distantprovince

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by distantprovince 1mo ago
I think there is a de-facto distinction between different kind of programmers, we just need a clear names for them. Like, "builders" for folks who ship products and see code as an annoying intermediate step and "engineers&quo
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by distantprovince 1mo ago
That's a pretty good frame and makes me hopeful. Now it's even more important to figure out how on Earth we can promote expertise formation in the age of AI
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by distantprovince 4mo ago
I'm fairly certain a lot of people do this. They don't literally take a day off, but just work fewer hours or less hard. And this makes sense, there is a strong incentive to not give away all the productivity gains to your employe
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by distantprovince 4mo ago
I'm fairly sure that if a compiler stops working or has a bug, the expectation is that an engineer is capable of handling it in some way. I don't think any stakeholder will have much sympathy for "compiler stopped working, we
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by distantprovince 4mo ago
this is beautiful
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A Farewell to Code Reviews(distantprovince.by)
3 points by distantprovince 6mo ago|0 comments
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AI future will be nothing like present(distantprovince.by)
1 points by distantprovince 8mo ago|4 comments
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PostHog Elixir SDK is good(distantprovince.by)
3 points by distantprovince 11mo ago|0 comments
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by distantprovince 11mo ago
these are all surprisingly specific questions that can actually be answered! 1. It's dynamic 2. It's compiled 3. Elixir script is just a file with Elixir code that compiles and runs right away 4. I've been writing Elixir for
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by distantprovince 1y ago
> If it’s slop or they have incorrect information in the message, then my bad, stop reading here. "my bad" and what next? The reader just wasted time and focus on reading, it doesn't sound like a fair exchange.
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by distantprovince 1y ago
I can see the similarity yes! Although I do feel like the distance between handwritten letter and an email is shorter than between email and LLM generated email. There's some line it crossed. Maybe it's that email provided some be
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by distantprovince 1y ago
This feature predates LLMs though, right? Funnily enough, I actually find it hilarious! In my mind, once they introduced it, it immediately became "a list of things NOT to reply if you want to be polite" and I was used it like tha
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by distantprovince 1y ago
100% real life is much more grim. I can only hope we'll somehow figure it out. I haven't personally been in this position, but when I think about it, looping all your reviews through the cursor would reduce your perceived competen
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It's rude to show AI output to people(distantprovince.by)
321 points by distantprovince 1y ago|246 comments