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by dasil003 1y ago
I agree with the quote as stated, but I would refactor it for a more powerful insight. I do believe order of magnitude improvements in productivity and reliability are possible, but they don't come from technology or management techniq
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by dasil003 1y ago
That line jumped out at me as well as being weirdly specific and reductive compared to the rest of the article which read as pretty broadly truthy. My take as a middle manager in medium sized company (but who came from a startup background)
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by dasil003 1y ago
Sure, I get it, but I think it's a pretty powerful observation that the internet has enabled a proliferation of markets for lemons by lowering the bar so much for distribution, and raising the bar so much for baseline marketing, that i
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by dasil003 1y ago
I don't disagree that business will always try to drive down labor costs, but this is kind of a weird take given west coast tech companies are the ones that normalized $500k-$1m total comp for the rank and file software engineers with
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by dasil003 1y ago
> Things don't get more complicated the higher you go, they get easier, precisely because you're in the position of power and the influence, real or shadow, to actually have your words have meaning Spoken like someone who&#x2
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by dasil003 1y ago
Yes thank you for inflation lesson, I spent part of my childhood in Brazil in the late 80s and early 90s, so I understand inflation better than most Americans. For reference, I earned $26k at my first full time programming job.
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by dasil003 1y ago
This is an easy reaction to have in an internet forum, and of course it will get a lot of support because it resonates with the rank and file, so you'll naturally get a lot of internet points at places like HN and LinkedIn. But as you
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by dasil003 1y ago
Of course less famous people also had good work ethics we just don’t have their quotes immortalized. So all you’ve really done is subsumed any discussion of the merits of the idea itself into a hand-wringing fest about privilege that was in
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by dasil003 1y ago
I disagree, agentic coding is a very different skill set. When you are talking about maintaining massive corporate code bases it’s not a instant-gratification activity like vibe coding a small prototype, a lot of guardrails and frankly a ne
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by dasil003 1y ago
What a cynical and dismissive take, of no value to anyone. Are you saying that no one of color in that era made any worthwhile contribution to the world? Or are you saying that every white person of the era should hold themselves to the st
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by dasil003 1y ago
I think the idea was that LLMs can allow someone who has no idea how to code, to write a prompt that can in fact output some working code. This is greatly raising their skill floor, as opposed to a senior where at best it’s doing something
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by dasil003 1y ago
This is a wild statement to make so matter of factly. Do cases guarantee your screen won't break if you drop your phone? No. Do they dramatically diminish the likelihood of cracked glass in the most common scenario of phone falling on
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by dasil003 1y ago
Simon Sinek is far from the worst of the genre, but these aphorisms are much easier to say than they are to exemplify in practice. I’ve worked with more than one LinkedIn influencer with millions of followers, and their primary talent turn
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by dasil003 1y ago
How do you take a “long exposure” screenshot? Isn’t every screenshot a perfect digital copy of a single frame or a full on video?
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by dasil003 1y ago
Impure software engineering funds your paycheck
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by dasil003 1y ago
This is true in the lower rungs, but you'll hit a glass ceiling where this starts to work against you. At a certain point your reputation with those whom you have worked closely matters much more than interviewing skills.
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by dasil003 1y ago
Yes there is a common theme of not “bringing people along”.
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by dasil003 1y ago
I don't think this is particular to cloud infrastructure. Even on a single server you could make the same argument about using flat file vs sqlite vs postgres for storage. Yes, there is a lot of powerful and reusable software, both m
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by dasil003 1y ago
Sorry, can't agree with this. The hiring manager's decision carries the most weight yes, but saying it's biased towards the screen is over-generalizing. I'm sure sometimes it is, but as someone who interviewed thousand
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by dasil003 1y ago
Yeah I think this is a great mental framework. Getting rejected hurts, it's natural to want to find a reason, and with some self-reflection it definitely can help one grow. But you gotta be very careful about over-indexing on any one
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by dasil003 1y ago
If it’s truly only HR and then direct to full interview panel then I agree with you, but I’ve never worked somewhere where a technical person wasn’t involved in screening. Yes recruiters will winnow the inbound, but usually there a technic
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by dasil003 1y ago
One can find a reasonable rebuttal for anything. The point is that pattern only emerges over time—this guy hates exercise and has a knee jerk rationalization to suggest any exercise is bad.
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by dasil003 1y ago
I think most people misunderstand the relationship between business logic, architecture and headcount. Big businesses don’t inherently require the complexity of architecture they have. There is always a path-dependent evolution and vestigi
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by dasil003 1y ago
The WYSIWYG markdown editor and wiki links are what I like about it. I’m not into the whole plugin lifestyle that seems to be a thing among the “productivity” crowd.
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by dasil003 1y ago
Having seen what happens when TPMs run things and otherwise smart engineers just do what they’re told, I can assure you this will not lead to good outcomes no matter how good AI gets.
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by dasil003 1y ago
Agreed, and ultimately it's fine because they're talking about products not technology. If these products go in a completely different direction and LLMs become obsolete the AI label will adapt just fine. Once these things hit c
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by dasil003 1y ago
Project managers shouldn't be running engineering. They are there to keep the trains running on time, not to design the track, trains and stations. The generally accepted roles are Product decides what we need to build, Design decides
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by dasil003 1y ago
Funny how Steve Jobs famously derided Dropbox as "a feature not a product" and yet even after trying for decades Apple can't get that feature right.
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by dasil003 1y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but not the conclusion. Sure, numbers can be abused, just like anything else, but they provided specificity which you can then interrogate and call bullshit on. I won't necessarily fault someone for leavin
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by dasil003 1y ago
Intellectuals and academics coming to these conclusions and talking down to the populace is a big part of what has fueled anti-intellectualism and paved the way for demagogues to take over. If your response to today's ugly political la

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