pydry

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by pydry 1mo ago
Ive written many significant changes without manual testing by leaning heavily on well crafted automated tests, carefully honed type systems and clean architecture. These foundations serve as the bedrock of high quality applications I can
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by pydry 1mo ago
At some point it will become a strong competitive advantage to zag where others zig. If you understand the codebase deeply and have trust in it can roll out changes quickly without manual testing you can run circles around the people scratc
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by pydry 1mo ago
the distortion is the slow euthanization of the parasitic buy to let landlord class and a decline in property prices to more affordable levels.
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by pydry 1mo ago
This is like saying "writing code is solved, all we need now is somebody to blame because it doesnt work"
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by pydry 1mo ago
This isnt how a company which has "solved programming" would act. Especially since users do prefer a native experience and having their RAM conserved.
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by pydry 1mo ago
Scrooge would agree wholeheartedly. Some landlords believe that because it brutally eats into their profits and because it's a band aid which addresses the cost of housing without magically fixing supply shortages that it ought to be
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by pydry 1mo ago
Scrooge would probably agree wholeheartedly. The reality is that curtailment of abusive zero hours contracts provided by the employment rights legislation was direly needed and renters desperately needed protection against landlords who w
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by pydry 1mo ago
And yet technical debt is still much, much worse than it used to be thanks to LLMs. As a technological innovation theyre a bit like amphetamines for code. Sure, maybe some people are using the "tankers chocolate" their employe
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by pydry 1mo ago
If it does then software will become even more unreliable.
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by pydry 1mo ago
yeah I also remember a lot of talk about the bubble for 18 months to 2 years before it actually popped. i think we're in that (quite long) stage with AI right now where most halfway smart people "know" but they're still
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by pydry 1mo ago
>Predicting things 5 years too early is often as useless as not predicting anything. I dont think Zitron has predicted anything 5 years too early. 1 or 2 at the outside is probably the limit. I remember during the original internet boom
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by pydry 1mo ago
A lot of the "useless work" is busywork you do being a part of an executive's empire so they can claim they managed X number of people. How can it do that?
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by pydry 1mo ago
IME many of the people who truly believe it's replacing white collar workers are being replaced are invested in the stock market bubble.
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by pydry 1mo ago
it's too bad none of them actually correlate with making good software.
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by pydry 1mo ago
The two metaphors for vibe coding I keep seeing are: * it's like a compiler => you can trust it * it's a revolution like the spinning jenny => what came before is fast becoming an obsolete hobby It's not just that these
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by pydry 1mo ago
I wonder how much of this "simple but bespoke" stuff would be better served with some customized off the shelf software rather than a vibe coded tool. There's not a lot of software where users dont really care if it goes wron
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by pydry 1mo ago
aka there are a lot more bullshit artists around these days i know of several engineers who produce absolute slop and who probably would have produced nothing at all in pre AI times (which would have been preferable) and probably let go or
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by pydry 1mo ago
>AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice. It's interesting that Epstein's friend can't conceive of the idea that it's going to be one day seen as an absurdly overhyped
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by pydry 1mo ago
It might be a pipe dream but I'd like to see some sort of checklist for dev companies using hard-to-bullshit objective criteria to highlight that they either have a good culture or that their culture is toxic. I remember many years ago
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by pydry 1mo ago
It depends entirely on how much slop they are flooded with.
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by pydry 1mo ago
it's not straightforward at all. the AI companies would just redefine what a token is to miminize their tax bill. or, relocate abroad. Bill Gates' wealth would be nice and easy to tax though and would provide many of the same rewa
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by pydry 1mo ago
we need better apps to bypass apps and user hostile websites. more newpipes and noras.
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by pydry 1mo ago
Yeah, he called for a tax on "job eliminating" robots too. Neither are in the slightest bit practical to implement and he knows it. He's just grandstanding while talking his book.
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by pydry 1mo ago
It reads like that kind of AI marketing which focuses on how "scary" a new model supposedly is. Bill Gates' fear is clearly that everybody thinks this stuff is just kind of mediocre because then the real horror story unfolds
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by pydry 1mo ago
LLMs are pretty much the exact opposite of a reliable compiler-like abstraction. This is true to such an extent that I have to question the overall competence of anybody who makes the comparison. It's an enormous red flag. I'd
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by pydry 1mo ago
yet the numbers/features to compare is the bit that is always the most neglected. time and time again I search for products on Amazon that do X and they all argue that X is great for all sorts of reasons and "here's stock pho
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by pydry 1mo ago
I actually think this is delusional. When I ask other people about how they shop for a new washing machine they usually either do their research like I do or they ask for recommendations regarding actual experiences or to try and free ride
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by pydry 1mo ago
They dont have a CEO ever since their last CEO said that human programming "wasn't going anywhere".
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by pydry 1mo ago
A. B marketing actually annoys the shit out of me if I'm in the market for a product and all of the competitors act like Im not trying to choose between them. Seriously, who researches buying a dishwasher and wants to hear about all of
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by pydry 1mo ago
increasing supply while demand remains steady does actually lower prices. NIMByism can be killed with a land value tax/a property tax that approximates LVT and vice versa. It was kicked into overdrive in California thanks to prop 13 wh

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