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3 months agodiscuss

I'll echo that the UI design is cool. I do think it could be improved to help parse information. Right now, it feels like everything is bold, highlighted, italicized, or something denoting how important it is. This is made worse as every UI element is also bold and highlighted.

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3 months agodiscuss

I built something like this at work using plain Docker images. Can you help me understand your value prop a little better?

The memory forking seems like a cool technical achievement, but I don't understand how it benefits me as a user. If I'm delegating the whole thing to the AI anyway, I care more about deterministic builds so that the AI can tackle the problem.

stocktech

2 years agodiscuss

Good for you for trying to do right by your team, but oof. An entirely junior team with no tech leadership is going to have problems beyond mentorship.

stocktech

3 years agodiscuss

iirc, eqemu reverse engineered the server based on the traffic. I remember being impressed.

stocktech

3 years agodiscuss

You can always ask the team. Either in a 1-1 or a retro, "What does my role look like for you?" or "What are your expectations of a manager?"

stocktech

3 years agodiscuss

For reference, 14 yoe and currently in management.

Today, I don't think the tools are good enough to make a material difference. It may help a bad engineer tread water, but it won't take you from good to great. It may save you time writing basic boilerplate and individual functions, but I suspect 99% of engineers don't struggle with that. What's hard about our jobs is knowing how to orchestrate the whole thing and put structure around complexity. AI can't do that yet.

When I use it personally, it feels like a harder context switch trying to describe in english what I already know how to code. Then I still have to review the function to make sure it's accurate. It feels like a waste of time and an additional context switch.

Whenever the AI gets better, we'll have to use it to be productive I have no doubt. But the pool of engineers will change too - there will be a categories of engineers who can't debug the AI output and who still write crazy prompts.

Maybe I'm old, but I'll only be worried about AI when it can write and maintain a full app with no human intervention.

stocktech

9 years agodiscuss

As someone outside of the valley, the comparison is helpful.

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