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by tjansen 8mo ago
Maybe it's wishful thinking, being one of the SaaS-developing developers he describes. But I think that only the complexity required for a SaaS is increasing. You certainly can't earn millions with the kind of SaaS that used to ta
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by tjansen 8mo ago
The kind of clothes we're talking about are not regular clothes. It's the unsellable kind. When H&M is doing a big sale, order the clothes by price, lowest price first. You will find stuff so hideous that they can't even
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by tjansen 8mo ago
That assumes that it can easily reproduce the issues. But it's not good at interacting with a complex UI like a human user.
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by tjansen 8mo ago
> 10 minute is not the limit for current models. I can have them work for hours on a problem. Admittedly, I have never tried to run it that long. If 10 minutes are not enough, I check what it is doing and tell it to do what it needs to d
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by tjansen 8mo ago
> I wonder how our comments will age in a few years. I don't think there will be a future where agents need to work on a limited piece of code for hours. Either they are smart enough to do it in a limited amount of time, or someone
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by tjansen 8mo ago
"Agents should work overnight, on commutes, in meetings, asynchronously." If I read stuff like that, I wonder what the F they are doing. Agents work overnight? On what? Stuck in some loop, trying to figure out how to solve a bug b
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by tjansen 11mo ago
> I don't know what it is, but trying to coax my goddamn tooling into doing what I want is not why I got into this field. I can understand that, but as long as the tooling is still faster than doing it manually, that's the worl
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by tjansen 11mo ago
Generally, my stance is that I add more value by doing whatever ridiculous thing people ask me to change than waste my time arguing about it. There are some obvious exceptions, like when the suggestions don't work or make the codebase
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by tjansen 1y ago
That's fine for norms, but I don't think you can use it to describe every single piece of your code. Every function, every type, every CSS class...
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by tjansen 1y ago
>>because that's how management decided we should work, there's no point If you are personally invested, there would be a point. At least if you plan to maintain that code for a few more years. Let's say you have a comm
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by tjansen 1y ago
I guess the LLMs are trained to know what finished code looks like. They don't really know the operations a human would use to get there.
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by tjansen 1y ago
Agreed with the points in that article, but IMHO the no 1 issue is that agents only see a fraction of the code repository. They don't know whether there is a helper function they could use, so they re-implement it. When contributing to
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by tjansen 1y ago
Yup. Even if they are treated equally, and everybody has the same chance of being laid off, they have more to lose than permanent residents.
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by tjansen 1y ago
I wouldn't call it a filter, unless you use it for trivial tasks ("check that the input argument is not null, throw an exception otherwise"). Sometimes it is useful for trivial tasks though, because it may do things a human d
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by tjansen 1y ago
BTW I never said they write themselves. My point was rather that you need a lot of knowledge, and know exactly what you want out of them, supervise them and provide detailed instruction. But then they can help you create a lot more working
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by tjansen 1y ago
I guess it turned out that coding is not the only limiting factor. Internal processes, QA, product management, coordination between teams become significant bottlenecks . Also, they don’t help much with debugging. It’s worth a try, and I ha
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by tjansen 1y ago
Sometimes that happens:) The key is to recognize these situations and not go down that rabbit hole. But sometimes it allows me to do something in 20 minutes that used to take a whole day.
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by tjansen 1y ago
These days, AI can do much more than "Cranking out boilerplate and scaffolding, Automating repetitive routines". That was last year. With the right instructions, Claude Sonnet 4 can easily write over 99% of most business applicati
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by tjansen 1y ago
I was in Paris this year, for the first time in 10 years, and frankly, I didn't notice less traffic. All streets are full. There are certainly more electric cars, and fewer old ones. However, the streets are now crowded with Uber and t
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by tjansen 1y ago
It depends on the time of day. I have noticed that certain posts of mine are getting downvotes earlier in the day (when there are more Europeans) and upvotes later (when the Americans are in the majority). Other posts are getting upvotes ea
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by tjansen 2y ago
Typically, in the Weblogic days, session cookies were used to hold a server-side session containing the app state. If you just hold auth data in the session this is not a problem. But if hold state like form data in the session it becomes a
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by tjansen 2y ago
Seemingly we have also forgotten the pain brought by session cookies. Applications relying on session cookies typically broke when users opened several tabs and switched between them, users used the browser 'back' button or access
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by tjansen 2y ago
* size (>=32", preferably ultrawide, currently using 38" UW) * resolution (I am fine with >=1440p) * USB-C or Thunderbolt with sufficient power to charge notebooks, so you only need to connect one cable to your notebook * at
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by tjansen 2y ago
That would definitely not been unusual in Germany in the 80s. Actually many rural German roads didn't even have that small shoulder, you really had to walk either on the street or on the grass. Kids learned how to handle this. There ar
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by tjansen 2y ago
When I started at my first job, at a small startup, I was definitely excited to work 7days a week. For me there was nothing better than doing what I loved every day. It lasted for about 6 months until I learned that it's not really hea
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by tjansen 2y ago
1. At least daily with the whole team, and whenever you have something to discuss with someone individually. Be available on Slack (/Teams...). Announce relevant things on group chat (like a new API function becoming available, release
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by tjansen 2y ago
That’s a nuisance but not economically threatening. Disabling railway permanently is a serious threat. Especially in countries dependent on railways for logistics.
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by tjansen 2y ago
I think it’s easy in the sense that it was only a single day attack of probably not more than a few people. What would happen if 50 foreign agents would do this every day over the course of months or years?
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by tjansen 2y ago
It's frightening how easy it is for an foreign actor to knock out a country's railway system. Something similar happened in Germany 2 years ago ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2022_German_railway_at...
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by tjansen 2y ago
Frankly no one wants to hire an engineer who highlights technical debt or a lack of tests without being asked for it. This kind of negative people is annoying and IMHO is indeed a reason why employers hesitate to employ older employees. Man

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