Top all-time · #6976
Boyd Kane
Personal blog · boydkane.com/essaysaicareerwriting
Boyd Kane writes Boyd's Blog, a personal blog at boydkane.com about ai, career and writing. Since 2025, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Experts have it easy (2024)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Boyd Kane's essays on how AI differs from regular software, human-AI collaboration at work, and expertise, such as the 'boss' essay on leaders and AI scenarios.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
About Me I like writing about expertise, using computers to solve problems, and bringing novel ideas into existence.
Most-linked posts?
- Experts have it easy (2024)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-04-12
- Downloaded More for Business, or Pleasure?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-18
- Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-14
What Hacker News says?
Thanks! I don't use RSS, but I believe https://boydkane.com/index.xml should work? I recently updated it to show all posts (not just the most recent 10) so it should be better now (I hope).
Comment linking /index.xml
on “Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI”Submitted Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI as a story · 537 points
HN discussionSee the note for technical folk[1], I'm referring to 2025 frontier large language models. [1]: https://boydkane.com/essays/boss#user-content-fn-7
Comment linking /essays/boss
on “Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI”Submitted Experts have it easy (2024) as a story · 206 points
HN discussionIt's not missing? https://boydkane.com/essays/boss#every-time-you-run-the-code...
Comment linking /essays/boss
on “Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI”Submitted LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines as a story · 194 points
HN discussionThere's... something at https://boydkane.com/index.xml I guessed the URL based on the Quartz docs. It seems to work but only has a few items from https://boydkane.com/essays/
Comment linking /essays/
on “Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI”Submitted Experts Have It Easy as a story · 16 points
HN discussionIt shows up at https://boydkane.com under the link "Why your boss isn't worried about advanced AI". Must be some kind of sub-heading, but not part of the actual article / blog post. Presumably it's a phrase you might hear from a boss who sees AI as similar to (and as benign/known/deterministic as) most other software, per TFA
Comment linking /
on “Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI”Submitted Experts Have It Easy as a story · 7 points
HN discussionAny idea where to find the "Hard" and "Expert aesthetics" articles mentioned in the article? The links are giving me 404s. https://boydkane.com/hard https://boydkane.com/expert_aesthetics
Comment linking /expert_aesthetics
on “Experts have it easy (2024)”Submitted Experts have it easy (the unseen difficulties of being a novice) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think the problem is we have too many "leaders" and too few people who know how AI actually works. https://boydkane.com/essays/boss This was really an insightful observation. I understand how AI differs from normal software. "Leaders" haven't got the foggiest idea.
Comment linking /essays/boss
on “Leaders Must Create 4 Scenarios for Human-AI Collaboration at Work”Submitted AI Safety has a scaling problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lawyers are uniquely well-placed to resist AI job automation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted YAML for the haters as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Downloaded More for Business, or Pleasure? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Downloaded more for business, or pleasure? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Schedule meetings using the Pareto principle as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where's the $100k iPhone? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion