donw

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A substantial portion of software engineering -- and the fundamental jobs of a proper Product Owner and UX Designer -- is to turn "vague ideas about what we need to do" into "this widget, on this page, it should work like this"

It's not a pipeline, it's an ongoing conversation within any functional team, but this requires buy-in from management, who is often selected for "line must go up this quarter no matter the cost" over "hey, wouldn't it be cool if this company was still a going concern in twenty years?"

3 дня назадdiscuss

I'm really curious, what sort of work you were having it do such that you could execute multiple days of work with minimal supervision.

19 дней назадdiscuss

I also still don't understand why the author thought this was wrong?

19 дней назадdiscuss

Um... 話します is the correct conjugation for 話す, what am I missing here?

26 дней назадdiscuss

Honestly, that is just bad management. It can make sense if it's your company, but even then, the risk profile is just off the charts. What happens if your only developer leaves or gets sick?

Real engineers think about handling things when stuff goes wrong, not "everything will be on the happy path forever".

Yes, there are constraints, but to me this sounds like an unacceptable level of exposure.

26 дней назадdiscuss

As a manager, I will quite literally ding people for working when they are supposed to be off.

Work during work time, don't work during not-work time. Good practices mean that everyone is important, but nobody is irreplaceable, the team and the work will move along a little slower, but that's fine.

26 дней назадdiscuss

That was just a beautiful, period.

30 дней назадdiscuss

Have you tried contacting Google for customer service? I’ve found that to be a sure-fire cure for whenever I catch a case of optimism.

в прошлом месяцеdiscuss

You’ve also had to flip the disk halfway through a movie, it couldn’t do two hours of continuous video, unlike a VHS tape.

The lack of recording was also a killer, if you went with VHS you could record and watch home movies if you had a camera, read videos at the video store, record from broadcast TV, it was much more versatile.

2 месяца назадdiscuss

... I haven't seen an ad in years, thanks to Brave, which is as of the last time I checked Chromium-based.

3 месяца назадdiscuss

This one was weird, too, like being on a boat in mildly choppy water, not a violent shake at all.

3 месяца назадdiscuss

My first job-job got hit by the dotcom crash, but was fortunately a real business with actual revenue, and the CEO was an absolute class act.

He reduced pay, the higher on the food chain you were, the bigger your cut. His cut was the biggest of all, and thanks to him, pretty much everybody at the company kept their jobs, and the company made it through while competitors folded.

That's what leadership looks like, and I can't tell you the kind of loyalty people had to him afterwards.

5 месяцев назадdiscuss

We collectively decided nothing.

Our political/ruling class wanted more of the pie for themselves, dropped the trade barriers protecting American industry, and gorged themselves on the arbitrage as manufacturing flowed to our chief geopolitcal rival, who was quite happy to accept such a generous gift.

5 месяцев назадdiscuss

Something that just occurred to me: RAGs are almost Gopher for AIs.

5 месяцев назадdiscuss

Yeah, that's what Factorio is for.

6 месяцев назадdiscuss

Same here. You have to slice things small enough for the agent to execute effectively, but beyond that, it’s magic.

6 месяцев назадdiscuss

I mentioned this to Claude and this was the response:

Ha! The irony is not lost on anyone.

"We've built the world's most advanced AI coding assistant. It can refactor entire codebases, debug complex issues, and ship production features autonomously. Anyway, here's a terminal bug that makes your screen look like a slot machine. We'll get to it eventually."

6 месяцев назадdiscuss

No heresy detected in this thread.

6 месяцев назадdiscuss

If it’s a hydramatic, be careful to only lubricate it with snake oil.

6 месяцев назадdiscuss

"Military-grade" has a very specific meaning: it's at least 10x overpriced and painted black.