corytheboyd

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by corytheboyd 1y ago
It wasn’t mid-question, but I once left an interview loop after the worst 1hr session of my life. The interviewer put some React question in front of me then said “okay I’m going to go work now.” ???? I was already there and it was an easy
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
I once had the opportunity at a comedy festival to see John Mulaney’s same set twice, and it’s pretty wild to see with your own eyes.
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
Having now experienced such Java codebases for the first time in my 15 year career… no, the Java code is much, much worse. Over engineered and otherwise poorly written Java code is SO much worse than other over engineered code I have worked
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
I like my comments, they’re little droppings of my thoughts at the time that I can go back to. I delete many of them, if they get a single downvote, or if I think about them for 10 minutes after and decide not to have them permanently recor
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
FWIW this is what I assumed to be true when I said what I said.
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
That’s a good point, I’ve been a bit burnt out on strictly eng roles that I projected there a bit
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
I’m a little confused, because first you challenge me, but then come to the exact conclusion that resumes are largely unreadable. I’ll look for something they claim to have done to dig deep on, see if it’s BS or not, but I’m not reading eve
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
Maybe a good point, but honestly, interviewers barely read resumes, they’re very, very likely not going to read your blog, or remember “hey it’s the person from that blog post I ready 7 weeks ago.”
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
TLM role has always sounded like a trap to me, I would never say yes to it personally. I’m sure it’s sold as an expected 50% code, 50% management but everyone I’ve talked to who has been near it says the expectation is more like 80% code 80
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
All of which is pretty reasonable, especially for shorts, which are meant to be thrown directly in the trash after being used to collect some ad revenue anyway, right?
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
So much of the channel consisting of Hot Spicy Take content really turned me off from hearing anything else he has to say, which is unfortunate, because I liked his music theory videos when I was learning about that. Lots of very hateful, n
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
TDD works if know what 100% of the inputs/outputs look like, AND you know the implementation will be complex, terse, whatever. Write tests, then twiddle a bunch of regex until the tests pass. This situation rarely comes up in real soft
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
> For the AI, you want to give it some room to generalize/bullshit. Totally! In my mind I’ve been playing with the phrase: it’s good at _fuzzy_ things. For example IMO voice synthesis before and after this wave of AI hype is actuall
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
I’d say it was worth throwing down some cash for, because we get cool new things by full-assing new ideas. But… yeah… a TRILLION dollars is waaaay too far.
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
I guess technically 3D on computers is still clever 2D, but let’s not break the metaphor down too hard lol. Love the Doom/Quake comparison!
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
Isn’t it obvious that the confidently wrong problem will never go away because all of this is effectively built on a statistical next token matcher? Yeah sure you can throw on hacks like RAG, more context window, but it’s still built on the
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
This meshes nicely with another comment that resonated with me about how it’s seniors that need to act like what the article talks about. The senior ICs are the squad leaders on the frontline with the rest of the team, knee deep in the same
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
As well as the “two-way street” point made in a sibling comment, I feel like a good interviewer would say “this is great, I would keep it simple too, but I am testing your knowledge of $thing right now.” If the person won’t stop talking abo
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
In my (software) experience, the terms are basically interchangeable. Some people will violently defend “architect right, design wrong” and others the opposite, So uh, pretty hard for me, a normal person, to care much about which word is ri
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
I’ve never once seen “come back and fix with deadline” work. It’s really only the “with deadline” that does not work. Good teams will constantly be judging if now is the right time to fix the thing, and that fluid process works pretty well.
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
Wow that’s insane, had no idea. What the fuck does my behavior at 14-18 have to do with my professional capabilities at 36. I had a terrible programming class experience in HS but was otherwise obsessed with computers. Hated programming unt
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
> And it's definitely not the only time I heard of negative prompting being a recommended approach. I’m very willing to admit to being wrong, just curious if in those other cases it actually worked or not?
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
Right… so maybe we should all stop pretending to be authorities on it.
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
To be fair, 1. They made the training themselves, it’s just that it was made mandatory for all of eng 2. They did start out more like just allowing access, but lately it’s tipping towards full crazy (obviously the end game is see if it can
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
As part of the AI insanity $employer forced us all to do an “AI training.” Whatever, wasn’t that bad, and some people probably needed the basics, but one of the points was exactly this— “use negative prompts: tell it what not to do.” Which
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
GitHub was such a cool product of its time, the complete epitome of ridiculous SV tech companies. The Oval Office. The whiskey library. A room full of swag. A product ubiquitously known by every nerd in the bay, then, world. I didn’t work t
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
Sorry, I often conflate flex and grid, they occupy the same spot in my mind as “1 dimensional” and “2 dimensional” versions of the same underlying thing. I am wrong.
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
This sounds crazy to me, the flex system is exactly this but also semantically correct. You can’t possibly be telling me that table hacks of yore are easier than this, a clearly designed system for the actual problem you want to solve http
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
I have been wondering when I would start to feel aged out of the tech industry… gosh is it here already?
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by corytheboyd 1y ago
> The promise of "parallelism" is overstated. 100% my takeaway after trying to parallelize using worktrees. While Claude has no problem managing more than one context instance, I sure as hell do. It’s exhausting, to the point o

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