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Frédéric van der Essen
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Frédéric van der Essen's personal blog at frederic.vanderessen.com covers programming, ai and writing. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter cites this blog as the source of a method for an AI thought experiment about autonomous agents and programming jobs. The comment does not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Essays by Frédéric van der Essen
What Hacker News says?
Because the autonomous agent deal is new to me, this thread's blog post piqued my interest. I thought about trying to replicate the experiment. But I'm lazy :) Instead, I ended up getting a coding agent to run through a thought experiment [1] based on the method described in the blog post. The AI's critique sounds kinda harsh to me. So, I'm quoting only a snippet of it here… ——— …Running this specific recursive loop…
Comment linking /posts/unsupervised-refactoring/
on “My Programming Job Has Become an Intelligence Buying Job”Submitted Better JavaScript Promises as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Human Only Public License as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-4 Can Use Tools, Serve a REST API, Pilot Drones and Drop Grenades as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Programming Job Has Become an Intelligence Buying Job as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Good for AIs Is Good for Humans as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: A Fun Crypto Game as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Human Centipede Development Method as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never Ever Use Content Addressable Storage as a story · 1 points
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