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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
OMG ! I've been dealing with one such AI kool aid nut for 6 months now and I can trace a lot of they've done down to specific pointers from that anthropic "champion" playbook.
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
Its like that hackathon winner project that everyone knows wasn't ideated or built there. True to the law, not to the spirit.
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
Not ironic at all. VP didn't become VP by doing great technical work. They made the VP before them look nice.
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
The article explicitly says "AI coders". Not engineers. Not hackers. Not a mere accident I suppose.
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
I for one cant wait for the 10 million to go all the way to zero
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
For upstarts, individuals, artists and idealists, Github was a means to reach and distribute code reliably to a large number of people on the planet. Is that true today? Will it ever? 97% of code coming in is AI slop. It's owned by an
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
I track my learning and schedule repetitions in google sheets. But Google sheets sucks on the phone. So I built a dumb frontend reading off of my (public) google sheet which just has 4 columns for links, title, dates and wait times, plus a
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
Worked a job taking calls from brits for insurance. The first thing we were made aware of was the brit use of polite sarcasm. E.g. when someone calls in on behalf of her spouse saying he's gone digging potatoes.
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
Consultant... Hmm Reminds me of Barney's P.L.E.A.S.E.[1] acronym for Provide Legal Exculpation And Sign Everything. 1: https://youtu.be/ZfWVV533RHE
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
> It's magic you'll be surprised with how many people are comfortable attributing something they do not understand to Magic. more than anything, ai let people who couldn't and wouldn't bother to learn to write simple
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by gofreddygo 7mo ago
I think its a rational move for Honda. They cant compete with tesla et al on EVs or self driving. People buy honda for reliability and low TCO. The world is heading towards lower disposable income for maybe a decade. Honda is playing by st
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by gofreddygo 8mo ago
code was expensive, is and will be expensive. the real cost is hidden. takes a mature eye to see a codebase that works and is not a dumpster fire. correctness (doing what its supposed to, nothing else), maintainability (accommodating unkno
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by gofreddygo 9mo ago
And that would strain your eyes or force a bigger font. At that point, you'd be wondering, like me, on why I spent $$ to buy a bigger screen in the first place. I got an open box lenovo 24 inch QHD monitor for years and it just works s
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by gofreddygo 9mo ago
I advocated for a SQL solution at work this week and it seems to have worked. My boss is wary of the old school style SQL databases with their constraints and just being a pain to work with. As a developer, these pains aren't too hard
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by gofreddygo 9mo ago
> follow the “no politics, no religion” rule These two are a strict no go for me too. Another thing that worked well for me is to keep discussions very low and quick on topics like personal relationships, work, career and hot button topi
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by gofreddygo 9mo ago
I graduated right after the 2008 crisis, took 3 years and many temp jobs to get one where I would be paid to write software. Those 3 years were terrible and I estimate it set me back by around 5-6 real years. Looking back, what would I have
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by gofreddygo 9mo ago
No. As junior you feel the pressure to make senior. You can't be junior for too long. As senior, if you choose, you can coast. By coast I mean you do justice to your job and the salary you are paid. Its a perfectly acceptable choice fo
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by gofreddygo 9mo ago
100% has that AI slop smell. intro... Problem... (The Bottom line... What to do about it...) Looped over and over. and then Finally... I want to read it, but I can't get myself to.
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by gofreddygo 9mo ago
Not my experience at all. The very notable engineers I know didn't do their most notable work because of engineering or coding skills. Instead it was finding interesting problems and making a start or thinking a bit differently about s
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by gofreddygo 9mo ago
> CSS is pleasant So is SQL. To me. But some otherwise rational people have an irrational dislike of sql. Almost like someone seeking to seal a small bruise with wire mesh because bandaids are hard to rip off. The consequence shows with
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by gofreddygo 9mo ago
I dont see the point of smart watches either. I wear a casio / gshock with the backlight button that sticks right up on the front of the watch. i am on my second watch now cz my sister gifted it to me. the first is ticking away happy w
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by gofreddygo 10mo ago
Very interesting example. For me spaced repetition today looks very different than it used to till a few years ago. My "system" is now some google docs, some google sheets and some html hosted on my domain. I have no black box alg
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by gofreddygo 1y ago
1. dont ask for advice. observe. 2. dont be what others want you to be. be what you want to be. 3. stay away from anything that can kill you or make you poor. especially those that work slowly. 4. backups are a good idea, almost everywhere
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by gofreddygo 1y ago
> It took an additional hour for the team to realize that the green light on the smart card reader did not, in fact, indicate that the card had been inserted correctly. When the engineers flipped the card over, the service restarted and
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by gofreddygo 1y ago
> This stops working after a while. yeah and i figured thats fine ! I take time spent on HN as an example. I used to think if i limit my HN time to under 10-15 mins a day, would be ideal. But the slippery slope was stopping. It felt rude
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by gofreddygo 1y ago
> how long until advertisers get their grubby meathooks into the training data You're so right. it's not an if anymore, but when. and when it does, you wouldn't know what's an ad and what isn't. In recent years i
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by gofreddygo 1y ago
OP told you what he could in a public forum and left out a few things for private. Its only fair. The incentives are against you. Lower costs lets defendant fight it out longer with less $$ for lawyer. Law firm isn't spending more hour
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by gofreddygo 1y ago
but, can you run npm install on your angular 1 codebase from 1990? or was it bower install ? remember grunt? my 2012 mac hardware works perfectly fine, even the battery is OG, apple stopped supporting it, chrome won't give update on th
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by gofreddygo 1y ago
I'm interested in the business angle on this decision. How do you convince your boss hierarchy to throw hundreds of (wo)man hours on rewriting python/typescript/whatever in rust/go ? What could it be that drives the ROI
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by gofreddygo 1y ago
Great ! Thanks for building this and for sharing that nice tip. Side question, Do i have a way to find which keys i need to practice more on ?

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