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Jacob Young
Personal blog · jry.io/writing · on HN as jryioprogrammingaicareer
Jacob Young's personal blog at jry.io covers programming, ai and career. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Use Boring Languages with LLMs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Software engineer and founder of Sancho Studio in New York. I help companies with technical due diligence, AI engineering, and systems work.
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- Use Boring Languages with LLMs2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-05-10
What Hacker News says?
Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack + Security + Applied Cryptography Location: USA Remote or New York, Colorado Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: New York or Colorado Technologies: • End to End Encryption, Asymmetric Cryptography, Public Key Infrastructure, Merkle Trees, Transparency Trees • Golang, Rust, TypeScript/JavaScript/Node.js, REST • UI/UX React React Native, Electron, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Tailwind • Pos…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)”Submitted Use Boring Languages with LLMs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI wrote about this here [1] The big idea with LLMs is consistent references in the training corpus produced cheddar output by the language model during inference. Go is an amazing language for language models because it's actually quite boring predictable while packing a lot of powerful distractions with a world class tool chain supported by Google and strong std library as well. As a programmer I actually hated wri…
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on “Just Fucking Use Go”Submitted You Are Not Your Job as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack + Security + Applied Cryptography Location: USA Remote (US & EU time zones) • End to End Encryption, Asymmetric Cryptography, Public Key Infrastructure, Merkle Trees, Transparency Trees • Golang, Rust, TypeScript/JavaScript/Node.js, REST • UI/UX React React Native, Electron, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Tailwind • Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, AWS, Kubernetes Resume/CV: Upon…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2024)”Submitted Goodbye Flow State as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPreviously in my life as an IC, I wrote a lot of Golang. I worked on the larger end to end encrypted video calling service. I hated it. I was dreaming of Rust the entire time to release me from the hell of if err != nil dozens of time per day. After hours with LLMs I've changed my tune. There have been 5 clients of mine (who have excellent engineering teams) but cannot get coherent results out of LLMs using python o…
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on “If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?”Submitted Is All Software Converging as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI took the time to write a meta thesis about this earlier using Golang as an example of a highly consistent langue which represents extremely well in the training data https://jry.io/writing/use-boring-languages-with-llms/
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on “If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?”Submitted Separate content from theme in GitHub-hosted Jekyll site as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote about the meta thesis of programming languages in the training data here https://jry.io/writing/use-boring-languages-with-llms/
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on “If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?”Submitted Notfiles: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love Nix as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use Boring Languages with LLMs as a story · 1 points
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