wreath

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by wreath 23d ago
> A bad or below average dev with AI will run your product and company into the ground in a matter of weeks. I had a recent experience with this. Although it was months and not weeks and there were other factors into play such as the mar
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by wreath 24d ago
Do you mean this applies to other engineers who are less experienced than yourself or only to you?
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by wreath 27d ago
Same here. I sometimes dont feel like typing but I use voice dictation, that should be the first option in a text convo imo.
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by wreath 1mo ago
And it doesnt play reallt well with Aurora
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by wreath 2mo ago
> Learn data structures and algorithms. Understand finite state machines and context free grammars. Learn at least some mathematics. Discrete math, Boolean logic, and statistics. Learn how operating systems work, networking, databases, c
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by wreath 2mo ago
To me AI conversations are exactly like ones about VIM config etc. ok cool, but show me something cool you built with it, and most importantly something that was worth the cost. Otherwise, it sucked the air out of everything else especially
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by wreath 3mo ago
Yeah I totally agree. My point was that it can be intimidating as an intro book to the topic. Excellent material otherwise
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by wreath 3mo ago
I don't think this is a good resource for an intro tbh. Unless you are interested in proofs and have some probability basics covered, it feels quite dense. I liked Principles of Product Development Flow a lot more because it was easier
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by wreath 4mo ago
What kind of problems do people solve that require this amount of money per month, let alone per day? Is anyone reviewing the output of the generated work (PRs, docs etc)?
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by wreath 5mo ago
At work we are literally forced to use AI and it’s part of our performance review. Even though I really like coding by hand, I have to now use AI so I can keep my job. I will try this out though, 2 days per week using AI and the rest handco
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by wreath 5mo ago
And what of the original author is not there anymore?
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by wreath 6mo ago
Even with enough money, you may not be able to attract/keep talented engineers who are willing to put up with such a work environment (the codebase itself, and probably the culture that led to its state) and who want to ship well built
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by wreath 6mo ago
PMs do different things in different organizations. In my last job, PMs were responsible for identifying problems that were worth solving and align with the overall company vision and plans within the owned domain, and design+engineering de
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by wreath 6mo ago
> i see how one they cannot think and feel clearly anymore if your neighbours dream constantly about your elimination. All sides just need to stop with that hatred. It leads to so much pain. I think by now we all know this is a straw man
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by wreath 6mo ago
I dont think parent was questioning it, sounded they were more curious but thanks for explaining because i wasnt sure myself. Re: safe from LLMs, id imagine the level of rigor in sys engineering is higher so maybe people are more wary of LL
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by wreath 6mo ago
Yeah to get the definitive answers, sure AI is quicker. Google is more like the librarian pointing you at possibly good resources to get your answers from after reading the materials and there are a lot of good learning opportunities there.
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by wreath 6mo ago
Technical debt is never a problem now since only AI reads code /s
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by wreath 6mo ago
Exactly! How do other parts of the organization deal with this avalanche of features in terms of documenting, pricing and packaging, marketing, selling and getting feedback on them. How do users adopt these features and incorporate them in
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by wreath 7mo ago
It's hard to be engaged when you are constantly jumping from one thing/prompt to another vs you are actually doing the work.
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by wreath 7mo ago
I dont even think you need to be neurodivergent or anything to answer this question like the parent’s cofounder did. From one side, we call ourselves problem solvers, on the other hand we are not satisfied with simple solutions to these pro
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by wreath 7mo ago
Thats interesting. While i do get mentally tired after a session of focused coding, i feel like i have accomplished something. Using AI for coding feels similar to spending hours doom scrolling reels. Less engaging but Im drained as hell at
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by wreath 7mo ago
I think reading queries that are always served from cache are CPU bound because it also involves locking the buffers etc and there is no I/O involved.
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by wreath 7mo ago
You don't have to take 5 years off for it. Just continue same old business (assuming you don't have outside pressure to use this slop-machine) and keep your skills and judgment sharp until the tools and workflow stabilizes, and mo
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by wreath 7mo ago
We already knew this, but in the light of this AI hysteria we pretend like coding speed has always been the bottleneck
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by wreath 7mo ago
And not to mention that most tests available to AI training is trash, so no wonder AI-generated tests are not only worthless but costly in terms of false sense of reliability.
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by wreath 7mo ago
He’s been building tech companies for 20 years, he sure knew smaller teams move faster when he was hiring thousands of more people during covid
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by wreath 7mo ago
Right on.. we already have open source alternative to all the major SaaS out there and companies still opt for the SaaS option instead to avoid the headache of self-hosting and all the other stuff. The extra resources that AI affords you wi
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by wreath 7mo ago
This has been my experience as well. I get drained at the end, and I spent most of my energy and thinking capacity dealing with the LLM instead of the problem space.
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by wreath 7mo ago
More like the fresh parents who start schooling everyone else on how to parent…
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by wreath 7mo ago
> Then what will AI be trained on in let's say 20-30 years? Old code? It's own AI developed code for vibe coded projects? I’ve seen variation of this question since first few weeks /months after the release of ChatGPT and

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