habinero

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by habinero 9mo ago
Was that statement wrong? It sounds like I accurately clocked your level of expertise lol And sure it did. We don't have test engineers or QA nearly as much as we used to, and a lot of IT work is automated, too. Do you think we sit aro
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by habinero 9mo ago
No, they searched for it. There's a lot of math literature out there, not even an expert is going to know all of it.
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by habinero 9mo ago
Nah. I decline to educate you on testing methodology if you're unable to do even the very bare minimum yourself.
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by habinero 9mo ago
> If there is “a lot of evidence of the opposite,” the minimum requirement is to name one metric, one study, or one observable trend. You didn’t. You just asserted it and moved on, which is not how serious disagreement works. I treated i
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by habinero 9mo ago
> I too was once a junior developer with insular thinking My dude, I've been a professional SWE for more than ten years lol. I don't know where you've been working, but I've been in Silicon Valley companies and st
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by habinero 9mo ago
We need a name for the much more trivial version of the Turing test that replaces "human" with "weird dude with rambling ideas he clearly thinks are very deep" I'm pretty sure it's like "can it run DOOM&qu
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by habinero 9mo ago
Yes, it is simply impossible that anyone could look at things and do your own evaluations and come to a different, much more skeptical conclusion. The only possible explanation is people say things they don't believe out of FUD. Litera
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by habinero 9mo ago
> What is happening now. What the trendlines look like. What follows if those trendlines continue. Output per developer is rising. Time from idea to implementation is collapsing. Junior and mid level work is disappearing first. Teams are
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by habinero 9mo ago
> Still no definition, but I imagine if one were to define "regression test" Why do you need to "imagine" anything? Just google it. "Regression test" is a very standard thing. Also, the first commenter was c
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by habinero 9mo ago
Considering he thought it was "hole" milk, I'm choosing to believe it.
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by habinero 9mo ago
C'mon. Your comment starts with you hyping your own prediction and crowing, "See, it's coming true!" "But I didn't say this exact word!" and then accusing the other person of bad faith is some textbook DAR
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by habinero 9mo ago
I mean, if you've already convinced yourself that you'll have a bad time and no one will like you...that's what they call a self-fulfilling prophesy. It's fine to feel intimidated or shy, but then find something else tha
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by habinero 9mo ago
My dude, that's not "victim blaming" lol. Nobody's forcing you, personally, to do anything. I don't care if you, personally, publish your work or not. What I'm saying is that _feeling_ of insecurity doesn'
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by habinero 9mo ago
Sure, but I'm gonna push back and go "so what"? That sort of thing is what haters do , especially in the notoriously toxic world of gaming. "Some people expressed disappointment about a thing I think is silly" is l
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by habinero 9mo ago
I actually read through the logs and the code in the rare instances someone actually posts their prompts and the generated output. If I'm being overly cynical about the tech, I want to know. The last one I did it on was breathlessly to
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by habinero 9mo ago
Counterpoint: If the tech was actually that good, nobody could dunk on it and anyone who tried would be mocked back. If your hand is good, throw it down and let the haters weep. If you scared to show your cards, you don't have a good
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by habinero 9mo ago
Nah, just better at marketing and coming up with plausible things that make them sound good. You learn to spot that type after a while. There are a rare few people who do get a lot done, but usually it's because they work 80 hour weeks
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by habinero 9mo ago
That's insufficient. Code signing doesn't do anything against theft or malfeasance by internal actors. Or external ones, I suppose. If the software can modify data legitimately, it can be tampered with.
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by habinero 9mo ago
> And so they get really thrown off when people use computers in a nondeterministic way to solve a deterministic problem Ah, no. This is wildly off the mark, but I think a lot of people don't understand what SWEs actually do. We don
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by habinero 9mo ago
Oh, it wasn't a bash on product people, I'm sorry if it came off that way. It's a reference to a trope where the VP of Eng or CTO (who was an engineer decades ago) gets it in their head that they want to code again and writes
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by habinero 9mo ago
There... is a hidden quality to human made art? Art is someone making creative choices. It's someone putting a bit of themselves and their own lived experiences out there because they wanted to share it.
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by habinero 9mo ago
I sort of have to admire the kind of person that comes right out with "I have no firm principles or beliefs, and nobody else should either". That's certainly an ethos, I suppose. Because yeah, if you can't imagine ever
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by habinero 9mo ago
Any good engineer can become a good engineer in any language.
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by habinero 9mo ago
> The most prolific coders are also more competent than average This is absolutely not true lol, as anyone who's worked with a fabled 10X engineer will tell you. It's like saying the best civil engineer is the one that builds t
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by habinero 9mo ago
I saw someone refer to it as future digital asbestos.
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by habinero 9mo ago
I'm dubbing this "podcast driven development" because so many of them aren't building things to build things, they just want to _have built something_ so they can go on podcasts and talk about how great it is. For what i
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by habinero 9mo ago
Every professional SWE is going to stare off into the middle distance, as they flashback to some PM or VP deciding to show everyone they still got it. The "how hard could it be" fallacy claims another!
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by habinero 9mo ago
It's not an engineering culture problem lol, I promise. I have over a decade in this career and I've worked at places with fantastic and rigorous processes and at places with awful ones. The better places slacked each other a lot.
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by habinero 9mo ago
Yeah, and I'm explaining that the gap between theory and practice is greater in practice than it is in theory, and why LLMs make it worse. It's easy to just say "just make the code better", but in reality I'm deal
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by habinero 9mo ago
It's absolutely not meaningless if you work on code that matters. It matters a lot. I don't care about philosophical "knowing", I wanna make sure I'm not gonna cause an incident by ripping out or changing something

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