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Well if he's not AI he needs to rewrite his blurb, because it sounds awful. It's so awful it might not be written by AI, as AI normally writes stuff that's sterile and soulless but…

You're really not missing anything I'm afraid; if you're a shit coder it'll seem like voodoo magic, if you're a good coder it's good in certain circumstances (parsing logs, interpr…

Faster? Maybe. Better? Ha. If you honestly think the code quality and perf of AI's code is better than a half-decent human engineer then you're in the wrong line of work. Or you're…

They've been trained on thousands of productivity/influencer/passive-income grift blogs that surfaced in the post '4 Hour Work Week' era, when hustle culture was born. I consumed A…

And 6' is basically 6'2"...

You've not been a member here that long, so showing off stuff you've built will appear disingenuous and like you're just here to self-promote and grift. HN isn't really about that.…

Indeed, I have tried this route, but for anything more than a really simple app it's just not effective enough.

I'm have a game on both app stores, built in .net Maui. It earns enough to keep a roof over my head. AI is useless when developing with Maui, as it's too new of a development frame…

Fair enough.

The original Colonization.

It's a good job I wasn't being interviewed for this job, as I have not one iota of a smidge of a clue what PEFT and LORA are. And I have no idea what varieties of prompting techniq…

Not bothering with any kind of git setup any more, I've reverted back to some good old fashioned folder snapshot backups every time I finish a new version of what I'm working on.

Nope. I removed my personal code from GitHub a few weeks ago.

Indeed, there's quite the echo-chamber of agentic encouragement going on, but the overwhelming feeling is that everyone's shilling and no one's buying.

We strictly don't use agentic development, so it's not so much a problem for us. Copying and pasting from LLMs is about the height of our AI use, aside from the AI auto-complete in…

I got back into board games in about 2013, then when the pandemic came around and in-person wasn't viable we hit Board Game Arena big time for about 18 months. Online isn't as nice…

As what is regarded as an 'old programmer', I wouldn't worry. AI may well be 60% faster at coding, but the quality is more like 90% worse. Like everything new, give it time: the hy…

I don't really program with AI, as I find the code quality pretty poor. I use Retool for all our internal tools. I like the fact that somebody else is looking after the hosting of …

Fortunately it does not. I'm in Nottinghamshire, and the only way I used to be able to do £100k round here was contracting, but the times they are a changing it seems.

The ones I see coming up repeatedly on LinkedIn are real jobs, but for places with high staff churn - Bet365 in Stoke for instance have a voracious appetite for recruiting System D…

In the UK tech hiring is fairly buoyant at the moment, and the salaries being offered have got some long-needed growth (over this last year we've begun seeing 6 figure senior devel…

I think I'm doing just fine, thanks for your concern.

The most recent logic I tried getting it to code for me was to make me some recursive C# functions to reverse navigate a node map (a Microsoft Project plan with various feeding cha…

They're still pretty dreadful. They're better than I was at 21, so I'd say they're good for graduate level, but nothing beyond that.