halis

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by halis 4mo ago
This was a really good article. I typically code with Sonnet or Opus, but I'm going to start using Codex to review local changes before I do a PR. It does a great job at identifying issues and then patching them. I just feel weird havi
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by halis 6mo ago
Actually, based on a google search apparently LLMs don't parse code into ASTs.
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by halis 6mo ago
I suppose if you stored the code in ASTs and the LLMs all have to parse the code into ASTs when analyzing it, you could make it more efficient for them to work on code?
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by halis 7mo ago
Don't worry, Grok will break the picket line and come in as a scab. Elon would fuck his mother for a nickel.
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by halis 7mo ago
You forgot about crypto, 3D printing and games with virtual real estate.
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by halis 7mo ago
Nitrogen.
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by halis 8mo ago
If you don't use Excel (or Google Sheets in my case) it's my favorite way to do financial calculations because you can easily customize contribution amounts or withdrawals in certain years by having different columns. Nice site t
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by halis 8mo ago
I personally have settled in working at big companies, where expectations are really not that high of anyone. While I'm still highly productive at work, I don't go 100% as it will just piss all the other devs off. I give it about
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by halis 8mo ago
I've had the opposite experience, but keep in mind that a lot of what gets worked on in large companies is glorified legacy CRUD apps. What I mean is, these applications have already been built with little thought about architecture, b
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by halis 9mo ago
The people saying that AI can't write "their" code are probably the same engineers that work for FAANG and write like 10 lines of code a month.
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by halis 11mo ago
Just need to retire the us-east-1 region, it's becoming a meme at this point.
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by halis 11mo ago
I find that my usage varies based on a cycle of: 1) Using the LLM like crazy to help refactor code, extract components for re-use to speed up things in the long run 2) The refactoring has sped up the work significantly, but now I need to pa
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by halis 11mo ago
Very good article. I feel that corporate executives as a class are causing this huge mess from a simple lack of understanding of software engineering. Throw more bodies at the problem has never worked in software engineering, in fact t
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by halis 1y ago
I’ve never used Next.js. To be honest, Express has always gotten the job done without too much hassle. In theory, what are the benefits of using Next.js over Express?
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by halis 1y ago
I think you meant a slop machine
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by halis 1y ago
It’s almost like the LLMs are simply a glorified autocomplete and have no actual understanding of anything they’re doing. Huh weird!
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by halis 1y ago
I would like to posit that it’s actually JSX that people like and not React. JSX was always the friend that she told you not to worry about.
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by halis 1y ago
Rust is starting to feel like those people calling about your car’s extended warranty.
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by halis 2y ago
The biggest scam in AI is Salesforce. They’re going to take some crappy model that they made or simply switch to a better open source model. Then they’re going to make a large deal with a cloud provider to spin up all these models for all t
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by halis 2y ago
While I do find llm’s useful, it’s mostly for simple and repetitive tasks. In my opinion, they aren’t actually coding anything and have no amount of understanding. They are simply advanced at searching things and pasting back an answer that
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by halis 2y ago
Docker can be a huge pain I agree. But as a senior dev that’s had half their career before docker and half after docker, it’s totally worth it and lets you avoid much worse pain.
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by halis 3y ago
Lol I love the sentiment! If I could get double I would definitely go this route. But my goal is to get this contract, work hard and hopefully get the full-time offer after a time.
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by halis 3y ago
Thank you. Based on the numbers this is a really helpful way to look at things.
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Ask HN: Hourly Rate for Principal Software Engineer?
3 points by halis 3y ago|5 comments
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by halis 5y ago
I would do my best to fix it in the time allotted, but in the end, if it isn't fixed, it's going to take more time. They could fire you or your whole team and that won't fix the bug either, in fact, that will make it take muc
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by halis 6y ago
Having used react and redux for several years now, I'm a bit burnt out on how bloated and silly the entire front end has become. If I could decide for myself, I probably would use raw DOM or jQuery at this point.
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by halis 7y ago
I agree that you need to leave straight away. Likely the team lead is threatened by you and trying to find a reason to get rid of you. I would turn in my 2 weeks. If asked why I was leaving I would just give the standard fluff about new opp
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by halis 7y ago
https://cnet4.cbsistatic.com/img/DaSY-sXB3xqiXQZImbypEvHPdec...
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by halis 7y ago
It all comes down to management. ASSHOLE IN === ASSHOLE OUT ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by halis 7y ago
Yeah they lack programming skills. Because they've been going to school, not programming for a living. But they can Google. They can study for interviews that quiz you on computer science trivia. The interview process on the coasts is

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