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IME, the LLM when used well also gets closer to correct.

Android Auto is in the vast majority of cars that also have CarPlay. What’s your point?

(without sarcasm) Is this a serious question? If so - maintainability, testability. This is old software engineering best practice at this point. You shouldn’t hyper optimize for d…

While this is true, it is often stunning to me how long it took to get to `uv run`. I have worked with Python on and off for 20+ years and I _always_ dreaded working with any code …

As a Texan, I can assure you that ERCOT will find a way to add 6 layers of middlemen, over extend capacity, and generally screw it up. I watched it progressively get worse growing …

Wouldn’t matter if they did. There’s no penalty for getting it wrong so the human is always incentivized to say yes and then say oops if it was wrong. If there’s no feedback mechan…

I think it does for a substantial portion, especially those with more traditionally aligned values. We know families, through our extended social groups, that would cringe at the S…

For sure. Im the parent of a couple Gen Alpha kids on the younger side. I showed the skibidi toilet videos to my wife and her response was a shrug and “looks like dumb videos we wa…

Well my trip to Costco make infinitely more sense. I saw these 3 foot tall dolls for sale of the camera head characters. They were titled “skibidi toilet titans” but I was only fam…

It’s more of the same. At least in my experience, much of work amounts to “yes sir. Will that be all sir?” You take the input, mostly ignore it, and move on. YMMV on that strategy,…

See also, the OODA loop. This lesson shows up periodically in different contexts. In the case of OODA, it was fighter pilot dogfighting training. It’s a good practice to build into…

I don’t think AI makes me 10x more productive. It does make me close to 10x less bored though. Much of production software engineering is writing boiler plate, building out test ma…

Companies that don’t want to invest in new infrastructure. That’ll always be the blocker with rail. Moving humans, even a lot of them, by rail isn’t cost effective by most company’…

Water’s wet, fire’s hot. News at 5.

All code is legacy code from day one.

Probably a hard question to answer. IME, cultural norms around documentation vary pretty wildly. Some orgs I've worked for were very "wiki" driven - there's a big expectation of us…

I mean it’s Notion. That’s par for the course. What if your text editing and presentation experience was slow and laggy? That’s Notion.

I mean if the joke that Google is just an Ads company with a software engineering org is true, then Oracle is just a Sales company with a software engineering org.

The static site generator for my personal website. It was something I wrote in an evening. The code[0] isn’t the best but it’s been easy to extend as needed. It basically takes a c…

Another anecdote - I hate slack. Indifferent to teams, but loathe slack.

Fair enough - also lol at people downvoting. It was an honest question.

I’m curious what materially changed beyond Slack complaining. Microsoft has long bundled Lync/Skype-for-Business with Office 365. Hell it did that, I’m pretty sure, before Slack ev…

Is there a brief blurb about how this differs from Obsidian? Just curious mostly.

Well. This sounds like it will be exciting to upgrade to.

Having watched this first hand, you won’t be treated the same. Maybe that’s a good thing, but people will assume you get to do whatever you want which, generally, shouldn’t be true…