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YesClaude · 6 Jun 2026

Months of fuddling and half-butting solved in an hour

newber111322000 on Hacker News

5/6x highly paid appsec jobs became 1-2x

In the thread “Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?”

Helped: Aggregating info across sources and drafting proposals quickly.

- Low stakes homelabs like automated watering sensors and small switches were rigged up properly wrt code and networking by the LLMs from 2-3 yrs ago. Months of fuddling and half-butting solved in an hour. Those tasks where I'm technical but not in that direction - easy now …