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I've had a theory for years that the free market is mostly a myth, that really most business execs are herd animals who form their strategies by copying others. Usually they copy t…

Well, I'm writing a science fiction novel. There are references in it to AI but just as a tool people use. It's not about that.

All kinds of things! I work with AI every day to do various kinds of work. Coding. Research. Brainstorming. I write up notes nearly every day and then I post a summary of each week…

Developing a graph-based programming language called Graphoid. The original concept was to target AI-related programming. Probably not ready for that yet! Repo: https://github.com/…

I'm using Claude AI to build an experimental programming language I call Graphoid. (Built for dealing with graphs). It's early days and I don't know how worthwhile it is but I'm ha…

Bingo! You found the prize! Putting tech that is prone to hallucination in charge of anything that has serious consequences when it's wrong is a terrible idea. You do not want hall…

For many years I've developed on a Linux VM running on a Windows host. At a couple of jobs I ran a Linux VM on a MacOS host. This way, my development environment remains stable and…

Reject. Period. No compromise. No friendly comments about how it can be improved. Just reject it as unreviewable. Then ban the idiot who submitted it.

Customer service? In the age of AI? What have you been smoking?

You are in a completely normal dev shop. What's happened is that the start up mentality of "ship something - anything, and ship it NOW" has infected everything. Maybe over time you…

Vibecoding is bad coding. Always. Even if I take the headline as correct, so what? It's still crap code that will collapse into an unmaintainable mess sooner rather than later.

I'm no longer at the company but yesterday was my last day so my information is still current. The division I worked in was demanding that developers use AI at least once a week an…

I once cut off an interview as soon as the interviewer told me the job was building and maintaining a porn site. Never made it to an actual job offer.

It's an interesting model but in practice I don't think anyone is really all one way or all the other. A better way to approach it might be to find out which narratives are most im…

The longest period of unemployment I've ever experienced ended about 6 months ago. I was unemployed for 11 months. The company that finally hired me was intentionally targeting peo…

Decent guesses. I won't be surprised if someday (maybe in court testimony) we find out that you are very close to correct.

That is truly awful customer service.

You can't back up lies on the fly. You're contradicting yourself now.

Your complaint that jobs are for the specific tech stack is spot on. Employers are currently treating every job as a specialization. It's a combination of a filtering technique (be…

Location: New York State (up by Lake Ontario) Remote: Only Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Python, Redis, Mysql, Postgres, Mongo, and many more. Resume: See linkedin ht…

Horrid? It looks fine to me. More importantly, it does what I want (more or less). What do you think is so bad and how would you fix it?

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Well, I got laid off. I have a decent resume. In past job hunts, I got call backs on 50% of applications. Now responses are closer to 1%. Sure seems recessionish to me.

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I've mentored a couple developers who have made heavy use of ChatGPT or CoPilot in their work. I tell them the limits of it as well as the strengths. The upshot is that, if you use…