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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
I remember buying a Nike Tshirt in the early 2000s: good quality, and still looking decent today. Nowadays most of the Nike/Adidas/etc stuff is very low quality fabric and not necessarily cheap (at least in Western Europe)
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
AI as a replacement of Google. When I wanted to learn about something the usual path was: google it. Go through dozens of links, discard, filter the good ones, read them, and gain the knowledge. Nowadays I ask the question to the LLM and fo
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
We are the ones to get to decide. Do we want that? I don’t. But im just a single data point
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
How are (tech) consultants typically hired? They also go through the nonsense of live coding / systems design interview? Or they get asked specifically about the problem they need to solve and see if they are a good fit or not?
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
The problem to solve is addiction. When I was a kid I could spend the whole day and week in front of the play station… but my parents thought me that, well, that’s not normal (and ofc sent me to sleep every other night). Why social media or
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
If LLMs can handle 99% of software jobs, then they can “crack” robotics software and then we would have LLMs on robots to replace the rest of the workers
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
Nerds? We are not in the 90s anymore. The stereotype of software engineers has changed dramatically (for better or worse). All my current and past colleagues are the opposite of the “nerd”: talkative, married, with kids, investing… none of
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
You shouldn’t run any AI cli (codex, claude code, open code, whatever) locally outside of a vm. It’s like “you shouldn’t run a .exe you downloaded from the internet if you don’t trust the source”. We will learn
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
Software. I typically use Macs. Previous one lasted 8-9 years (still working but bad battery). Current one (apple silicon) probably gonna last me the same time
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
In a world where we have people like Trump, Musk, Thiel, et al, with extreme power and resources, why would we hope for something like climate change to be addressed? What can scientists do? Even if they are 100% right and can prove it, the
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
Always surprises me how people feel identified with progress they didn’t participate with. These satellites have nothing to do with you. You didn’t build them nor researched about them. These are the toys of a far-right asshole. It sucks
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
I was waiting for GTA 6… but if it’s not released in disk, then I will simply pass. If new games start to be non-physical, then I will simply stop playing new games
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
From my naive pov: Related to computation is the concept of state (I know, functional languages can get away without it, sort of). I always wondered how the universe “knows” the mass of the sun. If there are some underlying functions/c
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
What is normal? You know how girls dress, let’s say in the Andes? Is that normal? Or by normal you mean what’s fashion in NY? Or perhaps what the majority of people wears today? Or what the majority of people have worn in the past? Very lit
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
My existence has as substrate: shelter, food and healthcare. Money provides these via jobs. Once that’s covered, sure, pleasure comes. I don’t like it, but that’s how im playing the game of life
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
> Far more worry about being expected to do more for the same pay (51%), getting trapped in an unsustainable pace (46%) This is a feature, not a bug. Not for us (engineers), but for our bosses, ofc
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
Are you earning 10x too? You are just cheaper to your employer… and you seem proud of that. But naive
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
We should rephrase the multipliers. We are not 10x whatever, we are x/10 cheaper now to the companies that hire us. That’s the correct frame. AI is not here to make the life of engineers better; AI is here for the delight of companies
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
But there are two types of “programming”: 1) programming per se (just you writing code for fun and perhaps building your own tools) and 2) a team of people with real-world constraints writing software for others for revenue It’s clear why i
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
I would say it was a joke. Cannot take it seriously
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
The companies I have worked for before all have used open source software like postgres, mysql, go, python, k8s, etc. 99% of the time we relied on free work; never contributed to these projects nor forked them for our own needs. I don’t thi
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
Don’t understand these rewrites. - typically they are behind a single person. That’s usually bad because of spf - typically they are achieved in a very short amount of time, so the author hasn’t acquired any discipline in creating the proje
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
No. Because I will know it’s fake.
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
I find it painful as well. I actually find agentic coding counterproductive. I typically use LLMs the “old way”: web chat interface, asking questions and searching. I write the code by hand. This makes me 2-3x more productive than before (I
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
> Good specs should be grounded (complete and not ambiguous), they don't need to be formal IMHO, this is a mistake. I guess we play with it because there’s isn’t anything better nowadays. Writing and maintaining “specs” in plain eng
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
I want to use Pi, but I don’t trust the npm ecosystem at all. I could use a VMs, but I guess it’s just not worth it
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
Certainly I have never been in such a situation, but just for me to understand: if the sender has enough decision power to move forward with a default action without confirmation, then the email is simply a polite notice to someone above in
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
I started with js and php. Moved to Java. Then node. Then php again. Then Go. Then Kotlin. Then TS. Then Python. Then Go again. In between a bunch of sql, html, css, and many different tools, libraries and frameworks. The most important thi
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by sdevonoes 3mo ago
> Our hypothesis is simple: session logs are now the most important artifact in software development, and should be stored alongside the code itself in the repository. I don’t think this scales. We recently have been doing “spec driven d

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