- TrasmattaBut why does HN feel it's necessary to editorialize titles like that? My browsing experience isn't any better because HN decided to strip out the "why", and I've seen multiple situations in the past where the auto editing of titles here actually resulted in a title that made zero sense.
- +1 to all of this. I can no longer deal seriously with Blow's ideas, programming language, or games because he can't present any idea without being highly condescending and critical of just about everyone else. I'm glad I've never had to work for or with him, because he's the type of coworker or boss that constantly makes everyone's lives miserable.
- I've watched enough hours of his streams to know that this is NOT a reductive take. Blow is one of the most arrogant developers and game designers, and believes that nearly everyone else is an idiot.
He's somewhat Musk adjacent in his need to be viewed as smart (but I guess he does so least have way more programming chops than Musk, so I'll give him that).
- My main criticism of Blow is that he's consistently highly condescending to other games, game developers, and programmers. Many of whom have been shipping so many amazing and creative things while he's spent a decade making a Sokoban game.
- Crime and corruption are now legal
- And then hallucinating APIs that don't exist, breaking all the unit tests and giving up saying they're an "implementation detail", and over engineering a horrific class that makes Enterprise Fizzbuzz look reasonable
- This is usually how I get tricked into setting deadlines. I get asked for a "rough estimate", then it magically becomes a deadline.
- > As a project manager, it sounds like you're making excuses. Just give me a number, trust your gut!
If we're just making up numbers, why don't you just make it up yourself and save the developers the trouble?
- The thing that sucks is that when I avoid giving estimates, I'm not trying to be difficult, I'm being honest about the unknowns of the project and the inherent uncertainties and messiness of software development. I'm helping protect myself and the rest of the team from making plans based off of bad estimates.
But I get all this pushback when I do that, such that the path of least resistance is to give some bullshit estimate anyway. Or I get asked to make a "rough guesstimate", which inevitably turns itself into some sort of deadline anyway.
Garbage in, garbage out. Inaccurate estimates, unreasonable timelines, stressed devs and upset PMs.
I'm so over working on software teams.
- This is why I just can't deal with self hosting... I'm already burnt out on this kind of stuff in my day job. And something like this will ALWAYS happen eventually.
- Every time I go the self hosting route, everything goes smoothly for awhile, and then decides to break 6 months down the line, and I have to waste a Saturday figuring it all out and upgrading things. Not what I want to do with my weekend, when I'm already doing software dev and maintenance for work. This happens even for super dependable, well written self hosted software.
On the other hand, maybe AI can help remove some of that pain for me now. Just have Claude figure out what's wrong. (Until it decides to hallucinate something, and makes things worse)
- Also I just absolutely hate the tone of them. So obviously AI, and they all have the same structure, ending in "Prepare for a journey through blah blah blah".
- > Elon Musk is the best engineering manager this century
Grok, is that you?
- Turns out you can justify all sorts of reprehensible behavior when you convince yourself it's for "the greater good"
They learned the wrong lesson from Death Note
- I do think it can be an art form, and definitely a craft. That's one reason I'm so disheartened by the push to have AI slop replace all our coding efforts.
- > it’s easy to form an enemy image of somebody at the end of video call, but difficult to keep that image when you share a room with them and sense their pain.
I'm honestly so confused by this. Has the author never worked in an office before? Building a grudge for someone that you are forced to work with and sit next to all day is one of the classic office dilemmas. Being forced to be around them all day can really build resentment to people
- No author listed, no About page, and a blog post clearly written by AI.