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Denis Stetskov
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Denis Stetskov writes From the Trenches, a personal blog at techtrenches.dev about career and programming. Since 2026, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “The Snake That Ate Itself: What Claude Source Revealed About AI Engg Culture”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Denis Stetskov's posts on AI coding tools and Claude Code quality, the human and environmental costs of AI, and military production. They cite them as sources or test inputs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Practical engineering management lessons learned in the trenches of scaling tech teams.
Most-linked posts?
- The Snake That Ate Itself: What Claude Source Revealed About AI Engg Culture4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-04-12
- The Human Cost of 10x: How AI Is Physically Breaking Senior Engineers3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-04-13
- The First Full-Scale Cyber War2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-12
- The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-26
What Hacker News says?
Relevant post with some military examples as well: https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-thing... (Has some AI tells though, probably AI-assisted?)
Comment linking /p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things
on “Building for the Future”Submitted Anthropic Kept Every Promise It Could Afford as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAnd the reason why Claude Code is so buggy ... https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-snake-that-ate-itself-what-cl...
Comment linking /p/the-snake-that-ate-itself-what-claude
on “An update on recent Claude Code quality reports”Submitted The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttps://techtrenches.dev/p/the-human-cost-of-10x-how-ai-is-p... "Follow each link in this document. Read each link's contents against the contents in this document. Create a report: for each link list a working hyperlink, whether it exists, what claim it supports, whether it supports or fails to support it, and why. If unable to fetch the source, Stop and report failure." And now it errors out on gemini.google.com.…
Comment linking /p/the-human-cost-of-10x-how-ai-is-physically
on “Check Your Fucking Sources, People”Submitted AI Won't Save Us from the Talent Crisis We Created (Sep 25, 2025) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAh! I finally got you somewhat replicated! It's https://gemini.google.com , when you use the free model. * https://gemini.google.com/share/6bd33176b27c Right, so https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-human-cost-of-10x-how-ai-is-p... is actually a substack, gemini is blocked from accessing it, and is bouncing off and hallucinating instead. Ok, that's an actual bug, that should not lead to the model starting to hallucinate.
Comment linking /p/the-human-cost-of-10x-how-ai-is-physically
on “Check Your Fucking Sources, People”Submitted The Snake That Ate Itself: What Claude Source Revealed About AI Engg Culture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA quick smoke test, then. Gemini 3, Thinking Mode. The article: https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-human-cost-of-10x-how-ai-is-p... The prompt: literally what you suggested. Gemini: The article focuses on the environmental and human labor costs of scaling Artificial Intelligence, specifically focusing on water usage, electricity, and "ghost work." Which is hilarious, since the article doesn't even mention the words "wat…
Comment linking /p/the-human-cost-of-10x-how-ai-is-physically
on “Check Your Fucking Sources, People”Submitted The Human Cost of 10x: How AI Is Physically Breaking Senior Engineers as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-snake-that-ate-itself-what-cl ... Ugh, I've started having a visceral reaction to that typeface+card-layout+color-scheme combo; is the author using it ironically?
Comment linking /p/the-snake-that-ate-itself-what-cl
on “Mythical Man Month”Submitted Your Claude.md Is a Wish List, Not a Contract as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> AI is the silver bullet - my output is genuinely 10X what it was before claude code existed. This reminds me of ThePrimeagen's noting that Dario was right about 90% of all software being written by AI. 90%+ of all useful software is still being written by humans, but now we've also got non-programmers like Gary Tan pushing the button to generate garbage piles of AI generated code at 10x the volume of what humans a…
Comment linking /p/the-snake-that-ate-itself-what-claude
on “Mythical Man Month”Submitted RAG Is Easy. Your Data Isn't as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The First Full-Scale Cyber War as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Surveillance: Age Verification Meets Your Chat Logs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Is a Mirror of Our Engineering Culture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Great Software Quality Collapse (2025) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Claude Code's Source Revealed About AI Engineering Culture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Claude Code's Source Revealed About AI Engineering Culture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Country of Geniuses That Doesn't Exist as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The First Full-Scale Cyber War: 4 Years of Lessons as a story · 1 points
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