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We Studied 150 Developers Using AI (Here's What's Changed) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by tomwphillips 8mo ago|0 comments
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Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency(cdm.link)
3 points by tomwphillips 8mo ago|0 comments
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by tomwphillips 9mo ago
The post is light on details. I'd guess the author ended up hammering the API and they decided it was abuse. I expect more reports like this. LLM providers are already selling tokens at a loss. If everyone starts to use tmux or orchest
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by tomwphillips 9mo ago
Author here, thanks for reading. Yes, naming is tricky. By mono-environment, I mean that there is one _long-lived_ environment to which we deploy software.
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Staging is a wasteful lie: the case for the mono-environment(tomwphillips.co.uk)
3 points by tomwphillips 9mo ago|2 comments
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by tomwphillips 9mo ago
>Every project has boilerplate. It gets written once. Agree with you - I think when my colleagues have talked about boilerplate they really mean two kinds of boilerplate: code written once for project setup, like you describe, and then r
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by tomwphillips 9mo ago
I like this analysis. I'm constantly surprised by developers who like LLMs because "it's great for boiler plate". Why on earth were you wasting your time writing boiler plate before? These people are supposed to be progr
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by tomwphillips 9mo ago
Interesting. I don't recall this happening during my studies. You didn't have the time in my exams to cheat, leaving for the toilet was strongly discouraged and if you did leave, you would have an invigilator standing behind you a
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by tomwphillips 9mo ago
The article is about accountancy. Accountancy is not academia. >In the end of the day academia in general should stop relying on exams based on memorization of random facts and start using real world examples of what kind of work student
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by tomwphillips 10mo ago
Our team uses IntelliJ so we use Code with Me with Slack for AV. Specifically on Slack we have channels called pairing-room-1, pairing-room-2, etc. Allows colleagues to drop in and out. I would try Tuple but to be honest we are fine on Code
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by tomwphillips 10mo ago
Indeed. Github is a nightmare when I'm working on an unreliable 4G connection too (e.g. on a train in the UK). Half the page will load. Night and day compared to something like Linear.
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by tomwphillips 10mo ago
>Pair programming is less fruitful. I'm surprised at this statement. My team pair a lot - at least half of the time - and the majority is remote. We find it much more comfortable to pair remotely on our own setups than crowded aroun
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by tomwphillips 11mo ago
Good luck. The major plus of having low or zero baseline caffeine consumption is that when you really need a jolt, a single cup will have the desired effect!
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by tomwphillips 11mo ago
I had a similar experience as an undergraduate. In my penultimate year I was struggling under a huge lecture and lab workload, working at the weekends, and partying too. I developed stomach pain and went to the campus doctor, who sent me of
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by tomwphillips 11mo ago
Author here. Indeed - it would be just as fantastical to deny there has been no value from deep learning, transformers, etc. Yesterday I heard Cory Doctorow talk about a bunch of pro bono lawyers using LLMs to mine paperwork and help exoner
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by tomwphillips 11mo ago
Hey Simon, author here (and reader of your blog!). I used to share your view, but what changed my mind was reading Hao's book. I don't have it to hand, but if my memory serves, she writes about a community in Chile opposing Google
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AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering(tomwphillips.co.uk)
632 points by tomwphillips 11mo ago|647 comments
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by tomwphillips 1y ago
Not that surprising. How many millions has been piled into dbt Labs? dbt Cloud is an uncompelling product. Fivetran is convenient but absurdly expensive. Now dbt core development is just another marketing cost for Fivetran. I'd really
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by tomwphillips 1y ago
This kind of science/tech investment is and has been catnip for UK government, regardless of political party, for years. They're out of ideas to stimulate growth, and AI is their hail Mary. No one involved seems to be able to expl
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by tomwphillips 1y ago
Did you watch the video? Considering how many developers still don't write tests, pair program, or do CI and CD (shipping multiple times a day) – all things Dave argues for – I don't think it is fair to dismiss him as the establis
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Vibe Coding Is the Worst Idea of 2025 [video](youtube.com)
53 points by tomwphillips 1y ago|95 comments
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by tomwphillips 1y ago
Indeed, to expand on my remark: I wrote Python in academia for ~6 years and then professionally for nearly a decade in data science, data engineering and backend web apps. Virtualenv was fine. Pipenv had a nicer CLI and easier to use depend
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by tomwphillips 1y ago
>Modern I'll pass. I'd rather have the battle-tested old thing, thanks.
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by tomwphillips 1y ago
Indeed. I have been using it for 5-6 months in a new job and I didn't notice it being faster than the typical web app. If anything it is slow because it is a pain to navigate. I have browser bookmarks for my most frequented pages.
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by tomwphillips 1y ago
I think it might actually be because they're selling services at a loss.
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by tomwphillips 1y ago
I'm surprised IDE integration is written off. I've been pleased with Junie's agent mode in IntelliJ. Works well.
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Britain's beloved steam trains trial pioneering technology(theguardian.com)
4 points by tomwphillips 1y ago|1 comments
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
>You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. When you upload or input information
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
The article reports that it will be disabled for existing users at a later date.
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by tomwphillips 2y ago
> The way I see it, most companies already use modern ATS to stack rank every application based on their resume using AI and then just go down the list. I have never worked anywhere that has done this. Humans have always reviewed every a

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