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jonathannen.com
Personal blog · jonathannen.com · on HN as jwilliamsaicareer
jonathannen.com is a personal blog at jonathannen.com about ai and career. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Will humanity become gut bacteria for AI?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, 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 links the post to argue that few technical or infrastructure problems remain for autonomous driving, so no such investment is needed. The comment does not discuss 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 on AI, leverage, and organizations in the age of agents.
Most-linked posts?
- Will humanity become gut bacteria for AI?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-28
- Self-flying planes are now a marketing issue more than a technical one2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-29
What Hacker News says?
There are very few technical and infrastructure issues remaining. No such investment is necessary. https://jonathannen.com/captain-ai.html
Comment linking /captain-ai.html
on “Toyota Research Institute head says full autonomous driving is “not even close””Submitted Why is value flowing to ICOs? It's diversification of Bitcoin as a story · 85 points
HN discussionI mused about this back on 2017[^a]. Surely we're well on the way to having this with commercial planes? [a] https://jonathannen.com/captain-ai/
Comment linking /captain-ai/
on “Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft”Submitted Self-flying planes are now a marketing issue more than a technical one as a story · 52 points
HN discussionIt’s a blend. There are plenty of changes in a production system that don’t necessarily need human review. Adding a help link. Fixing a typo. Maybe upgrades with strong CI/CD or simple ui improvements or safe experiments. There are features you can skip safely behind feature flags or staged releases. As you push in you fine with the right tooling it can be a lot. If you break it down often quite a bit can be deploye…
Comment linking /building-towards-100-prs-a-day/
on “How I'm Productive with Claude Code”Submitted How fresh are your gems? as a story · 41 points
HN discussionI wrote a short bit on a similar topic the other day[^a]. Just because something is faster or even measurably better, that doesn't translate to end productivity. 1. You might be speeding up something that is inherently productive (the "faster horses" trope). I see companies using AI to generate performance reviews. Same company using AI to summarize all the new performance stuff they're getting. All that's happening…
Comment linking /ai-productivity/
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