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by whstl 7mo ago
We should 100% blame them. I recently had to clean up a mess and after days asking what’s in use and what’s not, turns out nothing is really needed, and 80 tracking pixels were added “because that’s how we do it”.
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by whstl 8mo ago
I have the same, and I probably won't get another that soon. I have used it for dev work daily for 6 years.
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by whstl 8mo ago
I agree. I'd also argue that local effects of productivity were already visible since the start of ChatGPT. I was already using it a lot back then for writing tests and as a "smarter scaffolding", even before Copilot and such
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by whstl 8mo ago
Also a lot more clone ideas these days. AI has definitely empowered people to write things from scratch, either as a product to sell or as internal projects inside companies.
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by whstl 8mo ago
I heard about those from parents/grandparents and it was interesting in contrast to MLM meetings I had people trying to con me into participating. I fell for one invite once and they are pure sleaze.
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by whstl 8mo ago
That’s also why 99% of people building games with Unity or Unreal never get anywhere by themselves or just produce asset-flip slop, and then complain on Reddit about marketing being hard. Programming an engine requires dedication, but prett
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by whstl 8mo ago
That’s a great point, but yes: a lot of devs were nothing more than a glorified LLM and during reviews were just an expensive linter. Reality is catching up to those.
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by whstl 8mo ago
Making fluff sound grandiose is probably what makes so grating.
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by whstl 8mo ago
For me, one thing that completely changed almost overnight was dealing with junior developers. In the past, I would give them an assignment and they would take a few days to return with the implementation. I was able to see them struggling,
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by whstl 8mo ago
Not disagreeing, but apart from coding the most boring part of the entire job is the one that's the hardest to correctly delegate to AI: testing and ensuring the whole thing is sound. Which is why it's changing the calculus on jun
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by whstl 8mo ago
Yep, exactly. That's the gist of it. Scale is also what's killing jobs, ruining human relationships, fucking up societies. Et cetera.
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by whstl 8mo ago
That's just pushing a file to git.
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by whstl 8mo ago
> So do you know everyone in the industry that made that such a claim Of course, I wouldn't have said so otherwise. Here's another one: every pedant in this website never adds anything useful to any conversation.
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by whstl 8mo ago
Everyone in this industry making a certain bullshit claim. I did qualify my statement. Don’t cut my words to make a strawman. Additionally I state in the end that I do believe it’s possible.
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by whstl 8mo ago
True. Which is all the more reason for calling bullshit on claims of "doing good" or "having ideals" by anyone building a company that can eventually be ran my MBAs.
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by whstl 8mo ago
> Something I don't think is well understood on HN is how driven by ideals many folks at Anthropic are After 20 years of everyone in this industry saying "we want to make the world a better place" and doing the opposit
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by whstl 8mo ago
It was even crazier than that, it was four Fender Twin Reverbs! Considering the amount of watts involved in this, it probably qualifies as rocket science haha JM: Yeah. The tremolo sound from the intro? That was four Fender Twin Reverbs. M
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by whstl 8mo ago
No, they're not. That's how me and several people in my network have gotten jobs in the last few years. That's also how I relocated to another country 10 years ago. Via recruiters.
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by whstl 8mo ago
True, but... I get the feeling the job market is bimodal. Anecdotal, but I see people out of a job for years on end, saying they applied for 2000 jobs in the meantime, while others still keep getting recruiter messages on LinkedIn and can g
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by whstl 8mo ago
I don't think either me or GP compared this to a package manager. "Replacing usage" doesn't mean "it's the same".
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by whstl 8mo ago
Not that different from the social media influencer crowd or the crypto coin influencer crowd. Hell, same as media whores of the 20th century. Which in the end is just the same old same old, just dressed differently.
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by whstl 8mo ago
The reply was also not about submodules. “Push” makes it clear.
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by whstl 8mo ago
It's about raw performance. The tools mentioned mostly optimize for fast parsing, fast compilation/transpilation, etc.
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by whstl 8mo ago
There you go, the second part of your answer is a good way of disagreeing without diminishing or dismissing someone else's experience.
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by whstl 8mo ago
All I'm asking is for you to please stop dismissing my experience as lucky or privileged, or claiming I didn't have problems. I never said clients aren't difficult or that I only had good customers anywhere. Just that there m
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by whstl 8mo ago
Exactly. The game of telephone is prone to misinterpretation and, when this happens too much, it often answers with rigidity and lack of flexibility, out of fear.
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by whstl 8mo ago
Once again you are making assumptions about my experience. Can you please stop? > if you really, never wanted a layer of separation between certain clients over behavioral issues that got in the way of the actual work Who says I haven’
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by whstl 8mo ago
GP never said it was. But it does successfully replaces the need of using one, with less problems for certain situations.
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by whstl 8mo ago
Calling me "privileged" or "lucky" feels like a cheap attack on my competence. I am certain that I went through the same problems you did in the past, maybe I just have a different way of dealing with them, or maybe I ha
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by whstl 8mo ago
I'm obviously not talking about the people asking "what is it".

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