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I was also skeptical, but I started measuring quality (I'm using rework as a rough metric) and quantity (PR throughput), and I've found that, on average, LLMs are 60% worse at writ…

The question is what your tolerance to this kind of thing is. If the job is fundamentally changing underneath you, then you need to ask yourself if this is still a job you want to …

Right. But OP's question isn't "do you need a chef?" the question OP posed is more akin to "why should chefs use knives when they have blenders?" or "why should I build an IKEA boo…

Sure. But this is a little pedantic, no? Let's go with your analogy: you would hire contractors to build a house, but not to put an IKEA bookshelf together. You would hire a profes…

Conversely, imagine only requiring carpenters to know how to use a chainsaw.

Yes, exactly.

I mean, it's the same idea, no? You hire contractors to build your house, but not to put together an IKEA bookshelf.

It's like any other tool. Use it when you need it. We don't insist that HVAC installers use hand-powered drills to "feel closer to the work," but we also don't insist that they use…

Leaving aside the conflict of interest here ("EDA bad, workflows good, buy DBOS workflows"), this is a significant straw man. The author more or less picked the worst example of ev…

Ah, but you're talking about something else: hardware is quite different from software. Once your machine is out in the wild, you can't update it remotely. But with software, shipp…

Hey, this is very cool and creative! I like it a lot! Great job!

I guess my question to you would be: does it matter if they're using AI? I don't think anyone in 2026 would criticize a candidate for using a calculator, and Googling syntax and so…

I'll go the opposite direction: if your Sr Release Engineer will use AI assistants (Claude Code, etc) on the job, let them use it in the interview. The best interviews test critica…

Love it! I ran into some trouble installing it (`/plugin install nerdflair@...` didn't work), but ultimately got it in. Great upgrades, though. Nice job!

Sure, but the author is presenting it in the present tense ("I don't know anyone who writes code anymore") which isn't grounded in fact or reality, but wishful thinking about the f…

This is a pretty wild take. "They don't know what DevOps or SRE is" is not the flex the author thinks it is. That's just ignorance of the consequences of shipping. There's a huge l…

how can i structure my income to avoid income tax? asking for a friend.

Same!

Legend of the Red Dragon (LoRD), Solar Realms Elite and Barren Realms Elite, and Tradewars were the best. When I want to learn a new programming language, I always try to recreate …

I think about fidonet all the time. It was a magical concept.

Not affiliated, just a fan, but if this is a topic you're interested in, I highly recommend Michael Livingston's "1066: A Guide to the Battles and Campaigns." I https://www.michael…

"Better than JSON" is a pretty bold claim, and even though the article makes some great cases, the author is making some trade-offs that I wouldn't make, based on my 20+ year caree…

IIRC, AvatarMUD (avatar.outland.org) has 20,000+ rooms in it. It's been a long time since I played, but it's absolutely massive!

That's exactly what the pin-pen merger is! As you know, it's not limited to pin/pen, and hearing ability (in my case, profound hearing loss) is not related to the ability to hear t…

I'm also deaf, and I took 14 years of speech therapy. I grew up in Alabama. The only way you would know I'm from the South is because of the pin-pen merger[1]. Otherwise, you'd thi…