It seems to be a common trait of the AI people to just brazenly violate the law. It’s like a requirement for working at openAI is to think rules don’t apply to you because you’re so smart.
I constantly hear other engineers talk about how knowing the cli, git, Linux, whatever is useless. But then I’m the one that gets called when shit breaks, so it must not be that useless. If knowing how shit works at a low level is so useless they why do I need to bail colleagues out so much.
Yeah I have 2002 Honda accord and I’m dreading the day I need to get a modern car. My wife has a 2021 car and there is not a single feature it has that is necessary. In fact, many of them are actively bad. I’ve been driving every day, accident free, for 20 years and have never once needed lane assist, attention tracking or whatever the fuck. I wish there was a car that just had no additional ‘features’ beyond actual mechanical/efficiency improvements.
I assume you don't ascribe to the thought that friction leads to growth. In this future of complete frictionless existence wont humanity stagnate? In this world of no effort, nothing has meaning.
Yeah, we have a big struggle with this. We have lots of legacy code that doesn't follow our latest design patterns intermixed with new code. The LLM picks up bad habits depending on what it pulls in to context first. We have AGENTS.md configured with the right way, but old style still slips in. We obviously need to update the old code but on the other hand if it ain't broke why touch it.
I recommend it. I got a masters in Math, learned how to code, and now I'm a software engineer. Math was a lot of fun. Honestly, the best take away from my degree was that learning math concepts is often so obtuse/difficult it makes learning anything else seem relatively easy. It took away that fear of "I can't learn this" when approaching a new topic.
I’ve been working with these things for quite some time now and every time I simply “treat it like I would a human” it seems to perform better. I can’t imagine agents wouldn’t perform better in a clean codebase than a giant mess of one. Just like it performs better when it has well formed specs and access to documentation.
> You are aware that you can just pay more money and get a higher quality house and higher quality shoes, right?
False. You can pay more money for branding that purports to be higher quality. The Running shoe market is a perfect example. Best shoes I ever bought were Altra Loan Peaks from 2018, brand has been getting more expensive and lower quality every year. Whether that extra cost actually translates to quality require diligent research.
> Of course the house must pass safety inspections and stuff, but the materials and techniques don’t matter one bit for that. All that matters is you achieve the desired outcome, and I will ignore the glaring fact that you achieve the desired outcome by using the right materials and techniques.
This analogy is more true than you think. This is why modern homes/appartments are trash. You can pass safety inspections using subpar materials and the house will fall apart after a few years, but who cares right? At least you achieved the business outcome!
This mentality is so infuriating. This is why I need to buy new shoes every year. Or why my washer/dryer motherboard craps out in 2 years instead of 10. Nobody gives a shit about quality anymore, this is why society is crumbling around us. Profit driven incentive for fast/cheap over everything else. And now I need to spend my day prompting an AI to fix AI slop code to keep the business hobbling along another day. What a fucking joke.
For me, it’s less that I’m burned out on coding and more of a feeling that if I’m going to be doing puzzles in assembly I mine as well just do it in real assembly.
We have a consistent wsl image for everyone. So they are all on Linux. Then we have a podman pod defined in a bash script. We have a Justfile where you can run ‘just services’ and it all “just works (tm)”.
Once the pod is defined you can use ‘podman pod up/down’ to interact with it, but mostly we encourage people to use the Just recipes to do the things.
The thing is, podman has docker-compose like management built in, in the form of pods, but it doesn’t seem to be very well socialized.
On the server we use quartet+systemd and it’s great. Never had an issue with that part.
Too true. I used to absolutely love Zachtronics games. Then I became a professional programmer and I just can’t play the programming themed ones anymore. Kind of a shame because TIS-100 is what made me want to be a programmer in the first place.
I don’t want to get into an argument about health on the internet, it’s really a no win situation.
Although feeling bad, going to a doctor, getting labs, taking a calcium supplement is completely legitimate and a very different story from watching a YouTuber say ‘everyone is vitamin D deficient’ then going out a buying a bottle of supplements.
It's pretty safe to assume all hyped supplements are pointless. Being generally active and eating fruits/vegetables is like 80% of the work for being healthy.
> almost everyone is Vitamin D deficient
This was the red flag that made me realize it was BS early on. If everyone is deficient, then it must not be that important.
Pledge what you can. If everyone does this, it adds up. I have a $100/month slush fund I have set aside for Patreon/OS projects I like and use. It's a drop in the bucket, but something. Even $5/month can go to VPS hosting or something.
It is disconcerting that a large portion of people (many in government) actually believe Trump was appointed by God to lead the United States. If any US president could become a dictator, it's him, and I don't blame people for being worried.