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Scott Werner
Personal blog · nearzero.softwareaieconomics
Scott Werner writes Near Zero, a personal blog at nearzero.software about ai and economics. Since 2026, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Warranty Void If Regenerated”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Scott Werner's posts on software and AI, including a short story and essays on refactoring and PostgreSQL MVCC. HN commenters link them as sources, and one discusses whether they were written with an LLM.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The cost of software has fallen. What happens to the world. What do people do with their time?
Most-linked posts?
- Warranty Void If Regenerated4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-03-17
What Hacker News says?
I'm reminded by this short story posted to HN a couple months ago: https://nearzero.software/p/warranty-void-if-regenerated The discussion is interesting as many people didn't catch that it was mostly written by Claude: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47431237
Comment linking /p/warranty-void-if-regenerated
on “Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques”Submitted Warranty Void If Regenerated as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI don't disagree with the sentiment, but I think the signals that we use to determine whether we're doing the right things are different with the new AI enhanced toolsets. Refactoring decent sized components are an order of magnitude easier than it was, but the more important signal is still, why are you refactoring? What changed in your world or your world-view that caused this? Good things still take time, and you…
Comment linking /p/warranty-void-if-regenerated
on “Some Things Just Take Time”Submitted Warranty Void If Regenerated as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYour post has a trove of really good data. A lot of care, skill and attention must have gone into building that kind of expertise. When you then use an LLM to produce a post about it, that comes off as lazy. It wouldn't have to be that way, but sadly very (very!) often is.[0] Writing well is hard. Editing text to be readable is hard. Shortcutting that process is a signal to your audience that you do not appreciate t…
Comment linking /p/warranty-void-if-regenerated
on “PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's”Submitted The Long Freight as a story · 1 points
HN discussion