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captain_coffee

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    Comment #48135830

    I am 100% convinced that you are either trolling or that your comment is explicitly made in bad faith.

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    Comment #48129530

    Besides a standard plain old rebrand - will there be any tangible benefit / gain from this move? Any reason for the rebrand to begin with?

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    Comment #47433900

    I was having ads played even with the most expensive Spotify subscription a few years ago because ... feel this: The ads were CHOSEN BY THE END CLIENT, not Spotify itself as a lega…

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    Comment #47433862

    So, Microsoft products still are a garbage fire in March 2026. Fully aligned with the expectations

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    Comment #47335856

    Music to my ears! Couldn't happen to a better company!

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    Comment #47130864

    What do you mean "only the tests would take a few thousand days"? Did running the test suite take 10 years? Like literally what exactly do you mean?

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    Comment #46823130

    Some sort of an AI crash / bubble bursting is expected to be honest - now if that will take the rest of the US economy as well.... debatable. Any strong opinions on this?

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    Comment #46810461

    > Europe just became a lower-cost extension of Silicon Valley. Pretty much spot on. The UK included in the above definition of Europe as well.

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    Comment #46806787

    Me personally: absolutely not - and I fundamentally do not understand the need for something like this. I would never use such a tool under any possible circumstance knowing what I…

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    Comment #46802849

    Could you give only a few examples from those PLENTY of other places that are better? Like the first 10 that come to your mind, you made me very curious!

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    Comment #46802807

    I was thiking the exact same thing: Either a troll or someone that should be actively ignored.

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    Comment #46795312

    So ... will the crash be bigger that the one causing The Great Depression or smaller? Any bets?

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    Comment #46782865

    Yes OK, but that was not the point that I was trying to make. You are developing in a language + framework that you are not familiar with, without having any human feedback in the …

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    Comment #46775310

    So let me get this straight - you vibe code, make what you consider as necessary changes to the LLM-generated code, create PRs that get to be reviewed by another AI tool (Copilot),…

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    Comment #46774788

    > in 2026 devs write 90% of the code using natural language, through an LLM. That is literally not true - is the author speaking about what he personally sees at his specific workp…

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    Comment #46769236

    the first 10 what? Years? It's actually not like that: https://www.government.nl/topics/income-tax/shortening-30-pe... From 1 January 2024, expats who meet the conditions receive t…

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    Comment #46768274

    more like 50+ % less salary, just saying

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    Comment #46768065

    I doubt Americans will even pick up the phone or respond to LinkedIn messages / emails when they will se the budgets for the software Engineering roles in the EU. I am saying that …

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    Comment #46764549

    They REALLY want people to become more tech-savvy and to learn how to create their own VPNs using cheap VMs instances from __INSERT_CLOUD_PROVIDER_HERE__, don't they?

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    Comment #46763590

    "suspects".... they are not 100% sure guys, there is only a vague suspicion that "some" users "might" Can't believe how low Microsoft have sunk and how fast in the last few years

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    Comment #46752403

    > strongly resonate with this post. I am not a programmer Yep - there it is

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    Comment #46752390

    Don't waste your time with valid arguments, that guy is somewhere between a troll and a willful ignorant

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    Comment #46752353

    > Do you understand every single layer of the stack below you? False comparison. Nice try, though

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    Comment #46747533

    POLIO ???? Good job guys, in the meantime I will check if ironlung.io or ironlung.ai are available to buy... I might have a business idea

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    Comment #46713108

    Curious what the long-term effects from the current LLM-based "AI" systems embedded in virtually everything and pushed aggressively will be in let's say 10 years, any strong opinio…