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by dasil003 7mo ago
Having taken a startup from 2 to 100 a lot of the comments here resonate, but now that I'm in a company of 10,000 and trying to get things down across wide areas, I would say efficiency and communication overhead are all relative and m
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by dasil003 7mo ago
I suspect it’s not about agentic coding being a special skill, and more about why a competent programmer wouldn’t have tried it by this point, and whether that is a sign of ideological objections that could cause friction with the team. No
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by dasil003 7mo ago
Looking for 5 seconds at the github profile I see a bunch of music-related stuff, and also a bunch of contributions to private repos that we have no idea what they are. I get the productivity guru anti-pattern, but I honestly don't kn
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by dasil003 7mo ago
If this was done well in a way that was productive for corporate work, I suspect the AI would engage in Machievelian maneuvering and deception that would make typical sociopathic CEOs look like Mister Rogers in comparison. And I'm not
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by dasil003 7mo ago
I've long thought of the analogy as useful for human teams, and it even shows up in the corporate jargon (eg. "I'm blocked", "We need to align", etc). It's surprisingly common for whole branches of a larg
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by dasil003 7mo ago
In other words they haven't really pushed the vision forward since the Jaws 19 hologram in Back To The Future 2.
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by dasil003 7mo ago
This is spot on. I'm always amused when people talk about how much staffing a given product "needs". That's not how headcount works or even system design works. What actually happens is that company headcount grows bas
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by dasil003 7mo ago
Have you looked at the actual expenses and where you think they should cut rather than people? Or are you saying with all those people they should be able to turn their growth story around?
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by dasil003 7mo ago
It's also a function of young ambitious people just following the money over time. Finance has grown and grown and grown because it's the easiest place to skim the cream. Combine that with the fact that it's transferable fr
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by dasil003 7mo ago
When you create a site with a tone this self-righteous and condescending, you should really double check your thinking to make sure there is not some glaring flaw invalidating the premise for the majority of people in the world: > A US
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by dasil003 7mo ago
Yeah it proves nothing, but it hits. Felt good to read it, at a time when a lot of things don't feel good to read on the internet, so I'll call it a win.
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by dasil003 7mo ago
Overall I liked the article because I think the secretary analogy is closer than any of the industrial revolution comparisons that are more common, but you do make some really good points about the nature of the work and how conditions are
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by dasil003 7mo ago
I think the analogy is directionally good, but it short changes the abstract and recursive nature of software. We were already writing code that was automating not only manual work but also simpler programs. LLMs essentially just move us o
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by dasil003 7mo ago
I'm sort of shocked at how little of my argument seemed to land with you in any way. I'm wondering how many cycles of software hype have you been through? Were you here for the PC revolution, the .com era, smartphone mass adopti
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by dasil003 7mo ago
It'll never happen because it shines a light on uncomfortable facts that would risk far too much cognitive dissonance across the political spectrum. Please keep the discourse to identity politics, culture wars, the Epstein files, and
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by dasil003 7mo ago
Ah, I can't see that because I'm not logged into Twitter. Doesn't quite pack the same punch does it?
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by dasil003 7mo ago
The graph does a really poor job supporting the conclusion, most obviously because it only goes back to 2016, the peak of boom times, it doesn't go anywhere near 2008 so why does the caption talk about that? Just this same graph alone
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by dasil003 7mo ago
The justification of better UX seems reasonable regardless of politics. I'd prefer not to have to log in on any HN link, and I also can't say I want to optimize for link health as this is super topical and I will never want to lo
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by dasil003 7mo ago
I feel like this study is very naive about how corporate status and power works. Consider this part: > Employees who are more likely to fall for corporate bullshit may help elevate the types of dysfunctional leaders who are more likely
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by dasil003 7mo ago
You raise some good points about the economics, that's where I feel the least confident, but let me explain my reasoning. Software has eaten the world, and thus the value of maintaining software has never been hire. Engineers are the
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by dasil003 7mo ago
There’s also a compounding effect. Even though they tend to be a bit hand-wavy, you can use the words synergy or paradigm in a sentence and still have it confer some kind of meaning. However as soon as you utter the phrase “synergistic pa
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by dasil003 7mo ago
I really don't get this point of view at all. I acknowledge that two yours into my quarter century of experience, most of what I knew was easily replaceable by the AI of today. After two decades of experience however, syntax and sp
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by dasil003 7mo ago
You're putting words in my mouth. Also, I was talking about Product Managers, there's a word of different between that role and Project Manager (or Program Manager).
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by dasil003 7mo ago
I don't know how that relates to what I said, and it's certainly not something I believe. Personally I don't think any form of knowledge work can be learned quickly in 21st century, otherwise it would have been automated awa
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by dasil003 7mo ago
You're correct I've spent most time as a software engineer or a engineering manager. I actually started my career as a web designer though. I've also been effectively an active PM in roles where there was no formal product
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by dasil003 7mo ago
I agree but my point stands, even if they don’t want to, an engineer at least has the precision of thought to specify how a product could work. Many PMs simply don’t have this, so asking them to become vibe coders is a hopeless waste of ti
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by dasil003 7mo ago
As much as I recognize that a truly talented product manager is worth their weight in gold, I'd say the average engineer would be much more capable of learning to be an average PM than vice versa. PM vibe coding a prototype for demonst
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by dasil003 7mo ago
People absolutely do get promoted for simplicity. I've also seen promos rejected for over-engineering concerns as well. I get that the opposite can happen, and at the end of the day there is some subjectivity, and a good deal of opti
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by dasil003 7mo ago
Sure also in big companies there are plenty of places for low performers to survive by owning some very small and rigid scope that doesn’t require any real end-to-end thinking. In my experience distribution of engineer quality is even acros
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by dasil003 8mo ago
The more experienced I get the more I see how these simplified techniques that might be useful to a journeyman engineer in the right context can fail horribly in the wrong context. For this particular example, the first question I have is w

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