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Prakhar Gupta
Personal blog · softwaredesign.ing/blog · on HN as prakhar897careerprogrammingai
Prakhar Gupta's personal blog at softwaredesign.ing covers career, programming and ai. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Doing the thing is doing the thing”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on doing the project rather than over-engineering it, for productivity and correctness of approach. One commenter cites it as support for avoiding overengineering and finishing the project.
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.
Software Engineer, LNMIIT
Most-linked posts?
- Doing the thing is doing the thing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-27
What Hacker News says?
I interviewed a while back and wrote about it here: https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/ai-is-the-reason-intervi... The kind of core conclusion is that companies need to do in person interviews now. There's no other way to prevent cheating.
Comment linking /blog/ai-is-the-reason-interviews-are-harder-now
on “Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?”Submitted Why technical cofounders reject you as a story · 89 points
HN discussionwrote something similar a while back: https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/ai-is-the-reason-intervi...
Comment linking /blog/ai-is-the-reason-interviews-are-harder-now
on “Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI”Submitted AI is the reason interviews are harder now as a story · 73 points
HN discussionI did similar kind of research for IndieHackers: https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/real-world-stats-for-boo...
Comment linking /blog/real-world-stats-for-bootstrapping
on “Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021”Submitted Doing the thing is doing the thing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI appreciate your work. But, again, from a productivity point of view, and from a correctness of approach point of view, I have learned this: 1. Avoid overengineering against/at all costs. 2. Doing the project is doing the project, anything else is ... not doing the project :) https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/doing-the-thing-is-doing...
Comment linking /blog/doing-the-thing-is-doing-the-thing
on “Show HN: Agent Swarm – Multi-agent self-learning teams (OSS)”Submitted A Guide to Reducing Cognitive Load as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.softwaredesign.ing/ I really like the domain name.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted A Guide to Reducing Cognitive Load as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A TODO List that works (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have some empathy for your LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have some empathy for your LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: My CRT Aesthetic Portfolio Website as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shenanigans on LinkedIn as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silicon Farm as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silicon Farm as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting into Big Tech Reliably as a story · 1 points
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