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justchad

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    Comment #48193698

    Haven't they spend over $100 billion on a train and have yet to lay track? What makes people think they would ever complete this?

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    Comment #47241913

    Cool product potentially but the landing page jumps all around when the animations at the top are scrolling through the different examples.

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    Ask HN: SWE to CAD Career Switch

    I have been a software engineer for about 15 years and am kind of burnt out. Thinking about switching industries and am curious if anyone has made the switch to a CAD Drafting role…

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    Comment #46696113

    I’m in a similar situation. I decided after a decade to quit my job and take some time off. I might work on my own company or switch careers entirely. I’ve thought about using the …

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    Comment #46507841

    I know I did. I always looked for random things to buy even though I hate owning things.

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    Comment #46347415

    Thanks, I might take you up on that. I’ve mainly been in the work, kids, sleep loop the past decade so I need to find some hobbies and passion projects to work on.

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    Comment #46347122

    This resonates with me right now. I helped build a unicorn startup over the last 10 years but feel empty and burnt out when I’m working now. I feel like I’m wasting my time in exch…

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    Comment #46207971

    That’s a great point about the frontend complexity. Picking it up now is more difficult overall but at least most of the complexity has been decided on and “stabilized” as much as …

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    Ask HN: How difficult will resuming a SWE career be after a sabbatical?

    I am at a crossroads, and I'm thinking about taking some extended time off for a sabbatical for like a year or so. I want to know if that will hurt my chances of resuming a career …

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    Comment #45800713

    Came to post something with a similar sentiment. It's going to have broad market effects when the circle dealing doesn't work out as intended. OpenAI is losing so much money every …

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    Comment #45452863

    That may be but if I could buy stock in either of those two I would definitely prefer SpaceX.

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    Comment #45406012

    Have you thought about starting a company? It’s never been easier to start a company for engineers. Granted you need to have a problem to solve but those can be found.

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    Comment #45365256

    The one you know /s I love Rails and usually just stick with that since it’s fast to build out features. Laravel would be another in the same vein.

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    Comment #45348459

    This looks very relevant and useful to what I'm working on at the moment. The LLM gets lost in all of the tools we provide for certain actions.

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    Comment #43017157

    Cursor is quite a bit better as well at not adding erroneous code. Was testing a0 and it kept getting stuck in endless loops of errors. I'm sure they'll improve but it's pretty rou…

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    Comment #42783572

    In Key Takeaways the first bullet increments every second for how much faster AI is than traditional navigation. Not sure if you knew that or not. The execution time also never sto…

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    Comment #42550597

    Wake up, get ready, drink coffee, go to work. I wake up about 8:30 and start work at 9.

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    Comment #42502571

    I use an app called Dash from Kapelli to access documentation for classes and methods. It’s a game changer, even if using a LSP. I do use copilot though.

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    Comment #41997433

    Profitwell does a version of this and they charge a percentage of the recovered funds.

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    Ask HN: What are the best resources for SWE to PM transition?

    I am a software engineer with nearly 15 YOE and as I progressed I have been drawn more and more towards product. I am interested in transitioning to the PM role at a startup but wo…

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    Comment #41758384

    Came to say The Selfish Gene for nonfiction. Changed the way I thought about things.

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    How long is long enough to recover from burnout?

    I've been the Founding Engineer of a startup for almost 9 years. Over the course of 9 years I have become extremely burnt out for a variety of reasons. I can't exactly quit the com…

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    Comment #38517424

    I imagine there will be times where the LLM hallucinates or gives too many permissions. I'm sure it is still better than the try and see approach that most humans take when it come…

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    Comment #37976061

    I love TipTap, easy to use and setup even with Rails. I wrote an internal gem (that I should publish) where I can generate TipTap document JSON/HTML from the Rails side of things a…

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    Comment #36506733

    Looks pretty cool. I noticed a few issues when playing with the Playground like if you do a slash command and select one of the items such as entering "to" and then selecting "Toda…