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Why not going with both? Choice is never bad for the consumer, even if the majority or sales is digital. I usually buy both and they just lost me, I won't buy into their dystopian …

I mean in which lucky place of the planet you live in? I dunno u but where I live it's 40 degree celsius out there and all over europe. I'm a remote worker and most time of the yea…

Blueprints are code the same as current code is blueprints over machine code. I myself wrote a good amount of code and done a bunch of visual programming, they're basically the sam…

I would pay the cost of a license for a good editor. I did with sublime+sublime merge. I did with Intellij. I did many times

> Every change is linked to the agent conversation that produced it A total nightmare and imo every dev should push back using this stuff. You'd otherwise have management brag abou…

> An experienced engineer using modern AI tools can move at a pace that would have been unimaginable five years ago. I dunno sometimes I think I should have sticked with a simpler …

I have many problems dealing with statements that use Infinity, especially if I think about the math or physics implication of that :)

> From my experience when I added "discuss; don't edit any file yet" at the end of the prompt I've never seen the LLM go against my will and edit the files anyway. depends how long…

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive…

It doesn't handle anything, he reproduce statistical patterns. If it seems it cares about the details it's because he's been trained to regurgitate stuff. Another thing is being ex…

I always wondered though why a website in the eu, for the love of their users, won't just drop cookie usage and instrusive third party scripts. Just do analytics on the backend and…

> We are seeing more and more appliances coming out with less buttons and a mobile app to access advanced features. Also cars (annoyingly) are coming out with more physical control…

Wow I totally forgot how great 2 was, how did we regressed from that? The buttons are so satisfying

Because you never saw a button in your life

And break ux for users often and piss them. There are short reversibile decision that can be taken fast, important decision requires a lot of thinking before changing to often and …

Totally agree. But we're in such minority that it's super depressing

These tools combined with silicon valley motto of moving fast and breaking stuff fast created the perfect storm > They have raised upper management’s expectations for team output. …

> I did use Claude to learn some basics, like the easiest way to get the data out of a Google Sheet You can still use it like this, it's a super power, using it as a tool it's like…

Unimpressive slot machine, it will betray you sooner than later and pay a real price

From another Italian fellow: stop following people and do your own thing, it will be worth it no matter what influencers says

You can have almost 100% tests coverage and green tests and still have a plane crash and LLMs shilling with you that everything is ok. To me it seems we havent learned yet tests co…

Totally agree. But I have the feeling damage has already been done, like full oop back then. To be precise I don't think oop was a total mistake, rather being maximalists about it …

Right don't do that then when you have a floating point problem or an integer overflow let's see if your ability as a mathematician helps or if you need to know the machine and the…

> In 2022 I published, before ChatGPT existed, a book preannouncing many things that now happened and other things that I believe will happen, so I feel like I can say this without…

It's GC