pydry

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by pydry 4d ago
>That's not necessarily true. Technology gives more power to everyone. The rise of factories Did not give more power to everyone. At best you could say that it shifted power from landed gentry to industrialists. Even that switchov
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by pydry 4d ago
The process you're cheering on gives more power to the powers that be who are the problem. Theyre never going to use that power to provide basic income for everybody. You cannot wave a wand to make them do that. Theyre going to use t
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by pydry 5d ago
Nobody is. It's the AI slop which is supposed to replace this shit which barely worked with equally shit shit which doesnt work which people are romanticizing. Most of the human written code was slop, but the really fundamental and s
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by pydry 5d ago
>Copyright exists to encourage progress in the arts and sciences. Not to enrich artists or scientists. Is impoverishing them supposed to encourage progress in the arts and sciences? Whatever it started out as (and I have my doubts it was
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by pydry 6d ago
Product manager skills do not overlap much with dev skills. If I put some devs in front of a customer I'd be very much afraid of them doing what they ask rather than what they want, for instance, or overindexing on one particular custo
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by pydry 7d ago
It feels economically naive because theyre presuming LLMs are magical boxes that replace humans. I doubt 99% of what a nurse does would be meaningfully aided by an LLM and where it would help it'd probably be a crappy band aid around a
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by pydry 7d ago
that's one way to wilfully misrepresent what I said. the point of view was that they already aren't .
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by pydry 7d ago
already happening and it seems it is legal https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/citizens-are-tracki...
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by pydry 7d ago
we have literal "starving authors" - they pretty much all need second jobs to survive. for the authors themselves I don't see much difference between having no copyright at all and being thrown a few pennies on their work f
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by pydry 8d ago
i think product just uses these use cases as their example demos and then when they show it to marketing theyre like "OK I guess this is what it's for". (at least, this is what ive seen)
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by pydry 8d ago
I think most people miss the point of TDD. It is not just about edge cases. It ought to be: * A way of matching requirement use cases to tests. * to modulate the number of tests written not only to make sure you have enough coverage but
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by pydry 8d ago
I remember having a conversation with somebody from the BBC about a study they commissioned once to ask license payers about how the license fee was spent. the overwhelming response apparently was: * we don't have particular concerns a
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by pydry 8d ago
not all, but far too much of it. card/krueger is a good example of a study that tried to measure real cows in a smart way. the boss's wallet and plenty of economists who made their career off supporting it were very upset about th
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by pydry 9d ago
This paper created some neat theoretical mathematical models but I can't see anything that indicates that they have anything to do with reality. I thought they'd come up with a neat mechanism that looked at actual wages in real co
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by pydry 9d ago
they make mistakes on this level when writing code too it's just that some people can't tell when they do it and refuse to believe they do it.
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by pydry 9d ago
sure i can get all sorts of very poor quality tests by asking for them
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by pydry 9d ago
Ive written many significant changes without manual testing by leaning heavily on well crafted automated tests, carefully honed type systems and clean architecture. These foundations serve as the bedrock of high quality applications I can
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by pydry 9d ago
At some point it will become a strong competitive advantage to zag where others zig. If you understand the codebase deeply and have trust in it can roll out changes quickly without manual testing you can run circles around the people scratc
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by pydry 10d ago
the distortion is the slow euthanization of the parasitic buy to let landlord class and a decline in property prices to more affordable levels.
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by pydry 10d ago
This is like saying "writing code is solved, all we need now is somebody to blame because it doesnt work"
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by pydry 10d ago
This isnt how a company which has "solved programming" would act. Especially since users do prefer a native experience and having their RAM conserved.
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by pydry 10d ago
Scrooge would agree wholeheartedly. Some landlords believe that because it brutally eats into their profits and because it's a band aid which addresses the cost of housing without magically fixing supply shortages that it ought to be
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by pydry 11d ago
Scrooge would probably agree wholeheartedly. The reality is that curtailment of abusive zero hours contracts provided by the employment rights legislation was direly needed and renters desperately needed protection against landlords who w
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by pydry 11d ago
And yet technical debt is still much, much worse than it used to be thanks to LLMs. As a technological innovation theyre a bit like amphetamines for code. Sure, maybe some people are using the "tankers chocolate" their employe
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by pydry 12d ago
If it does then software will become even more unreliable.
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by pydry 14d ago
yeah I also remember a lot of talk about the bubble for 18 months to 2 years before it actually popped. i think we're in that (quite long) stage with AI right now where most halfway smart people "know" but they're still
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by pydry 14d ago
>Predicting things 5 years too early is often as useless as not predicting anything. I dont think Zitron has predicted anything 5 years too early. 1 or 2 at the outside is probably the limit. I remember during the original internet boom
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by pydry 14d ago
A lot of the "useless work" is busywork you do being a part of an executive's empire so they can claim they managed X number of people. How can it do that?
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by pydry 14d ago
IME many of the people who truly believe it's replacing white collar workers are being replaced are invested in the stock market bubble.
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by pydry 15d ago
it's too bad none of them actually correlate with making good software.

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