AI assistants fail on complex interview-style interactions

“Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers I found GitHub repositories that were spreading malware. I asked AI what I should do about it, but it gave me nothing useful. So I opened a discussion on GitHub. Someone replied. It was literally the exact same text the AI had given me. I called it out and the comment was deleted. Then another person replied. Same exact AI response again. I worked as a developer in a company. I asked the business owner a question about a business task. He sent me a Chat”

“Show HN: Local task classifier and dispatcher on RTX 3080 Hi HN, I am shubham a 3d artist who learned coding in college as an I.T. graduate know logics but not an expert as i just wanna try my hands on to ai So i built Resilient Workflow Sentinel this is offline ai agent which classify urgency (Low,Medium and HIgh) and dispatches to the candidates based on availability Well i want an offline system like a person can trust with its sensitive data to stay completely locally Did use ai to code for ”

“Detected Blocking Call - Google Generative AI Conversation ### The problem hello, Received this log error when updating to 2025.9.0b0: ``` Logger: homeassistant.util.loop Source: util/loop.py:137 First occurred: 12:58:16 PM (1 occurrence) Last logged: 12:58:16 PM Detected blocking call to open with args ('/root/.netrc',) inside the event loop by integration 'google_generative_ai_conversation' at homeassistant/components/google_generative_ai_conversation/__init__.py, line 165: await client.a”

“Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users? Hi everyone, I’m building Persona, a platform to delegate email scheduling to AI. Lately, I’ve been working hard to get those first users on board, but it’s been quite challenging. I’ve already tried the typical strategies that everybody talks about: cold email, LinkedIn InMail, careful targeting, decent copy. It’s mostly been a dead end. Low open rates, almost no replies. At this point, I’m not looking for the usual advice”

“Ask HN: Am I getting old, or is working with AI juniors becoming a nightmare? This is already the second time I’ve observed this. People coming from highly respected universities are doing everything with AI. It’s even hard to argue with them, since it’s all cross-checked with ChatGPT and similar tools. The picture of software development also looks completely different. Code that used to be readable in a few lines becomes 100 lines—overblown because, well, code is cheap. Now, I could argue that”

“Ask HN: Do you waste AI assisted time looking for answers? Do you ask AI your most challenging problems, it delivers some good answers and you act on none of them? Are you secretly assuming problems would solve themselves in your sleep?”

“Ask HN: Company is rapidly cutting AI tool spend how to prep team? Company I work for is now rapidly planning to scale down its AI tooling spend. Claude code access is basically getting removed and people are forbidden from using personal plans. Reasoning is cost apparently our monthly Claude bill has become astronomical for the org. Nearly 3x our saas's cloud spend. Apparently we are going to get limited access to codex at severely reduced plans. I have tried some local models such as Kimi”

“Ask HN: Anyone else struggling with AI and work? Been a developer for a little over 10 years now. I work on web stuff. Your typical React/Svelte codebases with Node backends. The past year or so I've been working with coding agents and at first they just felt like a really really great tool. They'd allow me to do my work faster, and while obviously not perfect, they'd do a pretty good job. When Opus 4.5 came out it seemed like something changed. I found myself reviewing less ”

“Ask HN: Any advice on how to learn good software architecture practices? As someone who picked up coding around the time AI and agents started becoming more mainstream, I realize I don’t have much knowledge about the best way to architect applications, and I often end up going with whatever the agent recommends. I wanted to check with the community: do you have any recommendations on what I should be doing to get better at overall architecture planning? I do ask AI a lot of questions, but it wou”

“Show HN: Got ghosted by tech companies so I built a tool to track ghost jobs Last year I was looking for a new role. I sent out applications, did the prep, waited. What came back was mostly nothing. Not rejection emails, just silence. The job listings I'd applied to stayed live for weeks. Some for months. As a software engineer, I decided to dig into it properly. I built a system to continuously track job postings across companies, logging posting dates and measuring how long roles stay ope”