AI marketing hype misrepresents actual developer capabilities

“Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture Two weeks ago, I quit my job at a robotics company. I was working with high-end hardware (Boston Dynamics, Unitree), but I found out they were planning to mount teleoperated weapons on the robotic platforms for a demo. I’m not willing to go there, so I resigned without another offer. I’ve decided this is the right time to go back to entrepreneurship. We're at an incredible moment for embodied intelligence, but I feel the t”

“Ask HN: AI Depression Hi, Throw-away account because my original one is easily identifiable. Does any starts to feel depressed about AI push and hype? I'm around ~45 and have been happily hacking and delivering stuff for 25 years. I use AI daily — it's a useful tool. But the gap between the marketing and reality for many of us is hard to describe. The people and corporations and all those LinkedIn gurus, podcasters declaring our obsolescence are overwhelmingly people who've never ”

“Ask HN: Is there a no-LLM license yet? I'd like to keep sharing code online but would like to limit it's usage to prevent LLM training and usage on it. I've seen license I can't be the only one looking for such a license, but I fail to find one. Do you know of any existing license, jurisprudence, or group working on redacting such a license? I know licenses exists preventing the use of code in armament or other specific sectors, so surely there is a legal way to prevent it.”

“Ask HN: What breaks when you run AI agents unsupervised? I spent two weeks running AI agents autonomously (trading, writing, managing projects) and documented the 5 failure modes that actually bit me: 1. Auto-rotation: Unsupervised cron job destroyed $24.88 in 2 days. No P L guards, no human review. 2. Documentation trap: Agent produced 500KB of docs instead of executing. Writing about doing doing. 3. Market efficiency: Scanned 1,000 markets looking for edge. Found zero. The market already knew ”

“Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"? I'm seeing an enormous contingency of my LinkedIn connections change their titles to AI Engineer. I know for a fact that they're not working on any models or even AI workflows, they're just building apps and backends using AI tools like Claude. Is that what AI Engineer means nowadays? Is that what companies are looking for when they open recs for AI Engineer ? Should I be marketing myself as an AI Engineer just because I'm very efficient usin”

“IntelliCode extensions are deprecated The popular package "IntelliCode" is now deprecated and the replacement is "GitHub Copilot Chat". I have used both packages, the Copilot chat is just annoying to use, most of the times it's incorrect and it has no clue what I'm trying to do. To make Copilot understand what I'm trying to do, I have to place comments to add some context. I know a deprecation is just a warning that the developer - in this case Microsoft - is not working on it anymore, and this ”

“Show HN: The Order of the Agents – Make Codex and Claude Create the Perfect PRD Should we plan with Codex, then code with Claude? Or should we plan with Claude, then code with Codex? How about yes. I found myself converging to this workflow for more complicated features. I would give the same prompt to Codex and Claude and ask each to create a PRD file for the feature. The independence mattered, because the moment one model sees the other's plan, the answer collapses toward whoever spoke fi”