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Jon Ayre
Personal blog · jonayre.uk/blogbusinesscareer
Jon Ayre's personal blog at jonayre.uk covers business and career. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The value isn't in the code (2022)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its hands-on review of OpenAI Codex. One commenter, in that thread, discussed how engineers become senior when juniors are no longer hired, but did not judge the writing.
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.
Jon Ayre - Business, technology and strategic thinking
Most-linked posts?
- The value isn't in the code (2022)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-20
What Hacker News says?
Well, right, how does one become a senior engineer in a world where no one needs to hire a junior? I'm sure many other industries have experiences this already, where the only people who know anything retire and the people are left maintaining a system they could not rebuild such that when something goes wrong the only practicable choice is to replace it with new equipment. That's where I see AI-written software goi…
Comment linking /blog/2022/10/30/the-real-value-isnt-in-the-code/
on “OpenAI Codex hands-on review”Submitted The value isn't in the code (2022) as a story · 140 points
HN discussionSubmitted The legend of the ten-times developer as a story · 2 points
HN discussion