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by wccrawford 4mo ago
https://threejs.org/
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by wccrawford 4mo ago
Even dumber, they've now got a disgruntled employee, and everyone around them knows they were cheated by the company. If the policy is wrong and needs to be more specific, pay it out this time and change the policy. Don't just
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by wccrawford 4mo ago
When I felt like that, I'd often ask questions about it, like "How does it deal with [situation]?" When it's obvious that it doesn't deal with the situation, they either answer "it doesn't" and then
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by wccrawford 4mo ago
I think the "and merge it" is the problem in the above comment. If a coworker is creating a ton of AI-made PRs, I think the first step should always be to run an AI against them with the "assume this is low quality code and f
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by wccrawford 4mo ago
I've worked with both types. Some prolific devs really do care, and are just really good at their job. Others are just trying to get code done, and don't care about quality. These are the types that are upset that their code gets
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by wccrawford 4mo ago
It's actually all fiction, it's just that a lot of it happens to line up with reality, thanks to a lot of coercion. IMO, that's what makes the tech so amazing.
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by wccrawford 4mo ago
That's generous. I always heard people espouse that ideal, but I rarely saw them actually do it. And I never saw it at work. There were always certain UX requirements that required JS, and that meant the company wasn't intereste
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by wccrawford 4mo ago
100%. You don't "clean up after them." You make them clean up their own mess. You refuse to let a mess into the system in the first place. Same as it ever was. The only difference now is that if you let it happen, it'
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by wccrawford 4mo ago
Correct. My wife still has a job, and our families have been very supportive. And as the others said, we've been saving money. We thought it was for retirement, but we're having to use some of it early for this situation.
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by wccrawford 4mo ago
I've had the same basic experience. I also don't fear for my job, but it's because I was already laid off 1.5 years ago, right at the start of this AI boom. :/ However, I love coding with the AI. I can get it to hand
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by wccrawford 4mo ago
That's exactly the point. Until recently, AI models that could run on home machines were so bad that it was very hard to imagine anyone wanting to. And, like the overly large machines of 1977, models are getting faster, leaner, and be
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by wccrawford 4mo ago
I'm full stack for 19 years and I love React, and I've been laid off for 1.5 years now. This is a terrible job market right now. That doesn't mean you don't have good skills, it just means that too many people have th
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by wccrawford 4mo ago
If you're telling them all that and not wasting their time, that's fine. But if you just ask them the question and don't tell them what you've found or where you got stuck, you're asking them to stop doing what they
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by wccrawford 5mo ago
I think that it's not a multiplier on skills. It's a reducer of time . For less experienced developers, it's an immediately reduction at the start of a project. But then they will almost certainly have problems later when t
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by wccrawford 5mo ago
Always. Power begets power. Everything needs to be kept in check. The only question is where the line is.
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by wccrawford 5mo ago
I wouldn't, but that does really put some perspective on it. His trouble isn't just from the time in jail, though. It's from all the Trump supporters who harass him as well. Previously, and in the future.
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by wccrawford 5mo ago
They look aligned to me, but Docs has an underline that's twice as tall as the others.
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by wccrawford 5mo ago
I wouldn't keep the "hardest" tasks. I'd keep the important ones. It's often the same, but there are differences. And I'd argue that the important ones are the ones that you most want to retain the ability t
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by wccrawford 5mo ago
I haven't used Claude, just Sweep, Copilot and whatever Jetbrains has. But they've definitely deleted code, not just added it. I know, because they have deleted code that I definitely still needed, and I had to reject those chan
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by wccrawford 5mo ago
If the manager is unreasonable, you were always going to have a problem with them, eventually. Nothing you can do with fix this. If manage is reasonable, you can explain to them that there isn't time to check the work of the AI, and t
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by wccrawford 5mo ago
AI is different because it's a tool, and the user of the tool is responsible for the work performed. An outsourced developer isn't a "tool". They're a human being, and responsible for their actions. They're b
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by wccrawford 5mo ago
This doesn't surprise me since the coding agents are similar. I've previously compared them to very fast, ambitious junior programmers. I think they are probably mid-level coders now, but they continue to make mistakes that a se
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by wccrawford 5mo ago
Exactly. Of course they're capable of it. That doesn't mean they will. They have a lot of incentives to behave badly, and there's no way to eliminate them all.
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by wccrawford 5mo ago
I really liked it, even though I didn't use any of the AI stuff. Then they just keep pushing the AI harder and harder, and I finally stopped and figured out how to configure the Win11 Terminal app "good enough" and dropped
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by wccrawford 5mo ago
I was in camp 'boolean', but I think this has convinced me. I always had a problem that there were developers who didn't really understand the code, but would click 'approve' anyhow because they didn't see any
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by wccrawford 5mo ago
"There is also this notebook that features a map, which is included in the Instagram post but is nowhere to be found on the website. The map is too blurry to make out properly, but the geography looks inconsistent with other maps of M
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by wccrawford 6mo ago
And you don't think those are pretty low-level? If they're doing the same thing as the interrupts that the article is talking about, they are low-level. If they aren't, then the comparison is by name only.
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by wccrawford 6mo ago
There's a difference between using a thing and understanding how it works. There's a lot of stuff in this that reference things that only hardware and software creators are going to understand, and only if they're deep eno
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by wccrawford 6mo ago
I think that's exactly the point. They've charged you $2 to process the request. They did that work. Even if you get the money back for the event, they still did the job, so they won't refund the service fee.
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by wccrawford 6mo ago
"Effect" as a verb means to bring about, or to bring it into existence. "Affect" means to have influence on them. It's definitely wrong in that paragraph.

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