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The industry has always found it strangely taboo to actually talk about the wide variance in developer skill.

I am super curious how you went about the port using LLMs. At $WORK we are looking to port code, preferably with LLMs, and it seems daunting, even with a test suite. Do you have an…

The question I'm left with: in the past, the uproar over these types of changes seemed to make companies change their mind when considering very anti-consumer decisions. Now, they …

I'd argue all of those are often issues of how we perceive circumstances vs what actually is going on. There are real situations that crowd out this sort of thing, but they don't a…

Took the compilers class in 2012 and it was amazing. Loved the immersive format and the fact all the students wanted to be there. Hope he finds something fulfilling in the days ahe…

You're not. This site was also bullish on using LLMs as therapists, which defeats the very point of them, and reflects a lack of knowledge on what exactly therapists do for people.…

Thanks for writing this up. How did you figure out it was toxic white mold, or rather, what tests helped you get there?

They're also gaming the heuristic that if an OSS repo hasn't had any pushes in ~6mos many users consider it defunct.

Yep. There's also been a relentless push for the past two decades or so to standardize many aspects of software development: * programming languages (JS) * frameworks (React) * ope…

I read this paper as trying to be as serious as l the folk wisdom around the anthropomorphization of LLMs. Which is to say: not at all. :)

Just a small reminder that we aren't wanted ;)

Makes it much easier to use the Internet less. They're poisoning the ground water of the well, effectively.

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I love how passive aggressive the page becomes: "You turned off recommendations...we won't show you anything else on here either!"

How I feel about programming is often a reflection of how I feel about my own internal world because it continues to be a part of my identity. Once I found a job that valued my des…

The only way many people learn that the stove is hot is by burning their hands on it. Let them.

I am so over the presumptive blog post tone personally.

That clarifies it...thanks!

Maybe we can just not give it access to production databases ever? Not picking on you, but AI maximalism has infected tech to the point where we talk about how to stop AI from dele…

The most exasperating thing about the incident is how much of the media either tried to pin it on AI and/or Railway. The whole thing only took place because the guy FAFO’d by havin…

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The takeaway here is to make this sort of scenario impossible in the future. It’s not hard to make that happen, but it might mean you need to manually interact with prod. Anything …

Funny thing about internal work is that it cannot happen via changing one’s external circumstances. And it’s super tempting to numb it out with status symbols. The evidence for thi…