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by sd9 6mo ago
I'm sure it is. It's difficult with a full time job though. Yes, in principle it can be made easier by going to bed earlier... but that's not simple either.
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by sd9 6mo ago
There’s no market for the results, but there was a market for Alices, because they were the only people who could produce similar results historically. Now maybe there’s less of a market for Alices. Yes, maybe that means the program disappe
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by sd9 6mo ago
Oh yes, it’s an entirely privileged position to be able to enjoy your work. But it’s a privilege I have enjoyed and not one I want to give up unless I have to. We spend an extraordinary amount of our waking life at work.
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by sd9 6mo ago
I am aware of that - I was adding something along the lines of: I don’t think people care if we deliver Alices any more.
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by sd9 6mo ago
I think that a lot of software engineering work is a lot simpler than people like to think, and that the demand for Alices is far outweighed by the demand for Bobs. I think there will always be a place for Alices, but there will be a drasti
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by sd9 6mo ago
The people who pay my bills operate in a largely utilitarian fashion. They’re not going to pay me to manually program because I find it more enjoyable, when they can get Bob to do twice as much for less. This is why I say I don’t like it, b
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by sd9 6mo ago
I feel like the models and harnesses had a step change in capability around December, as somebody who’s been using them daily since early/mid 2025. It’s gone from me doing the majority of the programming, to me doing essentially none,
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by sd9 6mo ago
Yes sorry, I didn’t think you were addressing me directly, just adding my own thoughts. I agree totally with the sentiment, and I am concerned about my own skills atrophying.
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by sd9 6mo ago
I’m very good at the handcrafted stuff, I’ve been doing this a while. I don’t feel like giving up my self sufficiency, I just feel like the writing is on the wall.
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by sd9 6mo ago
Lovely story, thanks for sharing. I wonder how many assembly programmers got over it and retrained, versus moved on to do something totally different. I find the agentic way of working simultaneously more exhausting and less stimulating. I
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by sd9 6mo ago
If your job has been totally unaffected by AI, then I am jealous. I’m not trying to argue that AI can do everything today. I acknowledge that there are many things that it is not good at.
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by sd9 6mo ago
My point is it doesn’t matter whether he can fix things without agents. The real world isn’t an exam hall where your boss tells you “no naughty AI!”, you just get stuff done, and if Bob can do that with agents, nobody cares how he did it.
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by sd9 6mo ago
I don’t know, it’s only since about December that I felt things really start to shift, and February when my job started to become very different. Personally I’m looking at more physical domains, but it’s early days in my exploration. I thin
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by sd9 6mo ago
The thing is, agents aren’t going away. So if Bob can do things with agents, he can do things. I mourn the loss of working on intellectually stimulating programming problems, but that’s a part of my job that’s fading. I need to decide if th
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It was nice while it lasted(jacksthoughts.bearblog.dev)
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by sd9 6mo ago
Isn't this whole comment section about engaging with the material itself and disagreeing with it? I don't see anybody here saying that Andreessen's ideas are bad specifically because he has money, they are saying the ideas he
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by sd9 6mo ago
I'm kind of surprised that postgres was quite that dominated by mongodb back in the day. I remember the mongo fever, but I always thought postgres held reasonable market share. I guess it was other SQL dbs back then, I guess MySQL was
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by sd9 6mo ago
Cool, how?
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by sd9 6mo ago
Not surprising if you know that. Pretty surprising to me who didn’t.
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by sd9 6mo ago
Minutes after launch they reached "ten thousand miles per hour". That's 2.78 miles per second. Nuts. No doubt the speeds go even higher later too. I'm sure people here are already familiar with the speeds these things go
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by sd9 6mo ago
It’s just because ChatGPT is worse than Claude as of today. If that flipped, which is probably will at some point, if only temporarily, OpenAI will be back on top. Unfortunately it has nothing to do with Altman’s morals.
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by sd9 6mo ago
Because whether I use it or not doesn’t affect the fact that it’s going to take my job. It’s still the easiest way to get things done today.
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by sd9 6mo ago
I know what you mean. Tbh I just think this isn’t for everyone. I’ve been in your position before, you can try everything but some people just can’t get it. And maybe they do and they become a little more productive, but they can’t produce
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by sd9 6mo ago
At least have the grace to show new hires Rich Hickey lectures or something. Uncle bob is nonsense.
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by sd9 6mo ago
Agreed, pretty much all data is flawed. I still want my hands on it.
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by sd9 6mo ago
Even it did work, I just can't bring myself to care enough. It doesn't feel like anything I could do on my site would make any material difference. I'm tired.
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by sd9 6mo ago
Huh, good point
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by sd9 6mo ago
Ok cool, but... why would I want to point an agent at this anyway. The website doesn't say anything about what it is. The handshake API explicitly says 'just add your email and put "consent: true" in the handshake, don&#
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by sd9 7mo ago
I've always found screenshots on PRs incredibly helpful as a reviewer. Historically I've had mixed success getting my team to consistently add screenshots to PRs, so this tool would be helpful even for human code. At work, we&#x27
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by sd9 7mo ago
LLMs are very much NIH machines

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