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by acedTrex 2y ago
I have certainly used it for different mechanical things. I have copilot, pay for gpt4o etc. I do think there is a difference between a skilled engineer using it for the mechanical things, and an engineer that OFFLOADS thinking/designi
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by acedTrex 2y ago
I mean... in a way yes. The status of being someone who cares about the craft of programming. In the scheme of things however, that status hardly matters compared to the "ability to get something shipped quickly" which is what the
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by acedTrex 2y ago
I am not necessarily arguing against GenAI. I am sure it will have somewhat similar effects to how the explosion in popularity of garbage collected languages et al had on software back in the 90s. More stuff will get done, the barrier of en
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by acedTrex 2y ago
> Also, I've personally seen more interest in AI in devs that have little interest in technology, but a big interest in delivering. PMs love them though. Bingo, this, so much this. Every dev i know who loves AI stuff was a dev that
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by acedTrex 2y ago
people extol the benefits of cloud for fast scaling, powerful managed services etc and those things are absolutely true. But in my mind, the real "value add" in many industries was not the services. It was the API...
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by acedTrex 2y ago
You could argue that the CLOUD act is in direct conflict with European data laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act However, it does not prevent data at rest being stored in the EU. Only that if requested the ame
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by acedTrex 2y ago
> For now, forget about golang I write kubernetes controllers. Golang is here to stay. > Just use Python for turbo charged productivity This is my problem with all the "AI" bros. They seem to consistently push the idea that
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by acedTrex 2y ago
I use gpt4o and sonnet regularly. They are so often wrong. Just yesterday gpt4o spit out consistently incorrect tree sitter queries and refused to accept it was wrong. Its all so pointless and slowed me down compared to just reading the doc
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by acedTrex 2y ago
> If it did not then I dont see how looking up with AI can be worse Looking up with AI is worse because its WRONG a lot more. Random rabbit holes, misdirection. Stuff that SOUNDS right but is not. It takes a lot of time and energy to dis
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by acedTrex 2y ago
Lots of golang kubernetes work these days. Stackoverflow is used when im stuck and searching around for an answer. Its not attempting to do the work for me. At a code level I almost never copy paste from stackoverflow. I also utilize claud
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by acedTrex 2y ago
AI assistants just slow me down. Its a very rare case i find them actually useful. I am generally concerned by the amount of devs that seem to claim that it is useful. What on earth are yall accepting.
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by acedTrex 2y ago
Elon is not blocking Brazilian internet traffic to X. He is removing their assets from the country physically, from the article it looks like that means divesting of legal resources quote > X claims Moraes secretly threatened one of its
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by acedTrex 2y ago
Then it would be up to those countries to block traffic to said social media companies. This is what china already does.
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by acedTrex 2y ago
Open source and profit go together like oil and water
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by acedTrex 2y ago
What a great read, i love times where competent people make shit happen. Crisis leadership is a rare skill.
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by acedTrex 2y ago
What do you mean by no consistency in formatting? go fmt is a solid formatter that does its job
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by acedTrex 2y ago
I mean as far as i know the only answer that fits your "no lua/lisp" requirement is intellij IDEs, they use java/kotlin.
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by acedTrex 2y ago
yep, it is his project. Those that like his opinions will like his software. those that do not will look elsewhere. The beauty of open source
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by acedTrex 2y ago
The point is not to be productive, the point is to LOOK like you are productive. its corporate virtual signaling
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by acedTrex 2y ago
Yes, i learned this recently as well and was devastated. A very core part of my journey to becoming an engineer.
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by acedTrex 2y ago
So you are saying to clone the repo now
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by acedTrex 2y ago
Amazon is a shit hole of a company, in all divisions from the very top. The reason they pay so much is that they literally could not hire a single soul otherwise.
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by acedTrex 2y ago
Wow, that actually makes me want to look into zig a lot more. so many projects, rust included, get bogged down in design by committee and half baked decisions that please no one.
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by acedTrex 2y ago
The automation world runs on windows
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by acedTrex 2y ago
With that much generation that im assuming changes regularly you almost want a seperate solution or to gitignore them and generate the files at build time...
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by acedTrex 2y ago
I think thats a very smart plan, get the websites that devs frequent up and running relatively reliably to help drive more dev use and therefore more willing contributors.
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by acedTrex 2y ago
going back to rolling it yourself, or relying on a few high quality stdlib providers that you likely have to pay for.
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by acedTrex 2y ago
This was expected, multinationals have always offered a china specific product. Now there are 3 primary markets/product groupings. China, The US and the EU.
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by acedTrex 2y ago
If the only thing justifying US head count is the ability to go to an office then that US headcount was never secure anyway.
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by acedTrex 2y ago
Good for them. Heres to more worker solidarity.

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