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Human accomplishment is a predictor of future accomplishment. AI not as much. Human effort signals value, AI does not. Human effort is often inviting collaboration. AI rarely does.…

I really doubt spec driven development is gonna last. As before, creating working software and iterating on it is faster and makes it easier to understand what you thought you want…

That depends on how many details I specify. If I specify a lot, I usually get what I want. But in the extreme this is just another form of coding (high quality code is quite simila…

Well they then use more AI to try to fix the PR, which leads to many more rounds of the same. It's like I'm coding using an AI except through a real person who mangles the prompt. …

It is everywhere. Even on birthday invites for my kids there's nonsense from an LLM. At work I review PRs with code that doesn't even run. Doing research is harder than ever as mor…

One of my favourite features in n++ is to enable "show all characters". Discovered a lot of weird end-of-line and bom issues like that

I always found that a simple merge style patch is enough, and a lot simpler. You just have to know that there is a difference between null and undefined. For large arrays, it's usu…

The problem with this standard is all the free text and bank specific fields that banks will use instead of the standard. One bank I integrated with had the equivalent of "Our fee …

Then you should store the time as well, because the number of decimals in a currency can change (see ISK). Also, some systems disagree on the number of decimals, so be careful. And…

I agree, and I just want to highlight what you said about generating a config file. It's extremely useful to constrain the config itself to something that can go in a json file or …

People who are more into it usually prefer human made puzzles since they often have a logical path that you're supposed to find, which can be quite satisfying. Generating sudoku pu…

Has anyone had any success in code generation? I feel like chatgpt usually completely fails to write even a small function correctly unless it's a very trivial or well known proble…

It's not perfect, but I have had success running postgres in Docker and running integration tests against that. Usually you can trigger the problem by running a handful of queries …

It's a running joke in our org that we should always vote for a new government. Keep making the dependency graph messy and we'll keep having a job

If you have different currencies you need to keep track of the number of decimals used, e.g. YEN has 0 decimals, bitcoin has 6, etc. It could even change over time like Icelandic I…

My experience is the opposite of yours. With typescript I use an openapi spec to validate and generate types. For other entry points I use typebox to create validators and generate…

You can easily parse json into types using something like typebox. Not only does this work, it works much better than many other languages. Have fun trying to represent even a simp…

True, but there might not be a big need for unit testing the glue code. By its very name it doesn't contain much logic to test. Integration tests are more valuable in this case.

Nodejs now has async local storage built in, which makes this fairly easy.

Last time I worked on call I was compensated 2 hours overtime for every time I opened the laptop, as well as a fixed rate for the week. I was also able to convert some of the fixed…

What are the main differences to aws lambda? Will you be transparent about how it works, such as when a function is frozen? This is something I miss with many Aws services

I've had great success with having a monolithic code base with multiple entry points. Each entry point is sort of a micro service (or just service), but it can access the same db a…

Very nice, I found myself nodding along with almost everything in this post. One thing I do a bit differently is that I usually put the API handlers in their own module (they're us…

Uri's are hierarchical, and hierarchies are notoriously difficult to get right. Even if you get them right, the definition of right often changes over time. In my experience, thing…

In general a function component does a lot more work than a class render function. Some of it is just about handling cases that we probably should have done with classes as well, b…