60: DTF:HN for March 1, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for March 1, 2026. Featuring: AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder, I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "free" and ad-supported, Microgpt, Ghostty – Terminal Emulator, Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules, and more.

Stories covered:

1. AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 0:27)
2. I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "free" and ad-supported
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 3:53)
3. Microgpt
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 7:06)
4. Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 11:37)
5. Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 15:03)
6. Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 18:18)
7. We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 21:14)
8. 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 24:24)
9. Switch to Claude without starting over
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 27:23)
10. An ode to houseplant programming (2025)
    (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 30:24)