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by burntoutgray 1y ago
The managers don't care either. They are job hopping too. I won't be surprised if companies with large amounts of vibe coded systems end up blowing up.
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by burntoutgray 1y ago
Why not go the other way around? For example, with Pharo, there is a WebBrowser project which could be further refined to do more of what you are proposing.
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by burntoutgray 1y ago
Without reference to your own level of knowledge it is impossible to suggest prompts. What works for me is to pick an area that looks interesting (to me), paste some code and ask questions. Then you drill down until you sufficiently grok th
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by burntoutgray 1y ago
> The problem with retirement planning is that you don't know how long you're planning for. Live it up now! When you are old, frail, bad eyesight, little stamina -- you don't need much. Just a comfortable environment.
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by burntoutgray 1y ago
... and stop doing things that you don't like just because others are guilting you to do them. I once heard somebody use the expression "x is shoulding all over you!" Really struck home how people try to dictate how you shou
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by burntoutgray 1y ago
There's a lot more to life than building startups. Since in your assessment you've done your job, why not take a long break? Review the past 2 years experiences and determine where your passion now lies. With experiences our pri
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by burntoutgray 1y ago
I dislike the bloat that Electron apps are burdened with. Unless you have speed to market, MVP, etc considerations, then why not use the tools that you enjoy using the most?
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by burntoutgray 1y ago
I could write a boring long comment on why you should do a PhD, but only on a topic that you are really REALLY interested in. Otherwise it is wasted time and missed earnings.
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by burntoutgray 1y ago
Everybody is different, so it's hard to give advice when you don't know a person's priorities. If you have the means to focus on getting a masters in a speciality field that you have a strong inclination for, then just do it
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by burntoutgray 1y ago
The article is dissing ink jet printers. I have used HP, Lexmark and Brother laser jet printers and they all worked well. I did, rather naively, buy a Canon inkjet to print to print in colour -- a very big mistake. With a B&W laser I
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by burntoutgray 1y ago
Not before there is a vast amount of ML training on the facts, experimental results and theories. LLMs trained by scraping the internet have very little "understanding" of hard, real life facts. As an example, AI in the field of
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by burntoutgray 1y ago
The more experience a developer has, the more they know myriad ways that things don't work out as the requirements spec fails to elaborate.
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by burntoutgray 1y ago
I've been in this industry for decades. In summary these are my criteria: * If the solution is software only, then there's probably a 100+ comparable solutions out there. See the point below about competition. I prefer problems t
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by burntoutgray 1y ago
AI is a tool! Like any tool it is great at what it has been designed to do and not so good when attempting to use it otherwise. At the core LLMs have hoovered up the internet and made lots of statistical inferences. As a research assistan
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by burntoutgray 1y ago
Linux is the kernel. The rest of distros are a collection of bits and pieces that some folks thought might be a good idea.