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by dakiol 7mo ago
Honest question: if you're using multiple agents, it's usually to produce not a dozen lines of code. It's to produce a big enough feature spanning multiple files, modules and entry points, with tests and all. So far so good.
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by dakiol 7mo ago
Fair enough. I've been in software more than I would like to admit. And the more I'm in, the less I care about achievements in a work environment. All I care about is that the company pays me every month, because companies don&#x2
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by dakiol 7mo ago
Are you kidding? What else would managers get credit from? They don't produce anything the company is interested in. They steer, they manage, and so if the ones being managed produce the thing the company is interested in, then sure al
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by dakiol 7mo ago
I don't understand the "being more productive" part. Like, sure, LLMs make us iterate faster but our managers know we're using them! They don't naively think we suddenly became 10x engineers. Companies pay for these
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by dakiol 7mo ago
One reason: if it takes 2 minutes to put together a PR, then you'll get an avalanche of contributions of which you have no time to review. Sure, I can put AI in fron to do the review, but then what's the point of my having an open
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by dakiol 7mo ago
It's not just about gas pricing, it's also about housing. E.g., why live in Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, if you can live in a cheaper (and way less populated) city? Going back to the office, even if it's 2 days/week
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by dakiol 7mo ago
> This is the norm now for the past few years, and is one of the few ways to protect your job from being fully offshored. Not necessarily true. A company that operates 100% remotely in country X not necessarily can hire people from other
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by dakiol 7mo ago
Nobody wants to review AI-generated code (unless we are paid for doing so). Open source is fun, that's why people do it for free... adding AI to the mix is just insulting to some, and boring to others. Like, why on earth would I spent
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by dakiol 7mo ago
If it's any consolation, at my company (and others) we have shifted the way we are doing tech interviews: nowadays we focus more on CS/software-engineering fundamentals rather than ability to code. We also still do the systems des
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by dakiol 7mo ago
> 1. Does testing a candidate's ability to "steer" and debug AI-generated code make more sense to you than traditional algorithms? Testing the candidate's ability to "steer" agents seems to be like testing t
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by dakiol 7mo ago
> You could capture the behavior of every falling object on Earth in three variables and describe the relationship between matter and energy in five characters. What we can do is to approximate. Newton had a good approximation some time
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by dakiol 7mo ago
> While this could be done by junior or senior, I think junior usually has the slight advantage in being more AI-native and knowing how to effectively prompt and work with AI, though not always. But juniors don't (usually) have the
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by dakiol 7mo ago
Wondering what the data would say if you compare it to the numbers in 2015. It definitely feels there are more jobs now (at least from my POV)
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by dakiol 7mo ago
So, in the 80s it took around a year and a half for a team of ~10 people to develop Pac-Man (Namco). Nowadays it probably would take any engineer between a day and a weekend to develop it solo. Does that mean engineers are out of jobs? No.
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by dakiol 7mo ago
I think this suggestions are fine but none of them solve the problem here. The "client" (the service the OP owns) can be as atomic and transactional as one wants, but if the "server" (the 3rd party service being called b
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Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?
35 points by dakiol 8mo ago|25 comments
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by dakiol 8mo ago
No joke. In my company we "sabotaged" the AI initiative led by the CTO. We used LLMs to deliver features as requested by the CTO, but we introduced a couple of bugs here and there (intentionally). As a result, the quarter ended up
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by dakiol 8mo ago
> As a user of something open source you are not thereby entitled to anything at all I understand what the author means, but I think that in any human-2-human interaction, we are all entitled to at least basic courtesy. For example, if y
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by dakiol 8mo ago
You can be both good and bad. Like, it's not an impossibility.
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Ask HN: Are you that busy? About Clawdbot
2 points by dakiol 8mo ago|2 comments
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by dakiol 8mo ago
Don't get it. What's the relation between Mitchell being a "better" developer than most of us (and better is always relative, but that's another story) and getting value out of AI? That's like saying Bezos is a
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by dakiol 8mo ago
Is this similar to Ableton? Wanted to "create" music as a hobby, but don't really wanna pay for Ableton. I tried once https://lmms.io/ but didn't stick. Never heard of Ardour.
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by dakiol 8mo ago
And running the marathon is just running the marathon? I disagree. Big part of running the marathon is in the preparation. Weeks after weeks of training and not skipping a single session. The marathon itself is the tip of the iceberg; impor
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by dakiol 8mo ago
I kinda agree, but I also gain pleasure from doing all those things that are not supposed to be "the thing". The thinking, the dreaming, the visualizing... I just like that. I do it a lot when working on personal projects (which s
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by dakiol 8mo ago
Is it always like that? I worked in teams where we had some planning beforehand (months, like in your example). We shipped just fine and the product started to bring money. I guess it depends, as usual.
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by dakiol 8mo ago
As an IC that's been in the industry for over a decade, I don't see myself jumping into the management track. I just can't. I see my calendar and I see few meetings, and typically I have the power to move some of them (becaus
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by dakiol 9mo ago
I've been using Zotero as my "book" organizer. I have all my epubs, pdfs, everything there. Since version 7 I think you can read PDFs within Zotero, and I love it. I keep custom labels so I easily search for stuff. The only f
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by dakiol 9mo ago
The question is: why would services like Google and others want to use such privacy-preserving identity solutions? They wouldn't gain anything from a non-invasive, user-friendly system, so I don't think they'd use it. They wa
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by dakiol 9mo ago
I’ve noticed that many people struggle to simply let things go. Take a hypothetical case where HN requires ID verification. I'd just stop using HN, even if that meant giving up checking tech news. Sometimes things end, and that's
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by dakiol 9mo ago
I would work, not for my current employer (or any employer) but for myself. I would setup a one-man LLC or similar and build products I'm proud of. If some of them work out and bring money, good! If not, also good. Also, I wouldn'

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