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by mjr00 11mo ago
It's funny that I heard exactly this when I graduated university in the late 2000s: > A large percentage (at least 50%) of the market for software developers will shift to lower paid jobs focused on managing, inspecting and testin
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by mjr00 11mo ago
> Programmers are going to look more like product managers with extra technical context. The limit of product manager as "extra technical context" approaches infinity is programmer. Because the best, most specific way to spec
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by mjr00 11mo ago
> There are many valid critiques of AI, but “there’s not much there” isn’t one of them. "There's not much there" is a totally valid critique of a lot of the current AI ecosystem. How many startups are simple prompt wrapper
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by mjr00 11mo ago
> Predictions of “2025 is the year of coding agents” from a chorus of otherwise unpalatable CEOs was in fact absolutely true… ... but maybe not in the way that these CEOs had hoped.[0] Part of the AI fatigue is that busy, competent devs
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by mjr00 11mo ago
> You do still need people to make all the decisions about how Bun is developed, and to use Claude Code. Yeah but do you really need external hires to do that? Surely Anthropic has enough experienced JavaScript developers internally they
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by mjr00 11mo ago
Why didn't they just use AI to write their own Bun instead of wasting 8-9 figures on this company? Makes no sense.
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by mjr00 11mo ago
> I see a lot of value in spinning up microservices where the database is global across all services (and not inside the service) This issue with this is schema evolution. As a very simple example, let's say you have a User table, a
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by mjr00 11mo ago
I feel like this has been beaten to death and this article isn't saying much new. As usual the answer is somewhere in the middle (what the article calls "miniservices"). Ultimately 1. Full-on microservices, i.e. one independe
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by mjr00 11mo ago
The takeaway is the same though. "I went to my hairdresser and they were hot" only gets you ostracized in very specific social circles. For 99.9999% of the world, it's normal conversation to have among friends.
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by mjr00 11mo ago
The main thing I get out of this article is how easy it is to get trapped in a bubble thanks to algorithmic social media. For the most part, sexy never left, and statistics bear this out. OnlyFans brings in enormous amount of revenue, even
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by mjr00 11mo ago
Dota2 as well. Like I'm sure CS2/Dota2 are small compared to Steam , but the revenue from these games alone dwarfs what most other companies are making.
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by mjr00 11mo ago
Seems like a misguided fight. Slop is slop because it's slop. Sounds tautological, but AI is orthogonal to the problem. Before AI, there were and are Unity/Unreal "asset store piles" which grab a bunch of (mostly free) a
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by mjr00 11mo ago
Even outside the context of capitalism, society only functions when people perform unpleasant tasks which provide value. Nobody has fun collecting garbage, but it has to be done. Nobody finds happiness in digging graves, but it has to be do
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by mjr00 11mo ago
I remember reading a long time ago that one of the big online tax filing sites, probably TurboTax, added a bunch of loading bars with messages like "Calculating your optimal return..." because users didn't feel like it was tr
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by mjr00 11mo ago
Regardless of your feelings on Genshin/gacha (which I agree is predatory), the point is that the revenue of a single game developed by a few hundred people is currently making more money than an entire industry which is "worth&quo
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by mjr00 11mo ago
It certainly does but B2B revenue can also be much more "fake", in a sense. i.e. if Microsoft spends $500 million on OpenAI, which makes OpenAI spends $500 million on Azure... where does the profit come from? There have been a few
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by mjr00 11mo ago
The most sobering statistic I've seen is that the entire combined amount of consumer spending on AI products is currently less than the revenue of Genshin Impact.
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by mjr00 11mo ago
I didn't downvote, but > I think having the lyrics reproducible in text form isn't the problem. Many sites have been doing that for decades and as far as I know record companies haven't gone after them. Reproducing lyrics
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by mjr00 1y ago
Except in this example, there is nothing preventing other companies from building new roads. And in fact other companies have attempted to build new roads, competing by lowering the 30% fee to 10%, and even paying trucking companies to st
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by mjr00 1y ago
Can you provide a source for this? This is the first I've heard of anything like this and searching only gives results about the game delisting due to payment processor problems from a few months ago. edit: after some additional search
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by mjr00 1y ago
Some extremely popular games, like all the Hoyoverse stuff (Genshin/ZZZ/etc) or most of Blizzard's games, have their own launchers and aren't on Steam. So gamers are certainly willing to use non-Steam platforms and launc
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by mjr00 1y ago
Right but if there were a better platform than Steam for buying games it'd win out in the marketplace. It's not like anyone is locked into Steam really. Every online gaming platform other than Steam and GOG sucks. And in fact GOG
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by mjr00 1y ago
That's what the person who started this comment chain said, though. Every Steam competitor has been "does the same thing as Steam, but worse" so why would anyone switch over?
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by mjr00 1y ago
While I mostly agree with the article's premise (that AI will cause more software development to happen, not less) I disagree with two parts: 1. the opening premise comparing AI to dial-up internet; basically everyone knew the internet
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> It just came across as some of the most small-brain thinking that anyone would then "Like" this content and not see it for what it is: idiotic management and leadership and just complete lack of basic foresight. It's not
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by mjr00 1y ago
> DevOps was a reaction to the fact that even outsourcing ops to AWS doesn’t entirely solve all of your ops problems and the role is absolutely no substitute for a systems administrator. This is revisionist history. DevOps was a reaction
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> I have dozens of stories of startup teams spinning their wheels with self-hosting strategies that turn into a big waste of time and headcount that they should have been using to grow their businesses instead. Funnily enough, the articl
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by mjr00 1y ago
Yeah, US hospital billing is based on the idea that the patient has insurance and won't really care about what their insurer gets charged. (The wider implications of this are left to the reader.) For the uninsured this sort of thing is
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> Especially for non-native speakers that work in a globalized market. Why wouldn't they use the tool in their toolbox? My wife is ESL. She's asked me to review documents such as her resume, emails, etc. It's immediately o
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> Without cloud, saving a file is as simple as "with open(...) as f: f.write(data)" + adding a record to DB. And no weird network issues to debug. There may be some additional features that S3 has over a direct filesystem wri

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