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I think we are noticing it. Are you not? I am not. Congratulations on your side project.

I make no societal judgments; just that the nastiness of the reactions I get suggests something more than technical choice is going on. I had one prominent "influencer" publicly ch…

I can believe people get value out of them. I think I do. But "OH MY GOD EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED THE OLD WAY IS DEAD 10X MORE PRODUCTIVE" - no. If that were true, we'd notice it in …

I think this goes along way to explain people's very defensive reactions when you are skeptical about Agentic Development.

LLMs let you generate code quickly. This seems to have very little relevance to the end result.

All very sensible points which I think all senior programmers who have used AI would largely to agree with. For those more junior - keep in mind that a lot of the maximalist rhetor…

Oh so THAT'S why the web app is so slow

What a bitchy reply

huh, I call the atom feed on my site an atom feed. I wonder if that confuses people...

I think I could probably live on them. I am actually seeking a more restricted computer system these days... I really don't need DRM or slop apps or games.

That's the wonderful thing about the Agile Manifesto - it says so little you can use it to justify anything. Specs? The agile manifesto never said to stop writing specs! Standups? …

The places where I've seen unequivocal wins with AI are repetitive tech debt tasks that apply the same transformation across a large amount of code or refactor under a pre-existing…

Looks like an incredibly dull way to waste hours of my finite life for microscopic benefit.

I could say the same for reading Tony Hoare.

lmao. fish, water, etc.

I still don't know it very well, and it's been well over a decade. I think it's a combination of a few things: - I find it uninteresting. My version control needs are very simple. …

yeah I would really love to see a subset of git with a sane cli. would switch in a heartbeat.

Correct on both counts.

See? I can't even mention it without scare quotes and downvotes :)

If I talked about how I needed to recover from being raised in a progressive environment, it would not be so well received in well-respected tech circles. There's an assymetry here…

I think the truth is whether people want to admit it or not is that coding has not been solved, and producing good software is really not any easier. Making legacy code however is …

Hmmm - I guess all the "chatbot" web interfaces for LLMs have an option to upload images. And they're really good at this now you say? That's a really useful tip; thanks.