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Matt Bilyeu
Personal blog · matthewbilyeu.com/blogaiprogramming
Matt Bilyeu writes Matt’s programming blog, a personal blog at matthewbilyeu.com about ai and programming. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “AI and the Uncertain Future of Work”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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- AI and the Uncertain Future of Work4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-03-09
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Nice setup. I use Jekyll but recently moved to a flow where I author posts as rich text emails and a process on the receiving end persists them as markdown and compresses images. It could be improved but so far has been working well. https://matthewbilyeu.com/blog/2025-04-06/blogging-via-email
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on “How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare”Submitted The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos as a story · 225 points
HN discussionGood idea, I made some improvements like that. https://matthewbilyeu.com/tone-of-life.html?saved=AAAAAAAACB...
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on “Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API”Submitted Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3 as a story · 213 points
HN discussionNice. This made me think of Conway's Game of Life so I made a little mashup of a tone matrix with GoL. https://matthewbilyeu.com/tone-of-life.html
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on “Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API”Submitted Setting Emacs theme based on ambient light as a story · 170 points
HN discussionI made a musical game of life not long ago if you want something to play with https://matthewbilyeu.com/tone-of-life
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on “Conway's Game of Life, but musical”Submitted Using an E-Ink Monitor as a story · 25 points
HN discussionThanks for sharing. I’m a “destination” programmer most of the time, and I’ve welcomed LLMs into my work. I actually wrote about this from my perspective just the other day: https://matthewbilyeu.com/blog/2025-06-14/vibecoding-s-allur...
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on “I want to be a Journey Programmer Again”Submitted A genetic algorithm Twitter art bot in Clojure as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI think we’ll see a lot more software. Lots of non tech people will increasingly have the ability to create custom software tools and prototypes. They’ll share and remix these. Some of them will be fully productized, at which point professional software engineers will be called in to help untangle the LLM spaghetti and create proper applications. So I think there will be more software work in consultancy. I think we…
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on “Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years?”Submitted Let's Flip an Unfair Coin as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> I've written tons of code, I've taken no shortcuts, and I've focused on improving over my many iterations. This has enabled me to be an effective steward of generative coding (etc) models, but will younger engineers ever get the reps necessary to get where I am? Are there other ways to get this knowledge and taste? I think this will be a problem in the middle term, and I've written about such deskilling before [0]…
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on “The Value of Things”Submitted Tone of Life as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI and the Uncertain Future of Work as a story · 3 points
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