tom_m

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by tom_m 8mo ago
Depends on size of org. Many orgs end up too top heavy too quickly and don't have things in place to support that. That's where you get the "busy work." It's because they have too much time on their hands.
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by tom_m 8mo ago
It's easy to hide in those positions. Many people don't know how to measure performance there and they get to point fingers. My advice to anyone in this boat is to talk to the team underneath them every now and then. Get a pulse c
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by tom_m 8mo ago
Because if that's what they were told to do. The organization is likely very dysfunctional, or has messed up priorities, which is probably about 80%+ of the startups out there and companies in tech in general. Seriously. There's n
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by tom_m 8mo ago
Thanks for sharing! I definitely agree. I've seen web software go downhill somewhere after 2013. It's been sad and now we have far more buggy apps and security issues on the Internet than ever before. I used to love the 90s becaus
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by tom_m 8mo ago
Hey, I'm now measuring PR open time ... Only because there's been open PRs for months. It is of course possible that broad directional metrics are useful.
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by tom_m 8mo ago
You can get it to type for you. I don't really type the code myself anymore. I review it and then have it make corrections. Very rarely I will jump in and type and probably should more because the token cost, but it's novel that I
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by tom_m 8mo ago
I don't think so. I think reviewing (and learning) will be. I actually think that the motivation to become better will vanish. AI will produce applications as good as we have today, but will be incapable of delivering better because AI
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by tom_m 8mo ago
Isn't it so interesting that AI will completely destroy the motivation to be more clever?
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by tom_m 8mo ago
Tests are important. Writing good tests even moreso. However, you can't do either of you don't have good product requirements and communication. Most software has "bugs" simply because people couldn't communicate ho
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by tom_m 8mo ago
Absolutely. Well said.
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by tom_m 8mo ago
You can pay a lot for a DAP and have an infinitely better experience than any iPod or Zune. Just saying as an audiophile who has owned all of these devices. But yes, you are correct.
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by tom_m 9mo ago
This is pretty awesome!
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by tom_m 9mo ago
Totally agree. The expectations around what an OSS project should - or even must - have, do, and accommodate is absolutely insane. It boggles my mind sometimes as someone who grew up on OSS. I still contribute OSS and maintain some (small)
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by tom_m 9mo ago
People use Vimeo?
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by tom_m 9mo ago
Yes. Can I share it? No, sadly. It definitely works - but I think sometimes expectations are too high is all.
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by tom_m 9mo ago
In this area? Making wine or beer. That's honestly my go to if I had to choose something else.
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by tom_m 9mo ago
I believe it or can believe something like it would happen. They should fix it, if it's true. And quickly. I'm not sure I trust these companies. Anthropic least of all. Doomer Rick Moranis there just comes off too untrustworthy.
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by tom_m 9mo ago
There never was a moat in software. It's your business, value, service, industry knowledge, sales, etc. that's what matters. Not the software. Software is and has always been cheap.
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by tom_m 9mo ago
This paper is really good and accurate. Many people would benefit from reading it.
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by tom_m 9mo ago
Writing tests cases is part of development. Programmers simply need to do it. It helps them immensely. Product acceptance and user acceptance testing is entirely different and often conflated. That's where people go wrong and are too s
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by tom_m 9mo ago
Nah, because everyone is an expert sometimes. They don't listen and you gotta let them touch the hot stove. Sometimes there's not much you can do. Sometimes people trust in random blog posts or now AI more than the people they wor
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by tom_m 9mo ago
Just going to be brutally honest - we lost the art of software design and architecture. Clean code is pretty much dead. As someone who has contributed to many OSS projects and built frameworks...I just don't see this anymore. All of my
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by tom_m 9mo ago
It's going well in terms of being a valuable tool. It's not going well from an economic point of view. There's going to be winners and losers in this bubble. Things will settle and it will be commonplace technology in the fut
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by tom_m 9mo ago
Not a very valuable one. Never had been. That's the funny part. So many people want software but then don't know what to do once they have it.
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by tom_m 9mo ago
Get tested. Get it treated. It could change your life. No joke. It's not a big deal. I know there's a stigma, but really, it's not a big deal. 15%+ of the population has it. Just go get it checked out. Promise.
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by tom_m 9mo ago
I think their only profitable horse is Claude Code. That's the reason for the control. But that means they lose on inference. Which isn't good.
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by tom_m 9mo ago
Here's one thing I'm a little nervous about, because it doesn't make sense to cut off distribution channels. Anthropic should be profitable from the inference alone. That's their product...but they (like others) aren&#x2
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by tom_m 9mo ago
Totally agree. It's like shooting yourself in the foot to remove distribution channels. They need to hire someone for growth over there.
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by tom_m 9mo ago
Claude Code isn't a good as the other tools. The models are the attractive part about Anthropic. I love Opus 4.5, but won't ever use it with Claude Code. Ok... never is strong...I won't use it any time soon. It has a long way
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by tom_m 9mo ago
I don't know, we hired a junior developer and are about to hire another. Not sure it collapsed. I just think it's really hard to get a job across the board right now.

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