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Not sure the comments are debating the semantics of vibe coding or confusing ourselves with generalizing anecdotal experiences (or both). So here's my two cents. I use LLMs on a da…

Dabvid Blevins has a great video (2018) that mentions JWTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osQmFNm0YDU He discusses the architectural advantages of JWT but also discusses JWTs lack…

How about for aliases? import foo from '@Schemas/foo.ts' won't work since it is not a 'RelativeImport'. Is there a fix for this use case?

> how is it that we can have a whole population of systems (eg scientists) eventually coming to a consensus about some phenomenon (eg the value of some physical quantity?) It seems…

One of my rules: don't send NULL over the wire, but of course always check for NULL on the server if you're using db functions.

I don't think you're disagreeing with OP. Seems like you both reached the same conclusion through different means and said it differently: "Sometimes it is better to make the datab…

OP has identified a universal norm: "Law of Large Established Codebases (LLEC)" states that "Single-digit million lines of code, Somewhere between 100 and 1000 engineers, first wor…

LOC is 'not a good' metric to 'you should be able to understand a codebase'. In either scenario, too many people or too few people, or (my favorite) 'not enough' (whatever that mea…

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To be proven wrong would be that Cursor is used by all devs or that IDEs adopt AI into their workflow? Like OP using cursor has been a huge productivity boost. I maintain a few pos…

Design review 'should' be a process that overlaps with the technical review. In other meanings, not isolated from the org. And that overlap 'should' overlap multiple times with the…

why not both? Have the table column autogenerate UUID if insert does not have one or else insert if it does. This provides an added flexibility for scenarios mentioned in the comme…

(1) |------------------------------|-----------------------------|------------|---- | primaryKey (bigInt-internal) | publicKey (uuidv4-external) | created_at | ... |---------------…

You can always start job hunting and interviewing to see what is out there. Until you get a contract in front of you I wouldn't quit just yet.

There is absolutely nothing unprofessional about job hopping. Before I went full-time contractor I would get so mad that I dedicated my time and effort to BigCo and the new dev com…

Also not pictured-- 2005: two system administrators wrote all automation using a handful of Bash, Perl and Python scripts AND LEAVE THE COMPANY a couple of years laters 20xx: new h…