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Perhaps that's true of the top 5% engineers. But the question is if the top 40% of engineers can replace the bottom 60%. The LLMs don't need to be perfect, they just need to be goo…

I don't look at whether the text is written by an LLM but at whether it has substance and whether the writer understands what they are doing and is respecting my time. If the text …

Sorry, I think you're right that I misinterpreted your comment. I still had in mind OP's example (BDD, mutational testing, all that jazz). I apologize! Reading your comment, it loo…

On the one side I reject that product and engineering concerns are separated: Sometimes you want to avoid a feature due to the way it will limit you in the future, even if the AI c…

To be devil's advocate: Many of those tools are overpowered unless you have a very complex project that many people depend on. The AI tools will catch the most obvious issues, but …

Luckily those I work with are smart enough that I've not seen a PR thrown away yet, but sometimes I'm approving with more "meh, it's fine I guess" than "yeah, that makes sense".

The most annoying thing is that even after cleaning up all the nonsense, the tests still contain all sort of fanfare and it’s essentially impossible to get the submitter to trim th…

N~10^(6.5) aliens.

I hope this too but it's not a given, IMO. Previously people without technical chops failed quickly by being unable to deliver working code, now they can deliver mediocre code with…

This looks like LLM slop (not only the writing, but the analysis itself). To start, it is based on a single machine check. It has little context, but if this was a common problem, …

The security model is that applications run in a sandbox (e.g. Flatpak, snap) and only get D-Bus, Wayland, etc. access via restricted means (e.g. xdg-dbus-proxy). The "friction" is…

In the short term, definitely. In the long term, once the damage from vibecoding is better understood (for customer impact and team morale), there's an incentive to push them out, …

There's definitely some that hold CQRS, DDD, TDD, ... as _the_ way to design software and over-engineer around it, so I can understand some pushback. Knowing those patterns is very…

When all leadership is asking is "what is the short term business value?", it's pointless to make that case. It's much easier to measure "yet another feature" than "fix the root ca…

I assume it can be different for everyone. This post resonates with me, but my social anxiety mixes being sensitive to negative feedback and low self-esteem. So, you want to avoid …

> Maybe things are this equal and fair on the senior, high-paying part of the spectrum I don't think the fundamental dynamics change by seniority, just that after some level there …

> - How do the end user protect themselves at this point? Especially the average user? - Install as little software as possible, use websites if possible. - Keep important stuff (e…

Not the parent, but the default `npm install` / `yarn install` builds will ignore the lock file unless everything can be satisfied, if you want the lock file to be respected you mu…

> Measuring and feeling are not mutually exclusive. They are not mutually exclusive, but they compete to a degree. If someone's time is mostly spent on what can be measured, they c…

For as much as the author may get roasted for stating the obvious, I've often seen this "measure everything" mindset, coming from those you'd think should know better than that. I'…

I'd say the opposite, LLMs are a know-it-nothing machine to perfectly suit know-it-alls. Unlike a human, it isn't that hard to get the machine to say what you want, and then genera…

My only answer to this is, the ones at the top up to the CEO must be mindful enough to realize this, smart enough to figure out a solution, and brave enough to act on it. Otherwise…

> What i got back was the typical overly verbose and articulate review from chatgpt or some other llm. I thought it was pretty funny that they thought it would work let alone be ac…

What makes me not want to use Hyprland is that the code has all kind of "YOLO" tells, the kind of ones that make you wonder if something is going to happen some say... for example:…

A lot of it is being able to make reasonable decisions under novel and incomplete information and being able to reflect and refine on their outcome. LLMs's huge knowledge base cove…