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Possibly overly cynical, but I think a lot of people who are getting forced to shoehorn LLMs into their applications don’t have a choice about NOT using an LLM for the required use…

Haha that’s a great idea and perspective on tackling it.

Ugh I am dealing with an amazingly productive platform team who churn out so much stuff that the product teams just can’t keep on top of all the changes to tools and tech. That one…

Everything is a cycle.. for example I am using graphql at work and being heavily reminded of the WSDL and WCF of old

I have to work with a DBA who has decided that nothing new gets developed using Postgres and is confident that our use cases are best served with a document db… all without knowing…

Honestly this is a concern for me in a non boogeyman way. I joined a company to work on their edtech product for kids and got assigned to work on their AI product. I have no idea h…

My uninformed take as a Kiwi is that most cars here are second hand imports from Japan, so we need imported EVs from Japan to pick up. Also, most people dont buy new cars, and the …

The company I work at is using step functions heavily and I hate it. Instead of an if statement they make it a new step with the conditional in json, so following the code required…

To interpret your example in another way, a page working in IE is doing it right. So first you do it, and structure it the way you think it should be done with "correct" markup. On…

I've seen it go wrong where there is a design system, but none of the designs that come in actually match it, so we need to extend the standard components or create whole new ones;…

Not sure if related, but my 2020 M1 macbook air bricked a week or so after upgrading to Sonoma. I was suspicious if this was related to the update. Luckily the logic board was repl…

We have a deadline and estimates, now all we need are the requirements...

>I came up with a template that would help me guide the conversation Maybe it's just a different style, but when I was a manager my 1 on 1s with my team was their chance for them t…

I am 2 weeks back as an IC after 3 years of management, so I went through the same thing. Take it slowly, youll have some management instincts that are hard to kick. I am really en…

I experienced the exact same things. I have never before felt so accountable for decisions that I have such little input on.

I don't think that changes much. To oversimplify; by telling you how to do it, the team lead is taking responsibility for the outcome of your output. You are just responsible for d…

I have one week left as a manager before I start a new job as an IC. I am so excited to change back to being responsible for only my own output.

I went from a being a manager with a good boss, to a manager with a bad one. It is such a different experience, and is making me change back to an IC role for my own sanity.

I just started learning guitar at 34 with absolutely no musical experience, and it's such an amazing new world to learn.

I pay for youtube premium so that I dont see ads.

I also want to say thanks for exactly the same reasons expressed above. I learnt a lot from your writing when I was a junior developer just starting out in 2010. You shared a lot o…

Maybe I have been in enterprise development for too long, but I chuckled at it starting with saying a medium scale project and then clarifying that to mean 4 weeks. I struggle to g…

I prefer to have some separation between my home life and work life. It isn't about the amount of space, but being able to achieve that mental separation for my own mental health. …

I have asked about these options, and I am pushing for something; but the company was recently acquired by PE so they are tight with every dollar.