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Duncan Brown
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Duncan Brown writes Mechanical Survival, a personal blog at mechanicalsurvival.com about ai, programming and career. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Team Dynamics After AI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-13, and you can follow it by feed.
About me My name is Duncan Brown. I live in London and I make software. Previously I have played in bands, grown startups, created walking tours and a few other things. I work as a software and AI consultant via my consulting company Unbraid. Previously I worked as head of software engineering at th
Most-linked posts?
- Team Dynamics After AI4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-10-03
What Hacker News says?
I agree with the central point, that web analytics lacks rigor. But I don't think it's wholly true that the problem is that our own motivations cause our analysis to lack objectivity. I think the other reason the author gives is the really key one: analytics data tantalises us with the idea that it may be coherent, complete and realistic; in fact it is wildly diffuse and represents only a tiny slice of the lived exp…
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HN discussionSubmitted Prompts Are Design Documents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Structuring unstructured data is a correct use of AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Way to Platformland as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Continuous Evaluation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What shall we forget next? (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Classifying undergrad degrees with GPT-4 as our intern as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if the candidate were the interviewer? as a story · 1 points
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