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by wiseowise 4mo ago
Google is a great developer, but a really shitty consumer company. Nest devices are garbage, it has been like a decade since their phones were competitive with other vendors, ChromeOS was barely hanging outside of education center and now i
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
> And every other facet of my life, I am finding ways for it to save my time on an almost daily basis. Can you give a couple of examples?
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
Let's not switch the goalposts here. Me having an option to not use something doesn't exclude the said party from going against user's freedom.
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
> the average use will pick something shiny and lose their savings when it transfers their bank balance outside the country. Couldn't you make a more believable straw man, please? The "Nigerian prince wants to send you billions
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
iPhone's last stand? More like Microsoft's last stand. Nobody wants their garbage hardware and software outside of enterprise shmucks more interested in filling their pockets with fat contract money than delivering value. > The
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
> Literally no one, no one even claimed we would work less due to AI. Yeah? What is this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADUlC-fWKsY
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
I was talking about the article, though. I'm agreeing with your comment, in case it's not clear.
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
You putting “you’re an expert jerk off master” in agents.md is the same as shaman burning a bone to predict a future.
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
There’s no irony. Author made a straw man of some bad, bad developer laughing at poor cabbies and it all clicked once VCs came for the fellow professionals.
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
Tech bro lamenting and berating developers how immoral and hypocritical they’re for “laughing” (has this ever happened?) at other professions, while doing the same. Story as old as time.
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
Why would it? Who, with a half brain, thought that you’d ever work less ?
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
Have you tried JIRA or YouTrack?
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
If you blindly ignore all the drawbacks, preach that "future is now" and whoever is not using the slot machine "will be left behind", then you're in a cult.
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
> You can argue that the committee route is not the best, but C++ is here to stay and by some metrics adoption is actually growing. You can argue that chemical companies route is not the best, but cancer is here to stay and by some metri
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
Why even pay them at all? Just lock them in a cell and give them a bowl of rice.
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
It uses ART, which is not a Java platform.
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by wiseowise 4mo ago
> That result would say less about performance of languages than it would about competency of developers with a language. > B-b-but skill issue! That's one of the dimensions of the language too. Not only raw performance matters.
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by wiseowise 5mo ago
I have Surface copilot whatever. The battery life is great. OS is a complete garbage. No amount of HW thrown at windows will fix its issues.
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by wiseowise 5mo ago
> They weren't building and shipping by themselves though. Yes they did, all the time. You just need to get out of your tech bubble. > AI has made it possible for people with motivation and time to do what was previously only pos
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by wiseowise 5mo ago
Another vibe coder and Claude?
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by wiseowise 5mo ago
> You are not steering development anymore. This hasn't been the case for at least a decade. Long before LLMs.
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by wiseowise 5mo ago
> It's definitely not a new thing since LLMs came around, if that is what you were implying It is on a scale that it is required now. Previously you could say "it'll take me a week to decipher the mess", now they can
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by wiseowise 5mo ago
As opposed to what? You seriously think that shipping 10 years, instead of turning-the-crank and going home, will save you from the interviewing gauntlet?
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by wiseowise 5mo ago
You don't understand, Claude 69 will be able to one-shot GTA6. You NEED to buy into the fearmongering and anxiety.
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by wiseowise 5mo ago
Offtopic, but how do you monitor all of this stuff, Simon? Do you have a routine where you recheck Reddit, Twitter, HN, other resources, or do you use LLMs to find material for you?
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by wiseowise 5mo ago
> The sad irony is that when software was eating the world and new CompSci grads could take their pick of $150,000+ job offers before ever writing a line of production code, a lot of people in the industry had a smug "tough luck&quo
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by wiseowise 5mo ago
> there are tech-savvy non-developers who are actually building and shipping stuff with AI. I personally know a few who have been successful in acquiring initial customers. It'll shake your world, but tech-savvy non-developers were
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by wiseowise 5mo ago
> In that world there's really nothing humans can offer in terms of logical thinking other than their humanity itself. By your logic anyone who's not in the top 10% of intelligence can't offer anything. The world keeps spi
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by wiseowise 5mo ago
> That last sentence is verifiably false if you look at SWE job postings and their recovery since 2022. Do you take into account recent layoffs of Meta (8k people), Block (4k people) and others?
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by wiseowise 5mo ago
> If you're worried about non-technical vibe coders taking your job I'm not worried about non-technical vibe coders taking my job. I'm worried about psychotic VCs and CEOs putting me on the street in the name of "opti

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