impjohn

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by impjohn 14d ago
To be fair, I think you can't hand a role over to someone you just hired and walk away for a week. No matter how much of a SME they are. Let's not forget human onboarding takes months. With the advantage of their knowledge not goi
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Google Search Trend for Human(trends.google.com)
3 points by impjohn 22d ago|0 comments
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by impjohn 2mo ago
This take may be frowned upon in HN, but I suspect it's much closer to the median sentiment.
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by impjohn 4mo ago
>If they try a DOS attack on my time and sanity, I can reciprocate. Isn't it better just to tell them that instead of passive aggressively continuing the cycle? Granted, though, harder to navigate.
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by impjohn 4mo ago
>artisanal home made slop Even in the depths of corporate life, the last beacon of light was interacting with a person who may be similarly philosophically placed as you, sharing something. Artisanal home made slop may be more underrated
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by impjohn 4mo ago
Maybe AI should replace some people.
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by impjohn 4mo ago
I find this to be my current number 1 challenge when working on a terminal and seeking explanations for why a problem was approached in that way. the terminal only holds so many lines at once. Let's not talk about current scrolling in
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by impjohn 4mo ago
Very cool. Explored a lot of nodes, rekindled some old bands. I was wondering how this was vibe coded, since it was done so well, art wise. Then I read your post. This has such a different feel for whatever is usually made today, I really e
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by impjohn 4mo ago
Your take is cynical, but sensible in a massive org with dysfunctional culture that jades and burns out engineers until they only care about their own personal gains and everything else is secondary. I think people project their values in s
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by impjohn 4mo ago
Reminds me of this case: https://iqf.ie/the-man-who-stole-100-million-from-google-and... This opens that surface area of attack again, but now on a much larger scale, if not careful
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by impjohn 5mo ago
That kind of captcha has a very short half life. Software ate the world now AI is eating software
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by impjohn 5mo ago
Code gets stale really fast. Re-gathering context and re-aligning on old code is sometimes more painful than starting from scratch.
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by impjohn 5mo ago
I'd say there's bottlenecks within the developer processes without even considering org processes. Code review, release, post release ceremonies. Feels like they absorb much of the gained productivity in the coding phase.
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by impjohn 5mo ago
I believe it's ultimately a tug of war between what the business wants (more features, faster, etc) and the engineers want (maintainability, documentation, scalable patterns etc). Engineers rarely win this tug of war. At times it feels
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by impjohn 5mo ago
I believe the economic machine gives an edge to people who do more right things than wrong. Bob does things wrong, but given a 10x amount of output, the balance of right output vs wrong output may still be favored upon by the economy. A spe
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by impjohn 5mo ago
I think this will become the prevailing sentiment when the dust settles.
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by impjohn 6mo ago
AI writing feels like putting a michelin course into a blender and drinking it
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Big Tech Spends More on Buildings Than Research(cupellabs.com)
3 points by impjohn 6mo ago|0 comments
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by impjohn 6mo ago
Then this person better bet their entire life savings on them dying, since it would reduce incentive (profit). Crazy thought experiment, gave me lots to think about
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by impjohn 9mo ago
This is what struck me as well. I got weird undertones of 'Now you don't even need to have real memories! Just fabricate them.' They even prominently showcase edits of placing you with another person, further deepening dising
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by impjohn 9mo ago
>then tell it to give you the top 10 things wrong with the code, then tell it to fix the five of them that are valid and important. I would be cautious of this. I've tried this multiple times and often it produces very subtle bugs.
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by impjohn 11mo ago
Crappy spreadsheet is just the codification of business processes. Those are inherently messy and there's lots of assumptions, lots of edge cases. That's why spreadsheets tend towards crappy on a long enough timeline. It's a
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by impjohn 11mo ago
>but couldn't care less if it disappeared tomorrow. Wonder how true that is. Some things incorporate in your life so subtly that you only become aware of them when totally switched off.
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by impjohn 1y ago
What were the clues, in hindsight? I wonder if someone can get scent of 'want you to fail' early, so one can play their cards a bit differently armed with this knowledge.
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by impjohn 1y ago
It's hard to appreciate the difference in 'abundance mentality' between the median US and EU person. It always struck me as an interesting culture difference. While both EU and US grew in prosperity post WWII, I feel the US n
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by impjohn 1y ago
Interesting thought. Do you have any anecdotes regarding it? Seems you're basing it off personal experience or something you've heard many times, curious to know what that is
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by impjohn 1y ago
I've been personally surprised that this doesn't come up more often. Most mature codebases span a decade or more, and especially in the web, there's so many layers of evolving technologies that were introduced during this tim
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by impjohn 1y ago
I believe impact relates to area of circle as defined by the radius. A pyramid is a more hierarchical approach that perhaps was not suited. My 0.02$
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by impjohn 1y ago
Hm. The 'prompt obedience' was definitely a huge step up, but there's a huge number of acceptable results to an image generation prompt, while for coding usually there a handful, many times just one right solution. So I don&#
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by impjohn 2y ago
Sadly most websites will scream at you if you don't follow their weird and sometimes arbitrary recipe (exactly one special character). This is great for when it's actually allowed

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