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Zachary Proser
Personal blog · zackproser.com/blog · on HN as zackproseraiprogrammingcareer
Zachary Proser's personal blog at zackproser.com covers ai, programming and career. Since 2015, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “Maintaining this site no longer fucking sucks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a review of OpenAI Codex, cited to support a point that AI coding tools may arrive sooner than expected. The comment only links the post and does not judge its writing.
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.
AI engineer at WorkOS and Hone instructor with 14+ years in software. Production AI, RAG, interactive workshops, and sustainable AI adoption for teams.
Most-linked posts?
- Maintaining this site no longer fucking sucks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-28
- How to Get Faster in the Terminal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-19
- Building a Hand-Drawn Digit Recognizer with PyTorch and Mnist2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-12
- Passwordless sudo and verified Git commit signing with Yubikey2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-10
What Hacker News says?
Here's a real world example of a custom RAG pipeline built with Langchain https://zackproser.com/chat I did a full tutorial with source code that's linked at the top of that page ^ Fwiw I think it's a good idea to build with and without Langchain for deeper understanding.
Comment linking /chat
on “Why we no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents”Submitted OpenAI Codex hands-on review as a story · 171 points
HN discussionThat future's maybe closer than that. https://zackproser.com/blog/openai-codex-review
Comment linking /blog/openai-codex-review
on “Claude Code SDK”Submitted I Open-Sourced My Phaser-Powered HTML5 Game as a story · 46 points
HN discussionhttps://zackproser.com/blog/mnist-pytorch-hand-drawn-digit-r... Did this recently.
Comment linking /blog/mnist-pytorch-hand-drawn-digit-recognizer
on “Ask HN: What are some "toy" projects you used to learn neural networks hands-on?”Submitted Show HN: I open-sourced my Twitter Automation platform as a story · 32 points
HN discussionI couldn't take jt anymore, so I redid it again: https://www.zackproser.com/blog/maintaining-this-site-no-lon...
Comment linking /blog/maintaining-this-site-no-longer-fucking-sucks
on “Maintaining this site fucking sucks”Submitted WisprFlow Became the Highest-Leverage Upgrade to My Dev Workflow as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI just wrote about this here: https://www.zackproser.com/blog/chatgpt-4-and-codeium-are-my... I'm a developer advocate who also does open re-source work and other development as part of my job.
Comment linking /blog/chatgpt-4-and-codeium-are-my-favorite-stack
on “Ask HN: As a developer advocate, what tools do you use in your job?”Submitted How to find out if programming is for you as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://zackproser.com/blog Mostly open source apps that I build to scratch an itch and then write tutorials about after putting it up on GitHub. Lately, more AI and DevEx type stuff.
Comment linking /blog
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Beat Coding Interview Anxiety with ChatGPT and Google AI Studio as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Hand-Drawn Digit Recognizer with PyTorch and Mnist as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Giant List of AI-Assisted Developer Tools Compared and Reviewed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maintaining this site fucking sucks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything I've Learned About Public Speaking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Keyboard to Voice: The Future of Computing Is Talking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude as My External Brain: Autistic, ADHD, and Supported as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My 2025 AI Engineer Setup: Portable, Productive and Fun as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Vercel AI SDK: A worthwhile investment in bleeding edge GenAI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vector Databases Compared as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generating AI Images for Blogging as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have you got the programming bug? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Get Faster in the Terminal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I've been successful lately, and what I'm planning to do about it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Am the Spark, the Bellows, and the Quench as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wisprflow.ai review: reaching 179WPM and writing software by talking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Gabbee, an AI-powered digital assistant as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChatGPT4 and Codeium are all I need as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I keep my shit together as a story · 1 points
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