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I agree. It really is not a difficult “skill” to learn. It took me probably 4 days to configure agents to break down requirements, write tests, write code, open PRs, review and mer…

at which point they will learn to write markdown files too.

Mix in exhaustion from previous hype cycles (NFTs?) and folks pushing the narrative that if you currently write any code manually, you’re obsolete and it’s hard to not want to push…

It’s a tricky philosophy to put into practice. I have oscillated between this approach (“owning” the effort) and “owning” the outcome. I have found that taking ownership of the out…

Coaxed into dead-end architecture is the exact issue I have had when trying agentic coding. I find that I have the greatest success when I plan everything out and document the impl…

I second Code Complete. The Pragmatic Programmer and Code Complete were integral on my first job.

Oxide is another that comes to mind.

> I’m no longer an artisan enjoying the journey of creating me the first time my boss forced me to unit test my code ... The best thing you can do is listen to your gut and try to …

I appreciate your reply. My tone was a little dismissive; I'm currently deep deep in the trenches trying to unwind a tremendous amount of LLM slop in my team's codebase so I'm a li…

It's 60-80% as good as Stack Overflow copy-pasting programmers, sure, but those programmers were already providing questionable value. It's nowhere near as good as someone actually…

We use C for embedded products at work. My gut feeling is that Rust or Zig would require way too much time investment to learn and use properly, then you'd still have to deal with …

No. I use AI as a fast but stupid research assistant. It aggregates information to point me in the right direction but I don't trust it at face value. I tried copilot for the first…

Your coworker could download it, record a screencap, and IM you the URL very easily, with a Fisher Price UI. I'm not surprised it took off.

Wake up to my kid scream whispering at my baby to stop kicking me in the throat, change diapers make coffee and eggs, read a couple headlines about how it's the worst time in histo…

Painfully accurate. Nothing is worse for me creatively when the work environment is paranoid, ass covering, disinterested in the work.

Funny enough I had an interview today with a dynamic programming whiteboard problem. I feel like if I hadn't been putting in my leetcode hours I would have totally bombed

I'm really curious, how do you factor in time to learn ("up skill")? I'm a self taught dev with 2 young kids. I've always had a healthy approach to work, but now I'm feeling quite …

I would kill for code-adjacent docs right now. We're a documentation-heavy org and having to open Confluence, find the right root page, drill down to where I need to be, and deal w…

USA, months of no responses, now have two interviews this Friday. C++ embedded dev. So in my world it's picking up a little bit.

Very cool. I appreciate the breakdown of how you built this.

Funny, after 6 years in startups I'm looking for something along the lines of "boring Java programmer for a bank". I'm tired of changing the world, man.