jakewindle47

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by jakewindle47 3mo ago
Honestly agreed on chat agents missing the ideal UX. At the very least, I think we've all been forced into a chat like UX. I feel like we should have other options too. I love the idea of having the AI be shaped by the human written co
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Show HN: AI pair programmer for Emacs(github.com)
70 points by jakewindle47 3mo ago|2 comments
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by jakewindle47 8mo ago
> If I can get a solution that is “close enough” in a fraction of the time and effort, it is irrational not to take the AI route. And that is the real problem: I cannot simply turn off my pragmatism. I've not seen this take yet, but
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by jakewindle47 8mo ago
Because I can't justify it. While I do love the craft, and I can do this, I work with other people and I can't convince other people to not use LLMs to do their daily work. So, while I'll be writing things by hand and using t
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by jakewindle47 8mo ago
I have, and it's entirely my own fault, but the way my brain works is I can't justify doing something slower than I possibly could with other tools. I'm not one to completely give in to vibe coding. I do still very manually d
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by jakewindle47 8mo ago
Yes and no, I'm looking for something that's deeply people-oriented now. I mentioned it in a different comment, being a teacher. Also thinking about being a nurse. My wife was a nurse, maybe we could work together.
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by jakewindle47 8mo ago
I'm sure they did, and this analogy comes up every time I bring this up. Usually, there's mention of calculators as well.
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by jakewindle47 8mo ago
That's currently my plan. I have kids, so I need to squeeze software dry.
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by jakewindle47 8mo ago
For me, it was the craft that was fun, less the building. It was nice to have a really good result that customers were happy about, that other engineers were happy about, but it was also nice to have such intimate knowledge of a codebase be
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by jakewindle47 8mo ago
Honestly? I'm not sure. I've looked at a few different paths. I'm lucky to live in the Research Triangle area of the United States, so I've got really good options for schooling around me. My sister graduated with an aer
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by jakewindle47 8mo ago
Many reasons Everyone else is using LLMs to assist their development, which makes it a lot harder to work without them, especially in just building enterprise apps. It doesn't feel like I'm creating something anymore. Rather, it f
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by jakewindle47 8mo ago
LLMs have sucked all of the joy out of software engineering for me, and I've been doing it for 12 years. As others have pointed out, I'm looking at a career shift now. I'm essentially burning out on doing the whole LLM-assist
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by jakewindle47 8mo ago
I too am feeling this way. I liked the deep engagement and flow state that came at least to me through actually typing out my program and having to deeply think about things.
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by jakewindle47 11mo ago
Location: Durham, North Carolina Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Java, C++, Go, JavaScript/React, AI/ML (LLMs, RAG, Embeddings, Fine-tuning), AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB), Terraform, Docker, Spring Bo
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by jakewindle47 1y ago
Location: Durham, NC Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Django, LLMs, Agentic Frameworks, Ruby on Rails, Prompt Engineering, C, C++, Java, Clojure, DevOps, Terraform, ECS, Cloud Run Résumé/CV: