I just use a WireGuard tunnel between my OPNsense router and a VPC instance. Currently using the tiniest t4g AWS instance but it doesn't much matter what the upstream machine is, as long as it has a public IP. WireGuard is easy and I'm not so reliant on a 3rd party service.
Like a lot of things, it’s neither and somewhere in the middle. It’s net useful even if just for code reviews that make you think about something you may have missed. I personally also use it to assist in feature development, but it’s not allowed to write or change anything unless I approve it (and I like to look at the diff for everything)
Seems to me like they’ve decided (or want to believe) that if all code isn’t output by an agent the company is losing out on potential work output.
Agents are still far too unreliable and dumb for this model and need strict discipline by a developer who really understands fundamentals. And sometimes it’s just faster to do the damn thing yourself instead of writing a whole paragraph to an agent that still might do it wrong.
In my view with current LLMs: they still produce far too much bloat and unclean solutions when not targeting them at very specific issues/features, making LLMs essentially a requirement for any debugging or features for the lifecycle of the product/service.
Their Linux app crashes half the time trying to launch, and I have to resort to the browser app. It's been like this for at least the 1 year I've been a customer. And, Their browser app also has a horrendous impact on browser performance. I always thought Firefox was just kind of slow..but it was 1password bogging it down all along.
I think of some of the trades, HVAC or maybe electrical. I think they have decent pay once you get going, and still provide a certain amount of room for doing things the way you see best fit.
Also, they’re more resistant to AI/automation. Like many, I’m not sure if I’ll want to stick around and manage a bunch of AI agents, that’s not really what interests me in the software world.
This reminds me of the whole Apple/Android rivalry. Apple does something, an Android company runs ads making fun of it, but then copy it themselves shortly after.
I see this happen to semi trucks on the highway. People interpret big open space as a place to merge. As you say, people have no consideration for why there might be a large space in front of a semi. A 50k lb+ truck hitting the back of a ~4k lb vehicle is not pretty.
I was recently driving a friend and hit a mile-long backup at a freeway exit. At some point in the lineup, a car abruptly cut in front of me to merge into the line. The friend asked "why'd you let them in" - but I didn't let them in on purpose, I was just maintaining a reasonable following distance which people seem to interpret as "hey cut in here for free"
A 10 foot USB C cable. It reaches anywhere in the room. I can charge my phone in any position in bed. I only recently 'splurged' on this $10 item and it is the best thing ever.
You can have great espresso for cheap(er) but $100 seems suspiciously low. Manual espresso is about the best bang for you buck possible, but that stretches to $200 or more depending on how fancy you want to get.
By far the largest impact I’ve observed on my CO2 levels are from the hvac. When the fan is on the levels go down and tend to stay down, so I usually leave it on circulate which runs every ~15 mins (based on the graph structure). I use an SCD30 in the corner opposite to where I sit.
Also important is using a direct CO2 sensor (NDIR or photo acoustic) and not eco2 which can give false positives from other things in the air.
I dove into a new area recently: hardware. I have a bit of a sim racing hobby, but I only have a Bluetooth game controller. I found a project to make your own force feedback wheel base, called FFbeast. But before that, I've taken up designing and building my own shifter and (3) pedals.
I printed the main pedal frame and base with PETG, and I found some M5 hardware on amazon for pretty cheap. The pedals use a hall effect sensor to measure the proximity of the pedal to the frame base. They're wired to an esp32 ADC ports and I wrote a simple USB HID device with tinyusb and esp-idf which mounts as a generic game controller - good enough for my case. I saw some designs for a load cell brake pedal, but I wanted to do it as cheaply as possible first, so I found a stiff spring. Big inspiration was cncdan's design.
They feel great - I borrowed some old logitech pedals to compare the feel and these are much better! I think all in I spent ~$40 USD for the raw materials (spring, hardware, filament, hall sensors + wire, esp32) and a weekend of time.