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Not hiring 20-25 year olds with social science Ph.D.-s would be a good start (don't remember where I saw that a while ago). Next: proficient engineering managers, not just people w…

Shhh! Do you hear that? It's the collective scream of middle managers screaming in terror. Jokes aside, yes, quite correct. Even frontier models like Fable have very obvious limits…

Oh I agree, I am just saying that if you really did not want to spend, there are obviously options. I am thinking of promoting my super old and long-time-not-used PC with an i7-377…

Why don't you just get a MB only for now? What mandates an entire new batch of hardware?

A bunch of queued and not yet picked up GHA CI runs in our org as of 18:14 UTC @ Aug 6 2026. Hope they fix it soon.

I generally dislike PG's articles as very tone-deaf and billionaire-having-all-the-time-in-the-world centric, but this one was okay. Figured I'll give it a chance and I don't regre…

I don't see how you would need more and more space for media with time. You don't have to take it upon yourself to archive the entire history of Hollywood, you know. You can get _v…

Nothing more to understand, your reading sounds exactly right to me. Rent-seekers wanting ever more income, color me surprised.

Cool but I would like to reuse my entire account directory and just switch accounts and nothing else. Now I just do `/logout` and then go through the login flow again because I don…

The tongue-in-cheek tone aside, every good rework begins with mostly replicating the old program and only then fixing bugs. But I've seen brave reworks too. They get my standing ov…

My comment is more or less "I get the problems and I am not seeing the market agree that there even is a problem". It's capitalism manifest: squeeze the workers as hard as you can,…

OK, find me an employer who does not require me to work 5x more and 5x faster than before and we'll not feel the cognitive decline by being able to, you know, actually stop and ing…

I don't see the multiple dramatic comments to the effect of "this whole thing was a failure" as a level skepticism. While I am sure that one exists, I've noticed another wave of Ru…

Well, OK, you do that. Many others don't. Not sure what your comment adds except saying "not everybody allows audo-update" which is IMO redundant and obvious.

Take it to your employer then, not to us. We want maintainable code we can quickly onboard in, and be able to modify and extend. Your artistry is getting in the way of other people…

Yeah well, I don't even have that last part so great that you have it. I am sure it helps quite a bit.

Here are a few examples of what I thought was clearly understandable from my "1-10% non-determinism in LLM coding output": - Variations in code patterns used. Might be a chain if i…

I am not quite sure what point you are making here, admitting it plainly. I was just saying to my parent poster that their non-determinism percentages are too pessimistic. Sure the…

I have found, both in my commercial and OSS work, that getting better at producing protection wards reduces the non-determinism to somewhere in-between 1-10%. Case in point: writin…

I imagine this comes with some credentialism and networking i.e. companies ask each other whether person X is good? If so, I can see how easily the current difficulties in the labo…

Which business areas, programming languages / frameworks, which geo areas?

Do you have a link?

That would be true insofar as another premise is true: large backlog means we are drowned in business work and the internal cleanups that are very important constantly get kicked d…

As a guy who was a part of projects with an infinitely growing backlog (multiple times), I can tell you for certain that _not_ periodically addressing parts of your backlog absolut…

Popular view to dunk on meaningless perfectionists, sure, but your comment conveniently does not address "let's have this architecture because we know these new requirements are co…