | 222 comments
33. Knowing where your engineer salary comes from (www.seangoedecke.com)
    335 points by mooreds 6 months ago | 178 comments
34. Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally (www.seangoedecke.com)
    328 points by ingve 4 months ago | 227 comments
35. Getting things “done” in large tech companies (www.seangoedecke.com)
    315 points by swah 5 months ago | 218 comments
36. How I use LLMs as a staff engineer (www.seangoedecke.com)
    248 points by gfysfm 8 months ago | 195 comments
37. Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters (www.seangoedecke.com)
    232 points by rbanffy 10 months ago | 118 comments
38. Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage? (www.seangoedecke.com)
    213 points by ingve about 2 months ago | 179 comments
39. The good times in tech are over (www.seangoedecke.com)
    185 points by swah 7 months ago | 252 comments
40. Diffusion models explained simply (www.seangoedecke.com)
    168 points by onnnon 5 months ago | 36 comments
41. Dangerous advice for software engineers (www.seangoedecke.com)
    141 points by gxhao about 1 month ago | 131 comments
42. What it's like working for American companies as an Australian (www.seangoedecke.com)
    138 points by gfysfm 9 months ago | 173 comments
43. Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies (www.seangoedecke.com)
    115 points by rbanffy 9 months ago | 41 comments
44. The first big AI disaster is yet to happen (www.seangoedecke.com)
    113 points by rbanffy 4 months ago | 134 comments
45. In defense of shallow technical knowledge (www.seangoedecke.com)
    108 points by swah 5 months ago | 78 comments
46. Great software design looks underwhelming (www.seangoedecke.com)
    102 points by pierremenard 7 months ago | 15 comments