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kept by eddie feb 09

Hacker News commenters debate whether AI coding agents are genuinely useful or overhyped, with critics citing prompt engineering burdens and proponents citing successful agentic workflows.

Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI @ TLDR
TLDR is hiring a founding engineer to build an AI-native operating system of modular Claude Skills and autonomous agents that make internal business processes legible, composable, and usable by non-technical teammates.
also on HubSpot, Claude, Anthropic, #ai-agents, #developer-tools
The hidden danger of shipping fast - by Cleo
PostHog argues that rapid product velocity creates an adoption bottleneck where user attention, not shipping capacity, becomes the limiting factor, and offers strategies to balance both.
also on HubSpot, #productivity
The 33-year-old executive Satya Nadella is trusting to save Microsoft’s AI strategy
Microsoft is betting on rising executive Jacob Andreou to retool its Copilot AI product and regain competitiveness against rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.
also on Copilot, Microsoft, Anthropic
Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
Microsoft lowered sales growth targets for AI agent products after salespeople missed quotas, signaling enterprise customer resistance.
also on Copilot, Microsoft, #ai-agents