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I’m spending months coding the old way
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JavaScript caught on because it was the best casual language. They've been trying to weigh it down ever since with their endless workgroup functionality and build processes. If we get a next generation casual language, it'll have to come from some individual who wants it to happen.
No, JavaScript caught on because at the time it was the only game in town for writing web front-ends, and then people wanted it to run on the server side so that they could share code and training between front end and back end.
It's not enough to just be first. It would have been replaced by now if it wasn't fit for purpose. Otherwise we might as well not bother to critique anything.
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This is why whiteboards used to be so popular in many/most tech company offices. Doing this exact same process interactively with other people, and a not to NOT ERASE or later taking a picture of the whiteboard with your phone.
"used to be" ?? What are engineering team doing nowadays when discussing architecturing their systems ?
Working remotely.
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As written, I do think that's naive. Being sure the person/browser is authorized doesn't mean that the signals you get are actions they intended. Suppose that in normal use a user can visit a certain URL which triggers a dangerous effect. An attacker could trick the user into performing the action by presenting a link to them titled "click here for free stuff." There are various ways to protect against that (e.g. COR…
And that same user is already trusted to have admin access to the entire organizational AWS credentials - I did say it was an internal management site. The lambda itself only has limited permissions to the backend. The user can’t do anything if the lambda only has permission to one database and certain rights to those tables, one S3 bucket, etc. Heck with Postgres on AWS you can even restrict a Cognito user to only h…
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#365Earlier quoted context omitted.
It also writes lots of bugs which it'll catch some of, in an independent review chat. This is bogus. If you think LLMs write less buggy software, you haven't worked with seriously capable engineers. And now, of course, everyone can become such an engineer if they put in the effort to learn. But why not just use the AI? Because you can still use the AI once you're seriously good.
> But why not just use the AI? Because you can still use the AI once you're seriously good. Perhaps because the jury is still out on whether one can become “seriously good” by using AI if they weren’t before.
I haven't seen it.
Re: I’m spending months coding the old way
#366the cal newport quote in the post is doing a lot of work. the strain required to craft a clear memo or report is the mental equivalent of a gym workout.
fine, but the gym analogy breaks down somewhere. in a gym, the person who actually lifts heavier gets noticed. in software, the person with the right bio and the right network gets noticed, regardless of whether they've ever lifted anything real.
you can spend three years learning compilers properly and have a handful of readers. someone else ships a wrapper on a saturday and lands a pmarca quote tweet by monday.
coding the old way is good for you. i'm not convinced it's what gets you noticed. the strain was never really what got rewarded in the first place.
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#367This title is the most depressing thing I have read on this site
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Re: I’m spending months coding the old way
#368the cal newport quote in the post is doing a lot of work. the strain required to craft a clear memo or report is the mental equivalent of a gym workout. fine, but the gym analogy breaks down somewhere. in a gym, the person who actually lifts heavier gets noticed. in software, the person with the right bio and the right network gets noticed, regardless of whether they've ever lifted anything real. you can spend three…
I agree with you sentiment although I disagree with the sentence
> coding the old way is good for you. i'm not convinced it's what gets you noticed.
You won’t go completely unnoticed if you’re good at your job but you can only be noticed from your deliverables, which is a slow process. You can buff up your presence by talking about it a lot, yes, but you won’t get 0 attention for hard work.
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#369Earlier quoted context omitted.
"used to be" ?? What are engineering team doing nowadays when discussing architecturing their systems ?
Miro.com is one of the few SaaS products that our team's collaboration could not live without. Perfect for a distributed team to replace the DO NOT ERASE white boards of yore.
yes miro is also what i'm using. It's really a digital whiteboard.
Re: I’m spending months coding the old way
#370the cal newport quote in the post is doing a lot of work. the strain required to craft a clear memo or report is the mental equivalent of a gym workout. fine, but the gym analogy breaks down somewhere. in a gym, the person who actually lifts heavier gets noticed. in software, the person with the right bio and the right network gets noticed, regardless of whether they've ever lifted anything real. you can spend three…
I agree with you sentiment although I disagree with the sentence > coding the old way is good for you. i'm not convinced it's what gets you noticed. You won’t go completely unnoticed if you’re good at your job but you can only be noticed from your deliverables, which is a slow process. You can buff up your presence by talking about it a lot, yes, but you won’t get 0 attention for hard work.
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