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by gombosg 2mo ago
Haha, nice website, with the greyed-out comments on HN featured among the offending examples. :)
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by gombosg 3mo ago
I think this is where the circle closes with the "dead internet theory"... you go to Reddit, and see bots commenting on posts created by bots. Then you go on to search for something, and find only results that are clearly AI gener
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by gombosg 5mo ago
I started my career as a machine designer (mechanical engineering), designing some machines for FMCG factories. It wasn't that much different from SWE - mostly looking up catalogs, connecting certain pre-made pieces together with custo
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by gombosg 5mo ago
Right at the top: "That distinction matters more than people think." That's basically telltale AI :) Also the entire framing around "judgment" and "taste" is what LLMs love to parrot about the topic. There
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by gombosg 6mo ago
I'm sorry for your experience, but loved the painting at the end... :)
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by gombosg 6mo ago
I think you're right, ephemeral code would be the concept that you have (I'm hand-waving) "the spec", that specifies what the code should be doing and the AI could regenerate the code any time based on it. I'm also
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by gombosg 7mo ago
Exactly, basically then every desk or office job means sitting next to a box?
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by gombosg 7mo ago
I still don't get it. If AI really improves efficiency and allows the company's employees to produce more, better products faster and thus increase the competitiveness of a company... then why does said company fire (half of!) i
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by gombosg 7mo ago
Love your approach and that you actually have "before vs. after" numbers to back it up! I personally also use AI in a similar way, strongly guiding it instead of vibe-coding. It reduces frustration because it surely "types&qu
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by gombosg 7mo ago
I think there are four fundamental issues here for us... 1. There are actually less software jobs out there, with huge layoffs still going on, so software engineering as a profession doesn't seem to profit from AI. 2. The remaining eng
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by gombosg 7mo ago
I love using LLMs as well as rubber ducks - what does this piece of code do? How would you do X with Y? etc. The problem is that this spec-driven philosophy (or hype, or mirage...) would lead to code being entirely deprecated, at least acco
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by gombosg 7mo ago
I can totally relate to your experience. I started this career because I liked writing code. I no longer write a lot of code as a lead, but I use writing code to learn, to gain a deeper understanding of the problem domain etc. I'm not
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by gombosg 7mo ago
I think this analogy to assembly is flawed. Compilers predictably transform one kind of programming language code to CPU (or VM) instructions. Transpilers predictably transform one kind of programming language to another. We introduced vari
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by gombosg 9mo ago
I think that just because AI won't be as good for tech as initially promised, it still has penetration potential in the wider economy. OK I don't have numbers to back it up but I wouldn't be surprised if most of the investmen
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by gombosg 11mo ago
I also backed out from using Zed a couple months ago, but since last week, Linux font rendering looks good to me both on full HD and HiDPI displays.
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by gombosg 1y ago
I kind of miss the RSS days when you just had your own news/blog aggregator without the annoyance of Substack, Medium or anything else.
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by gombosg 1y ago
Agreed - computer music compared to live music is what, say, Adobe Illustrator is to drawing. Or a Wacom drawing table, but definitely not prompting AI to draw for you. Whether drawing (writing etc.) through AI counts as drawing (as making
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by gombosg 2y ago
Who am I to debate with Tim O'Reilly? But this made my mind explode: > So yes, let’s be bold and assume that AI codevelopers make programmers ten times as productive. (Your mileage may vary, depending on how eager your developers ar
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by gombosg 2y ago
Let's just call mutators as 'mixins' :)
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by gombosg 3y ago
So many good memories from high school! Gaming in the computer lab was banned in theory and the teacher always tried to delete any games found on these machines. So we always kept about a dozen 'hidden' copies on each machine.
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by gombosg 3y ago
I think that unit tests are super valuable because when used properly, they serve as micro-specifications for each component involved. These would be super hard to backfill later, because usually only the developer who implements them knows
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by gombosg 3y ago
Yes, this is why we love functional programming! "What happened along the way" equals to the call stack, as long as there is no field mutation involved. And, of course, async/non-blocking calls, as tracing a call along differ
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by gombosg 3y ago
Yes: "IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI, Bloomberg reports" https://www.reuters.com/technology/ibm-pause-hiring-plans-re...
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by gombosg 3y ago
"Obviously" hilarious! :)
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by gombosg 3y ago
Anyone also using Timewarrior? It's FOSS, command-line and also dead simple.
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by gombosg 3y ago
I agree. Usually you're already working within some framework or DSL where you can describe what you want to do. Ideally, you already have an idiomatic codebase enabling you to succinctly transform specifications into code. Let's
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by gombosg 4y ago
I think the ultimate question is how much more productive a software engineer would get compared to baseline. I.e. using GPT for assistive programming instead of using Google, Stackoverflow and some good ol' thinking about problems.
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by gombosg 4y ago
Haha, same here, whenever I see some random meeting called "[whatever] chat" being scheduled, like "Engineering chat" or "Quick eng all-hands", you know it's 1. Someone's leaving or is getting fired f
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by gombosg 4y ago
I saw your same - not really valuable - comment above. If you're using Windows for games only, then having or not having an Edge icon on the desktop is not an issue. If you're using it professionally, then it's annoying, alon
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by gombosg 4y ago
Maybe this is a good time to ask. Have you found Pomodoro to be good for coding? When I get into the flow I completely lose track of time, and find the 5 minutes interruption every 25 minutes annoying. And then, during the break, I either c

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