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by fhd2 1y ago
I was hiring for a Django dev earlier this year. For the case study, almost all of them built a thin API backend in Django, and a React monster for the frontend (and in some cases, pretty much all the business logic). When asked about their
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by fhd2 1y ago
I don't believe managers can operate with that kind of precision. I don't know how they'd execute the "let's spend 200$ more" idea. You're either in a quality or in a cost reduction mindset usually, these
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by fhd2 1y ago
Well, ads are commonly run on hopium. Sure, there's performance marketing where you pay for clicks, but at least last time I checked, paying for "impressions" (how that's measured is up to Facebook et al) is far more com
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by fhd2 1y ago
You forgot the trigger warning :) But jokes aside, I use Beanstalk quite a bit and it's mighty leaky, don't find it all that comparable to stuff like fly.io, although in spirit it's the same thing I suppose.
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by fhd2 1y ago
Well, that sounds pretty good to me, hope you're right.
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by fhd2 1y ago
VCs typically invest money invested in them, so if that dries up, regardless of what dream they want to chase, they can't. The hypes you list all happened, but I don't think I've seen anything in the last 20 years that even c
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by fhd2 1y ago
You're hoping for a full on market crash? I don't mind AI hype companies crashing, would probably low key enjoy it with popcorn. But from what I understand, it's not that localised.
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by fhd2 1y ago
What about the rest of the economy? Deutsche Bank recently said that the AI hype is the only thing holding the US stock market together. And if that crashes, it tends to ripple world wide. Scary stuff, at least to someone who doesn't k
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by fhd2 1y ago
My thoughts exactly. So many actually useful tools could be built on top of LLMs, but most of the resources go into the no code space. I get it though, non programmers or weak programmers don't scrutinise the results and are more likel
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by fhd2 1y ago
Some people are smart in the sense that they are very logical. Others are great predictors of how people will behave, I would call those smart, too. I'm not in that group, but feels wrong to dismiss it as "not smart". Just di
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by fhd2 1y ago
I'm sure they work splendidly... to keep the average person on the platform as long as possible and show them ads :)
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by fhd2 1y ago
I'm sorry, what? I run an agency (still figuring the space out), but just so I get that part: They asked a junior to "find a project" from a spreadsheet? Don't they pair juniors up with seniors in existing projects? Befo
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by fhd2 1y ago
I suppose there's no way to not make a _decision_ though, is there? If, to stay with that example, he says "You know what, anyone can make a PR to gender any way they like", that sounds like a blood bath. Reasonable responses
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by fhd2 1y ago
Dunno if that's possible. To stick with the example, you can either go for gender neutral language or reject it. There is no "I'll stay out of it and do neither". Your only options are one or the other. So feels like a b
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by fhd2 1y ago
I'm glad you asked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwiftOnSecurity
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by fhd2 1y ago
Sure, but their tools are complexity management tools: Hypotheses, experiments, empirical evidence, probabilities. To my knowledge, they deal far less with the determism programmers rely on. It's reproducible if you get similar results
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by fhd2 1y ago
Yeah, though in my experience, reward alone is not enough.
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by fhd2 1y ago
Never tried psychedelic mushrooms, so that part is speculation. But no amount of weed or alcohol could get me even close to writing code that unhinged.
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by fhd2 1y ago
Yeah, it gets so wild, downright psychedelic. I'm definitely not anti LLM, I use them all the time. Just not for generating code. I give it a go every couple of months, probably wasting more time on it than I should. I don't think
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by fhd2 1y ago
I hear you, but without any enjoyment in the process, quality and productivity go down the drain real fast. The Ironies of Automation paper is something I mention a lot, the core thesis is that making humans review / rubber stamp autom
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by fhd2 1y ago
This. Having had the pleasure to review the work and fix the bugs of agent jockeys (generally capable developers that fell in love with Claude Code et al), I'm rather sceptical. The code often looks as if they were on mushrooms. They c
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by fhd2 1y ago
Me too, got excited for nothing. But then I wondered - maybe that's where their name comes from?
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by fhd2 1y ago
Fair question. I'm personally a big fan of what I believe is called direct democracy - getting the populace to vote on a more fine-grained level and individual issues. Not just generic representatives with a bucket list of stuff they s
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by fhd2 1y ago
She was elected by the European parliament. As an EU citizen, you elect that one.
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by fhd2 1y ago
Well they have automation on there, that's clearly distinct from AI.
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by fhd2 1y ago
> Anyways… If you haven’t clicked “client value” at the top-right, I strongly encourage doing so. Ten points and a free party pack if you can read the entire thing with a straight face. That's a bit cruel. I just won the party pack,
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by fhd2 1y ago
C++ calls them free functions, and I always found them rather elegant. A common pattern, at least a few years ago, was to use free functions for anything that'd be a method in Java, but doesn't actually require access to anything
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by fhd2 1y ago
This pattern isn't OOP, there is no objects here. And Java generally isn't a good example of an OO language to me. It's more like Class Oriented Programming. That is mighty flawed but was for some reason quite fashionable. I
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by fhd2 1y ago
Back in 2005 or so, Java felt like "C++, but we know better" to me. I had no choice but to use it, but boy did they omit some stuff that was actually useful. The boilerplate back then (driven by both the limitations of the languag
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by fhd2 1y ago
Like with any kind of learning, without a feedback loop (as tight as possible IMHO), it's not gonna happen. And there is always some kind of feedback loop. Ultra short cycle: Pairing with a senior, solid manual and automated testing du

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