tech_tuna

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by tech_tuna 6d ago
Yeah, this is one of those ancient usability issues I wouldn't even mention to the Apple cult. It's like arguing with diehard MAGA Republicans about what's wrong with Trump. I've always found Finder to be insanely awkwar
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by tech_tuna 19d ago
I grew up in Boston. My parents took the train to work, my brother and I took city buses and/or trains to school, or walked when we were younger (elementary school). I cannot afford to raise a family in Boston now however. I live in a
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by tech_tuna 6mo ago
This is a good take, junior engineers today and in the future will learn from making mistakes, they just won't look like the mistakes we made in the good ole days when everyone wrote code by hand.
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by tech_tuna 6mo ago
You should lay off your engineering team and do it all in Lovable amigo.
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by tech_tuna 6mo ago
At a shitty company. The problem is - you cannot ship a large amount of code quickly in a perfect way. Positioning the problem as "what's the point of generating all this code so fast if I still need a warm body at the end making
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by tech_tuna 6mo ago
I have mixed feelings but echo your sentiments a bit. On the one hand, I can get a lot more done and feel "unchained" so to speak. I have long hated doing frontend development and now it doesn't matter and I love that. Howeve
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by tech_tuna 6mo ago
Linear is what Jira was back around 2008-2009. I just started using it, it's a breath of fresh air.
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by tech_tuna 6mo ago
The first step in fixing something is being aware that it needs to be fixed.
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by tech_tuna 6mo ago
I just started using Linear, it is AI native/friendly and a million effing times less bloated than Jira. So long Jira. And I say that as an old shit who migrated from Bugzilla to Jira a long time ago and I remember how refreshing Jira
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by tech_tuna 7mo ago
Git is better in some ways, but it is insanely complicated. That matters less now with AI tooling but still there was a time when we all had many choices (commercial and open source) for source control tools. My canonical example is git che
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by tech_tuna 8mo ago
Yeah, exactly. There is no way Claude could do that much work in one hour, starting from scratch. You can even ask Claude if it could do that and it will say the same. The LLM/AI tools are powerful and have a ton of use cases unlike te
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by tech_tuna 8mo ago
There's a crazy amount of hype, fear and blatant lies in the mix. And the pace is absolutely bonkers. The pace of announcements is even more bonkers. Maybe things will settle down to a new normal at some point. You might think that eve
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by tech_tuna 8mo ago
I'm not convinced that the success and momentum of Claude Code will catch on with the general public. This feels like the one trick pony that's been groomed and billed as a racehorse. Or put another way Claude Cowork feels like C
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by tech_tuna 8mo ago
Agreed, they overlap with QA engineers and Product Managers, with some level of technical skill on their own e.g. they might know Python pretty well.
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by tech_tuna 9mo ago
I love that the dominant narrative with modern AI is "figure out who we can fire" pronto. I don't see a clear pattnern with juniors and seniors and AI. I know some younger engineers who are not embracing AI tools at all. I&#x
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by tech_tuna 11mo ago
I worked at company where the VP of engineering regularly stated that he "hated managing people". This is also the same guy who literally deleted the main production database because he was testing something out.
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by tech_tuna 11mo ago
Also, probably an asshole
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by tech_tuna 1y ago
Because of the internet, and social media and specifically Instagram in this case, I see my aunt's artwork regularly. I live a few hours from her and see her once or twice a year. She is quite eccentric and her artwork is amazing. It&#
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by tech_tuna 1y ago
I saw a LinkedIn post (I know, I know) talking about how soon agents will replace apps. . . Because of course, LLM calls in a for loop are also not applications anymore.
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by tech_tuna 1y ago
I manage a team of software engineers. While they are all quite good at what they do and care about doing the Right Thing, collectively they're not always great at working towards a common goal. One of the many challenges I have is tha
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by tech_tuna 1y ago
It's funny, I've used them all too. . . I like GHA overall but it sure has its quirks. Anyone who claims that GHA is garbage and any of the others are amazing is either doing something very basic or is crazy, or lying. At the end
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by tech_tuna 2y ago
LOL - "forcing scrum"
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by tech_tuna 2y ago
It's funny that you didn't mention Google. They used to be "the" techies tech company.
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by tech_tuna 2y ago
It's not unrelated. They kicked him out or he just got sick of the company's direction. Or both. Not a coincidence at all.
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by tech_tuna 2y ago
OpenTofu. Pulumi is cool especially if you want to run "code" code and not declarative code but Pulumi is in some ways the next Hashicorp. We'll see if they can manage to build a business and not become lame and evil like Has
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by tech_tuna 2y ago
Exactly, the pure meritocracy bs is exactly that, bs. I realize that this isn't apparent to younger people necessarily. Reddit is cool but not exactly earth shattering technology. Luck was a huge factor in its success. I've been o
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by tech_tuna 2y ago
Yep, he's basically preaching to a subset of young people who can help him make more money and tech fame. I mean, it's not the worst thing he could do but it would be great if he at least acknowledged the privilege filter once in
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by tech_tuna 2y ago
Google succeeded because they built a useful service and later were able to monetize it. Their timing could not have been better, searching the Internet at that time was horrendous.
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by tech_tuna 3y ago
I think that's implicit in this. . . a lot of us have held Google in high regard for a long time, knowing that they pioneered a lot for modern big tech companies while also staying cool in the eyes of the nerds. Not anymore. They feel
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by tech_tuna 3y ago
I see it them taking a risk and while I thought it was a silly idea, I applaud them for trying. It's hard to imagine Google taking a risk like this, which is the crux of this post and these threads.

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