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Not 100% boss-specific, but... * regularly generating AI-slop code changes that nearly work, and then trying to hand over to someone else for "completion". this is often a pretty t…

If you get your own plane, you won't have a problem finding a terminal without TSA. Going through TSA is not a condition of using a government airport, it's just what happens if yo…

AI can build anything... within the tiny slice of the economy/human experience that is data/software. It turns out there's a vast universe out there involving physical products, re…

I don't suppose you've actually, you know, read the constitution? If so, I'd be fascinated to hear about which parts pertain to, or don't apply at airports that should? The main th…

If you have the tenacity to stick with it over a number of years, and have had an app with a few thousand users, you must be doing a few things right!

It's all very tedious. This happens a lot with pretty mundane staples like socks, underwear, bedding, towels, umbrellas, headphones, ... These are all "semi-durable" items that get…

because every company also has an "AI transformation" budget / CxO / whatever. if anyone wants to buy or sell any products or services for any unrelated reasons, it's much easier i…

I don't hold a lot of hope for TDD if the tests are AI-generated from the AI-generated code... which I see a lot.

Things like it have happened. The Unabomber was identified through his writing idiosyncrasies. Lots of criminals have been identified by reanalyzing old DNA samples using data and …

for future words, sure. but lots of people have an extensive volume of word they already published with the hope / expectation of remaining anonymous.

Right, one could make pretty much the same observations about how hiring / promotion decisions are made, how investment decisions are made, and probably any number of other things …

I feel that things are pretty different. Although the example of interrupts and jumper settings being common knowledge is a bit of a stretch... it's still amazing to recall that MS…

The 767 2-3-2 layout is my favorite, with only 1 middle seat per row, yet still two aisles so you can use one while the other is blocked, or walk little loops if it's not.

What a charming little website!

imho if you're at a company, and they're having layoffs... it's generally better to be laid off, get some severance, and end up at some other company that is hiring / growing, rath…

books

Yeah, when browsers have a "reader mode", it's pretty obvious the plot has been lost somewhere.

Pretty much. There is an enshittification cycle at work. The web used to be good, predominately text, and useful, 25 years ago. Then... slowly... we added javascript, then AJAX, CS…

I think codebases and optimizations are a lot like this. A lot of people seem to think the way to make things work better and faster is to add elaborate caching layers and layers a…

I have a few strategies - which are all based on reciprocation. If the code is reasonable and diligently created, be it with AI or not, I will provide a diligent and timely review.…

I also use this strategy of mutually assured AI slop, with a no-first-use policy. I'll happily respond to AI slop PRs with AI slop code reviews / comments.

This sounds totally ridiculous now, but at the time there was a lot of hype about Linux / open source, a sense/possibility that it could overcome microsoft/sun/ibm/hp etc, some big…

Any thoughts on alternative free software (preferably debian packaged) editors/IDEs with completion, jumping to definitions/declarations, etc? I've used kdevelop a bit lately, it's…

I don't love that the AI suggestions seem to override completion of real/existing methods from the source code these days.

It seems to be strongly correlated with (and perhaps caused by) the iphone / smartphone / tablet boom of the 2010s. That's when lots of mass market things slowly shifted from being…