- zingarI’ve found incredible productivity gains writing (vibe coding) tools for myself that will never need to be “productionised” or even used by another person. Heck even I will probably never use the latest log retrieval tool, which exists purely for Claude code to invoke it. There is a ton of useful software yet to be written for which there _is_ no “last 20%”.
- I totally did this! Why would I need a database named “mysql” inside my MySQL database? Delete that, good job on day one!
- I was imagining a feature that allowed me to search across all my books, which is something that O’Reilly Learning does (actually it gives you answers from their entire range since their model is a license to access all content).
Come to think of it, given how early O’Reilly had this it’s shocking to me that Amazon hasn’t done this sooner.
The O’Reilly Learning search was simultaneously the best and worst of all the early LLM applications. They have tons of high quality content that underpins very useful answers. I’ve also found a bunch of worthwhile books by looking through the sources.
It’s the worst because their template response is extremely unimaginative. I can be asking process questions about managing tech debt and it still gives me a code sample with every response as though I was asking “how do I add this button to my app”.
- Shocked and curious to know why anyone would downvote a story like this.
- I think I know what you mean in that the most experienced person often writes proof of concept code that others take over. But I can’t imagine a situation where someone is expected to specialize in everything but the PoC.
Also in my part of the Ruby community most folks love tests and are that their code gets better when they write tests. I’d be sad the day I’m writing code and someone else writes the tests.
- My neighbour asked me the other day (well, more stated as a "point" that he thought was in his favour): "how could a billionaire make people believe something?" The topic was the influence of the various industrial complexes on politics (my view: total) and I was too shocked by his naivety to say: "easy: buy a newspaper". There is only one national newspaper here in the UK that is not controlled by one of four wealthy families, and it's the one newspaper whose headlines my neighbour routinely dismisses.
The thought of a reduction in the cost of that control does not fill me with confidence for humanity.
- Do you mind giving some examples of the work that annoys seniors?
- Yup, tolerating inappropriate tech debt for too long leads to bad results. I see this going wrong all the time and I thought it was mostly due to being surrounded by bootcamp grads given nothing but year after year of pressure and no examples of what good code can look like. Surprised to hear the same thing happens in big tech.
- There’s another side to this I see - and have been guilty of committing - where “it took so long because I found some code that felt wrong and while trying to fix that I found something else that felt wrong and while trying to fix that…” at some point you just have to settle for making one thing better and then getting the job done while leaving some other ugliness still in place.
The complaints in this thread seem to ignore cases like that and I’m not getting the sense that it’s because everyone is spectacular at avoiding rabbit holes.
- I’m shocked to hear how different your experience is from mine. I very often see good code and bad code and the difference is very clear, even years into a project.
- The author’s position seems to be that “actual partition” in this sense is a very unusual case for most cloud applications.
- Can you spell this out for a newb like myself? It looks like you’re saying that a read replica that can’t be read from is still useful, but that doesn’t sound right. What is its usefulness if I can’t read from it?
- With I assume full size display, keyboard, and full access to permissions. These are the real bottlenecks.
- Caveat: all this is on iOS:
The only reason I want emacs on my phone is the one thing I don’t have: I want my org notes to be on both desktop and mobile. But syncing files across both has been dreadful, even in paid apps: duplicates everywhere and I constantly have to rechoose the files in a file finder UI. So my reminders are not just ever present for the time when they’re relevant, they’re just “not there” unless I take a lot of manual steps (if I’m lucky only) once a day.
- Same, I think this one post may have cured me of a life long (unrealized) obsession with working at FANG.
- What are your servers and or people to follow? My mastodon timeline is a wasteland
- What’s the difference between the claim that they’re making and what you say they haven’t done?
- Your comment implies that it’s obviously not this spec that they compare against. Could you spell it out for the ignorant like me? What about that config makes it definitely not the thing that is 86x slower?
- E2E tests in a high ratio to other tests will cause problems. They’re slow and brittle and become a job all on their own. It’s possible that they might help at the start of debugging, but try to isolate the bugs to smaller units of code (or interactions between small pieces of code).
- Big +1 to customizing emacs! Used to feel so out of reach, but now I basically rolled my own cursor.