Is AI hollowing out the software engineer's moat? What an HN #11 hit with 768 comments actually argues
This is the kind of post that does not look like much when you start, and then it does not let go of you. On June 6, 2026, a software engineer writing under the name poisonfountain published a long, careful essay on Bear Blog titled “LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don’t know what to do.” It reached Hacker News #11 the next morning: 787 points, 768 comments, a comment-to-score ratio of 0.98. That is not a “people loved it” hit. It is a “people argued about it” hit. The comments are the story. ...