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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Agree on the software case. Disagree about the recipes. Food writing is its own genre where the recipe is one part of a larger story. Can often include travel stories as well. Maybe not your thing. But definitely has its place.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I strongly doubt that.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
So are you going to go out and commit a crime because a random person used a crime as an analogy?
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
That’s a great design.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
What focuses me is remembering this mantra attributed to Steve Jobs: Real Artists Ship The idea that nothing you’re working on is real until you ship it to customers, users, or whoever the stakeholders are. Helps a lot against bouncing betw
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Also means they don’t have any ideas for how to grow revenue.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
He is talking about the cultural considerations of being hire-able. Not about productivity.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Are you saying productivity is strictly greater for developers who don’t use AI?
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
“Trust me, bro”
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Well this is a different argument, that we really don’t need very much new software because so much of what was needed is already written. I’m sympathetic to this argument. But it’s orthogonal to the AI question.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Oh come on, the value of AI > 0. That’s not a controversial take.
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Nobody can perfectly predict the future.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
If you are generating that many lines of code it’s also almost impossible to tell if you’re building the right thing. You need to deploy each functional change and measure if it’s giving you the expected outcome, before moving onto the nex
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Yes that is the entire point. Measure features deployed in production and their value in gaining and retaining customers or users, cost reductions, reduced incidents and outages, etc. Lines of code is completely irrelevant as a metric.
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…and then the CEO sees the token bill…
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Less is better is the position of the engineer who has seen some shit and whose career lived to tell about it.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Just fix technical debt over time as you work on other things and budget for it as you give estimates. This approach has always worked for me. Non technical management will never understand technical debt and really shouldn’t need to.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
It has been incredibly hilarious to watch the C-suites sudden realization that tokens COST MONEY and immediately revise their guidelines for how employees should use AI. Like maybe having every engineer generate 1 million lines of code per
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
You only have one server? Then that approach will work. If you need to scale beyond that, you need some way to route the request to the server with the right data. And what if a request needs data that was stored on two different servers?
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Those all sound 110% like "financial gravity" to me? I mean, all of those are examples motivated by sacrificing other principles to make more money.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Developing webapps only for iPhone was Jobs original strategy. Only changed when developers complained.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Where do you store the SQLite database files? What is your strategy for partitioning your data into SQLite files? One per user or…?
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Most people under 60 aren’t full stack devs either.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Thanks for the link, but Reddit is blocking it as if it’s adult content or something. But if I use the app, it will suddenly be OK. Very strange.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Based on what you say, it should be easy to find data showing the superior performance of coops for employees in terms of wages, benefits, profit sharing, etc, right? Health care is a different topic and yes, socialized healthcare systems s
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I’m shocked I never heard of this before. Just watched the first couple minutes of The Adventures of Prince Achmed and it’s unlike anything I’ve seen before.
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Any data to support those claims?
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
No. There was an unequivocal claim that it will work better than our current system.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
“We are sure it will work because it’s never been tried!” I believe the Germans have had success with including labor representatives on corporate boards. Maybe we can start there.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
The Winkelvoss twins would beg to differ.

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