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Engineer: “ It will take me two days [of work]. ” Sales:” We will have your fix ready in three calendar days [today + 2]. ” Actual work that week gives employee 3 hours of non-meeting time, each daily meeting adds 0.5 hours of high-urgency
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Docker on Windows issues, back before WSL had matured enough, gave a pretty compelling argument for doing windows development on OSX inside a VM.
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This specification argument seems to boil down to: what if we used Haskell to describe systems to LLMs? Many of our traditional functional languages, ML family in particular, let you write hyper concise expressions (pure math if you’re in t
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Ruby OnRails is an interesting hype counter point. A substantial number of the breathless LLM hype results come, in my estimation, quicker and better as 15 min RoR tutorials. [ Fire up a calculator (from a library), a pretty visualization (
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I’m pro LLM and use them, but crikey: if they’re so good at code why aren’t these people with all the attention, branding, and connections in the world unable to capitalize them? I believe Google that uses their internal Gemini trained on t
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Anthropomorphizing chunks of your system is kinda weird given interactive chat as the UI to the LLM. Akka and others have standardized names for all this stuff (and seem to fully know that a code ‘actor’ is code). These wheels don’t need re
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I think having mixed economic interests is great when an advertising company is asking you, you execs, your engineers, and consultants to dump whole copies of project planning, business practices, and internal dynamics on their servers… If
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Hitting my head into buggy apps made by these AI companies and seeing them all be amazed in parallel that skills/MCP would be necessary for real work has me pretty relaxed about ‘our jobs’. OpenAIs business-model floundering, degenerat
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Hypothetically: what if they did check, only in order to ‘check’ they asked the LLM instead of manually verifying and were told a story? Or, perhaps, they did check manually but sometime after the files were subtly changed despite no incen
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There is a substantial difference between people talking amongst themselves and one person on a phone. Humans are social animals, we tune out conversations easily. Half conversations are just one interrupting, attention-grabbing … jarring s
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So the chain of events here is: copy existing tutorials and public/available code, train the model to spit it out-ish when asked, a mature-ish specification is used, and now they jitter and jumble towards a facsimile of a junior copy p
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LLMs do the jobs of developers, thereby eating up countless jobs. LLMs do the jobs of developers without telling semi-technical arrogant MBA holders “ no, you’re dumb ”, thereby creating all the same jobs as before but also a butt-ton more
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To paraphrase a wise bot: like everything else in life, coding is just a primitive, degenerate form of bending. Humans relate concepts to established concepts and world views, it’s a form of prejudice, and has philosophical resonance with
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To me ending at 0:55 is a million times more logical than starting at 0:05… and if there was an issue then rolling back to 0:50, or 0:45, or whatever it takes for honest accounting and/or meeting discipline to emerge. Decades ago at an
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Given a 25% hypothetical boost: there are categories of errors vibe testing vibed code will bring in, we know humans suck at critical reading. On the support timeline of an Enterprise product that’s gonna lead to one or more true issues. At
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Nerd circles are in no way immune to fashion, and often contain a strong orthodoxy (IMO driven by cognitive dissonance caused by the humbling complexity of the world). Cargo cults, where people reflexively shout slogans and truisms, even wh
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Also the terrible code bases and orgs that are out there… the amount of churn bad JavaScript solutions with eight frontend frameworks might necessitate and how tight systems code works are very different.
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The agile methodologies are built around adaptive and corrective iterations of work. If an org is not adapting process, if they are not correcting process issues, they are by definition ‘ not doing it right ’ because they are fundamentally
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Programmers have the benefit of being able to torture and kill our patients at scale (unit and integration testing), doctors less so. The diagnostic skills one hits in any given doctor may be relatively shallow, plus tired, overworked, or
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Claude’s iOS app ‘unknown errors’ constantly. I have to copy messages for fear of losing them.
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In addition to the underlying domain (and I agree, it’s no coincidence that windowed GUI widgets are common in in OOP textbooks), there’s also overlapping spectrums of language expressiveness and object-orientedness to consider. The princip
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However many years later: the broad sentiment that MS needed to be broken up into separate Office, Windows, and Dev/Tools organizations was pretty on the money. Document exchange, formats, and user editing experience have suffered due
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More fundamentally: assume a 10 to 30% bump in actual productivity, find a niche (editing software, CRUD frameworks, SharePoint 2.0, stock trading, betting, whatever), and assume you had Anthropics billions or openAIs billions or Microsoft’
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Hey, come on, it could be better: you could have hundreds of employees venting directly to chat logs held by Microsoft detailing all your internal politics, planning, customer acquisition strategies, code, integrations desires, excel sheets
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I have a context matrix, therefore I transform?
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In the gap between reality and executive speak around LLMs, I’m wondering about motives. Getting executives, junior devs, HR, and middle management hooked onto an advice and document template machine owned and operated by your corporation w
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You’re not accounting for what the example actually does. The example provides exception conformance at the API level and specific logging information for tracing and debugging. It’s not playing games, it’s simplifying details for upstream
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Re: Domain Specific Exceptions Code snippets in IDEs like Visual Studio and refactoring tools like Resharper offer shortcut accessible auto generation of those kinds of entities with deterministic results. They also have routines to extract
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Monadic binding and other functional mainstays in C# mostly fall into the same uncanny valley. Like non-exhaustive pattern matching, we get some nice sugar, but it’s not the same, and not a proper substitute for what we’re trying to do. F#
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Web technologies took off, web giants emerged, and the desktop monopoly maintaining rough standardization and being forced into steady ease of use improvements was hobbled. Microsoft’s desktop dominance was challenged by Google Docs and Fa

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