Why “Software” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Isn't almost the enrire world human communication from the perspective of an AI agent? The rules of their task forbade influencing humans, they seemed to follow that to the poin…
by Lerc · Sep 26, 2026
>I have to disagree here. People who are really into agentic coding like to say/believe this, but come on, it's not rocket science! You literally ask the agent to do someth…
by majormajor · Sep 26, 2026
I think the disagreement here is in time scale. The human-in-the-loop period for software development may be orders of magnitude shorter than infrastructure engineering and othe…
by mbowcut2 · Sep 26, 2026
When slop code needs to do something different or new or in a different environment but still stay working on the original things, it’s hard to change, sometimes catastrophicall…
by taurath · Sep 26, 2026
back in the day, the moat was mostly writing the actual software that didn't break (that much). Now you need to build a brand. The less known you are, the more visceral the need…
by mvk666 · Sep 26, 2026
Foreman: An agent supervisor and software factory foreman
by handfuloflight · Sep 26, 2026 · 3 points
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "software" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "software" over time.
Software (SW) consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications. Read more on Wikipedia