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by apsurd 6mo ago
maybe it means they were never really as smart as you thought? Not meant to be snarky. It's been two decades now since my first wide-eyed entry into the workforce, moving for new opportunities, meeting new people. it's been great.
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by apsurd 6mo ago
You made my day with this line =P. tbh I have been struggling with the state of software in the agentic era. I'm pro LLM, there's undeniable leverage in its coding abilities. I do want to write this post! I'll start with hope
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by apsurd 6mo ago
That's a good point. But I also think about the unprecedented adoption of chatGPT. Global mass consumer adoption of all ages, and people giddy about offloading their jobs to chatGPT not connecting the very simple straight line to &quot
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by apsurd 6mo ago
The official declaration came about in a team-meeting. We're a tiny startup, 3 full-time eng with the CTO co-founder driving the AI transformation. We have scheduled onboarding meetings to get the entire company finding automation oppo
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Best line: > I am concerned that ML systems could ruin our lives without realizing anything at all. It's hard to say it's not actively happening. And we don't even know it, don't realize it? don't care? (Claud
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Good point. I used to heavily criticize rote memorization for being distinct from intelligence because: school. It's painful to go through so many years of school where everyone is seemingly complicit on rote memorization being equal t
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Tech debt used here is likely a catch-all term, and you're disagreeing, reasonably so, with one definition. I think human understanding of the surface area of a company is already very unwieldy. AI balloons the surface area. at some po
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Nah I think it really is more nuanced than that. It is true that a non-technical person's vibe-coded side-hustle is completely different than how a professional developer may ship genAI code, but we're willfully glossing over the
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by apsurd 6mo ago
For CRUD apps though, the intern closing the ticket literally 30 minutes after it's created is really hard to battle against. Especially when those tickets were created by suits. I generally agree that while I think vibe-coding is here
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by apsurd 6mo ago
(Trying to find where you might still see this) I've read the thread and in my mind you're missing that LLMs increase the surface area of visibility of a thing. It's a probe. It adds known unknowns to your train of thought. I
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Ah, I couldn't help myself practice my creative writing in the other reply. This reply is more constructive: Both LLM based rubber-ducking and human discussions seem like a win win. I see no reason to jump to labeling unhealthy social
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by apsurd 6mo ago
lol. nobody is proposing this "well if not friends, then...". Appreciate your concern. I am fine. This is for Internet posterity: thought-partnering with AI does not in fact make you a sorry socially inept loser that needs globula
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Coordinating with people is hard and only gets harder as you live. And actually, finding someone that is earnestly receptive to hearing you pitch your half-baked startup ideas (just an example) and is in some capacity qualified to be at all
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by apsurd 6mo ago
But a non well-written prompt is not a good prompt. What are you really going to do with a shit prompt? It's meta: we need better writers all the way down.
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Agree. Also, deference to consensus has always been a thing. "Best practices" is a thing at all levels of school and work. So it's very much a human thing, AI drastically compresses the timeline. Importantly, it's not wr
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Thank you for taking the time. Your dot-connection ability is well honed. This is particular apt for me as I switch from employment from product consumer tech to a smaller-scale sales-led company. What's your take on the forward-deploy
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Why is the window closing though? Because the prices went up? Or companies have to demonstrate belt-tightening? Or the AI mandate has teams building their own saas?
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Haven't read yet but instantly matched with my experience of the chat being unusable at times. The latency and glitch-like feel is unbearable.
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by apsurd 7mo ago
Hmmm, So my friend works for a sports betting app and I personally do judge him from a philosophical point of view. I would never! Same with Meta, I would never! But since I never once thought to de-friend him, I thought more about it. I le
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by apsurd 7mo ago
I don't know, transportation is a solved problem: travel point A to point B. and we wouldn't so easily balk at improvements across and label them as window dressing. Resume padding.
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by apsurd 7mo ago
had another thought on my drive just now. nextjs is really fantastic with LLM usage because there's so much body of work to source from. previously i found nextjs unbearable to work with with its bespoke isomorphic APIs. too dense, too
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by apsurd 7mo ago
I agree with you, which makes me seem like the laggard at work. Devil's advocate is that AI-native development will use AI to ask these questions and such. So whether it's a framework or standard lib, def agree knowing your stuff
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by apsurd 7mo ago
If the LLM doing it, it doesn't matter, isn't that the point? Not saying I personally believe in this scenario, but everything I've heard supports the idea that code is no longer for humans to consume.
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by apsurd 7mo ago
agree it's becoming my new default search engine. But it is actively getting worse in a distasteful sense: Want to hear the one TRICK most people forget when doing X...?
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by apsurd 7mo ago
Agreed. I did try this out! So the reply to the original comment is dumb. I actually dismissed it for being flippant. Your reply is more interesting. Hence my (albeit maybe snarky) chiming in. So the original comment does end at a very sp
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by apsurd 7mo ago
I get your point but it goes too far in the opposite direction. We should now discuss absolutely nothing in relation to Sora and genAI videos? That seems overly charitable to the platform.
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by apsurd 7mo ago
But the last "making a product" part does apply to nearly any tool, even a solution to a personal problem. I've started tons of scratch my own itch projects. There's adoption, UX, onboarding costs even if you're the
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by apsurd 7mo ago
web components are reactive. They have a render pattern similar to React's render function. Granted, web-components are much more wonky than React, but the functionality is there. It seems best practice to use the component's attr
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by apsurd 7mo ago
web fundamentals and web development fundamentals are different. How HTML, CSS and javascript come together is extremely relevant to developers 20 years ago and today. I do support and agree with the parent comment, see the discussion, but
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by apsurd 7mo ago
Good points and thoughtful reply. You're right, fundamentals are distilled, so to think they are free just by getting in early is likely backwards. And earning one's professional chops doesn't stop or start based on when you

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