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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.

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6HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 16 in 2026

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.

The author on HN?

jwilliams · 5,713 karma · member since 2008

http://jonathannen.com jon at the domain above Founder at pyn.ai and cultureamp.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Will humanity become gut bacteria for AI?
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-28
  2. Self-flying planes are now a marketing issue more than a technical one
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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””
  2. Submitted Why is value flowing to ICOs? It's diversification of Bitcoin as a story · 85 points

    HN discussion
  3. I 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”
  4. Submitted Self-flying planes are now a marketing issue more than a technical one as a story · 52 points

    HN discussion
  5. It’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”
  6. Submitted How fresh are your gems? as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  7. I 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/

    on “AI productivity gains are 10%, not 10x”
  8. Submitted What will self-driving cars do to cities? as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Anthropic's definition of safety is too narrow as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Is it finally time to end no-reply emails? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Build Your Own Lightsaber as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Vibe Designing as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Early Observations from Interviews with Engineering Teams Adopting AI as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted Battleship Prompts as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted The Claude Dichotomy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Still Choose Boring Technology as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Will we become gut bacteria for AI? (2017) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted What does it take to build towards 100 PRs/day per engineer? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted What is the 'why now' of your startup? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Will humanity become gut bacteria for AI? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted People Systems Are the Next Codebase as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted We're Not Vibe Engineering as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted A Daily AI Chat as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted AI and Abandonware as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted What JSON-LD is supported in email and what could it be used for? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Will humanity become gut bacteria for AI? as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted Will humanity become gut bacteria for AI? as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted Are you working from where or who you want to be? as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted Why I love Google's Project Fi cell service for travel as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Loans are based upon leveraged assets. What happens in a Bitcoin economy? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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