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It's less a binary pay/no pay, and more the value of accessing the dev tools. If you consider the fact that AI companies are most likely losing money running the models, then AI to…

Unreadable slop and "tasteful" choices are independent of each other. You can make "tasteful choices" that makes code unreadable (I know from experience). Readability also has some…

Nothing that you talked about pertains to art. Writing good code does not mean you're making art. You shouldn't strive for internal consistency with yourself, you should strive for…

Some of the worse engineers I've ever interacted with had too strong of a "taste" for what they felt were right and were completely unable or unwilling to work outside of that. Dev…

Paying for Internet is not a great analogy imo. If you don't pay $1k/mo for Internet, you literally can't work. What happens if you don't pay $1k/mo for Claude? Do you get an appre…

At the end of the day, they're subject to the same market forces. If the big publishers lose their shirts, that means small bloggers don't have any chance of making it big. The sam…

I ride Muni, BART and Caltrain all the time (I'm car-free in SF), and I have no idea what you're talking about. Here are the actual statistics of crime per vehicle mile on Muni: ht…

Just because the shareholders didn't vote on it, or an exec didn't explicitly say "hey steal this" does not absolve the company. Leadership doesn't get to throw up their hands and …

Anyone else hosting MCP servers in a generally available way? Seems like that's the end goal given the network transports (especially the one in new spec revision). Seems like ever…

VC funding is for sure less personal risk, but I don't think the other points are universally true. 1. Re: hiring, you're probably not going to hire your first FTE right after rais…

That's the reality of a lot of other degrees. Looks like it finally caught up to CS degrees.

Is Rust praised for its checked errors? I've personally found it extremely verbose since there essentially is no possibility for unchecked errors. Also, external crates like "anyho…

How do you even "fix" loneliness? If you don't know that, you can't allocate resources. Plenty of research studies have been done on loneliness to find a silver bullet. For most pe…

I really doubt "literally" every software you used or worked for has multiple competitors doing the "exact" same thing. VC money can temporarily prop up multiple competitors doing …

Unlike regular businesses, software scales infinitely and delivers immediately. You absolutely must have a "unique" selling point, even if it's just being cheaper. Otherwise, your …

If you need to built quick, you can get all of this configured out-of-the-box with something like Supabase. If I had to set up all the roles and security myself, I don't know if I'…

Am I missing something or is step 3 missing some steps to validate the JWT and define the current_user_id() function? Taking a look at the docs here: https://postgrest.org/en/v12/r…

More than existing chatbots? Curious what anecdotes you have, whether it be on the customer-side or the service-side.

It's crazy how popular authoritarian demagogues have gotten around the world. His campaign, mannerism, and treatment of media and opposition can be a cut and paste of a bunch of di…

Including those events would certainly change the picture. I don't like how the article implies that all this was a result of GitHub founders being smart rather than SourceForge mi…

Curious how much of this is due to factors other than AI. The data is correlated, but at least for me, I'm not convinced of causation. Also, I'm kind of surprised at the customer s…

Didn't know Git had a bisect feature. I'll keep that in mind for later. Other than bisect though, I do think a lot of the practices outlined in the article (checking the blame, log…

Bitbucket dropped Mercurial support in 2020: https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-b... I just don't think there is good RoI for implementing Mercurial support…

I agree there doesn't seem to be a good connection between work on version control and work on code search. However, I don't think it makes sense to downplay git5. Anecdotally, bas…