rglover

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by rglover 8mo ago
A valid concern.
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by rglover 8mo ago
Good lord. That's a level of carelessness that's just chef's kiss .
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by rglover 8mo ago
Observation.
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by rglover 9mo ago
I'd say you're absolutely right. The problem is...what is the distribution of companies who do it "right" to companies that don't?
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by rglover 9mo ago
I've been using it every day for nearly two years now, with your suggested productivity boost observed. The difference is that I'm not just letting agents willy nilly commit code. I treat them more like a companion and guide their
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by rglover 9mo ago
Carefully, patiently, and intentionally in the direction of stability and good user experience?
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by rglover 9mo ago
I'm not betting against them, I use them every day (but I don't "vibe code"—there's more intent). I'm just not treating them as a deity or other prayer-candle worthy entity. They're business tools. It&#x2
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by rglover 9mo ago
If you've ever been responsible for large systems, you'll know why that is an incredibly naive position to take.
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by rglover 9mo ago
A significant number of developers and businesses are going to have an absolutely brutal rude awakening in the not too distant future. You can build things this way, and they may work for a time, but you don't know what you don't
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by rglover 9mo ago
The presumed ethos flew out the door the second that fundamentals were traded for chasing the very asset bitcoin was trying to replace (an inevitability vis-a-vis human behavior). That said, I don't think it's "dead," bu
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by rglover 9mo ago
"Ask for forgiveness, not permission."
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by rglover 9mo ago
Location: Tennessee, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: ~ Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/ryangglover Email: ryan.glover@cheatcode.co I take long-term stewardship of software systems for comp
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by rglover 9mo ago
You can do both. It's not binary.
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by rglover 9mo ago
Nope. 100% vibe coded. The brand is DeValt. It may or may not come with a frayed power cord wrapped in electrical tape. As long as you stay away from any water source, it'll be fine.
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by rglover 9mo ago
Would you trust your hand next to a saw made by an LLM?
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by rglover 9mo ago
The flurry machine isn't permanently broken, it's just keeping someone employed.
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by rglover 10mo ago
Because the means have been given priority over the ends.
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by rglover 10mo ago
Just do the work at your body's natural pace. Your body will tell you when it's tired, when it's ready to focus, and when it's excited to work. As with everything, the problem is hubris and impatience. So eager to prove
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Dan Luu: Reasoning about performance (2016) [video](youtube.com)
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by rglover 10mo ago
Microsoft either needs to become a better steward of NPM or hand it off to a foundation that can properly maintain it.
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by rglover 10mo ago
Career-limiting perhaps (if expressing normal human emotion is a minus inside of an organization, it may be time to bail) but some of the best minds I've met/observed were absolute curmudgeons (with purpose—they were properly bo
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by rglover 10mo ago
And we wonder why the web keeps breaking...
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by rglover 10mo ago
"Slow the f*ck down." - Oliver Reichenstein [1] This only happens because the software industry has fallen into the Religion of Speed . I see it constantly: justified corner-cutting, rushing shit out the door, and always loading
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by rglover 10mo ago
One of those rare HN comments that's just pure gold.
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by rglover 10mo ago
> For software engineering, it is useless unless you're writing snippets that already exist in the LLMs corpus. If I give something like Sonnet the docs for my JS framework, it can write code "in it" just fine. It makes th
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by rglover 10mo ago
The IKEA Effect [1] is a hell of a drug. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect
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by rglover 10mo ago
I've enjoyed Howard Marks writing/thinking in the past, but this is clearly a person who thinks they understand the topic but doesn't have the slightest clue. Someone trying to be relevant/engaged before really thinkin
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by rglover 11mo ago
> I wonder who, after the loss of those tens of millions of high-paid jobs, are going to be the consumers who’ll buy the goods that’ll drive the profits that’ll pay back the investors. But that problem is kind of intrinsic to Late-stage
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by rglover 11mo ago
You really don't need to overthink the reality that the op costs far surpass the funding available and the value being created isn't significant enough (in future cash flow terms) to outpace the costs (though, this is tech so whil
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by rglover 11mo ago
I think this is for the best. Let the "confident idiot" types briefly entertain the idea of competency, hit the inevitable wall, and go away for good. It will take a few years, lots of mistakes, and billions (if not trillions) was

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