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Ossama Chaib
Personal blog · ossama.is · on HN as ossa-maaicareerwriting
Ossama Chaib's personal blog at ossama.is covers ai, career and writing. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Betrayed by My Own Blog”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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- Betrayed by My Own Blog2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-11
What Hacker News says?
Perfectly encapsulates the state of the job market. Interviewing is genuinely a hellscape at this point and I've experienced many interviews where there was a complete breakdown of etiquette/guidelines and good faith. One was so bad I had to write about it: https://ossama.is/writing/betrayed
Comment linking /writing/betrayed
on “I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job”Submitted Betrayed by My Own Blog as a story · 3 points
HN discussionClaude's down again! So while it's down, come chill in my new hangout space: https://clawdpenguin.com It's a little ASCII world you drop into — roll a companion (18 species, gacha rarity, 1% shiny), wander around, chat with whoever else got kicked out of their Claude tab. Built on a Cloudflare Worker + Durable Object for the multiplayer state, spatial grid for nearby player lookups, plain canvas rendering with no bu…
Comment linking /writing/clawdpenguin
on “Show HN: Clawd Penguin – a virtual hangout for when Claude goes down”Submitted Search Isn't Going Anywhere as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe entire framing is "how do I extract maximum value from candidates" - sorting people into "covetable senior talent" vs "almost replaceable juniors." There's zero consideration from a "lead" and a "mentor" on what the engineer actually gets out of this arrangement. "Agents push humans up the org chart" - I wrote about this from a human angle instead of "great, now I need fewer people and the ones I keep better be…
Comment linking /blog/disparity
on “Thoughts on the job market in the age of LLMs”Submitted Do Androids Dream of Eclectic Sheep? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tropes.fyi: Name and Shame AI Writing – Ossama Chaib as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Flattened the Engineering Ladder as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everyone is now an (underpaid) CTO as a story · 1 points
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