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by pdimitar 2y ago
Well I'm a senior looking for an Elixir job. What constitutes "wanting too much money" btw? Really curious.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Couldn't understand your comment well but I am making a SQLite library for Elixir (via Rust bindings) so that would be one less dependency on external systems. I happen to believe that most projects don't need a full-blown databas
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by pdimitar 2y ago
And you were correct then, and you're correct now. I have no clue where it came from but I've been like that since I don't know, 12-13 years old to this day (45 now).
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Difficult for me not to hate LLMs when there are literal hundreds of billions at stake and people are lying through their teeth for money, as they always do. Which does lead to all the weird discourse around them indeed.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Yes and no. Yes: if you are an expert in the area. In this case I needed something fairly specific I am far from an expert in. I know both Elixir and Rust quite well but couldn't quickly figure out how to be able to wrap a Rust object
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Huh? I'm not even sure what you said, can you clarify?
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I see. I have a similar feeling; as if they made it to quickly force you to pay (quickly maxing out one conversation in my case). I'm quite cynical and paranoid in this regard and I try hard not to be ruled by those two... but I can&#x
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by pdimitar 2y ago
As a caveat, I told it to make minimal code for one task and it completely skipped a super important aspect of it, justifying it by saying that I said "minimal". Not cool, Claude 3.7, not cool.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
A lot of people judge by the lack of their desired outcome. Calling that fear and denial is disingenuous and unfair.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
As in: they do not have general reasoning skills.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
> Humans have weird failure modes that are odds with their 'intelligence'. We just choose to call them funny names and laugh about it sometimes. These Machines have theirs. That's all there is to it. Yes, that's all
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by pdimitar 2y ago
What do you find inferior in 3.7 compared to 3.5 btw? I only recently started using Claude so I don't have a point of reference.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
That helps get it little better, thank you.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I explained why (and no it's not "avoiding", it's "prioritizing" actually) but you had to "win", did you? Taking a note of your username. I'll go out of my way to avoid you. Bye.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
One thing a lot of traditionalists like yourself miss (sometimes I think it's on purpose) is that we have limited time. Modern programming is not like 30 years ago. We have literal hundreds, if not thousands, of bits and pieces to asse
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by pdimitar 2y ago
That documentation is not sacred texts so yes I am arguing against it. My point is that intuitive is as not as subjective as you make it out to be. Which is partially reinforced by a lot of software where "last one wins" is the po
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I have a feeling you were waiting to say that for a while. :D Glad to make your day. You are welcome. Ultimately we all end up reading the manual. I'd still prefer if I didn't have to remember how a certain C stdlib function works
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Why would "last one wins" be dumbing down the tool, exactly? You're doing a big assumption that people are averse to reading documentation. You are likely downvoted because you prefer to make your opponents look irrational so
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Yikes. What a nasty surprise. These tools really should be phased out in their current form.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
That makes sense on the outset, thank you. Any details on that re-organization of trading patterns?
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Knowing nearly nothing about the stock market, I say some time has to pass before we truly know whether these current (and probably temporary) consequences will persist. I mean, people sign the death sentences of companies that have gradual
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Pretty difficult when you are hired as a programmer and are introduced during an all-hands meeting. :D
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I am saddened to read this. You are letting them get away with it and they'll extract completely the wrong idea out of your noble gesture.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I agree with your advice but have to remark that often times stakeholders are not open to talk to techies. I loved those who were but most weren't.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Your story feels unfinished. :( Advice: ask for more money or don't accept an offer. They should not by any means get the message that they can keep getting away with paying smaller salaries.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I agree it's a mistake but one thing that's never taken into account in this discussion is that many people find it enough that they are doing their jobs. They don't want to do marketing. A lot of tech people are like that wh
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Can you explain why this is wise? I'd say most execs leaving is usually a net positive. You are framing it as a tragedy and I am just not seeing it. From where I am standing, leeches that are only there for fat bonuses left. Where&#x27
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Yes, I agree that it's a big drawback. Elixir made me more productive and gave me back my love for programming, and I work with it professionally for 9 years now. But the lack of static typing is getting so irritating that I started up
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Elixir's ecosystem is much farther ahead than Gleam, so if you want to actually achieve stuff without pauses to fill the gaps yourself, then Elixir is the way to go. And don't get me wrong, I love the idea of Gleam, a lot (Rust sy
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I wish they told me. They cut ties with most of their previous devs overnight, as if we were some enemies. Weirdest firing in my life and career to this day.

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