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I think there is a de-facto distinction between different kind of programmers, we just need a clear names for them. Like, "builders" for folks who ship products and see code as an …

That's a pretty good frame and makes me hopeful. Now it's even more important to figure out how on Earth we can promote expertise formation in the age of AI

I'm fairly certain a lot of people do this. They don't literally take a day off, but just work fewer hours or less hard. And this makes sense, there is a strong incentive to not gi…

I'm fairly sure that if a compiler stops working or has a bug, the expectation is that an engineer is capable of handling it in some way. I don't think any stakeholder will have mu…

this is beautiful

these are all surprisingly specific questions that can actually be answered! 1. It's dynamic 2. It's compiled 3. Elixir script is just a file with Elixir code that compiles and run…

> If it’s slop or they have incorrect information in the message, then my bad, stop reading here. "my bad" and what next? The reader just wasted time and focus on reading, it doesn…

I can see the similarity yes! Although I do feel like the distance between handwritten letter and an email is shorter than between email and LLM generated email. There's some line …

This feature predates LLMs though, right? Funnily enough, I actually find it hilarious! In my mind, once they introduced it, it immediately became "a list of things NOT to reply if…

100% real life is much more grim. I can only hope we'll somehow figure it out. I haven't personally been in this position, but when I think about it, looping all your reviews throu…