Ask HN: Are we losing our engineering literacy?

By smugglerFlynn · 2026-09-13 · 22 points · 19 comments

I see more and more posts get traction on HackerNews of a kind that promote non-engineering "magical thinking" world view around LLMs and modern technology. I can very clearly remember how this kind of mystification looked like back in "hacker era", "web", then "Web 2.0", then "…

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