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by serial_dev 5mo ago
> Was there really no internal discussion from a code review at least? This seems hard for me to believe. The outlined story feels unfortunately very believable to me. Teams need to push out the most number of features, and nobody stops
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
“Few years ago” is about a decade in design, to be fair. I’m not sure what staff level means at GitHub, but at some other companies it’s just “senior++”, and people with 10yoe get that title quite often.
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
Just follow the orders, man!
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
Devs are expected to ship slop 10x faster. The AI tools genuinely help a bit, like maybe 2x, but the 10x "improvement" comes from not thinking about anything else than shipping your assigned features, not testing your code careful
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
Just a theory, I give it about 0.001%. What if it’s the U2 Bono of the apps? Apple struck a partnership with them, they will roll it out as part of their OS, everyone will get some version of it for free? Some dev at Apple is testing the au
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
I genuinely enjoy software development, but if I could provide for my family, I’d also enjoy selling croissants at a local bakery or filling up shelves at the supermarket.
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
I can’t reply to sibling comment, but the Apple Maps native integration in the Apple ecosystem is far far ahead of Google’s. Their CarPlay, Watch, notifications, island etc integration shows how all apps should feel, but not even Google can
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
My experience is the opposite of this thread's consensus. Context: Full time SWE, working on large and messy codebase. Not working on crazy automations, working on fixing bugs, troubleshooting crashes, implementing features. Anthropic
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
1. None of this should matter if you do it because it’s therapeutic. 2. If it turns out it’s not therapeutic for you, try something different. Play piano. Learn chess. Learn MMA. Go for a run. Heck, vibecode something silly. Music productio
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
What does good even mean… I have no idea what a good “pelican on a bike” should look like. It’s a fun prompt because there is no good answers… at least so I thought.
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
Nobody reads the docs, tickets, or comments under a task, nobody really checks the code they are reviewing, and nowadays thanks to AI, some people don’t even read the code they “write”. People love to ask for documentation, as long as it do
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
Not only that, even if you would like to pay, the best model providers could decide any day that they want to save on cost, so they nerf the responses. Then you shipping on time is at the mercy of these companies. If you spend months shippi
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
It's like the layoffs. Let's blame this thing we wanted to do for a while on AI.
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
I'd think it's also much easier to spin up a (in some area) slightly better clone and eat into their revenue.
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I used Claude+Obsidian to build tax fraud detection agent, found 217 fake expats(twitter.com)
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Kraken Security Update(twitter.com)
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
Devs get tunnel vision when they ship slop.
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
Well, unfortunately people always tend to only spend time on verifying that the feature they wanted works, testing the happy path. Even many superficial bosses / code reviewers / QA tester will check this... Checking if your code
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
I’m on mobile, I’d much rather see some visual demo, ideally video, explaining your product in 60 seconds or less than try to tap around in the live demo.
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by serial_dev 5mo ago
It's not only about preventing accidents (but I do believe it prevents some to attempt answering your question). It's also about signaling to someone that they might be doing something wrong or they might not be paying attention
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by serial_dev 6mo ago
Did he say they will replace SWEs, or maybe something more nuanced, that code will be written by AI tools? Honest question from my end, I try to not read every AI related news that keeps telling me “it’s over, good luck feeding your family
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by serial_dev 6mo ago
The best time to plant a tree was 15 years ago. The second best time is now.
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Microsoft Rust Training Books(github.com)
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by serial_dev 6mo ago
It is (and even if it is not, it's just the way it is...). what I'm arguing is that it's not only the workspace where we all are disposable and replaceable. It happens in friends and family context, too. What to do with this
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by serial_dev 6mo ago
For some rare once-in-a-lifetime friendships, you are not disposable, and if anything were to happen to you, you would be missed. I can count those on one hand. For most casual acquaintances (that some people incorrectly label as friends),
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by serial_dev 6mo ago
Have you heard of the left pad incident? The problem is not imagined.
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by serial_dev 6mo ago
Another anecdote, the team couldn’t improve concurrency reliably in Python, they rewrote the service in about a month (ten years ago) in Go, everything ran about 20x faster.
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by serial_dev 6mo ago
Software engineers are pushed to their limits (and beyond). Unrealistic expectations are established by Twitter "I shipped an Uber clone in 2 hours with Claude" forcing every developer to crank out PRs, managers are on the look
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by serial_dev 6mo ago
It’s all fine, but in that case also do not worry about this hypothetical old person spending time the way they like to.
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by serial_dev 6mo ago
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