joquarky

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by joquarky 9mo ago
> A well run company would provide an incentive to their employees for increasing their productivity. Sure, that's tautological. But in reality, these don't exist.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
TM is capable of doing most of what other extensions do, so it's too bad it's not open source because the ecosystem is inherently transparent.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Even traditional engineering is now being coerced by "move fast and break things" management. It feels like a plague of ignorance and enshittification has silently taken over everything.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Look around. We have been livestock for at least a decade now. In fact, we are worse. At least livestock are cared for.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
So fire them and hire the experienced people excluded due to ageism who can't get a foot in the door anywhere because their resume shows that they went to college before the internet became commercialized.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
It used to be fun before companies figured out how to put claustrophobic guardrails on our autonomy.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
For some of us, our jobs have already been completely disrupted by other factors (e.g., ageism) so there is nothing to lose here after 2 years and 2400+ job applications with nothing to show for it. Clearly society wants me to strike out on
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Are microtransactions still on the table?
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by joquarky 9mo ago
> The building we exited was another one of the terrafoam projects. Terrafoam was a super-low-cost building material, and all of the welfare dorms were made out of it. They took a clay-like mud, aerated it into a thick foam, formed it in
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Private equity will buy them all up and rent them out. We will own nothing and be told to be happy or else.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Re-enchantment
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by joquarky 9mo ago
I've been coding for 40 years (23 years at an S&P500) and these coding agents write better documentation than I've ever seen from my peers. You just need to work with it and not expect it to do 100% of the work in one shot.
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It is probably not a default because it will use more tokens.
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And it teaches much more practical knowledge.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
> But only for the first ~10kloc Then let me introduce you to a useful concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_concerns
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by joquarky 9mo ago
> panic at losing years of history I used to be like that. It was unsustainable and ultimately mentally unhealthy.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
We gave those brogrammers the keys to the machine when we made programming more accessible.
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Kids these days...
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Which of these has been around for over three decades? That would be my answer.
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How convenient.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
> I always have opinionated design decisions, variable naming practices That's the source of your difficulty. Research wu-wei.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
So you need to be able to afford an iWatch to save money?
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by joquarky 9mo ago
> then reap their productivity as they turn senior What companies are retaining employees long enough for this?
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by joquarky 9mo ago
> as a senior engineer, most of the stuff you do shouldn’t be stuff that an LLM is good at to begin with Your use of the word "should" is pointing to some ideal that doesn't exist anymore. In current actual reality, you do
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Unfortunately we live in a "vote with your wallet" paradigm where some of the most mentally unhealthy participants have wallets that are many orders of magnitude bigger than the wallet of the average participant.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Your comment does not align with my experience. Garbage in, garbage out still applies.
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by joquarky 9mo ago
Make the error message much more dramatic and it will be less likely to miss it. Create a wrapper if you can't change the error message. Remember these are still fundamentally trained on human communication and Dale Carnegie had some
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by joquarky 9mo ago
> If we make doing the right thing career limiting this all gets rather messy rather quickly. This has already happened. The gold rush brogrammers have taken over. Careers are over. Company loyalty is a relic. Now it's a matter of
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by joquarky 9mo ago
My think/create/solve focus is on making my agentic coding environment produce high quality code with the least cost. Seems like a technical challenge worth playing with. It probably helps that I have 40 years of experience with

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