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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
>It is like growing food on industrial scale. How many people do you think know how to do that today? It's in the millions (probably 10s to 100s), scattered all across the globe because we all need to eat. Not to mention all of the
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
>But the number will dwindle and we'll ironically be unable to build what our ancestors did, utterly dependent on the AI artifacts to do it for us. That's only a brief moment in time. We learned it once, we can learn it again i
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
>I'd end with some noble call for the U.S. media industry to do better, but it's abundantly clear they don't want to. Yeah, shrinking revenue, lawsuits, death threats, buyouts and takeovers, government strong-arming all co
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
I don't see this bubble really popping as-in sinking the economy. Some circular investing and enough write offs will happen to avoid the largest recession indicators from informing the general population that there's actually a re
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
You can easily defend that for only 6k with 'but we like it and we'll be more productive with it and we won't hate our jobs'
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
>trying to get visibility They could review PRs and commits and specs to get visibility and reduce comms overhead, if they had the skills and time . The non-technical manager also takes great conveniences in making technical people spen
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
I'm certainly not listening to someone who thinks vi is used by every developer
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
RTO would be much more popular if people were actually coming back to an individual office instead of the cubicle farm Businesses and commercial real estate did this to themselves. I especially hope commercial real estate enters a death spi
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
It means for most specs, you can just use an average solution, or a most-popular solution. I'm absolutely on board with that. We probably need less weird and outlier decisions in designs for something that is a boring ass business webs
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
Their core argument is that we could increase supply but choose not to, and that we should be maximizing supply (as an ethical and moral mandate, but that is not a tenant of capitalism really) because housing is an essential thing like food
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
Sounds like a FactoryFactory to me which tells me Java developers have always been mad
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
>Of course if you're building some crud app it's all already tread ground, and you probably can just throw a prompt at an LLM and get something acceptable out. This is what I think most people who haven't had boring CRUD j
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
>Reviewing this junk has become exhausting. Nitpick it to death. Ask the reviewer questions on how everything works. Even if it looks good, flip a coin and reject it anyway. Drag that review time out. You don't want unlucky PRs goin
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
Similar to how music changes perceptions of movie scenes (it's usually silly but the effect is there), newsrooms have been decorated to look like a crisis center with the choice of colors and words. People are naturally prone to pointi
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
>I'm not convinced software developers will be replaced Most of us will probably need to shift to security. While you can probably build AI specifically to make things more secure, that implies it could also attack things as well, s
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
People have cried wolf or been wrong about incoming crashes and bubble pops so many times that this signal -- whether it's a good signal or not -- simply won't change anything I do. I'm sure someone somewhere could make a tra
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
>requires an amount of time approaching the time spent if they had just done it themselves. I would actually say having at least 2 people on any given work item should probably be the norm at Amazon's size if you also want to churn
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
This still seems like technical debt to me. It's just debt with a much higher compounding interest rate and/or shorter due date. Credit cards vs. traditional loans or mortgages. >And six months later you discover you’ve built e
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
>Instead of engineers inventing 50 different frameworks and conventions for any given language or platform, maybe that energy will be directed to creating better AI tools. I think this will happen since one of the reason for new framewor
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
This stupid industry doesn't have the wherewithal to actually make a good credential and training process like medicine and law, and instead lets everyone come up with their own process to vet people. We could even do it as an apprenti
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
Surely more and harder leetcode interviews will prevent this from happening
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by hnthrow0287345 7mo ago
They also want to get as close to a skeleton crew as possible. They believe developers can do everything while simultaneously driving down the cost of developers. They've been boiling the frog with increasing job requirements since at
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by hnthrow0287345 8mo ago
If we believe that, then the real question/answer for the OP's worries is that software development is in a race to the bottom, and then the advice becomes "have you tried switching to hard-to-automate-and-outsource industry?
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by hnthrow0287345 8mo ago
>If you're in this position (relied upon, validated, powerless), you're not imagining it. And it's not a communication problem. "Just communicate better" is the advice equivalent of "have you tried not being
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by hnthrow0287345 8mo ago
>Most assume the truck driver is being inconsiderate. You could probably add a whole section of specifically learning to drive a car with trucks on the road to driver education programs and it would do wonders for traffic. >Anti-idle
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by hnthrow0287345 8mo ago
Praise the Omnissiah
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by hnthrow0287345 8mo ago
People aren't interested in long-term thinking when companies are doing layoffs for bullshit reasons and making vague threats about how most of us will have to go find a new career which causes a heck of a lot of stress and financial c
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by hnthrow0287345 8mo ago
>They’re failing to save because the world is rough, and their institutions don’t do enough to help them weather it. Well, America is rough. It turned on hardcore capitalism mode for itself because a significant portion of its population
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by hnthrow0287345 8mo ago
It fits because now you can start up the conquering war machine and have a bunch of soldiers who're willing to kill in another country before starving in theirs
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by hnthrow0287345 8mo ago
Good drivers sometimes miss their turn. Bad drivers never miss their turn.

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