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by kentm 4mo ago
Yes. It’s very easy actually. People think it’s hard only because they’ve built revenue streams on unethical behavior.
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by kentm 4mo ago
> I'm probably in the minority, but I do not want a "connection" with a business. I want transactional interactions that actually work. Every time a business tries to make a "connection" its really just an avenue
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by kentm 4mo ago
I find it can often write correct code but not maintainable, performant, or reviewable code without additional human guidance. The "solution" frequently given is that humans don't need to maintain it anymore so its not actua
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by kentm 4mo ago
It should be but often isn't. There's been a lot of threads on HN where the response to huge PRs wasn't "Don't do that, use AI when authoring better" but "The reviewers are actually the problem, they&#x27
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by kentm 4mo ago
Its exactly this. I have had a few LLM coding sessions where I reviewed the resulting work and thought "I don't think my team can safely PR this." I then went back and broke it down into smaller PRs, still using LLMs but at
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by kentm 4mo ago
The solution is that he spends more time scoping the size of the PR so that it’s reviewable and understands the code he’s submitting well enough to have discussions about it. And that he does so human to human so that they can come to mutua
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by kentm 4mo ago
> The person you're responding to never said those teams didn't have customers. > It's not about new technology for the sake of new technology, it's about taking pride in one's work what what that person creat
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by kentm 4mo ago
I'm going to apologize in advance for being long-winded, but I feel there's a lot to unpack here. > Platform and internal dev teams have customers as well. I'm not terribly frustrated that you don't get this. Respectf
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by kentm 4mo ago
> Do the engineers not derive enjoyment in their jobs from making the customer experience better? Quite a few don't, no. Different people derive enjoyment in different things and some of the best engineers do not find satisfaction i
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by kentm 4mo ago
> but for some reason at least in US society you’re no longer allowed to broadly talk having kids like you used to be able to. This has not been my experience. What has changed is that its now looked-down on to denigrate people who choo
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by kentm 4mo ago
I don’t think they’re trying to imply that at all. But arguing that it’s bad without a mea culpa comes across as inauthentic.
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by kentm 4mo ago
I very much agree with this position. And it didn’t even have to be AI. It’s possible that sufficiently advanced “dumb” compilers and tooling could lower demand. Or that the supply of developers outstripped demand - that’s happened in other
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by kentm 4mo ago
Sure. I think that I’d you were expressing concerns about all the leopards running around and having discussions about whether we need to do something about the leopard population, it’s perfectly reasonable to be upset when a leopard eats y
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by kentm 4mo ago
Do they persist at the same rates? Lower doesn't mean eliminated, so both of these can be true.
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by kentm 4mo ago
Sure, its reasonable to doubt Apple's claim here. Or even think that its accurate now but may change in the future. I'd probably phrase it as a possibility rather than treat it as fait accompli.
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by kentm 5mo ago
Apple claims its on-device, and if thats true then the phone company is not spying on users.
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by kentm 5mo ago
It looks like you can click through it, so you can still have your sexy time. Based on the description, it seems like its intended to prevent accidents, which seems ok to me.
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by kentm 5mo ago
We’ve also seen that you’re not safe on a green card either.
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by kentm 5mo ago
It really is amazing to me how many developers do not understand that governance is important. If I have a dependency and a maintainer of that dependency has a process I can’t trust, it’s perfectly valid to remove that dependency based on t
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by kentm 5mo ago
To be honest, it could be one with XAi too. Im no fan of Musk and Grok but the deal with Anthropic pointed out by other contributors isn't nothing. And I don't think SpaceX losing money at this stage isn't quite the problem
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by kentm 5mo ago
Growth companies not paying dividends is normal and they're likely many years out from when they'd need to seriously consider it. I don't think thats a big deal.
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by kentm 5mo ago
Its unfortunate that its being fast tracked and I'm really annoyed that NASDAQ is doing this. But I think that the impact should be relatively minimal, at least for the funds I hold. I really just find the transparent grift annoying.
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by kentm 5mo ago
Kardashev Type II is mentioned three times in the doc. > We believe the next paradigm shift for humanity is the creation of a resilient, perpetually expanding spacefaring civilization that drives continuous innovation across new frontier
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by kentm 5mo ago
> The weird looking part to he is cramming xAI into it. It's a completely different business with little overlap that I can see, in a crowded market that they are far from leading. My personal theory is that Musk wants to roll up al
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by kentm 5mo ago
SpaceX is incredibly exciting, but I was skeptical when XAI and Twitter were rolled into it. The S-1 here makes it even more disappointing. I did want a piece of SpaceX but the valuation here is pretty eye watering compared to the fundamen
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by kentm 5mo ago
Heavy use of packages with solo maintainers is part of the problem here. Having multiple people looped in with proper governance doesn’t completely solve the issue but it makes it much harder to execute supply chain attacks. It’s a bitter
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by kentm 5mo ago
Given the troubles GitHub has had recently its not a stretch to think that you just got some sort of error.
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by kentm 5mo ago
IMO, The only reasonable answer if asked this in an interview is “I would not write code where I have to know the answer to this question” These sorts of things are neat trivia to learn about things like sequence points but 99.9% of the tim
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by kentm 5mo ago
He actually didn't. The majority of that was in options. So he "controlled" 5% via derivatives but this is not the same as owning shares.
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by kentm 5mo ago
For more information, see Dan Olsen's "This is Financial Advice." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYeoZaoWrA Its a few years old, but gives you some perspective on the weird cult that has been built around

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