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Namanyay Goel
Personal blog · nmn.gl/blog · on HN as namanyaygaistartupsprogramming
Namanyay Goel's personal blog at nmn.gl covers ai, startups and programming. Since 2018, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 85 times, most often “Karpathy's 'Vibe Coding' Movement Considered Harmful”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, 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 post in discussion of whether programmers are becoming modern-day computers, with LLMs and the shift toward product-management-style work. The post is cited as a source for that argument.
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.
Founder and writer with over 12 years of experience. Featured in New York Times, Futurism, Inc. Magazine, and many more. Writing about AI & building the future of software development.
Most-linked posts?
- Karpathy's 'Vibe Coding' Movement Considered Harmful4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2025-03-28
- Vibe Coding Is a Dangerous Fantasy3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-03-21
- New junior developers can’t code2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-02-15
- Is AI Ready to Be a Mid-Level Engineer?2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-01-13
- AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-24
What Hacker News says?
Redid mine a few weeks ago (with a new domain that I've been pining after), thoughts? https://nmn.gl/
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on “Building a Kickass Portfolio”Submitted A messy experiment that changed how I think about AI code analysis as a story · 463 points
HN discussionIt's cool to see Addy's prompts. I also wrote about some of mine! (ignoring the obvious ones): https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-prompt-engineering
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on “Prompt engineering playbook for programmers”Submitted New junior developers can’t code as a story · 115 points
HN discussionNot OP, but am a full-stack web developer with 7y+ experience. Here's some of my work https://nmn.gl/ .
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on “Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?”Submitted AI can't even fix a simple bug – but sure, let's fire engineers as a story · 100 points
HN discussionNot op, but a full-stack web consultant with 7y+ experience. You can check some of my work out at https://nmn.gl/ .
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on “Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?”Submitted AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers as a story · 69 points
HN discussionThis is my favorite trick that I've been using for a long time ...I just checked and it turns out I first blogged[0] about it 12 years ago . Time flies. [0] https://nmn.gl/blog/javascript-shortcut-for-getelementbyid-a...
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on “Cash: A small jQuery alternative for modern browsers”Submitted Vibe Coding Is Making Braindead Coders as a story · 42 points
HN discussionI had a similar beautiful experience where an experienced programmer answered one of my elementary JavaScript typing questions when I was just starting to learn programming. He didn't need to, but he gave the most comprehensive answer possible attacking the question from various angles. He taught me the value of deeply understanding theoretical and historical aspects of computing to understand why some parts of prog…
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on “Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time”Submitted AI Is Killing B2B SaaS as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI agree that you still need programming skills (today, at least). Yet people are using those programming skills less and less, as you can clearly see in the article [1] I referenced. You are also making the assumption that LLMs won't improve, which I think is shortsighted. I fully agree with the part about the job becoming more like product management. I would like to cite an excerpt of a post [2] by Andrew Ng, whic…
Comment linking /blog/ai-illiterate-programmers
on “Programmers are modern-day computers”Submitted Karpathy's 'Vibe Coding' Movement Considered Harmful as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThis was one of my favorite Project Euler problems, but getting to the mathematical solution admittedly took me a couple of weeks. Perhaps because I was pigeon-holing this as a programming optimization problem. I wrote about it too! [0] [0] https://nmn.gl/blog/vibe-coding-gambling
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on “My Mathematical Regression”Submitted Vibe Coding Is a Dangerous Fantasy as a story · 14 points
HN discussionFixed https://nmn.gl/blog
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on “Forcing an Inversion of Control on the SaaS Stack”Submitted AI Can't Even Fix a Simple Bug – But Sure, Let's Fire All Our Engineers as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vibe Coding Is a Dangerous Fantasy as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vibe Coding Is a Dangerous Fantasy as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Good Programmers Use Bad AI as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infantilization at Big Tech as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Karpathy's 'Vibe Coding' Movement Considered Harmful as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Karpathy's 'Vibe Coding' Movement Considered Harmful as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Vibe Coding" is a dangerous fantasy as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vibe Coding Is a Dangerous Fantasy as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Karpathy's 'Vibe Coding' Movement Considered Harmful as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Junior Developers Can't Code as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Is Killing How Developers Learn as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons from my journey to become the founder I wish I'd met earlier as a story · 5 points
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