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by kamaal 2y ago
This is just a different way of saying your managers need to be more engaged with the work they are doing and not just worry about abstract metrics like measuring progress by number of tickets they close or something as such. The thing is t
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by kamaal 2y ago
And we are still at the beginning of this. Some what like where Google search was in early 2000s. As IDE integration grows and there are more and better models, that can do this better than ever. We will unlock all sort of productivity bene
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>ChatGPT is trained well enough on all things AWS It was scary to me how to chatting with GPT or Claude would give me information which was a lot more clear than what I could deduce after hours of reading AWS documentation. Perhaps,
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by kamaal 2y ago
Yeah, but my experience with Perl shows, once something like this happens, its pretty much downhill from there. Not saying Python is going away tomorrow, in fact it might remain actively developed and used for decades to come. But with proa
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>What's wrong with the current approach of posting a link to the duplicate? Simple. The user's problem is not solved. The whole point of StackOverflow was to help people get answers to their questions. If you fail at this,
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>Xi's cult of personality and curtailing of capitalism The president of China is just a glorified code reviewer to some policies made by policy agency bodies. Sure he commands lots of political control over the broad contours of
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by kamaal 2y ago
vi(m) is still the best command line editing tool out there. And I used is almost a dozen times everyday. But the IDE ship sailed long back. Its just that the modern IDE's simply do a lot out of the box that is just not possible to con
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by kamaal 2y ago
C was very much the Python of its times, may be even bigger. Especially given the fact that it started a whole family of programming languages being derived from it. C++ was very much the language of choice for larger applications till Java
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by kamaal 2y ago
As more and more people use co-pilot or even cursor, there is likely to be a mad increase in productivity. But also note, there is likely to be a situation like the early days of internet where people write lots of code, but also bug ridden
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>Their product is great, but many users would prefer a bring-your-own-key & selecting their own model providers. On the contrary. Most enterprise users will prefer one package they can buy and not buy the thing piece wise. Big re
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by kamaal 2y ago
Depends on how easily and quickly you can touch type though. I agree with you not many people are good at speaking their thoughts in English. In fact even in the Googling era, bulk of the masses never really benefitted from it all that much
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>But then way more often it’s like having someone looking over my shoulder, telling me what they think I want to do, disrupting my thoughts. Right way to use AI agents to code is to write the solution in plain english and let AI impl
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by kamaal 2y ago
I have seen several rounds of this over decades. Google will make bad programmers, Perl is a write only language, Node is cancer, Eclipse is slow etc etc. Eventually you realise you just can't win against better things. These are jugge
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by kamaal 2y ago
Probe for summarised information, don't outsource your thinking to AI. Like even when you are writing code. Describe the solution and ask AI to write it, don't specify the requirements to AI and hope it will write it.
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>>Sure you can find misleading or outdated blogposts or forum discussions with a google search but the information is far more grounded in correctness then anything from an LLM. This was the case only 2 - 3 months back. But the assist
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by kamaal 2y ago
Kubernetes, AWS, Cloudformation and Terraform etc sort of work is still not good with AI. The current AI code rocket ship is VSCcode + Perl/Python/Node+ReactJS + Co-Pilot. This is basically a killer combination. Mostly because lar
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by kamaal 2y ago
At some point an AI first programming language will have to come along which will integrate well with the AI models, Editor and Programmer input seamlessly. Im not sure what that is, but Im guessing it will be something along the lines of P
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by kamaal 2y ago
The site was seriously broken for a long time. And that attracted all kinds of bots, and 'List of 10 Machiavellian things to learn' kind of bots, not to forgot all sorts of other evil bots. For a long time, the search and trending
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>The other replied "what happens if you don't train them and they stay?" Well the company always has options to fire such people.
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by kamaal 2y ago
Take home exercises seem so pointless in the AI age tbh. Pretty much anybody can write large amounts of code very quickly these days. It kind of feels pointless to even test this skill. Plus, most people very lazily state the problem when t
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by kamaal 2y ago
Everything! Its like talking to a intelligent person about a topic you want to learn, but they know it good enough to teach you if you keep asking questions.
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>I've not once held a job where my keyboard speed had a noticeable effect on my productivity. Features like vim/emacs macros do way than increasing the speed of accomplishing a task. They are a way of converting O(n^k) manu
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>I don't think that well motivated and engineers work or produce less while WFH. Thats the whole problem isn't it. Years back I was involved in a project(not WFH), like everyone worked at office. But the manager/lead w
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by kamaal 2y ago
People know "AI" is just software generating words it deduces should probably occur one after other right? Its not a fact searching exercise.
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>>but the problem is not in people. It's in the way the system's designed. System was designed by the people, more specifically people with ability to make decisions a.k.a management There might not have been one person ma
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by kamaal 2y ago
Delaying gratification or in simple terms, delaying fun is easier said than done. What it takes to retire early or at least be in a situation where a job loss, or other difficult life situations wouldn't effect you all that much is kno
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by kamaal 2y ago
The world is not a fair place. Its the political powers at work that decide people's fate no matter who they are. Over the years I have seen some very critical people, even critical teams fired en masse, and then replaced by not so goo
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>He seemed to be pointing out risks of giving quite that additional power to a board, including the risk of it being abused to neutralize opposition -- only to have the existing power appear to be used to neutralize him. I mean even
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by kamaal 2y ago
Only if you are working at a good start up. Most places don't offer such good insurance package. In many cases parents are not covered. Its true some people make it big working at start up. Most unfortunately don't. Overall, I wou
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by kamaal 2y ago
To make awk work for non trivial manipulations you have use cat, awk, | and > in several sequences. This is not by any means elegant. What happens when there is a line that needs some error checking and handled a little differently? Or

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