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by pydry 6mo ago
They definitely all believe they can.
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by pydry 6mo ago
When I first used agentic coding I was already doing strict TDD and I just tried using it for the refactor step. It sucked so hard I thought the idea of agentic coding was just a joke. Ive tried it periodically and it literally never sto
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by pydry 6mo ago
I wish people would stop pretending that agentic coding and elevated thinking arent mutually exclusive. Theres way too much money on this hype train now though to point out the emperor isnt wearing any clothes and way too many people wh
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by pydry 6mo ago
"When our grandparents built the hoover dam, the lincoln tunnel and the triborough bridge with a job guarantee that was just money for nothing - UBI with extra steps." ^ this would be an accurate representation of your opinion th
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by pydry 6mo ago
Just as hyperloop was designed as a techbro pie in the sky notion to kill high speed rail, basic income as an idea is designed to kill more realistic attempts to shore up welfare, e.g. * A job guarantee like we had during the great depress
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by pydry 6mo ago
>Why is this time different? The humiliation of all of the disastrous failures has been lost to history and PMC are once again bullish about their cost cutting genius.
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by pydry 6mo ago
I wonder how well the "good" versions worked if you threw awkward edge cases at it.
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by pydry 6mo ago
Taxing land works better. Look at Japan where property taxes encourage development.
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by pydry 6mo ago
Zoning is the hobby horse of property developers. They're endlessly frustrated by the way zoning prevents them from building the most profitable construction - no matter whether there is a good or a bad reason for it (sometimes it&#x27
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by pydry 6mo ago
If demand for cars skyrockets then you (eventually) get more cars at the same price coz the manufacturer can just make more. If everybody wants to buy up land because "god isnt making it any more" you get less land at an even high
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by pydry 6mo ago
The trick is in creating new supply when faced with: * Existing land/property owners who dont particularly want to give up their land. * Property developers who would rather flog one ultra luxury unit to a foreign buyer than 3 to someb
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by pydry 6mo ago
If you work at the factory you should be able to complain about the boss when he's out of earshot without him snooping. If that's something he cant handle he might have a problem with personal accountability.
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by pydry 6mo ago
Given the supposed quality of top flight models there ought to be a lot more people forking open source projects, implementing missing features and releasing "xyz software that can do a and b". Somehow it's not really happeni
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by pydry 6mo ago
In my career Ive seen about 1000 instances of somebody trying to optimize something prematurely. Usually those people also have a good old whinge about the premature optimization quote being wrong or misinterpreted and general attitudes t
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by pydry 6mo ago
Renaming it doesnt change the nature of the problem. There should often be two points of truth because having one would increase the coupling cost more than the benefits that would be derived from deduplication.
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by pydry 6mo ago
DRY is misunderstood. It's definitely a fundamental aspect of code quality it's just one of about 4 and maximizing it to the exclusion of the others is where things go wrong. Usually it comes at the expense of loose coupling (wh
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by pydry 6mo ago
Ive noticed that certain people are chronically incapable of recognizing this.
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by pydry 6mo ago
self hosting needs to be easier to set up for that to happen. we're not far off it being good enough but it's not there yet.
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by pydry 6mo ago
ironically it's the one place where an agent might be of some use and they created one and it's terrible.
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by pydry 6mo ago
I think quite a lot of people would bat an eyelid at those things. If any of my friends admitted to spending $350/mo on candy crush i'd think that they'd badly need help for a gambling problem.
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by pydry 6mo ago
>Ukraine does it to avoid assisting Russian damage assessment and targeting efforts. Which is why they also arrest people who take videos of missiles hitting but not of the damage? Russia also has satellites.
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by pydry 6mo ago
It works even less for Ukraine.
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by pydry 6mo ago
There is a pretty intense campaign to shift the overton window around coding where anchoring is used repeatedly. When Jensen Huang says you need to spend $500k on tokens per developer per year he knows it will be perceived as bullshit, but
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by pydry 6mo ago
I think it probably is claude and anthropic. It kicked off in earnest towards the end of last year when "AI bubble" news stories peaked. They're incredibly exposed to investor sentiment and were likely panicking around sept&#
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by pydry 6mo ago
I asked coz know several managers who would look upon it as a red flag and I suspect OP would probably prefer to work for them rather than AI sheep.
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by pydry 6mo ago
They're experts at divide and conquer. They'll probably be able to convince us that we did this to each other. Just like they convinced the younger generation that "boomers" stole their future.
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by pydry 6mo ago
What if the hiring managers at the jobs you'd actually prefer to work at also cringe when they see it on your profile?
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by pydry 6mo ago
>What is AI actually good at? Implementation. What is it genuinely bad at? Figuring out what you actually want I've found it to be pretty bad at both. If what you're doing is quite cookie cutter though it can do a passable job
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by pydry 6mo ago
It isnt but the fact it ultra vague and hand wavey means anybody can claim anything they do is agile including things that the exact opposite. I actually think OP's criticisms apply mostly to Scrum. Scrum is well defined but its adhere
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by pydry 6mo ago
Northern latitudes have low population density and plenty of hydro power which, unlike nuclear power, CAN actually operate as a battery at a reasonable cost. There is still nowhere in the world nuclear power makes economic sense.

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