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Amen to this. I've bounced back and forth on my feelings for AI and have landed in the realm of: - there are certain things it is exceptional at that humans cannot replicate. - the…

Do any of the major streaming platforms have a stance against AI generated music?

I use Claude Opus 4.6 as an enterprise user, and have also noticed a lobotomization. In recent weeks it's been much more self-correcting even within singular responses ("This is th…

Was talking about this with some colleagues who are from Ukraine, Russia, and other countries. In the US, it seems corruption is only allowed at the top. If you tried to bribe your…

On my team I've been adding additional linters and analyzers (some I've written with Claude) to run at CI or locally to prevent codified "bad patterns" from entering our systems. T…

I've been toying with this too. I added a Claude skill (/gather-history) that consolidates the history of our session(s) specific to the change into a series of: decision log, invo…

I've posed this in a couple comments, but want to get a bigger thread going. There are some opinions that using LLMs to write code is just a new high level language we are dealing …

There seems to be so much value in planning, but in my organization, there is no artifact of the plan aside from the code produced and whatever PR description of the change summary…

One challenge with code review as an antidote to poor quality gen-AI code, is that we largely see only the code itself, not the process or inputs. In the pre-gen-AI days, if an eng…

Will there be an interest in vision based wearables? Google Glasses - dead Apple Vision Pro - dead FB/Meta x RayBan - dead soon(?) It seems they can’t get over the social hurdle of…

50+ weeks? so a year? I've been in big tech for 12+ years now. The first handful of years are definitely a grind to earn your spot, get a couple promos. After that though, it can b…

My biggest problem with usage of an LLM in coding is that it removes engineers from understanding the true implementation of a system. Over the years, I learned that a lot of one's…

Agreed, seen a number of short form news pieces / docs on the effects of datacenter development across different parts of America. Pollution, noise, lights, water impacts, energy c…

I'm no economist, but if (when?) the AI bubble bursts and demand collapses at the price point memory and other related components are at, wouldn't price recover? not trying to argu…

As a customer of GitHub actions, anecdotally feels like Github experiences issues frequently enough to make this not a problem.

I've lived in Seattle my whole life, and have worked in tech for 12+ years now as a SWE. I think the SEA and SF tech scenes are hard to differentiate perfectly in a HN comment. How…

I think the obvious things are: - Deviation in consistency/texture/color/etc. - Obvious signs related to the above (eg: diarrhea, dehydration, blood in stool). Ultimately though, y…

Do you think they're using the guise of "its solar radiation" as cover to do a software update to fix a more problematic "bug", and perhaps tangentially there are some changes in s…

This has not been my experience at least at the more remote-friendly places I worked. However, I can see this at companies with different culture / pace / attitude. My most recent …

This is excellent and aligns with my own experience. During my day I try to minimize interruptions by batching them. I will largely ignore Slack, and as notifications come in I gla…

No no, we just need to put even more money in.

It's so sad how much money leaders will effortlessly pump into something like this, when we still have existential threats of climate change, incurable diseases, poverty, housing, …

A company I worked at also did this, though there was no limits. Some folks would choose to spend the whole week working on a larger refactor, for example, I unified all of our red…

I've struggled throughout my life with anxiety, ADHD, and bouts of depression. I've done years of therapy, and use some medication to help with my ADHD. I will say though, singleha…