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I was the same opinion till Claude code was relased. its a lot closer now.

how? management in most Tech companies are incentivizing them to do just that, so if you bring it up, they'll happily trot over to your manager to complain and then the uncomfortab…

Or maybe they just didn't have the time (left it to the last minute and ran out of it), and went with the first thing that AI proposed which was said CLI with documentation.

SLO timelines are usually over 7d, 30d etc no? and also often don't work that great for backend services in my experience ... they can't give you the level of reactivity that defin…

I don't think that massive downturn people are thinking is coming ... is going to come. The job market is too strong (because of lower immigration, and how many exited the job mark…

> Is anyone aware of how hard covid hit the software engineering community via early deaths/retirements? Can you provide some data around that?

Carvana, Vroom, Bird, Helbiz, FuboTv, Shift, Wework, 23andMe to name a few, theres many more. Their stocks are either in or dangerously close to penny stock category.

>no one is actually held in jail for this right now 6000+ people were.

Bird is another big one, they've been trading below the $1 watermark for a week or two now, after 30 days of consecutively trading under $1 companies get delisted from the exchange…

> A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others. This is one of the truest things I've ever read.

The people who like your new stuff will help you figure out how to fix it and make it good enough so the old system truly becomes obsolete, otherwise the old system will continue t…

"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket."

I had this question as well/

>We did waste the 3 yrs before Covid hit by not increasing interest rates and not reducing Fed's money printing. Most of the money printing happened in 2020 and after. https://fred…

> You always see 10-15% cuts leading up to an IPO No you don't

No Dichotomy there, its one thing to 'charge more' for your services, its another thing to ask for 30% of your client's SaaS subscription revenue, because you built them a website.…

Thank you for clarifying!

I think you get to choose the proportion of cash and stock for the number you're given or did I get that completely wrong?

This is a really good post that every engineer should read, especially early on in their career. I spent a lot of mine butting my head against a wall, and getting nowhere because I…

Oh wow. they still use Ruby at Airbnb? For some Reason I thought they'd moved to Go or the JVM.

I think what probably happened here is this ... your bosses boss, has had misgivings about the project and your work on it, that he's been passing on to your boss. I think your bos…

> Is it only me that thinks of it most nights? yes

Something good comes out of Omicron. woooo!

I started out with PHP, if I'm building an actual app though, Ruby on Rails is still my go to.

> Maybe the problem isn't the way the police are operating What is the problem then? :)