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I think there is a bit of cognitive dissonance that comes with trying to build stuff with LLM technology. LLM’s are inherently non-deterministic. In my anecdotal experience, most s…

The apologists be damned. This article nails it. A grand reduction. Not a bicycle; a set of training wheels. Where is the dignity in all of this?

> ...far too many unknown unknowns often paired with expectations of prompt (and cheap) solutions to complicated issues. That describes pretty much all of my "full-stack" experienc…

> Many people who first entered senior roles in 2010-2020 are finding current roles a lot less fun. This resonates with me. I find that the current crop of new tech (AI) produces a…

I reach for the ~/bin/thing approach when I want the utility to be useable from vim. For example, if I define an alias thing , vim won't know about it. But as a executable on my $P…

https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive/blob/b068eaf1e6cbe35d1... for reference, an example from a tpope plugin

Consider exposing commands that the user can then assign to their own preferred keybindings instead of choosing for them

After reading the comments, the themes I'm seeing are: - AI will provide a big mess for wizards to clean up - AI will replace juniors and then seniors within a short timeframe - AI…

That's very interesting! Love finding little nooks and crannies like this

I have an iris, I would highly recommend. Similar to a Moonlander (not as many keys though). https://keeb.io/collections/iris-split-ergonomic-keyboard/pr...

You pretty much summarized what I've been thinking about for the past couple years. Question is, what can we do about it? Thats where I really start to feel powerless, the challeng…

Hi! :)

Yeah the huge time sink aspect is definitely real. It gets much harder to justify when you already working 40+ hrs a week or have kids or whatever. Going back to the earlier analog…

Whoa how cool to spot you in the wild on HN! I listen to your podcast, thank you for the awesome content. When I was younger and more idealistic I took a chance and got a bachelor'…

yeah this is really good - thank u

are you me? hah :/

So in this case, you've let a new dev commit to a code base without review. Then, instead of informing them of best practices and giving them time to re-work the code, you'd just f…

Very interesting, and frankly inspiring to see you get this creative.

The Bone Clocks is fantastic - probably my #1 go-to when someone asks me for a book recommendation.

Sounds like a Lisp or Jupyter Notebook workflow (or maybe more broadly, the "literate programming" paradigm) I'm not sure how to do this with a SpringBoot/NodeJs app that you would…

Genuinely curious - why do you value "overall productivity" so much?

If you like symbols and fancy terminal stuff, I'd also like to recommend any of the Nerd Fonts - all free. https://www.nerdfonts.com/

I second the recommendation for "NotJustBikes", very eye-opening in regards to city planning and infrastructure

awesome, thanks!

What is the "Bryan Cantrill at Joyent" you're referring to?