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   by suzzer99 7mo ago

   I have a big chunk in FXE (like owning Euros) precisely for this reason.
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   by suzzer99 7mo ago

   Yes, nothing in recent history gives me any faith that we'll all pull together in the face of economic hardship - as opposed to letting charlatan politicians put all the blame on already marginalized scapegoats.
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   by suzzer99 7mo ago

   > Anything past biology might as well be as fiction due to how easy it is to come up with whatever results you want. I used to work for the leading statistical expert witness in the country. Whenever I read something like this: > The
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   by suzzer99 7mo ago

   I've been coding for 30 years. We recently built a silent auction app for the university I work for, and it was as rewarding for me as the first thing I ever programmed. Sometimes the job is a chore. But for me, the challenge of buildi
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   by suzzer99 7mo ago

   It's part of the job, but has never been the fun part for me. Solving the puzzle with code and that "holy shit it actually works" moment has always been the part I get the most satisfaction from.
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   by suzzer99 7mo ago

   Yeah I imagine it has to be utterly thankless being the code janitor right now when all the hype around AI is peaking. You're basically just the grumpy troll slowing things down. And God forbid you introduce a regression bug trying to
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   by suzzer99 7mo ago

   For future greenfield projects, I can see a world where the only jobs are spec-writer and test-writer, with maybe one grumpy expert coder (aka code janitor) who occasionally has to go into the code to figure out super gnarly issues.
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   by suzzer99 7mo ago

   > With the rise of over-reliance of agents, you will see "engineers" unable to explain technical decisions and will admit to having zero knowledge of what the agent has done. I've had to work on multiple legacy systems lik
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   by suzzer99 7mo ago

   I don't see this is a permanent problem. Right now there must be 1000s of well-funded AI companies trying to scrape the entire internet. Eventually the AI equity bubble will pop and there will be consolidation. If every player left has
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    A pervasive middle class in developed countries has only existed since WWII. We may just be an 80-year anomaly in a world history of serfs, owners, skilled tradesmen, and merchants.
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    I'm not used to its dev tools. It takes me a lot longer to find my way around.
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    I've read about them being used in other studies.
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    I do web development, it makes no sense for me to use a browser most of the public doesn't use. Also I have a ton of extensions that help with development. Firefox is painful.
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    In Chrome?
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    Every time I load an article in archive.ph, I think "I want to support these guys. I would happily pay $.10, maybe even $.25 for this, if it was seamless and instantaneous." But that's never the option and apparently it never
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    And that's why I always come to the comments before deciding if the article is worth checking out. Thank you for your service.
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    TIL green means new. I thought it was special for some reason.
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    > how his initial implementation for virtually everything in Braid used arrays of records This is me with hash maps.
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    But if you start from the beginning with a code base that is always only generated from a spec, presumably as the tools improve you'd be able to grow to a big industrial-grade app that is 100% based on a spec. The question is how many
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    This basically describes how boards of directors and other power structures at that level work. Just with much more expensive assets and favors.
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    I'd pay a few bucks for some cool avatar or w/e this is. It seems like a good use of NFTs.
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    I recently had to build a widget that lets the user pick from a list of canned reports and then preview them in an overlay before sending to the printer (or save to PDF). All I knew was that I wanted each individual report's logic and
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    This app sounds destined for total disaster.
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    > At work, the devs up the chain now do everything with AI – not just coding – then task me with cleaning it up. This has to be the most thankless job for the near future. It's hard and you get about as much credit as the worker who
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    I work for a university. We've got a dedicated ChatGPT instance but haven't been approved to use a harness yet. Some devs did a pilot project and approval/licenses are supposedly coming soon.
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    Yeah in the Road Warrior post-apocalypse future, no one is saying "We need a billionaire job creator!"
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    I would bury a bunch of gold coins and act like it's my last one from the family heirlooms anytime I spent one. Shaving off chunks of a gold bar makes it pretty obvious there's more at the source. But yeah, ammo will be the new cu
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    > For a party that has crowed so much about 1A! Just like the anti-war stuff, it was always convenient hypocrisy that they instantly abandon when the time is right.
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    Yeah I think it might be the other way.
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    by suzzer99 7mo ago

    * Does not apply to native Americans or slaves.