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by codingdave 1mo ago
AI speeds up my personal work a bit, because I don't use it for anything that isn't effective. I am in control of how much or little I use it. Where I get slowed down by AI is when working with others. My current main gig is one o
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Except that isn't how it played out. Most of the Access DBs, spreadsheets, and even SharePoint, Notes, and early Salesforce apps worked just fine without any help from devs. Yes, the devs got called in when those solutions needed to sc
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Think about the scale of that. If 100K users all posted the story of their one or two friends that needed help, HN would be overwhelmed with such things. It is the same reason you cannot take a pretty rock from a national park. It seems sm
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by codingdave 1mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "...please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." Feel free to tell a story in a comment, like you did, but trying t
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by codingdave 1mo ago
The largest company I worked for was in the energy industry, and we didn't even have quarterly shipping goals. I pretty much was handed some apps and told, "Handle these." I did well with that and ended up being handled a col
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by codingdave 1mo ago
One of the side effects of the "up or out" business strategy is that by definition, almost nobody has to live with the long-term results of their work. If they did something that had a short-term benefit, they can walk away with a
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Yeah, if that is the situation, this is straight up fraud.
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Do your contracts allow sub-contracting the work? Most of mine do, so there is nothing unethical about that kind of setup. Unless you are lying about it. But openly sub-contracting work, as long as you maintain accountability for it, is com
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by codingdave 1mo ago
So you feel that reading being necessary to write well is not true, yet the first 2 points of advice include directions to read, to re-read, to understand what you read, and then to read more. And in your last point, to write while remember
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Rambling is often an effective writing technique. Go ahead, ramble... then go back later, figure out where in the writing you stopped rambling and actually hit your stride, and delete all the rambling that came before that point.
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by codingdave 1mo ago
There is the obvious alternative of still using it, including creating your own fork. They removed telemetry and auth, according to that same page. I'm also curious what other alternatives exist, so would be interested in what others a
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Likewise genuinely asking - Is the consequence if they do not like your answers ever worse than just not letting someone in? Because in the USA, border control is now ICE. They throw people in jail. They deport people. They separate familie
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Those levels seem incorrect to me. They are written presuming that more AI == right answer, which is not always true. I think the ladders would be less about how you use it, and more about when you use it. Do you understand when it absolute
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Honestly, no - vibe coded projects that aren't done well never launch. So if you ever reach a "Day 1", you did well enough that you can probably roll with it for a couple years before you need a rescue. And if your business s
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by codingdave 1mo ago
> AI-native premium webmail service What does that mean? It is just a pile of words to me, not an outline of what your product would do, or how it is differentiated from any other mail platform. So gut feeling, no - email is personal com
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Legacy tech work. I get almost no calls for modern dev stacks, but I'm kept as busy fixing and modernizing legacy apps on legacy stacks, and helping to get their data moved to a modern environment. I'm not drowning in calls or any
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by codingdave 1mo ago
I agree that it implies simplicity, but in my experience, that is exactly the intended context. People say "Can we just..." when other people are proposing complex solutions that may not be needed. And if the answer is that a comp
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by codingdave 1mo ago
> With AI doing much of the work, how do we humans keep life interesting? If you think work was the only interesting thing in life, I don't think you have fully explored everything this world has to offer.
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Actual Title: MIT Webscraper "...please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by codingdave 1mo ago
There is no way I'd track that info in an app. My meter keeps history. I can download it to my device. Why would I put another app in the middle of that process?
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Federally? 1920. When did all the voter suppression become illegal? 1965.
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by codingdave 1mo ago
https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/about/index.html https://projectlyme.org/ticks-debunking-common-myths-and-mis...
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Hey, thanks - I wasn't aware of that. Glad to have learned it. But you can probably tell that there is no need to be snarky. Just your first sentence would have been more in line with how people engage with each other around here.
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Getting a tick is no big event. It is just something that happens if you live near woods. I own a forest, and get ticks on occasion. Gross, but no big deal. Grab a tick-pulling tool and gently coax them out. Don't crush them or force t
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Somewhat off-topic, but that page is unreadable. I need to zoom in to 200% to read the charts, but then the normal text is gigantor. It looks like it could be interesting content, but when I need to zoom in and out every time I scroll down,
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by codingdave 1mo ago
wat. AI is a tool. You can use it regardless of how much or how little people talk about it.
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Think about what problem HN solves in your life. To achieve that solution, is it required that you "keep up"? Or does HN serve its purpose in your life when you casually browse some stories once in a while? I suspect that when you
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Possibly because all you have ever done here is post Show HNs. You haven't engaged in discussions outside of your own posts. You have not shared anything that was not your own work. Hard to say for sure why people flag, but your histor
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Zero personal. Zero at work.
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by codingdave 2mo ago
This is a leadership failure more than anything else. People will do whatever you incentivize them to do. If you are promoting them or giving them other incentives to do things that are not what the business needs, you can hardly blame peop

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