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by dakiol 1y ago
> Perhaps you’re a user of LLMs. I get it, they’re neat tools. They’re useful for certain kinds of learning. But I might suggest resisting the temptation to use them for projects like this. Knowledge is not supposed to be fed to you on a
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by dakiol 1y ago
> Reality is that engineers have way less bargaining power that they used to There is negotation power but only if you pass all the interview challenges. Only at that point you are in a position to name your number (of course you won&#x2
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by dakiol 1y ago
And yet the only country in the history of humankind that has dropped not one but two nuclear bombs: the usa. So tired of american bullshit.
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In some countries that's illegal. So when presented with a contract that contains such claims, I have 2 options: 1) ask them to remove it... and so I risk not getting the job 2) don't say anything, and sign it If I'm really i
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by dakiol 1y ago
Couldn’t youtube easily discern those who are young and naive from those who aren’t so that the latter don’t get ads? It would be a win-win for everyone: youtube spends less (no need to spend bandwidth), companies dont get hated that much,
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But then in the interview, they won't ask you anything about how you "connect to the business". So, even if you can bring a lot of value to a company, you won't even be hired because you fail the systems design interview
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by dakiol 1y ago
As much as I share the sentiment, at least the browser has one single programming language. What’s a waste of time is to have dozens of backend programming languages (each of them having a few frameworks and countless libraries). So much wa
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by dakiol 1y ago
Why do you think your company needs only the “best”? Wouldn’t a mediocre candidate do fine? By definition most companies are composed of mediocre individuals, and that works fine. A bit tired of seeing every company out there thinking they
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by dakiol 1y ago
Tech companies usually require from you to: - go through at least 4 stages (screening, tech challenge, systems design, chat with managers). You need at least 3 weeks to go through this in a sane manner - You need to know about tons of topic
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Tech companies not offering remote positions are a shame
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by dakiol 1y ago
I’m still so thankful to covid. I don’t know how I would live without remote work
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by dakiol 1y ago
In my experience, when people need to know what commit belongs to what code, is the IDE the main driver: you see the line of code in the editor and automatically know what commit introduced it (e.g., via the git integration in the gutter).
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by dakiol 1y ago
Why wouldn't we just give the agent read permission on a replica db? Wouldn't that be enough for the agent to know about: - what tables are there - table schemas and relationships Based on that, the agent could easily query the ta
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by dakiol 1y ago
> There's going to be a way larger pool of people capable of 'prompt engineering' which is going to send wages proportionally way down. My wife knows how to prompt chatgpt, but she wouldn't be able to create an app ju
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by dakiol 1y ago
Buy time! So: - I would buy me a house (or two (for backup), depending on the amount of money). Rent is usually the highest spend in a month. - I would set apart some money for food for the rest of my life. I know more or less how much I sp
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by dakiol 1y ago
Always wondered why I don't go on living like the folks at 100r.co. Not necessarily in a boat across the ocean, but at least writing software for fun and learning as days pass. What a contrast if we talk about writing software so that
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by dakiol 1y ago
And I suspect you are an extreme minority. Among senior and staff engineers I barely see them leaving behind emacs, vim and jetbrains… none of them with ai plug-ins.
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Why do we assume that Prompt Engineering is going to pay less money? As usual, what one brings to the company is value, and if AI-generated code needs to be prompted first and reviewed later, I don’t see how prompters in the future could ea
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by dakiol 1y ago
Unless you work in SV, I think the advice for the rest of us is: take equity/stocks/options as a lottery ticket. Very unlikely that you’ll cash something, therefore base compensation is king.
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Always wondered why latin america is not considered the "western" world (it surely is not on the east side of... whatever mark you put in the world. Actually if one uses the greenwich meridian, that would leave countries like Germ
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by dakiol 1y ago
RIP. It still suprises me that people with resources die so early (he died at 74).
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Need what exactly? Resistance training or strength training? Or both?
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I do, sometimes. But that wasn't the intention of my post (to criticize the current state of tech interviews). My goal was perhaps to see if more engineers think like me (and we all are just pretending by memorizing leetcode exercises
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by dakiol 1y ago
I understand that. But one can have good problem solving skills by using tools (like books, search engines, etc.) right? I find it unrealistic to test for problem solving skills using "just" one's brain. One's brain (my
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Ask HN: Is there a name for this kind of developer?
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I don’t want to pay to use LLM tools, just like I don’t pay for Linux, Git, or Postgres. Sadly, open source LLMs are way behind private LLMs (whereas Linux/Git/Postgres are top notch software better than private ones)
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If we can’t fantasize at something that’s supposed to take a third of our day to day, man, that’s depressing. I do understand that we need to be practical and do the job and get paid, but at some point one wakes up and wonders what the hell
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by dakiol 1y ago
> At my last job I was the only developer who knew bash and Linux. Where or how so you find such jobs/companies? Whenever I interview for non faang companies I’ve been asked things like the cap theorem, concurrency issues, microserv
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by dakiol 1y ago
OpenAI is the biggest offender according to my server’s logs. Nevertheless we keep praising them over here. We are so stupid.
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by dakiol 1y ago
I cannot think of any environment in which getting code fast is of paramount importance (ok, maybe in hackathons and the advent of code). In work based environments, the bottleneck is not writing code is human interaction (understanding req

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