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Gregory Baldini
Personal blog · antifound.comprogrammingculture
Gregory Baldini writes Antifound, a personal blog at antifound.com about programming and culture. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-15, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Comments link the blog's Atom feed and a post on Advent of Code, which criticises leetcode-style brain teasers and algorithm interviews in the software industry. The comments do not judge the writing.
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The personal blog of one Gregory Baldini | Various thoughts, questions, and musings, none profound.
What Hacker News says?
https://www.antifound.com/atom.xml
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on “Codegen Is Not Productivity”Submitted Codegen Is Not Productivity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI went to look at some of the authors other posts and found this: https://www.antifound.com/posts/advent-of-code-2022/ So much of our industry has spent the last two decades honing itself into a temple built around the idea of "leet code". From the interview to things like advent of code. Solving brain teasers, knowing your algorithms cold in an interview was always a terrible idea. And the sort of engineers it invi…
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on “Codegen Is Not Productivity”