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Trisha Gee
Personal blog · trishagee.comprogrammingcareer
Trisha Gee's personal blog at trishagee.com covers programming and career. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “I prefer trunk-based development”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Trisha Gee's posts on AI-assisted coding, including whether reviewing generated code takes longer than writing it. The comments cite her points in their own arguments about gen-AI coding.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Making complex systems coherent.
Most-linked posts?
- I prefer trunk-based development2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-04
What Hacker News says?
It will certainly be the default for cases where it's easier to read code than to write code, but this is far from universally true. AFAIK, Joel Spolsky was the first to discuss this at length 25 years ago [0], but numerous people have echoed his sentiment [1, 2, 3, ...] One of the most underrated skills in effectively using gen-AI for coding is knowing ahead of time whether it will take longer to carefully review t…
Comment linking /presentations/reading_code/
on “Vibe engineering”Submitted Reading code is a skill (2020) as a story · 155 points
HN discussion>I only write around 5% of the code I ship, maybe less. >I do thoroughly audit all the code that AI writes, and often go through multiple iterations Does this actually save you time versus writing most of the code yourself? In general, it's a lot harder to read and grok code than to write it [0, 1, 2, 3]. For me, one of the biggest skills for using AI to efficiently write code is a) chunking the task into increments…
Comment linking /presentations/reading_code/
on “Is it a bubble?”Submitted Working Smarter, Not Harder as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted I prefer trunk-based development as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reading Code Is Hard, and tips to improve as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trunk Based Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ugly Phase as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hello burnout my old friend as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flaky tests are poisoning your productivity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tools and Processes for Collaborating on a Book Remotely as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dealing with Legacy Code in OpenJDK (JEP 416) (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do we need comments in our code? as a story · 1 points
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