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Annie Vella
Personal blog · annievella.com/postscareerai
Annie Vella's personal blog at annievella.com covers career and ai. Since 2025, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “The Software Engineering Identity Crisis”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on how AI coding tools affect software engineering, such as code as a projection of intended behaviour, tests and domain models, and engineering discipline. Commenters cite it as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Software Engineering Identity Crisis3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-21
- Finding Comfort in the Uncertainty2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-18
What Hacker News says?
From https://annievella.com/posts/finding-comfort-in-the-uncertai... “ Ideas that surfaced: code as ‘just another projection’ of intended behaviour. Tests as an alternative projection. Domain models as the thing that endures. One group posed the provocative question: what would have to be true for us to ‘check English into the repository’ instead of code? The implications are significant. If code is disposable and r…
Comment linking /posts/finding-comfort-in-the-uncertainty/
on “Why AI Velocity Is Becoming a Debt Accelerator”Submitted The Software Engineering Identity Crisis as a story · 143 points
HN discussionfrom the post: > It was reasonable to be skeptical the first time It's still reasonable to be skeptical. A few weeks ago a post was discussed here on HN [1] that asked: > What would have to be true for us to ‘check English into the repository’ instead of code? to which I replied: > Code is already the cheapest path to working, correct software. LLMs do not change the calculus because figuring out what to make is the…
Comment linking /posts/finding-comfort-in-the-uncertainty
on “AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less”Submitted You Can't Prompt Your Way to Intuition as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYou are definitely not alone. I worked at a place which took a similar approach. As someone whose been doing this for 30 years, I found this to be chaotic, wasteful and antithetical to everything I've learned about software development or even basic communication. This was months ago and things are moving fast. Lately, I see best practices starting to emerge and have confirmed with friends working at other companies…
Comment linking /posts/finding-comfort-in-the-uncertainty/
on “Ask HN: Is this the SWE workflow of the future?”Submitted The Software Engineering Identity Crisis as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Software Engineering Identity Crisis as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The heart of software engineering still beats as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dear Software Engineer: It's Time to Reclaim Your Role as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Power of Defining the Problem – Annie Vella as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Middle Loop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding Comfort in the Uncertainty as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The SDLC Strikes Back: Adapting to AI-Driven Development as a story · 1 points
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