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   by gedy 7mo ago

   Productivity really means nothing across companies and the software industry. So we code faster, but honestly problem I see is companies ask us to code stupid or worthless things in many cases. CTO is rewriting company platform (by himself
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   by gedy 7mo ago

   I highly recommend Zepbound, you might try it.
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   by gedy 7mo ago

   Yeah exactly, what people call Ozempic Face is often just wrinkles. I look a bit older now that I lost 40 lbs, but much healthier shape. Fat does fill in your face some
4. 244.▲
   by gedy 7mo ago

   "We must be regulated to contain the nuclear bomb like power of our products. Oh look it escaped again!", etc
5. 245.▲
   by gedy 7mo ago

   Governments and societal institutions love to blame external bugbears. Newspapers are certainly no fans of competition from social media.
6. 246.▲
   by gedy 7mo ago

   I am using blockers! I appreciate my plugins and/or adblock home could have some issue, but point stands about the Smithsonian.
7. 247.▲
   by gedy 7mo ago

   Interesting topic, but so sad to see the Smithsonian blanketed in tacky popups and scrolling ad banners, yikes
8. 248.▲
   by gedy 7mo ago

   I'm cynical but kinda surprised that so many mgmt types are rah-rah AI as "we're waiting for engineering... sigh" has been a very convenient excuse for many projects and companies that I've seen over past 25 years
9. 249.▲
   by gedy 7mo ago

   I agree somewhat, as I deal with an internal legacy codebase that's pretty hard to follow, and I use Gemini, Claude, etc to help learn, debug solutions and even propose solutions. But there's a big difference in using it as a lea
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    by gedy 7mo ago

    For what it is, it's amazing. The only issue I would have is the manager goons who would want a commercial game then shove something like this down dev team's throats to "be faster". I can imagine getting the professi
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    by gedy 7mo ago

    Sure, but I've seen since the 70s old folks just staring at TV all day, so it's not just a mobile phenomenon either.
12. 252.▲
    by gedy 7mo ago

    You are going summon the Strongtowns fans here: "well actually..."
13. 253.▲
    by gedy 7mo ago

    I mean hell we are still feeling the impacts of 2008 crash and monetary policy.
14. 254.▲
    by gedy 7mo ago

    > I am building them because I am using them to do my work faster. You sound like CTO at my company rewriting stable libraries in languages he is familiar with and calling it 100x...
15. 255.▲
    by gedy 7mo ago

    You might be comparing people who know how to do something vs those who don't.
16. 256.▲
    by gedy 7mo ago

    They'll just skip raises and say it's part of your comp for increasing your productivity or some tone-deaf BS
17. 257.▲
    by gedy 7mo ago

    My personal line is they can't say that if you force devs to use LLMs "and be quick about it"
18. 258.▲
    by gedy 7mo ago

    Agreed, that's not really who I was referring too.
19. 259.▲
    by gedy 7mo ago

    Honestly while I know everyone needs a job, just speed run all this crap and let the companies learn from making a big unmaintainable ball of mud. Don't make the bad situation work by putting in your good skills to fix things behind t
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    by gedy 7mo ago

    Those "idea men" I've seen are usually not capable of following through a logical product, even if they start using AI. It's not just the code that's the barrier. The prototypes or whatever can be handy to help the
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    by gedy 7mo ago

    If you are on macOS but miss Paperwm or niri, etc this is a good compromise thanks to Hammerspoon: https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
22. 262.▲
    by gedy 7mo ago

    Maybe some of these agentic AI superstars can point their 100x engineering chops at this. This would impress me but not going to hold my breath for that.
23. 263.▲
    by gedy 7mo ago

    I think the OP's point was the job market. I.e. you probably aren't hiring for that role.
24. 264.▲
    by gedy 7mo ago

    In the end companies don't need to hook up to the sewer pipe that floods applications. What worked in past was (heaven forbid) technical hiring manager looking at resumes, etc and reaching out to clearly qualified candidates. Not hr
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    by gedy 7mo ago

    My hope is they can extend support for the A chips as Asahi Fedora has been splendid for my M1 Pro
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    by gedy 7mo ago

    Yeah maybe I'm just old but in 25 years in industry - not one company has needed this much code that fast. They may insist they do but then it sits while they figure out how to sell, or the inevitable "oh wait, we didn't thi
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    by gedy 7mo ago

    Yes with the reward of: I don't understand this code and didn't learn anything incrementally about the feature I "planned".
28. 268.▲
    by gedy 7mo ago

    Yes this is where I fear big corps leverage hate for AI into adding even more nonsense copyright rules like protecting "style" which has never been under copyright in the US at least. Not defending AI scraping and training! But
29. 269.▲
    by gedy 7mo ago

    Real engineering skills, I love it.
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    by gedy 8mo ago

    Dating sites and online are not going to make you feel better so don't expect anything from that. 38 is young for a guy, and I met plenty of women in my 40s (in real life) who would have made a a good couple with.