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by serial_dev 6d ago
> keeping those two products that need to be identical in sync I agree that most companies do that, but in my opinion that's not really all that important. Some drift between the iOS and Android apps should be expected and accepted.
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by serial_dev 7d ago
Like SaaS companies who don’t feed all their stuff to Anthropic, OpenAI and Cursor?
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by serial_dev 11d ago
It’s the national equivalent of: How long it takes you to ship this project? Two weeks. And if you get help from Alice, Bob, and Charlie? Then it’s a year.
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by serial_dev 16d ago
Context matters and the more context you have the worse it looks.
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by serial_dev 20d ago
The stuffed animals I bought to my children were shipped to me in a closed container, better call PETA! There is no blurry line about agent mental health and whatnot.
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by serial_dev 20d ago
Then, please, tell us what you think the political reasons are behind this being done??
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by serial_dev 21d ago
The status page is the last one to get the update. Reddit, HN, X, company chat are all always reporting it sooner.
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by serial_dev 23d ago
Some of these SV "founder mode" people do speak like sociopaths. It's probably a good base for success in the industry. "I don't get it, why are they confessing? They are not confessing. They are bragging"
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by serial_dev 23d ago
Just use any product going all in on AI hype. In 5 minutes you will see annoying bugs, server is down, non-sensical press releases, confusing UI. This is GitHub, this is Cursor, this is Anthropic, this is Google, this is all of them.
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by serial_dev 28d ago
Probably they go by volume... You make 10 commits over the weekend once a month for your fun side project, they won't police it (my assumption they can't and won't). Your slop machines are running day and night, pushing hundr
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by serial_dev 1mo ago
Wanting to leave is not the same as actually leaving. I can imagine small teams leaving because moving a 10-30 member team is easy. If you have a dev team with 500 members and the team has been on GitHub for 10 years, you will just take it
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by serial_dev 1mo ago
I don’t think a significant percent of real Bluesky users actually care. Having a follow button on the screenshot brings nothing and a logo is helpful when sharing (“hey it’s not twitter, I know it looks like it but it’s bluesky”) and looks
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by serial_dev 1mo ago
> When the pissed off stakeholders called a meeting to ask what was going on he didn’t show up and sent his junior engineer to answer questions and take the blame. He doesn’t have 25 years of management experience for nothing, that’s a c
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by serial_dev 1mo ago
What, didn’t you want hundreds of companies track you while you try to get the audio work on a drum simulator?
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by serial_dev 1mo ago
Similar for me but I actually like podcasts in the car for this reason. Listening to podcasts sometimes triggers me thinking about issues I care about. When I realize that I’m no longer following the podcast, I just turn it off and let my t
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by serial_dev 1mo ago
My whole life would have been different if I didn’t get a new physics teacher when I was 16? Before him, I found math and physics unintuitive, but he explained it in a way that (to me) made the whole high school physics trivial. I studied p
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by serial_dev 1mo ago
> The attendant would put air in the tires, check oil, top up fluids So today it would be mainly just busywork, I’m doing those like twice a year, but need to put gas in my car once a week (roughly).
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by serial_dev 1mo ago
And even ignoring the token costs, that is just not true. Sure, for some cases, the cost is going down. I and others on my team "one-shotted" impressive features in an hour of agent work that would have taken humans probably a mon
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by serial_dev 1mo ago
I think it's the scientist version of "I vibecoded ten apps this weekend (at one point I'll have real users too)" . Because it's math, it's all mysterious and genuinely impressive, but in the end, if no human
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by serial_dev 1mo ago
Was anything else needed to be added to the product? I was fine with meetup.com in its original form: it had the community of people wanting to go to events, it let you share your events to these people. People showed up to events. And the
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by serial_dev 2mo ago
But some worker in Italy bolts on a zipper in the end so it’s actually Italian, believe it or not.
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by serial_dev 2mo ago
> The best case is it does no harm. No it’s not. The best case it gives you energy (it’s in the name!) to do whatever you want and it does no harm. Assuming it actually does no harm, why wouldn’t you want more energy any time you want
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by serial_dev 2mo ago
> it produces some extremely crappy code that would've NEVER passed a code review 1 year ago The 10x speed up comes from the fact that we have all given up on properly reviewing each others code and we just say “meh, it will be fine
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by serial_dev 2mo ago
If we do it, it's training a model. When they do it, it's distillation attack. - Anthropic
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by serial_dev 2mo ago
they wanted someone click “ok” before firing off bombs to a thousands of, partially hallucinated, targets? They are my resistance heroes.
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by serial_dev 2mo ago
Fable ends up in a confusion loop for me all the time.
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by serial_dev 2mo ago
It's basically supply and demand?
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by serial_dev 2mo ago
At least some of it (not all of it) will leak from devs pain to users pain... Untidy unaesthetic unreviewed code will sooner or later introduce inconsistencies, poor performance, and bugs, and as you get more of it, the harder it is to clea
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by serial_dev 2mo ago
You have no idea, to slop-circle is getting more common. In 2025, sometimes I decided to put a slop LinkedIn post to ChatGPT (back then) to deslopify. Now, the slop circle is everywhere. Your PO uses automations to create tasks? Half of the
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by serial_dev 2mo ago
“You found it didn’t you?, then we weren’t actually hiding it, so please stop looking into our finances too much”

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