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The incentives for developing juniors have become misaligned as the expected stay in a company dwindled from decades to years to maybe year. It would make sense to develop juniors …

Are they "tolerating" it? They literally have no choice.

Hm, the page is unreadable on brave on dark mode.

> reason vibe coding specifically prohibits reading the generated code Wait what? Are there rules to vibe coding now? Are we no true Scotsmanning slop now?

Some of the statistics in the article included audiobooks as reading. It seems like they must trigger at least a subset of the qualities of reading (like maintaining an imagined en…

Eh, depends on what you mean by "implode." Before the buyout (2021), twitter made $5.1 billion in ad revenue ($6.22 billion inflation-adjusted). In 2025, it made about $2 billion. …

> 2-3 ICs This is the real problem. If you don't have enough folks for a 4+ IC team then you don't have a team.

Yeah he's like the light side Elon. Happy with his life, his family, his choices. Content. Zen.

Buddy, read the context. I think you missed the whole point.

> All x86 PCs sold by everyone are open and you can install whatever you want. What exactly do you think an Xbox is? PS4 & PS5?

> I’ll level with you – this is hard! I'm getting tired of the monoculture where both articles I read and agents I code with speak with the same (annoying) voice.

Thought experiment: if you can solve a problem with 100 lines of dependency free code, or with 10,000 lines of code that depends on hundreds of things - which is better? There's an…

This is exactly what the article is addressing: > But there is a correlation between output and LoC. That is less true today than it ever has been, due to LLMs.

Good revision!

I'm sure this is gated by where you work (especially by how technically savvy your manager is), but the most effective contributors at my job tend to be the ones with near-zero (or…

100%. Browsers are considered a commodity but I'd happily pay for a browser that: 1. Could do all the stuff chrome does as well as chrome. (Eg, canvas rendering speed etc). So I ca…

> Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/536587-measuring-programmin...

> It's basically the code for which insufficient people in the organisation have a meaningful understanding of how it works or what it does. Its connotation also includes being vas…

If you can't trust your deeds to be respected then no rational actor would donate land. Instead the farmer would just have kept it.

Do you find it impossible to use LLMs productively without giving over your brain wholesale to them?

Exactly this. Just this week an engineer who seems to purely vibe everything submitted a +700ish LoC fix for what seemed like a pretty simple issue. Moreover it was a perf issue, w…

lol what? There are definitely ways to make non flashing terminal UIs without this total insanity.

Curious why you prefer 4.6 over 4.7

I've noticed and felt this trend, but I haven't ever seen it put so well or really connected the dots with figma & pretty rectangles. I remember discussions over relative easy of u…

If there were a coding model as good as opus that didn't know multiple languages, biology, etc, I would happily use it. But I'm not aware of one - are you? It actually seems somewh…