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Haha, nice website, with the greyed-out comments on HN featured among the offending examples. :)

I think this is where the circle closes with the "dead internet theory"... you go to Reddit, and see bots commenting on posts created by bots. Then you go on to search for somethin…

I started my career as a machine designer (mechanical engineering), designing some machines for FMCG factories. It wasn't that much different from SWE - mostly looking up catalogs,…

Right at the top: "That distinction matters more than people think." That's basically telltale AI :) Also the entire framing around "judgment" and "taste" is what LLMs love to parr…

I'm sorry for your experience, but loved the painting at the end... :)

I think you're right, ephemeral code would be the concept that you have (I'm hand-waving) "the spec", that specifies what the code should be doing and the AI could regenerate the c…

Exactly, basically then every desk or office job means sitting next to a box?

I still don't get it. If AI really improves efficiency and allows the company's employees to produce more, better products faster and thus increase the competitiveness of a company…

Love your approach and that you actually have "before vs. after" numbers to back it up! I personally also use AI in a similar way, strongly guiding it instead of vibe-coding. It re…

I think there are four fundamental issues here for us... 1. There are actually less software jobs out there, with huge layoffs still going on, so software engineering as a professi…

I love using LLMs as well as rubber ducks - what does this piece of code do? How would you do X with Y? etc. The problem is that this spec-driven philosophy (or hype, or mirage...)…

I can totally relate to your experience. I started this career because I liked writing code. I no longer write a lot of code as a lead, but I use writing code to learn, to gain a d…

I think this analogy to assembly is flawed. Compilers predictably transform one kind of programming language code to CPU (or VM) instructions. Transpilers predictably transform one…

I think that just because AI won't be as good for tech as initially promised, it still has penetration potential in the wider economy. OK I don't have numbers to back it up but I w…

I also backed out from using Zed a couple months ago, but since last week, Linux font rendering looks good to me both on full HD and HiDPI displays.

I kind of miss the RSS days when you just had your own news/blog aggregator without the annoyance of Substack, Medium or anything else.

Agreed - computer music compared to live music is what, say, Adobe Illustrator is to drawing. Or a Wacom drawing table, but definitely not prompting AI to draw for you. Whether dra…

Who am I to debate with Tim O'Reilly? But this made my mind explode: > So yes, let’s be bold and assume that AI codevelopers make programmers ten times as productive. (Your mileage…

Let's just call mutators as 'mixins' :)

So many good memories from high school! Gaming in the computer lab was banned in theory and the teacher always tried to delete any games found on these machines. So we always kept …

I think that unit tests are super valuable because when used properly, they serve as micro-specifications for each component involved. These would be super hard to backfill later, …

Yes, this is why we love functional programming! "What happened along the way" equals to the call stack, as long as there is no field mutation involved. And, of course, async/non-b…

Yes: "IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI, Bloomberg reports" https://www.reuters.com/technology/ibm-pause-hiring-plans-re...

"Obviously" hilarious! :)

Anyone also using Timewarrior? It's FOSS, command-line and also dead simple.