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> If coding is easy, how come programmers were in high demand, and have demanded large salaries for years (even before ZIRP)? There's probably a lot wrong with the "coding was neve…

Exactly, I feel the same way, and was surprised to see so few people pointing this out. Forest vs desert I guess.

Ok, thanks for explaining! Doesn't really explain how the wc eend expression _doesn't_ apply here (which would be hard to do, because it _does_ apply, since this is someone praisin…

I don't see how Claude code being a widely used product is relevant to the person who orchestrated the Rust rewrite of bun saying that the orchestration of the Rust rewrite of bun …

It was a commercial slogan for a toilet cleaning agent. An English equivalent would be "mr clean recommends you use mr clean". Today, it is used to point out when someone tells you…

In Dutch there's a saying, "wij van wc eend adviseren wc eend", and it fits perfectly.

They balance the budget?

It reveals the exact type of mindset that could produce an article like this. All they know is waterfall, so they see agentic coding and think: "you know what we need? More waterfa…

To create goodwill! Nefariously!

I'm nowhere near that level of experience, although I've done both as well. I'm more backend oriented. And my experience has been the opposite. When I ask for backend code, footgun…

Would you describe yourself as more skilled at frontend engineering or at backend engineering?

I'm well aware of its context and original meaning, and I'm very happy to twist its meaning into something Kissinger would disagree with any chance I get.

You guessed wrong. As far as I know, there's no such lobby, and I find your suggestion of its existence to be antisemitic. But the pro Israel lobby is quite open and public. Aipac'…

As the saying goes, it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal. True in the 60s, still true today.

The idea of injecting more indeterminacy in pipelines is beyond me.

Artisanal astroturfing, using organic humans, used to be the norm. Could be that OP is an actual human doing astroturfing.

Why?

> Well, because obviously the finish line of the space race was the Moon. So, this choice is not super obvious to me. If it was called the moon race or whatever, I'd get it. But in…

America won the space race? The only milestone where the US got there first was having boots on the moon. Every other milestone (first artificial satellite, first organism in space…

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Those are not arguments, those are assertions.

I feel like this argument always boils down to explicit vs implicit. It tastes the same as static vs dynamic typing. Personally, I fall well into the explicit camp. I like when I c…

I've been in the situation a couple of times where we had full control over choosing the frontend framework. Every time we chose React, the main argument was hirability and the fac…

Seems like you dropped something: > Disclaimer: I maintain depsguard

I was under the impression that anyone that uses the MTTR abbreviation knows enough to understand that you need to balance it with change failure rate, deploy frequency, and lead t…