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by xXSLAYERXx 8d ago
I used to do this until February of this year. Never looked back.
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by xXSLAYERXx 9d ago
She'd kill it at the hotdog cart
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by xXSLAYERXx 29d ago
I became an engineering manager when my daughter was 2. Way back in the old days before LLMs so I had to both code and manage. Completely burnt me out. I never fully got back into traditional tech career after I was laid off in '23. I
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by xXSLAYERXx 1mo ago
Gosh, I always assumed they were factual. Now I'm wondering the factualness of the old "15 people have this in their shopping cart" and "This is a popular item - limited stock left".
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by xXSLAYERXx 1mo ago
Click through rate is what drives the headline.
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by xXSLAYERXx 1mo ago
I've been fired (super early in my career I was a waiter) and laid off twice (Great recession and the covid overspend). If you think for even a second that an organization will put you before profits you have wasted that one second.
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by xXSLAYERXx 1mo ago
Yes, let us not forget The Trail of Tears which happened two hundred years ago. > China increasingly says to autocrats, Would you like to stay in power? I can help you with that. > This is one of the safest places in the world, if you
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by xXSLAYERXx 2mo ago
The exact opposite has happened for me. I used to review every pr, give read only access to db. Now with codex 5.6 sol high I let it rip. I do sometimes quickly scan the pr but mostly I've been regulated to a manual tester. Run the fea
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by xXSLAYERXx 2mo ago
Right. I misspoke. Should have said not in our lifetime.
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by xXSLAYERXx 2mo ago
Yes agreed that is how the world turns but given the state of world I don't see it happening in any of our lifetimes.
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by xXSLAYERXx 2mo ago
> seems to be approaching its final stages Sure, if you spend most your time on the internet in various news forums its doom and gloom. Its what sells.
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by xXSLAYERXx 2mo ago
Come on. You can say all that nonsense about almost any other country. Most everyone wants to come to America for the opportunity. Think an immigrant in China has the same economic opportunity as in America? Any other country come to mind?
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by xXSLAYERXx 2mo ago
You're clearly not an American and they will never catch up on hardware. I'm mostly curious why you are so excited for China to "crush" American companies?
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by xXSLAYERXx 2mo ago
I believe this is the second best time to start a business in America. The first was colonial times.
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by xXSLAYERXx 2mo ago
In my experience a legacy codebase is where LLM shines. What would take days to grok is understood and explained almost immediately. There was a bit of job security with being the one whose worked with IIFEs to manage state. You must know t
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by xXSLAYERXx 4mo ago
When I was younger (50ish now) I could juggle full time work with side projects but I just can't now, especially with family demands. Full time work is pretty much burning me out. I'm close to leaving and starting a mobile food ca
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by xXSLAYERXx 4mo ago
> I work in small chunks I'm surprised this still needs to be said. I'm convinced that posts like these are from people that let the LLM run wild. Small chunk PRs is the key whether its a human or an LLM
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by xXSLAYERXx 4mo ago
I hear you. You're frustrated. Some people are having success with it. What have you tried to do with it? > Humans can be held accountable for their own slop If you're a human and AI writes code for you you are ultimately respo
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by xXSLAYERXx 4mo ago
Who cares? I obviously didn't like the article. > Schemes were all wrong Why'd you let him run wild for two months? What software org would let anyone, even principle do that? Wouldn't the very first thing you'd do is
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by xXSLAYERXx 5mo ago
Agreed. I never considered myself an "engineer". Honestly just a regular code monkey. Software Engineer was just my job title. Folks higher up the ladder did engineer software. You know what? It sucked. Was always broken, we were
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by xXSLAYERXx 5mo ago
I know of a publicly traded company which in its early years was built on beer. Literally. 3 guys in a co-working space in Cambridge, MA. Beer fueled their progress. 15 years later the software is still the backbone of the org.
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by xXSLAYERXx 6mo ago
I worked for a company that sold b2b contact data and they had (maybe still have) a linkedIn extension. It basically enriched the linkedIn profile. I wonder if linkedIn is trying to block these, or heavily target, in some way, these types o
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by xXSLAYERXx 6mo ago
When i was first laid off during the dot com bust I was working on a sales floor. All open no cubes. We didn't know layoffs were coming. Manager walks in and taps this one guy on the shoulder, says grab your personal things and come wi
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by xXSLAYERXx 6mo ago
We really do love dirty laundry don't we? I'm sure whatever the context is, it is deeply personal. Do you also have your popcorn ready?
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by xXSLAYERXx 6mo ago
While crazy to us, I bet we're in the minority. Average computer user might actually like it or at worse (to MSFT) not even notice it. Their web experience is bombarded with "1 weird trick" ads everywhere.
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by xXSLAYERXx 6mo ago
It was truly a wild time. All the books desperate for action in this new online gambling world (US). I went from book to book, took "advantage" of their promos, never collected a dime. When I was up, I bet more. Hit zero? Go to th
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by xXSLAYERXx 6mo ago
At this point I question whether they should even be allowed to advertise.
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by xXSLAYERXx 6mo ago
Great article, thanks for sharing. Reminds me of here in the states during early covid. Betting on darts in some Eastern European league knowing full well the fix could be in.
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by xXSLAYERXx 6mo ago
The marketing is what bothers me the most. These books market very aggressively in app: Take Daves 5 leg parlay; Share your picks! 30% profit boost if you do a 4 leg parlay that'll never hit. Its constant engagement. Contrast this to a
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by xXSLAYERXx 6mo ago
Gosh - I thought I was bleeding edge with my instructions to codex, with all my .md files and such. Lots more to learn!

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