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Paul Payne
Personal blog · payne.io/postsprogrammingaicareer
Paul Payne's personal blog at payne.io covers programming, ai and career. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “I'm a principal engineer at Microsoft. I barely program anymore”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The one HN comment links the earlier 'Wild Cloud' post, which proposes a local cloud implementation to fix society. The commenter jokes about the submission and says the Wild Cloud idea is unclear.
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.
Welcome to my outpost in the Internet! I post about technology, civil society, and consciousness, often with a focus on AI.
Most-linked posts?
- I'm a principal engineer at Microsoft. I barely program anymore2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-20
What Hacker News says?
"Barely programs." Pffft. Read his previous article: "Wild Cloud" where he fixes society with a local cloud implementation. https://payne.io/posts/wild-cloud/ It's not abundantly clear what makes a "wild cloud" different than say, "some computers networked together," but I'm eagerly awaiting an update!
Comment linking /posts/wild-cloud/
on “I'm a principal engineer at Microsoft. I barely program anymore”Submitted I'm a principal engineer at Microsoft. I barely program anymore as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Programming Career Is a Historical Artifact as a story · 16 points
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