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> "Why am I paying a consultant for something AI can do in 15 minutes?" Tech consulting takes all kinds of forms. I've been doing it for a while. A lot of clients aren't thinking a…

> Hmm - I need to map these results onto objects I can use. What sql client is going to hand you raw text? > Hmm - wouldn’t it be great if the object tracked changes and could save…

> The founder is very good. He builds a plan that, on paper, is flawless and airtight Premise is laughable right out of the gate.

> I feel like we as a profession generally don't like sloppiness Thanks for that, needed a deep guttural laugh.

> The people who most argue for vibe coding will themselves never accept responsibility for the technical outcomes. This is right, and don’t think this isn’t all partially fueled b…

> grinds its way to profitability over 3 years, can't raise, and grows 15% / year. You've been a part of some successful ventures! I've worked at places that grind their way to an …

Am I being advertised an ARG via HN thread?

> LaMDA Wow thanks for reminding me of this. Remember that leaked story of an engineer claiming it was sentient, even before ChatGPT came out?

> Nowadays carriages are split between 'normal' and 'quiet'... And the number of quiet carriages seems to have increased over time... It's like there are forces in society which tr…

> Each business domain is divided into a fixed set of layers, with strictly validated dependency directions and a limited set of permissible edges. These constraints are enforced m…

> No project "needs 10GB" to compile You've never tried to compile NextJS slop, have you? It absolutely can take that much. All those junkdevs have 64GB in their MBPs for a reason.…

Albert, nice to meet you. Let me be the first to say I'm impressed by your generous casual dress policy for remote work. My current employer makes me wear a 9-piece tuxedo with cum…

Hard to have sober talk about this since a lot of discourse is AI psychosis vs. AI naysayers. Does software quality seem to have taken a jump in the past few years to anyone? Not t…

I run it, it's good other than WSL.

You are. Human bookkeeper makes a mistake? You're liable. Accountant makes a mistake? You're liable. Have you ever run a business?

Yeah, if you continuously wake up around 3am you are anxious/stressed/depressed. Whole article is overthought/engineering mindset nonsense.

You should be able to open a brokerage account. You generally need ~2 years of business history to get a loan.

We sound similar, I've had some adventures on AngelList. Made an absolute killing, back when that was possible. My total lifetime "ate it" figure is only $2k, and even that one the…

> What is there to be left behind from? Employment?

You sweet, innocent child. Managers understand that metrics are meaningless. The idea is to have something to point at to scare engineers into jumping higher.

Who cares. Prescribed workflows apply solutions from the wrong direction. Determine what's impeding your organization, devise a solution. The last guy I encountered who evangelized…

People are in denial and use humor to deflect.

Was Hegelian dialectic on your card? You do bad stuff, and then you do good stuff. That's what all of these people are into.

> But if you’re down, Spotify is down, social media is down… then “the internet is broken” and you don’t look so bad. In my direct experience, this isn't true if you're running som…