whstl

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by whstl 10d ago
I saw a product manager that used to do that, just ask developers to verify the Claude hallucination and placeholder numbers. He got fired quite quickly after his boss realized it was all bullshit.
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by whstl 11d ago
I really wish apps stopped doing that "search on type" thing in search boxes. You either need to have only a couple miliseconds of response time, or you need to confirm that you want the search process to start. Or maybe at least
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by whstl 11d ago
This is absolutely true, but even the most charitable interpretation of “maximize the use of AI” doesn’t include “do nothing but prompt and you’ll keep your job”. One can argue semantics and fairness all day long, but if an employee is addi
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by whstl 11d ago
To answer the sibling that is flagged. I vouched but it’s still grey. These people were fired because their work was considered shit by their managers and produced no results. They were replaced by nobody. They were dead weight pretending t
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by whstl 11d ago
I'm seeing another team doing this, with 99% agents, and quality, predictability of delivery and raw performance have taken a massive nosedive. But even not caring about quality: Speed of development is abysmal. It was never something
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by whstl 11d ago
After seeing a crazy amount of non-programmers, sometimes with 10 years of experience, basically turning off their brains and offloading most their thinking to some LLM and turning their days into "please check this product and tell me
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by whstl 12d ago
I merely argued that requirements don’t automatically absolve a judgement of over-engineering. If you disagree: fine. I don’t care about doorbells or Tulips.
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by whstl 12d ago
You can have as many bags as you want, they’re just reusable and returnable.
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by whstl 12d ago
I have the same experience in one of our properties. We have someone who's checking daily what's there, and they need to vet ads constantly. It's a lot of anti-fungus advertisement (which made us block health products in gene
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by whstl 12d ago
It’s not a grey area for features. It’s grey for other parts of the code that are not mentioned in the text.
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by whstl 12d ago
It’s not a grey area for features. It’s a grey area for other parts of the code that are not mentioned in the text.
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by whstl 12d ago
> that means having a different way of doing it is useless? That’s a ridiculous jump to a totally extreme conclusion that’s not supported by any message above. What does one even answer to this without getting sucked into a pointless arg
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by whstl 13d ago
> LLMs will enable some people to run a whole business on "real" applications without hiring a "real" programmer SaaS, and before that a lot of shrink wrap software, has been allowing this for several decades now.
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by whstl 13d ago
I've seen a few people already descending into pure AI madness, not able (wanting?) to do their work anymore, and just repeating everything the AI says, going to it for every single decision on the job. A few of those were fired. Anoth
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by whstl 13d ago
It was announced in December and took a while to catch. https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/393332200/you-can-...
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by whstl 13d ago
In Germany I like the "OK" brand from Saturn/Mediamarkt. They're Ok. The dumb models are very cheap and the picture is faithful due to lack of framerate-doubler and other picture-enhancement shenanigans.
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by whstl 13d ago
I remember transparency was handled with gifs back then, which had their own problems and limitations. Alignment was either done via position: absolute or by using a table. The animated background here would be a bit more complicated with a
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by whstl 14d ago
I wouldn't be so negative. Maybe to cheer you up: we're doing a few tests at our org, and we found that product-minded engineers still have a tremendous leg-up compared to other people when it comes to actually shipping products.
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by whstl 14d ago
100% this. Pirating in Germany is probably the stupidest thing one can do, because enforcement is done by individual lawyers via a process called Abmahnung. Courts (and therefore providers) are very friendly to those. Everyone knows someone
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by whstl 14d ago
Being outside of the US, most Google ads I see are some kind of finance scam, or scam-adjacent. And in smaller websites it's mostly Malware and health-related scams. The reason you don't see these on every website is purely becaus
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by whstl 14d ago
I know a company that spends >15M per year on Google ads, and Google blocked one campaign on a Friday night claiming it was fraud, in the middle of a hot sales season. Took the rep two weeks to actually find out what happened. It's
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by whstl 14d ago
If you can't see craft in programming, then you're most certainly fully replaceable by LLMs. And I mean fully. The "no, but you see, the important part is what I do!" replies get really tiresome after a while.
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by whstl 14d ago
That's beautiful, and true.
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by whstl 14d ago
I hope the 100 new SaaS churned by AI gets swallowed by 1000 internal SaaS churned by AIs. I'm frankly tired of SaaS.
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by whstl 14d ago
If so, people can just pay Anthropic or OpenAI directly. They are great toolmakers.
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by whstl 14d ago
> There are 1000s of those tasks. Yep. Plenty of products attacked this tedium from different angles, from Ruby and Rails to Supabase. And half of NPM. Heck, more than half. LLMs are doing it a bit better, IMO. I don't have to rew
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by whstl 14d ago
I think the IK comment is interesting. Tedious animation is something that animators I worked with also hated doing, and they were always after tools to accelerate their workflow, so they could focus on the high-level decisions. I've a
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by whstl 14d ago
Someone once told me "Some people like writing books. Other people wish they had written a book." People who don't enjoy the craft are not bothered by AI and will replace manual labour with AI. There's nothing with that,
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by whstl 15d ago
Where I work: Developers very rarely blow their limits, except when they're experimenting on purpose. Most non-developers are out of tokens by the half of the week, and need to use usage credits for the remainder. To me there is clearl
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by whstl 15d ago
My team experimented with re-writing from scratch the prototype of complex functionality made by a non-engineering vibe-coder from another team. We didn't look at the code, and barely looked at the result. It took about 4 days to get a

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