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Same. Claude consistently ignores my instructions related to comments, and continues to be extremely verbose, often irrelevant, or too specific in terms of the current task. When c…

Data infrastructure in the real world, for non-trivial systems, moves slowly. Migrations are costly and risky. If you need to optimize query performance, you are likely working on …

There's a reason why Orbstack can charge money: it just works, and podman doesn't (on macos).

It is likely still the best environment to read and debug Java code, which you still need in addition to whatever agentic tooling you have. Advanced editing features have clearly l…

Taking wider responsibility, doing both dev and ops. Learning more about k8s since my company uses it. Trying to think more about testing and verification in general because I thin…

Obviously lots and lots of companies. Do you think a mature company just migrates to a different database unless it is absolutely necessary? That's a multi year project. I'm at a s…

So in this solution, you run the backend on a single node that reads/writes from an SQLite file, and that is the entire system?

> If your writes are fast, doing them serially does not cause anyone to wait. Why impose such a limitation on your system when you don't have to by using some other database actual…

> And if you are starting a new project, why would you pick Java over Kotlin? Because in 5-10 years you'll have a Java project that people can still maintain as if it's any other J…

I think that you are describing an ideal scenario that does not reflect what I see in reality. In the "enterprise applications" that I work on, long functions evolve poorly. Meanin…

> You mention "var", why would we ever want in Java to hold a variable that you can't read immediately what is the type? var items = new HashMap(); Instead of HashMap items = new H…

Orbstack is worth every penny. It's simply amazingly solid compared to Podman on macOS (a year ago at least, I don't know if Podman has improved). We migrated 100+ devs to Orbstack…

great, well-grounded, discussion. highly recommended.

In software? I don't see how high stakes infrastructure changes can be done by current AI technologies. It's different from programming in that you might only get one chance to do …

> On the consumer side, almost certainly not. Nvidia is a HUGE brand name, it doesn't matter how good and cheap AMD makes their consumer GPUs, people will buy Nvidia GPUs for the b…

Perhaps "frameworks don't compose" and "frameworks shape how you code" are actually good features, not a problem. Where are frameworks the most popular? Probably for web services (…

You've described my job, but I've found some excitement in the "distributed systems" part of it. It's not trivial to make the right design decisions to make a microservices archite…

LLM output can't really be trusted so I need to "proof read" it and convince myself that it is correct. In the language I use every day and have a high degree of fluency, it's fast…

I'm at a mid sized SaaS company in the Nordics (European). No layoffs, but hiring has slowed down and we no longer actively try to recruit junior devs. We used to have lots of acti…

Here's a thought experiment: think about what you did at work in the last few weeks, but instead of you doing it, someone that doesn't know programming is given those tasks instead…

I started a Bachelor's in CS in 2019, graduated in 2022 at age 38, and got a dev job that I really enjoy. I was one of the older students (but not the oldest!) and it felt like hal…

I think that one factor is that staying on old tech is a risky career move both for the individual and the business. At work we have an Angular (the old one) app and while many new…

That your gamble could be competely wrong is the main risk. What if the next generation AI doesn't change things much and is just a minor incremental improvement over the current t…

I find it amazing for turning data into markdown tables (which are tedious to write by hand), for documentation.

Because even if don't get more money you get to do more fun work with more autonomy if you are good at what you do.