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“agentic coding has measurably improved every velocity metric we track and, in some teams, driven an order-of-magnitude gains in output” Of course it has. But is that a good enough…

Yeah, it’s called “Reflections”.

Thank you.

I think that is what you want. From Wikipedia: > In 2016, the IEEE Computer Society kicked off the SWEBOK Evolution effort to develop future iterations of the body of knowledge. Th…

The idea that someone's response to being fired should be the same as a manager's response to one of their reports quitting is hilariously out of touch.

Good advice! A rule of thumb I use is that the sentence should make sense if it was read outside of a browser, which results in roughly the same thing.

Would’ve been easy with fastmod: https://github.com/facebookincubator/fastmod

And if there’s pairing on a sub-task…?

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rerere

If I’m a Boltzmann brain that can only survive for an instant, why do I experience existing for a whole lifetime?

Permutive is hiring Scala Software Engineers (100% remote, full-time, optional London office) Permutive is powering the future of targeted advertising on the Open Web today. As the…

This is great. But it seems to fail with words containing repeat letters, for example, with my word as BOOKS, not on hard mode: SOARE JUMBY BOOST (at this point, it claimed to have…

What do you call yourself?

It's a small detail, but after moving to iOS from Android recently I discovered Universal Clipboard: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT209460 . You copy text on one device and past…

You don't necessarily lose the stack trace. Typically the left side of an either is an Exception (or an error ADT that wraps one). When you want to handle the left case, you can lo…

Hi HN, I'm looking for help validating an idea for a product that provides multi-armed bandit optimisation over an API. The idea is that client sites will provide impression and co…

How do you distinguish between "quibbles" and changes that are worth making yourself? I suspect it's quite a subjective thing. I'd also suggest using a less disparaging term than q…

London is good. I'm a self-taught dev who moved from tech support to QA to engineering. There's a lot of work here and quite a bit of competition, but I wouldn't say not having a d…

I recently started my first Clojure/ClojureScript project using the Reagent template for Leiningen[1]. It gives you Ring/Compojure/Hiccup on the backend for simple routing and view…

__START__ mr. speaker , the gentleman is 110 percent right . the gentleman from ohio mentioned an issue about being nonpartisan and being , i would say , third-party validators , i…

It's fun. I like it.

You let whoever was in charge of your page's scrolling fail a bit too much.

A bit of humility will do you good.