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1001 points genericlemon24 | 7 comments | 06 Sep 25 13:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.864s | source | bottom
1. chasebank ◴[06 Sep 25 14:39 UTC] No.45149665[source]▶
For those like me who didn’t know what 996 was: it stands for working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.
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2. salomonk_mur ◴[06 Sep 25 14:54 UTC] No.45149796[source]▶
Fuck that shit.
3. buster ◴[06 Sep 25 15:25 UTC] No.45150117[source]▶
What the heck? And why is everyone even discussing this? What kind of nightmare.
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4. fernandotakai ◴[06 Sep 25 15:44 UTC] No.45150278[source]▶
some social media grifters are boasting this amount of work -- mostly young ai startup founders.

the trouble is, for the amount of work these people claim they are doing, i'm not seeing actual things being shipped.

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5. rkomorn ◴[06 Sep 25 15:47 UTC] No.45150310{3}[source]▶
You'd think that with the 10x speed up from AI-assisted coding combined with the 2.5x working hours from 996, we'd be drowning in unicorn IPOs by now.
6. criddell ◴[06 Sep 25 15:59 UTC] No.45150414[source]▶
My first thought was 9 hour days, 9 days in a row, then 6 days off. At first it sounds nice, but I know out of those 9 hours there would be 4-5 truly great hours and the rest would be meh.
7. ponector ◴[06 Sep 25 20:09 UTC] No.45152450{3}[source]▶
It's hard to imagine how much will be shipped if they really do vibe coding 996! It's like a x20 engineer!