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Chris Loy
Personal blog · chrisloy.dev/post · on HN as chrisloyaiprogramming
Chris Loy's personal blog at chrisloy.dev covers ai and programming. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-19, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Chris Loy's personal blog. The only comment is a jab at the author, linking his 2013 post "No, I can't fix your computer" about not knowing how computers work. It says nothing about the writing itself.
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What Hacker News says?
Author here - I agree and have written about this before, though focusing a bit more on how far down the stack they might go, rather than up: https://chrisloy.dev/post/2025/03/23/will-ai-replace-softwar... Article being discussed in this thread isn't intended to be a luddite rejection of AI. It's just a mistake I see people keep making (and have made myself) and some thoughts on how to avoid it with the tools we hav…
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on “The AI coding trap”Submitted The AI coding trap as a story · 685 points
HN discussionThat's just a feed for my extremely occasional newsletter, this is the blog one: https://chrisloy.dev/rss.xml
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on “Context engineering”Submitted Context engineering as a story · 98 points
HN discussionSeems I broke this with a recent change! Reinstated: https://chrisloy.dev/rss.xml
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on “Context engineering”Submitted The rise of industrial software as a story · 34 points
HN discussionThis is written by the same guy who proudly blogged about not knowing how computers work. [ https://chrisloy.dev/post/2013/04/27/no-i-can't-fix-your-com... ]
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on “The rise of industrial software”Submitted Coding too fast to collaborate as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding too fast to collaborate as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What temperature are you coding at? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Context engineering as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding too fast to collaborate as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The mechanics of software engineering teams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will AI Replace Software? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What temperature are you coding at? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When interfaces become disposable as a story · 1 points
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