MattGaiser

An enormous amount of on-call debugging is just natural language reading of logs.

That time is otherwise worthless, so yes?

I don't value my travel time at all, but it used to be wasted on travelling.

This speaks to OpenAI's approach to things. But it doesn't speak to Microsoft and Microsoft would need to provide the access.

The problem is that someone has to oversee the junior and the multiplier on productivity also applies to the overseer.

So you could have the senior oversee the junior or just have them oversee Claude.

Not at all. I’m a run of the mill dev who would like to stay ahead of the AI wave.

I think it depends on what kind of senior you are. Juniors are by their nature mostly order fillers. Seniors can be anywhere from more complex code order fillers to fairly well developed experts in business logic.

I suspect that the last white collar workers have been trained outside of regulated fields.

If it can be taught, an AI can do it. The only work left is either manual or inherently new.

I doubt it. The concept of cheating is largely unique to academia and a few uptight professions like law. Everywhere else it is just collaboration or learning or simply something nobody cares about.

I would say that tech largely rewards the behaviours people in academia call cheating.

You can still have multiple contracts.

On the other hand we are also willing to buy it, so reliability is arguably not as valued a good as people assumed.

It’s also trivial to use now. With AI, there’s no meaningful additional work in using a VM.

Or even in 2026. You absoutely will pay a human that for that work.

C# and Java devs are anecdotally the only kind of dev to think of themselves primarily by language.

Most other devs don’t talk about language in a driest few sentences intro.

Doesn't this suggest your use case is simply insufficiently complicated?

but anything built around long running business processes should not be treated in that way.

Arguably they are even more willing to cut corners though. Nothing by IBM or SAP should be considered "crafted", yet those companies have a strong place in the world of business today.

$20 for an everything tool is a steal. It’s a steal at 10x the price.

I’ll happily accept best effort in exchange for it being so cheap that I can throw it at any trivial annoyance.

It’s worth keeping in mind that the alternative is not really that I learn to fix the printer. It’s that I forgo printing and walk someone technologically illiterate through Docusign or something instead.

There’s no world where I spend 2 hours debugging my printer connection.

My grandparents had a dishwasher from the 1980s. The contractor they hired to fix it didn’t even know how to take it out of the spot as it had an old design that attached it at the top.

ChatGPT both told me exactly why from the model number (had to disconnect a part), found a new part, and told me step by step how that part would be taken out.

We didn’t end up buying the new part, but it beat the repairman.

The virtue is never having to know for stupid printer crap.

I guess I am mostly intrigued that those lists would differ greatly with respect to cleaning.

Yeah, I just had Claude fill out the task list, and then before hitting the end of the task list ask whether I wanted to continue or whether getting some of it done was enough....

And it still seems unclear what they thought they could get from the war in the first place.

Sympathy. Railway is going to have numerous people blaming them for this outage. When us-east-1 fails, it is headline news, so you are not to blame.

Way back when I was working my first job, datalist didn’t work on Firefox. That’s what got Firefox removed from the list of supported browsers.

It has been a problem for a long time if you want to support anything other than Chrome.

This particular battle for learning was lost a long time ago. If university stopped providing an earnings boost from attending, 90% of students would quit tomorrow.

It doesn’t help that a lot of desirable fields are comically out of date at the academic instructional level anyway.

Would you honestly tell an aspiring software engineer that your typical computer science degree will teach them much about wielding computers in a cutting edge way?

If I were to list the top 5 things I got from university, knowledge wouldn’t make the cut and were I to do it again, I would certainly attend less class.

This is driven in part by regulatory pressure.

Mostly because unless it is a really desirable movie, hoping for the best has an expected outcome close to the best.I am a planner in most things, but for movies, it often simply does not matter.

Because the reason for it is not valued by most of us. I do not care about a removable battery. I do not care. I value it at zero. So yes, I do not want to be inconvenienced for something I value at zero.

Flags overwhelmingly represent nations, groups considering themselves nations, that were nations or have some kind of individual governmental status.

If you asked 100 people to imagine a particular flag to attach to that statue, 95% of them are going to be current, unrecognized, or former states.

Flags overwhelmingly represent nations, groups considering themselves nations, that were nations or have some kind of individual governmental status.

The delta isn't a day to 5 minutes, but a day to a half hour (where most of my larger tickets take)? Yes, especially as you don't need to watch it do its thing anymore.

To me, the lack of amazing productivity gains is that we have done nothing to speed up figuring out what to build and nothing to speed up getting code into production from pull request and in a lot of companies, code review is already saturated.

Also, the agents are good at figuring out problems for themselves, so I can ask it to set up a CI/CD pipeline, give it GitHub access, and it will just try things until it succeeds.