kody

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by kody 5mo ago
I agree. It really is not a difficult “skill” to learn. It took me probably 4 days to configure agents to break down requirements, write tests, write code, open PRs, review and merge PRs. Learned how to use skills, MCP, AGENTS.md. It is re
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by kody 6mo ago
at which point they will learn to write markdown files too.
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When Does Education Stop? (1962)(woodblock.com)
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by kody 6mo ago
Mix in exhaustion from previous hype cycles (NFTs?) and folks pushing the narrative that if you currently write any code manually, you’re obsolete and it’s hard to not want to push back negatively. Even if you find the tech interesting&#x2F
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by kody 6mo ago
It’s a tricky philosophy to put into practice. I have oscillated between this approach (“owning” the effort) and “owning” the outcome. I have found that taking ownership of the outcome leads to better results because I have a personal stake
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by kody 7mo ago
Coaxed into dead-end architecture is the exact issue I have had when trying agentic coding. I find that I have the greatest success when I plan everything out and document the implementation plan as precisely as possible before handing it o
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by kody 1y ago
I second Code Complete. The Pragmatic Programmer and Code Complete were integral on my first job.
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by kody 1y ago
Oxide is another that comes to mind.
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by kody 1y ago
> I’m no longer an artisan enjoying the journey of creating me the first time my boss forced me to unit test my code ... The best thing you can do is listen to your gut and try to act as rationally as you can. Talk with trusted mentors i
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by kody 1y ago
I appreciate your reply. My tone was a little dismissive; I'm currently deep deep in the trenches trying to unwind a tremendous amount of LLM slop in my team's codebase so I'm a little sensitive. I use Claude every day. It is
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by kody 1y ago
It's 60-80% as good as Stack Overflow copy-pasting programmers, sure, but those programmers were already providing questionable value. It's nowhere near as good as someone actually building and maintaining systems. It's barel
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by kody 2y ago
We use C for embedded products at work. My gut feeling is that Rust or Zig would require way too much time investment to learn and use properly, then you'd still have to deal with interop problems.
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by kody 2y ago
No. I use AI as a fast but stupid research assistant. It aggregates information to point me in the right direction but I don't trust it at face value. I tried copilot for the first time last week and found it useful for writing bash b
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by kody 2y ago
Your coworker could download it, record a screencap, and IM you the URL very easily, with a Fisher Price UI. I'm not surprised it took off.
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by kody 2y ago
Wake up to my kid scream whispering at my baby to stop kicking me in the throat, change diapers make coffee and eggs, read a couple headlines about how it's the worst time in history to be alive, make lunches clean up breakfast and lea
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by kody 2y ago
Painfully accurate. Nothing is worse for me creatively when the work environment is paranoid, ass covering, disinterested in the work.
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by kody 2y ago
Funny enough I had an interview today with a dynamic programming whiteboard problem. I feel like if I hadn't been putting in my leetcode hours I would have totally bombed
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by kody 2y ago
I'm really curious, how do you factor in time to learn ("up skill")? I'm a self taught dev with 2 young kids. I've always had a healthy approach to work, but now I'm feeling quite a lot of pressure to learn new
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by kody 2y ago
I would kill for code-adjacent docs right now. We're a documentation-heavy org and having to open Confluence, find the right root page, drill down to where I need to be, and deal with ~1s page loads drives me nuts.
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by kody 2y ago
USA, months of no responses, now have two interviews this Friday. C++ embedded dev. So in my world it's picking up a little bit.
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by kody 2y ago
Very cool. I appreciate the breakdown of how you built this.
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by kody 2y ago
Funny, after 6 years in startups I'm looking for something along the lines of "boring Java programmer for a bank". I'm tired of changing the world, man.
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by kody 2y ago
Yeah, on principle I don't support banning a media channel like this. But an immature part of me wants the ban to be enforced so I don't have to deal with insufferable personalities of TikTok addicts any more.
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by kody 2y ago
Assuming that includes health insurance, same here.
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by kody 2y ago
My students LOVED IXL. I couldn't believe when I found out the kids kept using IXL after school and on weekends to compete with each other.
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by kody 2y ago
Flask + Svelte is very accessible. When my Middle School students wanted to "build an app" I would roll up a boilerplate with Flask, Svelte, and SQLite on Replit (would not recommend anymore - Replit has jumped the shark) and they
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by kody 2y ago
I opened to project to take a look at the source code, which I would not have done if the project were written in, say, C.
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by kody 2y ago
Get a job, get very very good at doing your job, then find a new job right before you start to feel like you're coasting. Don't worry too much about optimizing for the best company, niche, tech stack, whatever. Focus on getting a
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by kody 2y ago
$50 to skin my buddy's band's MySpace page. $200 for an actor friend's portfolio website shortly thereafter.
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by kody 3y ago
I am in a senior role, previously full-stack developer, tech director, and now embedded software.

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