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(current Googler) For what it's worth we still use Android Studio as well internally, it is better and faster for doing specific UI stuff because of the tooling and visualization. …

It seems to forget about what I do and don't have access to (in terms of apps). I've had to remind it that I have Spotify and YT music more than once. Other than that agreed going …

In general I don't disagree that it is a multiplier in the hands of good engineers but it also seems to be a multiplier in the hands of bad engineers (multiples of bad). The questi…

Honest question what were you doing that could be 100xd That did the companys revenue / profit significantly change in some way? Even at a large company if a person 100xd their pro…

This seems like a big HN / VC bubble thing thinking that average people are interested in software at all... they really aren't. People want to open Netflix / YT / TikTok, open ins…

My manager at work still does this in work chats and it drives me a bit crazy. If I want to k own what an LLMs take on the subject is I can just go ask it. The chat is for people t…

I can say at Google we usually just had engineering tip posters in the washrooms they were usually very insightful and just written by other engineers at the company. Stuff like ho…

The thesis of the article is that software other people have built is bad (frameworks) but software my LLM agent is good (for undisclosed reasons). I think it just adds to the nois…

Yeah honestly I've been racking my brain about the same question (where can I move on to). HN has been my home for learning about all sorts of things for 10+ years but blockchain +…

Every day I feel closer to leaving this industry when I see articles like this. Is software even a real industry with patterns, safety, design, performance, review, etc. Or are we …

In my experience the lack of joy or difficulty with tests is almost always that the test environment is usually different enough from the real environment that you end up needing t…

Most likely the headline was written by an LLM so the irony was lost on it.

Ironically I feel like our QA team is busier than ever since most e2e user-ish tests require coordinating tools that is just beyond current LLM capabilities. We are pumping out fea…

I wonder if that's only really true for "pre-LLM" engineers though. If all you know is prompting maybe there's not a higher quality with more focused that can really be achieved. I…

Thank you for putting this so succinctly, this is what I'm observing as well. Feels like this combination (usually) creates a race to the bottom instead of expansion of new ideas. …

This analogy has always been bad any time someone has used it. Compilers directly transform via known algorithms. Vibecoding is literally just random probabilistic mapping between …

There has been a very public announcement that OpenAI will start exploring ads in their models https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-exp...

To be fair there seems to be a weird dissonance between the marketing (fire your workers because AI can do everything now) and the reality (actually you need to spend time and effo…

I would think this is reasonable. My general understanding at Amazon is that things are expected to work via API boundaries (not quite the case at Google).

Googler opinions are my own. If agentic coding worked as well as people claimed on large codebases I would be seeing a massive shift at my Job... Im really not seeing it. We have a…

Just wanted to say I've felt very similarly recently. Honestly feels like we need a place to continue to discuss post-tech career paths for mid-career engineers. I've been consider…

That argument seems completely nullified by the fact that the president unilaterally changes his mind on tariffs every other day and setting up a manufacturing basis can take 10+ y…

I hate to say it but I completely agree, don't want to be a downer I'm sure OPs project is cool, but I legitimately could not understand what it was based on this landing page. No …

This is a really great idea going to try this out. I similarly just cannot mentally stand reviewing vibe coding PRs all day, but this sounds genuinely useful.

This idea sounds somewhat flawed to me based on the large amount of evidence that LLMs need huge amounts of data to properly converge during their training. There is just not enoug…