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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
> writing the code to reproduce it I'm super excited for all the free money and data our new AI written apps will be giving away.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
Careful though - remember what George Carlin has to say about forming groups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m6TSv2vtvQ
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
This is gold, and hilarious. I get why someone would "spy" on rippling for money, but my god, don't use a phone. And why would you even need to be on prem to do this kind of spying? There are so many better ways.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
If you've never worked at a company that uses rippling or deel you wouldn't. They are niche HR tools, mostly targeting smaller companies.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
Yes, essentially on the fly editable aliases. Fish is so good. I assume there's a zsh plugin that mimics that functionality - zsh people should try it.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
Engineers who care about good engineering are pretty much a thing of the past. Today the game is buffing your resume with as many complex tools as possible, and jumping to the next thing before your pile of complexity crumbles under its own
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
It is hidden behind a keyboard shortcut -there is no menu. cmd-shift-g I think. But it is literally the only way I know to get to folders besides the designated shortcuts (documents, pictures, etc) and I've been a daily mac user for ma
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
I was around before the clean code movement, and like all software movements, it was a reaction to real problems in the software industry. Massive procedural functions with deeply nested conditionals, no structure, global variables, no test
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
The goal has always been to eliminate programmers. Nobody wants to pay a bunch of desk workers six figures to make their business go brr, but they currently they have no choice. Trust me, every executive resents this to their core and t
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
There is foundational knowledge you must have memorized through a combination of education and experience to be a software developer. The standard must be higher than "can use google and cut and paste." The answer can't alway
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
If you are pretending to have knowledge and skills you don't have you are cheating. And if you have the required knowledge and skill AI is a hindrance, not a help. You can solve the problem easily without it. So "is using ai cheat
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
What's it called when you describe an app with sufficient detail that a computer can carry out the processes you want? Where will the record of those clarifying questions and updates be kept? What if one developer asks the AI to surrep
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
As a long time heroku user, I'll never go back to heroku. They've been working on wild card ssl for years and can't get it done. I finally hacked it into our app with about 100 lines of ruby. They are literally doing nothin
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
A lot of apps never grow to that size, and can run on services like render or heroku forever, saving millions of dollars in devops cost (the most expensive part of devops is the devops engineer). A good number of companies out there move to
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
The main thing a good manager can do is act as a wall between the engineers and everyone above them, which is hard to do politically because it exposes a whole subtree of the org chart as useless.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
I just got one. It is silent according to my wife. It is kind of loud for me because it is blowing air into my nose which makes noise inside my head. But I like white noise - helps with the tinnitus.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
Yes, but you're starting to get to the size where you need some real PG expertise to keep the wheels on. If your data is growing CH will just work out of box for a lot longer.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
This is what we do - works well.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
It isn't that common to need fractions though. Money is typically handled in integer amounts (we just divide the amounts by 100 or whatever to make it easier for humans to grok). Nobody's going to pay half a cent for a latte fo
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
Interesting - though it probably just soft of devolves to using hot keys (hopefully those exist) to jump between files after a few editors are open. Panning around with even half a dozen files open would get tedious.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
You don't need tor for terrorism or identity theft, and it probably isn't widely used in those circles. There are easier ways. But plenty of people use tor to avoid what amount to terrorist govenments and regimes.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
That's 0.001% of the workplaces out there. But good for them. Do you think it actually improved software quality, or was it all busy work?
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
Removing the tedium frees your brain up to focus on the interesting parts of the problem. The "actual mental labor" is the fun part. So I like that.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
> Also, I've personally seen more interest in AI in devs that have little interest in technology, but a big interest in delivering. PMs love them though. You get what you measure. Nobody measure software quality.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
You overestimate the ability of an insurance company to make use of AI - it will take them years of meetings, internal political maneuvering, technical failures, etc. Individuals can basically start using chatgpt today.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
Yes, the asymmetry is how it is designed, but generative AI can turn the tables there. You should be able to sic an AI on the company and go back to watching your (AI generated) shows on netflix.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
It's weird you use your insurance to get a routine shot or exam. I don't use my car insurance to put gas in my car, or get the brake pads changed. I use it when someone does thousands of dollars of damage to my car.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
You always have politics. Managers tend to be political ninjas, so they make it worse. I've been programming professionally for over 25 years at this point, worked at many places, and I couldn't tell you what value a manager bring
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
Yup - all the basic HTML injection and xss attacks apply. All the OWASP webdev 101 security issues that have been mostly solved by web frameworks are back in force with AI.
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by jacobsenscott 2y ago
What's happening here is you can make the slack AI hallucinate a message that never existed by telling it to combine your private messages with another message in a public channel in arbitrary ways. Slack claims it isn't a problem

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