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The AI code takeover will not free engineers up to do craftsmanship. It will annihilate the last vestiges of craftsmanship forever.

> that doesn't mean they're not useful yeah actually it does mean that

Neither. LLMs are destructive.

> We use AI-assisted responses as the first filter for email support. Literally no one wants this. The entire purpose of contacting support is to get help from a human.

> I will completely forget why I wrote it that way. This is the main reason for comments. The code can never tell you "why". Code is inherently about "what" and "how". The "why" mu…

Multiple times daily I encounter sites that are brutally slow not just on my beefy Android phone, but on my 3GHz+ 8-core 64GB desktop machine. You need to take performance seriousl…

> React performance concerns in the real world are typically measured in, at worst, hundreds of milliseconds. Many years ago I worked at a wonderful company that made the terrible …

It is often the case that the nifty Python thing you want to pass around uses one or more nifty Python libraries that have no C/C++/Rust/Golang equivalent (or no obvious equivalent…

It is funny reading the replies here. I am a database specialist and have worn the DBA had for many years. I have run MySQL and Postgres in production, both self-hosted and using m…

"Not as robust as MySQL"? Surely you're joking.

I am plausibly a person this is for. Right now I rely on TabsOutliner when using Chrome (which I only use for work). It lets me keep 400+ tabs open and stay sane. I like it so much…

This is true, and in principle a good thing, but in the time since Parquet and ORC were created GDPR and CCPA are things that have come to exist. Any format we build in that space,…

My Zenfone 9 has a headphone jack. No SD card slot though, which I don't need. So yeah, I voted for this position with my dollars, and will continue to do so. Any phone with mandat…

it could have been much worse, I have seen passwords leaked this way ("seen" meaning "I worked at a company where this happened and read the code with my own eyes" not just "I read…

1. customer enters their address in form fields 2. those form field values are templated into a GET request to the Meta tracking pixel (or POST request to the /events endpoint, or …

Not sure about the goal of providing a hosted service cheaper than SQS. SQS is already one of the cheapest services on Earth. It's pretty hard to spend more than a few bucks a mont…

"take a ticket and do the work" doesn't describe ANY software job I've ever had it's all meetings, design docs, fighting in PR comments, agile ceremonies, etc etc building things /…

So, parameters? You absolutely 1000% do not need an ORM to prevent SQL injection. You just need to Not Be Flagrantly Incompetent. As the psycopg2 docs say: never use string concate…

ORMs are such a toxic idea, we'd be better off if we could un-invent them. Look how thoroughly this poor author's mind has been poisoned by long-term exposure. Please get out there…

Those aren't the filters being used, not when there are hundreds of applications for a role. You could be the platonic ideal candidate yet be screened out in the 0th round because …

You really think The New Guy can change an entire corporate culture through sheer force of will? You are literally the lowest person on the totem pole. You have ZERO social status,…

Yeah. 7 jobs in a row. Maybe the next dice roll will work out, or maybe I'll finally leave the industry.

"The very people who comply with and execute the GDPR consider it to be positive for their company, positive for privacy and not a pointless, bureaucratic regulation." I have been …

Why? This stuff is garbage. Go build something that doesn't suck. They're not even trying to compete with that.

This person's style is a great sorting machine. If you don't like it, you're not going to get along with them. I like it very much. I would probably hire this person.