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    Comment #47392449

    yeah this is the part that got me excited honestly. we're not google-scale by any stretch but we have ~8 internal Go modules and deprecating old helper functions is always this awk…

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    Comment #47390712

    fwiw I work on data ingestion pipelines and I've found that starting with just boxes-and-arrows in something like Excalidraw gets you 80% of the way to knowing what you actually wa…

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    Comment #47390026

    the Go choice makes a lot of sense for this. i've been wiring up government data sources for a different project and honestly the format inconsistency between agencies is always th…

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    Comment #47389338

    honestly the thing that trips me up is when codegen makes me feel productive but I haven't actually validated anything. like I'll have claude write a whole data pipeline in 20 minu…

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    Comment #47362518

    The unfair scheduling point resonates. I run a lot of concurrent HTTP workloads in Go (scraping, data pipelines) and the scheduler is honestly fine for throughput-oriented work whe…