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This article could have been a sentence: a senior engineer does engineering and does the work of the PO/PM too.

I am freelancing on the side and charge 100€ by the hour. Spending roughly 100€ per month on AI subscriptions has a higher ROI for me personally than spending time on reading this …

My favourite saying is: "dumb people get old too".

Whatever the Chief People Officer of any company has to "say" is plain PR and as such can't be taken seriously...

Really sharp reasoning. This can be reversed to define an extra ordinary manager: don't care about your head count and just be a fucking grown up who's emotional state does not dep…

> Don't you think they can easily monetize their 800 million [...] users? I am pretty sure they will be able to monetize it. But there is a big difference between "generating reven…

They have infrastructure that serves 800 million monthly active users. Even worse, they train their model(s) on the interactions of those non-paying customers, what makes the model…

I am happy to read this here. I manage a team of 3 and code half-time. We are heavy on XP, because I introduced it. At the beginning it felt strange for the team but in between the…

> Honestly I think lesson 7 is nobody's normal. There are only two types of ppl: "the wrong kind of crazy" and "the right kind of crazy". Why would I want to connect with the wrong…

I wish I would not have a standard post for topics like this: Every time a surveillance system and violation of privacy rights is advertised in the EU as a solution against child a…

It would have been interesting to see how an Elasticsearch like system performs on this task.

Marketers ship code, salespeople answer technical questions without backup... ...and you dentist cuts you hair and your hairdresser pulls your teeth. Because everything is a trade …

Is this not the guy who is on the payroll of Anthropic? Not because he is wrong, but because there is so much marketing going on in this space nowadays.

Why not fighting fire with fire and using AI to: Version A: find 100 LOC which can be reduced to 50 LOC without changing the functionality. Then ask the author to go through the PR…

They laid off the original staff. Bending Spoons has own teams taking care of the acquired companies. I read about it here a while ago. I am pretty sure the re-design was done by o…

Modern problems sometimes require old-fashioned solutions.

> They bought Komoot, laid off 80% of the staff, but they still did a major redesign This sounds like "doing a major redesign" would be something positive. I'm a paying customer si…

> Am I the only one who feels like this is obviated by Docker? This whole discussion has the same vibes like digital photography 15 years ago. Back then some people spent more time…

On the first glance this seems to be a very bad idea. But re-readig this: > Get answers about any cell in seconds: Navigate complex models instantly. Ask Claude about specific form…

Once my boss told me: “You can’t force people to do something they don’t want to do.” And this guy just don’t want to work well with you. Period. I learned one approach that someti…

This is XP ( http://www.extremeprogramming.org/ ) applied to a one-man-army. I wish this would be common knowledge.