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by 9rx 10mo ago
I wonder how many more times we'll rebrand TDD (BDD, SDD)? Just 23 more times? ADD, CDD, EDD, DDD, etc. Or maybe more?! AADD, ABDD, ACDD, ..., AAADD, AABDD, etc.
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by 9rx 10mo ago
The scare quotes are significant. Obviously nobody can ever see it all as taken in its most literal sense. But one can start to see enough that they can recognize the patterns. If your job is dependent on the weather, one year might be rain
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by 9rx 10mo ago
Testing is not perfect, but what else is there? Even formal proofs are just another expression of testing. With greater mathematical guarantees than other expressions, granted, but still testing all the same; prone to all the very same huma
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by 9rx 10mo ago
Even "code monkey" is generous.
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> If you reach "senior" after only two years and "principle" after 5, what is left for the next 20 years? There is nothing left. Not everyone puts in the same dedication towards the craft, of course. It very well mi
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by 9rx 10mo ago
Automated testing (there aren't different kinds; to try and draw a distinction misunderstands what it is) doesn't catch bugs, it defines a contract. Code is then written to conform to that contract. Bugs cannot be introduced to be
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> Without explicit instruction, LLMs are really bad at this They used to be. They have become quite good at it, even without instruction. Impressively so. But it does require that the humans who laid the foundation also followed cons
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> if you don't at least look at the running code, you don't know that it works. Your tests run the code. You know it works. I know the article is trying to say that testing is not comprehensive enough, but my experience disag
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by 9rx 10mo ago
Maybe a bit pedantic, but does manual testing really need to be done, or is the intent here more towards being a usability review? I can't think of any time obvious unintended behaviour showed up not caught by the contract encoded in t
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work. Your job is to solve customer problems. Their problems may only be solvable with code that is proven to work, but it is equally likely (I dare say even more likely) that their prob
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> consider how many years of experience a "senior" is typically expected to have That entirely depends on what the experience is towards. If it is something like farming where you only get to experience a different scenario o
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by 9rx 10mo ago
The job is never to develop software. The job is always to solve problems for customers. Developing software is just a tool in the toolbox. As is, increasingly, using AI. As such, it is valuable to have those who are experienced in using AI
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by 9rx 10mo ago
Has there been any successful app stores since the mobile app stores, which made developers fortunes selling fart apps, thus making it highly appealing for others to try and chase the same? Every one I can think of since gets a bit of initi
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by 9rx 10mo ago
Not right now. In this early phase, developers can link out from their ChatGPT apps to their own websites or native apps to complete transactions for physical goods. We’re exploring additional monetization options over time, i
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by 9rx 10mo ago
While, again, anyone can define words as they see fit, most people consider the "junior" and "senior" labels to apply to the activity being conducted, not something off to the side. As the job is to use AI tools, these m
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> He said juniors are usually the most experienced with AI tools, so cutting them makes no sense. While anyone is free to define words as they so please, most people consider those with the most experience to be seniors. I am pretty su
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by 9rx 10mo ago
Fortran, the language, is also older than FLOW-MATIC. FLOW-MATIC's claim to fame was beating Fortran at releasing a working implementation (and having syntax that looked like English, but that's not something to be proud of). Plan
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by 9rx 10mo ago
For now. It won't last. Trouble is that these EV projects are all being abandoned now and won't be available to purchase when the market comes back to reality.
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by 9rx 10mo ago
I'd love to have an electric pickup truck. It'd primarily be for farm use, so no long distance concerns, and being able to bring electricity to the field would be a huge boon. It is really the perfect package. But I wouldn't
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by 9rx 10mo ago
The intent isn't to find good hires per se, but to whittle down the list of applicants to a manageable number in a way that doesn't invite discrimination lawsuits. Same as why companies in the past used to reject anyone without a
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> What you are probing isn't reasoning, it's perception. Its both. A colorblind person will admit their shortcomings and, if compelled to be helpful like an LLM is, will reason their way to finding a solution that works aroun
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> No one else who has responded to you does, so you'd think you'd care For what reason? Not my problem. It makes no difference to me. > What is it about the regulatory policies in the US that allows US competitors to exis
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> This is the second time you've just stated that the US is the source of "heavy regulation" in the tech sector without any explanation of what that means. So? I know what I mean. > because it in no way prevents a Ge
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by 9rx 10mo ago
Finance is a larger sector, but largely exists to support tech. If tech disappeared, as suggested in the earlier comment, the USA's finance sector would soon diminish to near-nothing and might even totally collapse under the weight of
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> Germany can't compete with US wages in tech because their companies don't generate as much revenue or profit Right, because, thanks to heavy regulation driven by the USA, it is illegal to compete on a direct basis. The only
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> I often tell my teammates exactly how I want them to implement something. Ugh. I recently found myself working with one of those people. What a horrid experience. We waste days trying to reverse engineer out of him what the business
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> Also, I don’t think you mean “intimacy.” Do you mean “empathy?” The words that follow support it being "intimacy". That is what intimacy is — being close enough to someone that you can be open without a feeling of being lef
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by 9rx 10mo ago
Trouble is that in an application the pure functions are just implementation details that don't need to be tested. They get tested by virtue of a correct implementation being necessary to correctly run the application. A library can be
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by 9rx 10mo ago
Something I noticed a long time ago is that Vercel turns everything they touch into being 10 times harder than it needs to be. I have come to conclude it is that way because they focus on optimizing for a demo case that presents well to non
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> low regulatory environment Quite the opposite. The US quickly recovered from 2008 thanks to tech. Tech that the rest of the world wasn't able to keep up with thanks to it being a heavily regulated environment (patents, copyright

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