elktown
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- I understand that you've convinced yourself that progress is inevitable. I'll ponder over it on my commute to Mars. Oh wait, that was still on the tele.
- Thanks! I recommend not reading all comments literally. We have a significant hype bubble atm and I'm not exactly alone in thinking how crazy it is. I think you can draw a connection from my exasperated statement to that if you really wanted to.
- Such a typical HN "gotcha!".
- If I have a horse and plow and you show up with a tractor, I will no doubt get a tractor asap. But if you show up with novel amphetamines for you and your horse and scream "Look how productive I am! We'll figure out the long-term downsides, don't you worry! Just more amphetamines probably!", I'm happy to be a late adopter.
- You're comment history suggests a pro-AI bias on par with AI companies. I don't understand it. It seems like critical thinking, nuance, and just basic caution have been turned off like a light-switch for far too many people.
- The most complex thing to support is peoples' resumes. If carpenters were incentivized like software devs are, we'd quickly start seeing multi-story garden sheds in reinforced concrete because every carpenters dream job at Bunkers Inc. pays 10x more.
- It will be interesting to see how quickly people & media will suddenly go "Well, actually Venezuela is a problem" or similarly spineless turnaround.
- Like many things in dev it sounds sooo good on the surface, but is a minefield in practice (Brandolini's law + The Iron Law of Bureaucracy for starters).
I'd only advocate it in a very carefully curated team.
- Name it after your favourite football players and functional names will be enforced within the first 3 reviews.
- Here be dragons. People trying to pattern-match their problems to design patterns can waste a lot of time and effort over many years. Use responsibly.
- No?
- “like it's some sort of established fact” -> “My understanding”?! a.k.a pure speculation. Some of you AI fans really need to read your posts out loud before posting them.
- But it seems like that could happen faster internally than publicly?
- Is this acquihiring?
- I've seen a few of these seemingly random acquisitions lately, and I congratulate the companies and individuals that are acquired during this gold rush, but it definitely feels awkwardly artificial.
- That also means a much larger team and great possibilities for good perf reviews, so basically an excellent outcome in a corporate env. People follow incentives.
- I honestly believe that the people involved likely already wanted to move over to React/SPAs for one reason or another, and were mostly just searching for excuses to do so - hence these kind of vague and seemingly disproportional reasons. Mobile over desktop? Whatever app-like means over performance?
Non-technical incentives steering technical decisions is more common than we'd perhaps like to admit.
- Why even bother? Rayiner is just vile and will not be moderated no matter how much bullshit he spews.
2. True, I challenged the person's bias considering extraordinary historical comments lacking extraordinary evidence.