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by fhd2 7mo ago
That's why I find any effort to create specifications... cute. In brownfield software, more often than not, the code _is_ the specification.
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by fhd2 7mo ago
A lot of this rings true for a development agency, in 2026: > You cannot succeed in design services unless you really believe in your clients and your client’s products. Just as it’s essential to enjoy working with the people you form a
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by fhd2 7mo ago
Sure, depends on the field. Some fields can't realistically WFH to begin with. Some easily can though. If you have a doctor and a programmer, the doctor can work at a hospital that provides the best career opportunity for them, while t
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by fhd2 7mo ago
Sort of. I was arguing that I see WFH as the superior model for people in relationships, because it eliminates the need for sacrifice and compromise on one dimension: Career beneficial location. Not on all dimensions, of course. People with
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by fhd2 7mo ago
What baffles me most about RTO is what it does to romantic partnerships. If both can find career advancing jobs in the same city, that's cool. But what if they can't? The options aren't great: 1. One of them takes a hit on th
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by fhd2 7mo ago
> This was McKinsey & Company — a firm with world-class technology teams [...] Not exactly the word on the street in my experience. Is McKinsey more respected for software than I thought? Otherwise I'm curious why TFA didn'
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by fhd2 7mo ago
Absolutely. I'm pro emotions :) Just also good to realise what battles are lost. I do sometimes rebelliously use words in their original connotation along with an unnecessarily lengthy explanation. Never anything that's now an ins
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by fhd2 7mo ago
My thinking is a bit different here: Seniors, even mediocre ones, already learned a lot of hard lessons by doing things pre-LLMs, even pre-SO. Those skills are valuable and I don't know how to train them into juniors. I find it easier
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by fhd2 7mo ago
That's the right move. If a word changes its colloquial meaning, better drop it and find a new one. Happens all the time. From stuff like "agile" in a software development context (pretty meaningless at this point, can mean a
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by fhd2 7mo ago
I guess the chain of reasoning would be: AI for art is bad -> Writing is art -> Translation is writing. Personally, I do appreciate good localisation, Nintendo usually does a pretty impressive job there. I play games in their original
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by fhd2 7mo ago
That's my experience with agentic development so far, a lot of extra time goes into testing. Problem is, the way I've been trained to test isn't exactly antagonistic. QA does that kind of thing. Programmers writing tests are
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by fhd2 7mo ago
Agreed. Putting the burden on parents is quite something: 1. You end up being the bad guy, other parents don't restrict their kids internet usage etc. Some folks would argue to just not set up restrictions and trust them. But it's
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by fhd2 7mo ago
Which would be pretty much full circle at that point. When I started out, it was common for developers to do "product management", there wasn't a specialised role for it yet. You had developers and maybe project managers (gen
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by fhd2 7mo ago
Even if somebody shows you what they've built with it, you're none the wiser. All you'll know is that it seemingly works well enough for a greenfield project. The jury is still very far out on how agentic development affects
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by fhd2 7mo ago
I never could get used to different key bindings. vterm in Emacs, with a few workarounds, works beautifully for me.
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by fhd2 7mo ago
I got curious as well, because the craziest party poor me can imagine would clock in at maybe half that, including travel. All I could find: > The three-day festival in downtown Oakland featured performances by Jay-Z, Anderson .Paak, T-P
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by fhd2 7mo ago
Exactly, I find the math fairly simple: 1. Employee costs x; 2. Employee produces output worth y; 3. Your profit from this particular employee is z = y - x. So far so good. Let's assume z > 0, though of course it's not an easy
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by fhd2 7mo ago
It likely has to do with changed investor preferences. In the boom years, it was OK to grow at all costs, make money whenever. Nowadays investors are looking to cash out earlier, from what I observe. Gotta find ways to make the stock move u
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by fhd2 7mo ago
If geographic location is a serious advantage, then yes, kind of. Competitors would have an uphill battle against the grandfathered incumbents. I doubt it is though, in these cases. Was probably just to make the measures more popular, as in
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by fhd2 7mo ago
In my experience non-technical folks quite dig the memory feature. For me that's kinda context poisoning as a service, but I know people that get value out of it (or at least strongly feel they do). Not sure how one would migrate that.
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by fhd2 8mo ago
Yes, that's exactly how I meant it. I might _rarely_ peruse some code if I'm really curious about it, but by and large I just trust the developers of the software I use and don't really care how it works. I care about what it
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by fhd2 8mo ago
Users typically don't read code, developers (of the software) do. If it's not worth reading something where the writer didn't take the time to write it, by extension that means nobody read the code. Which means nobody underst
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by fhd2 8mo ago
Because even if an organisation hasn't rolled out generative AI tools and policies centrally yet, individuals might just use their personal plans anyway (potentially in violation with their contract)? I believe that's called &quot
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by fhd2 8mo ago
It wouldn't keep them from equipping _new_ models with additional sensors, spinning a story around how this helps them train the camera-only AI, or whatever.
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by fhd2 8mo ago
Fairly cynical indeed. Though I must admit that Anthropic's software - not the models, the software they build - seems to be generally plagued by quality issues. Even the dashboard is _somehow_ broken most of the time, at least wheneve
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by fhd2 8mo ago
Ah, got it. Very different from where I suspected the issue then.
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by fhd2 8mo ago
> Anyway, it's not related to CoPilot, but because Notepad makes links clickable now... True, not related to CoPilot, but if I understand your conclusion right (which I'm not sure about), it's not _just_ that links are cli
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by fhd2 8mo ago
I think most of us - if not _all_ of us - don't know how to use these things well yet. And that's OK. It's an entirely new paradigm. We've honed our skills and intuition based on humans building software. Humans make mis
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by fhd2 8mo ago
It's not a complaint about LLMs, it's a complaint about my own behaviour. Maybe I didn't make that clear enough. Maybe like one of the siblings said, I just shouldn't jump right into execution even if that barrier has be
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by fhd2 8mo ago
Yeah the latter. Doesn't happen much with super obvious stuff, but especially when I'm a bit fuzzy on requirements, it can be just endless iterations.

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