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Orchid Files
Personal blog · orchidfiles.com · on HN as theorchidstartupscareer
Orchid Files is a personal blog at orchidfiles.com about startups and career. Since 2026, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “AI will build your roadmap in ten seconds”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts about AI tools and working without meetings or schedules, including building without booking time. HN comments mostly cite the posts while discussing AI-generated writing and remote team management.
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.
Every month I publish essays, and every day I publish notes. I write about what I learned from 10 years of working in startups.
Most-linked posts?
- AI will build your roadmap in ten seconds2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-11
- I work 10 hours daily without deadlines or schedules2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-26
What Hacker News says?
I once wrote a similar essay on this topic. When I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer: https://orchidfiles.com/im-tired-of-ai-generated-answers/
Comment linking /im-tired-of-ai-generated-answers/
on “Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM”Submitted Programming is Art as a story · 192 points
HN discussionFunny enough the post is machine-translated by AI - from the Russian original at https://orchidfiles.com/ru/im-tired-of-ai-generated-answers-...
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on “I'm Tired of Talking to AI”Submitted Account bans on Reddit as a story · 80 points
HN discussionIf you read their other article on AI, you see the general problem. https://orchidfiles.com/ai-will-build-your-roadmap-in-ten-se... > Build a 7-year growth roadmap for my project Given a prompt like that, you are going to get equally trashy responses. You feed it slop, it's going to give back slop. They aren't putting any effort into quality questions or requests. Maybe these aren't accurate to what they actually wr…
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on “I'm Tired of Talking to AI”Submitted The operating cost of adult and gambling startups as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI also work without calls, deadlines, schedules, scrums https://orchidfiles.com/building-without-booking-time/ But how do you find others developers like yourself ? Most people need calls. They might say they don't like it, but they're more productive once they have them. They need to feel there is a human on the other side that cares about the results, that is waiting for them and pushing them. Most people need dea…
Comment linking /building-without-booking-time/
on “I manage teams without a single call”Submitted Programming is art as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI am creating a blog for founders, managers, and those who want to start their own startup: https://orchidfiles.com The blog has no monetization or advertising. Right now, I am only investing my time in creating content and looking for founders to talk to. My plan is to build an audience over the next few years and then offer consulting services.
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on “Ask HN: If your project is free, what are you building and why keep it free?”Submitted Developers want to write code by hand as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Account Bans on Reddit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Questions File as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to find readers for a new blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What does GitHub's security team even do? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gurus as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm Tired of Talking to AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I manage teams without a single call as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI will build your roadmap in ten seconds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DevTo, Substack, Hacker News, Lobsters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do developers continue to write code by hand? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do developers continue to write code by hand? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vibecoders and Vibehackers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hourly Billing Encourages Lying as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Problems with Hourly and Project-Based Pay as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How old are you? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted More bad advice from AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reason Behind a Startup's Success as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apostrophe and Quotes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startups only remember backups after the crash as a story · 1 points
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