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Burke Holland

Personal blog · burkeholland.github.io/postsaiprogramming

Burke Holland's personal blog at burkeholland.github.io covers ai and programming. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Opus 4.5 is going to change everything”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-06, and you can follow it by feed.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2020–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Burke Holland's posts on AI-assisted web development with Claude Opus 4.5, including claims about development velocity. One commenter found the argument weak.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Mid brain takes on the world of software development.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Opus 4.5 is going to change everything
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. It's always fun to ask Opus what it thinks about articles like this. Here's what I got with no history or system prompt: https://burkeholland.github.io/posts/opus-4-5-change-everyth... Read this article and ultrathink critically about it. Provide your perspective. The article makes a strong experiential case for improved velocity in AI-assisted development but contains several argumentation weaknesses and conflation…

    Comment linking /posts/opus-4-5-change-everything/

    on “Opus 4.5 is going to change everything”
  2. Submitted Opus 4.5 is going to change everything as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  3. Here's a concrete example of what can be done with Opus 4.5, and how to do it: https://burkeholland.github.io/posts/opus-4-5-change-everyth...

    Comment linking /posts/opus-4-5-change-everything/

    on “Web development is fun again”
  4. Submitted The Three Laws of Serverless as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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