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by ebiester 1y ago
Junior developers in javascript codebases of 7-10 years old will not have the experience necessary in some cases. I am coaching them as a manager trying to introduce a concept, not a professor. I may be doing a disservice to their long term
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by ebiester 1y ago
I think of the second half much more as reference. I can give it to a junior engineer or early mid-level and say "here is an example." It's harder if they can't read the older examples, but I can google for a more modern
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by ebiester 1y ago
They admitted it was Claude at the end.
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by ebiester 1y ago
The problem isn't wages. The problem is that Hyundai people have the knowledge about how to build a Hyundai production plant, just like Americans will go abroad working for American companies.
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by ebiester 1y ago
It's already invented - someone else mentioned Here and Island. It allowed us to onboard contractors without giving them computers because we could control a lot. It's an interesting idea on the business side and I'd say a go
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by ebiester 1y ago
I don't think you need "super engineers" either. They just should have made it through their first mistakes on someone else's money. If your founding team is not technical, it's important that one of them has seen t
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by ebiester 1y ago
Not as their first 4 engineers. The fifth engineer can be a junior. Once you've built a base you can start expanding and hiring on potential.
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by ebiester 1y ago
They knew. Most of them migrated from another community. They migrated on the community reputation of MrGrim and his community cultivation.
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by ebiester 1y ago
I think this is in the realm of a YouTube series. I mean, what's stopping you from doing it?
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by ebiester 1y ago
There are certainly exceptions. And if a problem cannot be decomposed, then you have a "stop the world" formal code review with a team-wide multi-hour dive into the code. In my world, though, we use the refactoring tools such as f
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by ebiester 1y ago
It entirely matters. It matters because as humans, we can only keep so much context in mind. That means that if you are looking at 100-200 lines at a time, you can think about the architecture. You can modify the code, whether it's fix
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by ebiester 1y ago
So, why would you review thousands of lines at a time? That means you didn't break the problem down appropriately. PRs should be around 100-200 lines of code, including tests. You build your tasks appropriately. Reviewing thousands of
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by ebiester 1y ago
The biggest reason Kubernetes should be a big no-no is because you should have a much simpler architecture (monolith) that doesn't need K8s.
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by ebiester 1y ago
We never had that chance because you cannot coordinate 8 million people, much less 8 billion. And nobody was going to shut down all the coordination points of society such as grocery stores, pharmacies, and hospitals. The CDC knew this at t
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by ebiester 1y ago
> So we're doing waterfall again? I think the big difference between this and waterfall is that waterfall talked about the execution phase before the testing phase, and we have moved past defining the entire system as a completed p
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by ebiester 1y ago
Last time I tried it, I couldn't figure out how to configure the container tabs. Has that become easier?
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by ebiester 1y ago
I would say a bit more like 1997. I was young but kept thinking, "That which is good is not novel, and that which is novel isn't good." That said, we had the giant crash, but based on the dow jones the low in 2002 was the sam
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by ebiester 1y ago
It is part of why I think there's a future in tools that adjust with you. I've always thought about a tool like Microsoft Access or retool that will only handle simple cases. Then, it will allow ejecting into an app that uses indu
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by ebiester 1y ago
I'm in particular speaking about the UK, actually. consider how much anti-trans backlash there has been in the country. Consider how in Weimar Germany there was a fair bit of acceptance for the LGBT community that was quickly undone -
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by ebiester 1y ago
And you’re not trans. And you don’t perform drag. And you don’t go to an event with a lot of gay people. And you don’t get mistaken for someone because ai isn’t perfect. (Especially if your race doesn’t have many people in the dataset.) But
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by ebiester 1y ago
Everyone is fighting for their view of the world right now and for those of us who do not have any investment in the success of one of the models, it feels like pure speculation at this point. I don't think there's a human on this
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by ebiester 1y ago
So, I'd like you to talk to a fair number of emacs and vim users. They have spent hours and hours learning their tools, tweaking their configurations, and learning efficiencies. They adapt their tool to them and themselves to the tool.
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by ebiester 1y ago
I disagree from almost the first sentence: > Learning how to use LLMs in a coding workflow is trivial. There is no learning curve. You can safely ignore them if they don’t fit your workflows at the moment. Learning how to use LLMs in a c
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by ebiester 1y ago
Do you have any idea of how much money has gone into this already? Agriculture is an awful job. It's at the top of the list of jobs we would love to completely automate. It turns out it's a hard problem because computer vision is
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by ebiester 1y ago
Reduced demand in tech due to constraints of capital, and increased demand in agricultural and low wage jobs where immigrant labor was significant. But funny enough, we can't just ship 100k software developers from the bay to the centr
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by ebiester 1y ago
Is that LLMs? Generative AI? Anything with machine learning? Anything using a public model? Does that include something like Baby Audio TAIP? Noise removal software that uses ML? How about Refik Anadol?
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by ebiester 1y ago
Honestly, it's a tradeoff. If you can reduce the size and make a higher quality in specific tasks, that's better than a generalist that can't run on a laptop or can't compete at any one task. We will know soon the actual
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by ebiester 1y ago
And that’s how to make it impossible to break into an industry regardless of capabilities. And god Covid if you have to move to another city.
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by ebiester 1y ago
I've found the free version swaps away from pro incredibly fast. But our company has gemini but can't even get that - we were being asked to do everything by API key.
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by ebiester 1y ago
For ArcGIS? Have you ever used that? A similar system would be Figma - how do you build a server side Figma?

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