dasil003

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by dasil003 3mo ago
I get what you mean about the conflict of interest for consumer software, but I don’t think a product mindset is inherently toxic. It’s more a function of where you are in the enshittification cycle.
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by dasil003 3mo ago
The majority of people who use LLMs today never even heard of ML though a non-trivial percentage have heard that modern AI is powered by LLM. You can’t forget what you never knew. Such is the evolution of language when a formerly niche te
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by dasil003 3mo ago
Is this a rant from an abused 19-year old? The lack of anything resembling nuance or recognition that the world is complicated renders any of the accurate observations sterile and unactionable. For example, any who says something like this
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by dasil003 3mo ago
Some good points, but I think it still treats “tech” as too monolithic. It’s not simply that tech leaders made bad choices or that products are inevitably enshittified. If I had to summarize the root cause I’d say it’s that the scaling pr
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by dasil003 3mo ago
How can you separate those things? The changes happened because there were more people, and those people were valuable to market too. Hosting and moderation became more expensive, so that created a form of pressure as well. It's con
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by dasil003 4mo ago
I'd wager that if a manager says that they want you to take it more like a real marathon and less like long hike.
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by dasil003 4mo ago
Just realized zombo.com recently got a major update
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by dasil003 4mo ago
You make it sound like a conspiracy but the article clearly argues that this is what the people want. If there really was that much centralized control then crypto would have been much bigger.
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by dasil003 4mo ago
This smells more like the fluidity of what people mean by “junior” more than anything else. Journeymen engineers in their over-engineering phase, or even very “senior” expert programmers can suffer over fitting the product to their own men
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by dasil003 4mo ago
Agreed, that's why I said used the phrasing "tend to". There's no silver bullet.
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by dasil003 4mo ago
Huh? Hiring being broken has nothing to do with cost, it's a filtering problem. Even when there's no HR or bean counter in sight it's still hard. There's fundamentally limited signal you can extract from interviews, s
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by dasil003 4mo ago
The call for CSS specialization strikes me as seriously misguided (even before agentic coding became a thing). Yes, web development is complex and you can’t know everything, but it is possible to learn what you need as you go and generally
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by dasil003 4mo ago
I think it was a joke
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by dasil003 4mo ago
I don't really understand what you're nitpicking, the rule is "don't feign surprise". It seems perfectly well-stated to capture the spirit of the intent, and it explicitly allows for genuine surprise as you suggest
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by dasil003 4mo ago
I agree with you there's a lot of gatekeeping around "passion" for tech. I don't like that framing, but having seen the effect of success and the type of people it has brought into the industry that would never have eve
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by dasil003 4mo ago
> Who cares if it might be illegal or the spirit of the law frowns on what we do? Surely these things are on a moral and ethical continuum and we need to look at them individually? Pretty much every person has broken some law at least
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by dasil003 4mo ago
There is no conservative party in America because Trump has taken control of the Republican Party. He has no values except what is expedient for himself, any principled conservatives who speak up commit political suicide. Such is the worl
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by dasil003 4mo ago
I think this is true when models were going from bad to pretty good like happened last year. But when they start to get good, and can work deeper and with more nuance, how you prompt also can change the results quite a bit. Note this is a
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by dasil003 4mo ago
I agree we have more software than most people want, but I don't think bespoke software is the answer. Sure, that is an interesting new area that AI makes possible, but I don't think it's more than a niche because people don
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by dasil003 4mo ago
There's no point debating people who are in a blind mania. Sometimes it's better to just keep your head down and focus on what you can control while "mistakes are made". You will be infinitely more appreciated once the
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by dasil003 4mo ago
It's odd to me how quickly the author devalues their own experience just because AI can do certain things well. There's a huge chasm between what AI can do when prompted by an expert software engineer vs a non-technical person.
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by dasil003 4mo ago
I think this is right, but it can be stated more simply as companies hire to invest in growth, and they conduct layoffs when growth slows (not because of AI or "improved productivity"). Everything else is storytelling and emergen
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by dasil003 4mo ago
You're misunderstanding the point, a CEO's control of the company is contingent on the boards approval. Yes, of course you can hold the standard for yourself, but you serve at the pleasure of the board and investors. The system
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by dasil003 4mo ago
As someone who has been CTO at a small company, senior leadership at a scaleup, and now middle management at a large co, I can tell you that what you are imagining is not structurally possible in our current system. That's not say lead
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by dasil003 4mo ago
In practice, Ruby is much more opinionated than Perl, mostly because of Rails being the catalyst to drive mass adoption of Ruby. So you basically have Rails, and then the RubyGems/Bundler package management was pretty linear. There&#
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by dasil003 5mo ago
I'm all for fewer (and smaller) meetings, but there is a time and place for synchronous communication. Especially quick informal communication can be incredibly high leverage. Optimizing for heads down time is great if everyone knows
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by dasil003 5mo ago
Yeah this article is in a real uncanny valley for me where it has some insight, but it also throws out some wild ideas that don't pass the sniff test for me. To me what AI is doing is changing the economics of human thought, but the ch
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by dasil003 5mo ago
Man, as a young programmer coming up I really looked up to Paul Graham, but now as a seasoned vet in the industry, it's remarkable (and disappointing) to see him publish an article based on such a false equivalency. I mean this level
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by dasil003 5mo ago
I think this depends a lot on the task, the existing codebase, and the taste of the operator. In general I tend to agree with you if you're talking a codebase you are deeply familiar with, the value-add from have agents write the code
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by dasil003 5mo ago
In the age of AI you can't "undo the claims" for randos on the internet. I mean it was hard enough before, but at this point it's now a direct money -> speech pipeline. Reputation will matter more than ever before.

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