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From prison and addiction to software engineer: rebuilding a life in code

hackernews / top 1d ago 7

Gavin Ray shares his raw personal history of addiction, incarceration, and felony conviction before age 20, and how he broke into tech through a chance newspaper internship. After learning full-stack development and contributing to open source, he built a stable career and now hopes his story encourages others who feel trapped by their past. The piece is a candid look at second chances in the software industry.

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OpenAI Ships Million-Line Product Written Entirely by Codex Agents

hackernews / top 1d ago 9

OpenAI details building and shipping a full product with zero manually-written code using Codex agents, achieving roughly 10x speed and redefining engineering as steering rather than coding.

Study Reveals Code Review Devours 60% of Tokens in AI-Driven Software Development

hackernews / top 1d ago 8

Study finds AI agent code review consumes 59% of tokens in software engineering workflows, revealing hidden costs lie in refinement rather than generation.

The $1,000 Secret Behind Your $100 AI Coding Subscription

tldr / ai 20h ago 8

An in-depth experiment with Claude Code reveals that heavy AI-assisted programming consumes tokens worth over $1,000 monthly at API rates, suggesting current consumer AI subscriptions are heavily subsidized and economically unsustainable for serious use.