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Why do people use LinkedIn? I think I had an account for 10 years and all I got was recruiter spam. Coworkers all use it. For what I don’t know. None of them were hired from there.…

The way I’m seeing AI used by organizations is to produce process slop: tickets, summaries, docs, etc. rather than drive process change and optimization, or enable individuals to b…

Discovery and optimization are very different processes. Optimization is the process of finding the shortest path to a goal. Discovery is the process of stumbling on new goals and …

So change employees if your employee doesn’t accept unpaid overtime. Employers are the ones who set working conditions in the absence of collective bargaining (either via the state…

Engineers should be wary about being forced into using particular prompts/skills/instructions. Why would I use a shared LLM-in-the-cloud, instead of my own? The shared one preclude…

To stop uncompensated overtime and on-call? I’d like that very much.

Title is inaccurate. Fixed more “security bugs” not “bugs”. The article is specifically about security vulnerabilities.

> They don't. But reviewing individual commits in the GitHub UI is hard. So instead of solving that problem, GitHub developed tooling around a workaround for that problem (targetin…

Shameful. Are there ethical standards to be part of YC?

The most productive programmer was able to choose the most impactful problem to solve and how to solve it? There's a lesson in there...

Do you think the future is more sophisticated agent management, or will tooling increasingly fall away to a single chat session with an executive agent of sorts?

Agent orchestrators are the IDE dream repackaged. IDEs never really took off, excepting lock-in/monolopolization (Visual Studio, Xcode). They never lived up to the grand vision of …

That is a good post. Thank you for sharing. I can't help but notice that this person is speaking as a programmer, not the person in charge of employing programmers. Is that what th…

Producing features and fixing bugs, same as it was before. The organizational process of software development has not changed much with AI: execs decide direction and initiatives, …

Gating integration behind code review is futile. I (and many other engineers) already automated it. My agent responds to review requests and reviews as me. Company policies enforci…

Don't overcomplicate it. A business sells products or services for more than it costs to provide them. A product needs sales, but sales don't need a product: selling first is cheap…

Huh. The sales team at my company is the one who closes millions in ARR and all the enterprise contracts - not the CEO. I’m sure being the “conduit of information and a representat…

All I know is creating yet another place to store data is not going to solve your problem. The problem of scattered data is to put data in one place.