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by jama211 1y ago
Who’s the bard? I feel like I’m more of a bard
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by jama211 1y ago
Mort is the only one who does their job from the perspective of the business owner.
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by jama211 1y ago
Precisely. Also people underestimate the power of mort code. The world runs on it, and besides, at the end of the day unless you are an executive or own significant stock in the company, making decisions about speed/outcome vs tech deb
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by jama211 1y ago
I think this is somewhat dangerous, it can lead you to categorise people unfairly and permanently. Also, in my experience this has a critical flaw - the managers love morts in my experience, not Elvises. They don’t care about the technical
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by jama211 1y ago
Like any tool, it has use cases where it excels and use cases where it’s pretty useless. Unfamiliar code bases is a great example, if it’s able to find the bug it could do so almost instantly, as opposed to a human trying to read through th
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by jama211 1y ago
And they’re similarly not as useless as others say they are, as they draw crosses in the air and hiss at the heathen tech to go away.
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by jama211 1y ago
Indeed. You’d think people with a tech background would be less likely to be so irrationally emotional about these things, but obviously not. Fear and devotion it turns out are both incredibly blinding motivators.
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by jama211 1y ago
_sigh_. Really dude? Just because people overestimate them on average doesn’t mean every person does. In fact, you should be well versed enough about the statistics to understand that it will be a spectrum that is highly dependent on both a
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by jama211 1y ago
Yup! To be honest, it should be obvious via someone’s resume and references whether they’ll be capable of adapting to the job without making them jump through random hoops. People treat hiring devs like they’re hiring a contractor to paint
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by jama211 1y ago
Exactly, you could just as easily hire a bad candidate because they got lucky, and this happens all the time.
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by jama211 1y ago
I mean, they could just as easily hire a bad candidate that happened to cram that specific interview knowledge the day before but is otherwise a bad developer. Personally I don’t agree with the crazy tech interviews at all, no other job on
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by jama211 1y ago
Probably best not to shoehorn in your specific experience into this comment this way, it’s not really applicable outside of your desire to start yourself off on a rant
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by jama211 1y ago
It shouldn’t surprise you that people like the work or products specific companies work on and have a dream to work on those too. The actual experience of working there though is hard to know in advance.
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by jama211 1y ago
Probably not even about whether it was good enough at all, just random managers making random decisions by how they were feeling the day they interviewed you. Any time a company has a LOT of applicants, like any big tech company does, the l
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by jama211 1y ago
Perhaps the blogs of the candidates yes. On the other hand, perhaps OP will find a perfect fit this way.
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by jama211 1y ago
Fantastically well said. I’ve also seen people literally flip a coin when unable to decide between some equally skilled candidates.
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by jama211 1y ago
My career long experience with these types of interviews is you get hired by the company that, when they interview you, you get lucky and they happen to ask the questions you’ve just brushed up on or you get lucky and see the answer quickly
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by jama211 1y ago
Ah the classic “I don’t want to acknowledge how right that person is about their point, so instead I’ll ignore what they said and divert attention to another point entirely”. You’re just angry and adding no value to this conversation becaus
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by jama211 1y ago
Seems pretty a pretty cherry picked list tbh. I could find issues like that on any OS. I suspect you just are frustrated with your particular machine, which is fine, but you were talking about it like it was a universal truth lol
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by jama211 1y ago
Haha it’s all good I didn’t mean to interrogate you, enjoy your overkill storage, life is short
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by jama211 1y ago
I have a family, people can watch different things at the same time just fine
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by jama211 1y ago
I live in Australia and it’s legal here. Even if it wasn’t, wouldn’t stop much.
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by jama211 1y ago
I mean, I used to average 2 hours of intense work a day and now it’s 1 hour.
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by jama211 1y ago
I find it a bit of a reductive way of looking at it personally
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by jama211 1y ago
Finally, an opinion on here that’s reasonable and isn’t “AI is perfect” or “AI is useless”.
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by jama211 1y ago
It works to confuse people and make them sound like they’re lying when they’re not, too. Gotta be careful with this.
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by jama211 1y ago
“There’s no use for this thing!” - said the farmer about the computer
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by jama211 1y ago
Only when purely vibe coding. AI currently saves a LOT of time if you get it to generate boilerplate, diagnose bugs, or assist with sandboxed issues. The proof is in the pudding. The work I do takes me half as long as it used to and is just
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by jama211 1y ago
I mean, you’re in a public place, I don’t know any airport in the world that isn’t full of cameras recording you the whole time
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by jama211 1y ago
Tbf I wasn’t clear, I meant the computer as a network box. When we use the tv and want to watch a stored video, as long as the computer is on the media is accessible.

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