whstl

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1. 301.▲
   by whstl 5mo ago

   Opus does this waaaay too much for my taste. It works fine for vibe-coders but for technical work it is infuriating.
2. 302.▲
   by whstl 5mo ago

   It also teaches way more to mid-levels and seniors than just grinding code would.
3. 303.▲
   by whstl 5mo ago

   For what it’s worth, I’ve been in companies not hiring juniors in 2016-2020, 2023-2024. My current company just hired a few, plus interns. This is not new. IMO: This says more about companies than the market. Companies are willing to spend
4. 304.▲
   by whstl 5mo ago

   Shit talking other people’s programming style to sell consultancy hours, basically.
5. 305.▲
   by whstl 5mo ago

   Indeed. The lineage is pretty clear: Spanish Guitar -> Dreadnoughts with Cutaway -> Flat Solid-body Telecaster -> Flat Precision/Telecaster Bass -> Contoured Stratocaster The asymmetric body shape was a very clever design o
6. 306.▲
   by whstl 5mo ago

   Indeed. I've had great experiences with them. It's basically $500 guitars sold for half or even a third of the price, probably made at the same factories that Fender makes their new line in Indonesia. My $1500 Gibson Les Paul DC J
7. 307.▲
   by whstl 5mo ago

   Yeah. Fender is even manufacturing Fender-branded guitars in Indonesia, and IIRC for a while they even had a few China-made models. Plus Mexico, Korea and Japanese models have been here forever.
8. 308.▲
   by whstl 5mo ago

   I've seen several Rails apps where all the mentioned signs happened, and all of them were apps that didn't use the Rails-Way. And this is accelerated by design patterns that blow up the amount of components used. Then there&#x27
9. 309.▲
   by whstl 5mo ago

   This is so true. It even happens to me in my 16GB work laptop when I have to use multiple Electron apps at work. My personal 8GB Air is way faster. On the other hand, WebViews can be really fast without the baggage of Electron and Javascrip
10. 310.▲
    by whstl 5mo ago

    I agree with you. The healthier organizations work in the way you mention.
11. 311.▲
    by whstl 5mo ago

    This was already a reality for a years. In several companies I have seen product managers joining teams and failing to even have minor requirement ready for months during “onboarding” of the PM. And then code being ready but taking months t
12. 312.▲
    by whstl 5mo ago

    I’m finding that companies are starting to be way less lenient to that. Nobody wants to consume slop.
13. 313.▲
    by whstl 5mo ago

    I'm an electrical engineer that moved to software engineering and there's a lot of commonalities between what I do now and what I did previously as an electrical engineer. The bar might seem high, but that's the only way I kn
14. 314.▲
    by whstl 5mo ago

    I love how this is a problem caused by Big Tech (AI), with “solutions” brought by Big Tech (FAANG etc) and “countermeasures” will also be brought in by future billion-dollar industries (domestic-proxy provider BrightData is 1B already) whil
15. 315.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    For me, yes. It started to improve a few years ago already, but now it’s back full circle.
16. 316.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    Those authentication providers require you to do the same Google/Apple OAuth certificate configuration yourself, and you even have to pay the 99 euros for Apple. SAML/SSO is indeed finicky, but the problematic part (mapping attrib
17. 317.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    I literally can't picture someone who simultaneously 1) has been managing to land great jobs in small shops, 2) browses HN and 3) doesn't empathize with complaints of bloat, dependencies, pager duty and meetings.
18. 318.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    I'm starting to see pushback for this. I know a Product Manager that was fired for padding his documentation with AI to the point there were mistakes and wasted work due to AI hallucinations.
19. 319.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    That's the crazy thing about criticizing the industry in general: you can't really get away with it without someone calling you incompetent, point blank! :D What I am describing here is FAANG (two of them) and every startup (two Y
20. 320.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    If anything, the current era looks like how 1995-2015 was for me. Back then I was not in the “nitpicker’s radar” yet. I was working in small teams and shipping like crazy, sometimes fixing small bugs literally in seconds. Things worked, wer
21. 321.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    Hot take, but the bureaucracy of Scrum, the Figmafication of design and the disdain of PMs for iterative deliveries generates more work and waste than AIs are able to save.
22. 322.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    Yep. It depends so much on task, expectations, ability to express what you want and whether the problem has been solved elsewhere or not. The results are always so ridiculously different.
23. 323.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    I dunno. SEO spam made by human-robots already killed the first half of the internet in the late 2010s. Mostly driven by low-paid freelancers writing without expertise and plagiarizing other articles like crazy. It has been virtually imposs
24. 324.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    Good point. But TBH I was already seeing it, even in the pre-AI landscape. Bad designers are a huge bottleneck and terrible gatekeepers of information, delaying the work even before the development starts, during and after. I saw this a lot
25. 325.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    They had a "normal" page before the art one for the longest time according to my memory but confirmed by web archive. Also: the current website is for a different product altogether. They pivoted. Attributing low conversion rate t
26. 326.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    They also very often don’t understand what’s easy and what’s hard to implement, what’s a real priority vs a nice to have, and have extremely strong opinions against off-the-shelf components and prefer building everything from scratch. Also:
27. 327.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    Same. When hobby/professional products become luxury/category goods, prices of everything go up because they're now Veblen Goods. The craziest thing is seeing companies closing because of saturation, and prices of discontinue
28. 328.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    Yep I'm the same. I just call it bash. I think old habits die hard.
29. 329.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    I am in a similar place. Especially regarding Bash. Used to be in a few companies where most developers just couldn’t/wouldn’t write in more than one language and it was always a pain to maintain different runtimes, languages, packages
30. 330.▲
    by whstl 6mo ago

    > But the author just took pictures of food & expected a realistic response? You say this (and I agree), but I know of quite a few companies in this area, including a couple accelerated by YCombinator, and that's pretty much 1