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Cases like this raise a question. As an engineer, the errors that coding AIs make are an annoyance, and reassuring in terms of my job prospect. As a consumer, the errors that AIs m…

> But web applications are not just pipelines of isolated tools. They are full of shared assumptions: request shapes, validation boundaries, session handling, rendering, routing, s…

The "When touching it is the right call" is the tricky part, because it contains this very subjective exception: "Every new feature costs three times what it should because of the …

I find this far too black and white. There's a lot to gain from conversations where you can't change the other person's mind. If you see making them agree with you as the only posi…

If the manosphere stopped doing cringe, what would be left?

Wait until 10,000 manosphere influencers start selling personalize aura coaching to incels who share their glasses recordings. We'll start seeing those glasses on every lame-ass wa…

I assume it's already trademarked as a pharmaceutical name.

> The problem with "tech debt" is it can mean anything from "this is ugly code that takes 5 minutes longer to read but it works well" to "this in a insecure/unstable pile of horse …

Coding taste and good architecture are the final pillars because AIs are trained on a ton of bad examples that are presented as good examples. That pillar will stand until AIs are …

This article repeats what we've long known about how technical interviews aren't great at evaluating technical skills and inadvertently filter for things that aren't important. But…

A foreign student who is afraid of returning to her home country sounds like an ideal low-level drug dealer. They are legally vulnerable because they are afraid of being expelled f…

> Some have chosen to link their fate to the technology, dedicating themselves to learning prompt engineering, while others are staging a revolt against it. I don't understand why …

Unfortunately, a convincing demonstration to convince a skeptical colleague would require measuring developer productivity. Among skeptics, I've only seen people won over by using …

I kind of get what they're thinking in trying to make sure all engineers use AI. For myself, and for the engineers working with me, I saw everyone go through an initial aversion an…

Little tidbit that isn't mentioned in the article: he was a consultant on the film Quest for Fire and developed movement patterns and gestures for the actors.

In the business of apparel, I think this is a natural consequence of high-end buyers turning their noses up at long-lived brands, and working to differentiate themselves from mains…

Flippant answer: in the U.S., in your twenties, you have no spare space, and visiting friends sleep on your couch. In your forties, you have a guest bedroom, and visiting friends s…

I don't think that's the way you're supposed to read it? I think you're supposed to read it as, the trendy extremes tell you something about a place, even if the details are silly …

I interpret YAGNI to mean that you shouldn't invest extra work and extra code complexity to create capabilities that you don't need. In this case, I feel like using the filesystem …

Honestly, at this point, if I had a design that required making atomic changes to files, I'd redo the design to use SQLite. The other way around sounds crazy to me. "Why use spray …

Advice like this turns almost everybody's normal state into a disorder. "Go to sleep only when you are very tired" is a child's approach to sleep, it's what we all want to do, and …

If my Oura ring can be trusted, alcohol doesn't interfere with my total amount of sleep or my REM sleep, but it reduces my deep sleep drastically and can even result in me getting …

Honestly, if I could quit my job for six months and work in a codebase like yours, I'm extremely curious what I could accomplish with AI. We have a codebase at work that was "stuck…

You couldn't go far on those early Prius batteries. I had a circa-2009 Prius and semi-intentionally ran out of gas to see what happened. I was able to drive a couple of miles to a …

These interactions really don't get the testing they need. When they aren't designed, how do you know how to test? Over the weekend, I was directed to file a police report with a c…