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Scott Werner
Personal blog · worksonmymachine.aiaiprogrammingcareer
Scott Werner writes Works on My Machine, a personal blog at worksonmymachine.ai about ai, programming and career. Since 2025, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Solving Amazon's Infinite Shelf Space Problem”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Scott Werner's blog for posts on AI coding agents, MCP as a universal protocol, and infinite-content design. Comments mostly cite or summarise the posts.
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.
Delving into the future of software and work in a post-LLM world.
Most-linked posts?
- Solving Amazon's Infinite Shelf Space Problem3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-15
- The System Inside the System3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-17
- The Only Skill That Matters Now2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-14
- The Parallel Lives of an AI Engineer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-02
- What If We Took Message-Passing Seriously?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-24
- Safe Is What We Call Things Later: Some Software Engineering Folklore2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-24
- Your Free Tier Is Someone Else's Twenty-Minute Side Project2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-07
- As Complexity Grows, Architecture Dominates Material2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-14
- MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-07
What Hacker News says?
Freaking awesome. You should extend clicking on a link, similar to how this article describes infinite content: https://worksonmymachine.ai/p/solving-amazons-infinite-shelf...
Comment linking /p/solving-amazons-infinite-shelf-space
on “Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now”Submitted MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System as a story · 170 points
HN discussionLiterally just read a blogpost[1] about this. Gist: The two ebb and flow in waves. "It kinda works" produces innovation, OCD hones the artifacts until it runs out of material and the cycle continues. [1] https://worksonmymachine.ai/p/safe-is-what-we-call-things-la...
Comment linking /p/safe-is-what-we-call-things-later
on “We put a coding agent in a while loop”Submitted The System Inside the System as a story · 17 points
HN discussionMaybe you've already seen it, but your comment reminded me of this recent article about MCP as a universal protocol (not just for AI): https://worksonmymachine.ai/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-... (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404905 )
Comment linking /p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-plugin
on “An LLM does not need to understand MCP”Submitted The Parallel Lives of an AI Engineer as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Do You Speak Pidgin to a Probability Distribution? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Safe Is What We Call Things Later: Some Software Engineering Folklore as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Different Shapes of "Think Before You Build" Prompting as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving Amazon's Infinite Shelf Space Problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Touring_test: A Cucumber Extension for Agentic Usability Testing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The System Inside the System as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entering Technical Debt's ZIRP Era as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wizard with the Defensible Pond as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Collective Superstitions of People Who Talk to Machines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Free Tier Is Someone Else's Twenty-Minute Side Project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source, SaaS, and the Silence After Unlimited Code Generation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving Amazon's Infinite Shelf Space Problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Only Skill That Matters Now as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Only Skill That Matters Now as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cause Of, and the Solution To, All Your Team's Problems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The System Inside the System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Here Comes (Forward Deployed) Everybody as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Artifacts Are Alive (and Photographs Are Dead) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ghost in the Funnel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source, SaaS, and the Silence After Unlimited Code Generation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Great Zipper of Capitalism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted As Complexity Grows, Architecture Dominates Material as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted As Complexity Grows, Architecture Dominates Material as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Discovery Phase Is All There Is as a story · 1 points
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