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I think we are all vulnerable and need to reassess what it is we bring.

Agents merely accelerate and equalize the playing field. And they cost money. We might be a dying breed, but we are the best operators of this technology. And if we want it, this is our moment.

Yes, get into wood working.

LLMs don’t “solve” execution at all. They aid and accelerate it.

You know what lacks focus? This whole article. Oh, and also individual styles of commit messages. You know what’s a waste of everyone’s time when you’re building technology in 2026? How to write and summarize what you’re work is doing.

Conventional commits doesn’t make a promise, it’s a specification. Words have power and meaning, this viewpoint is about more than a spec, it’s about the popularity and relevance that they clearly despise.

Conventional commits are like BEM syntax for CSS, it works if you pay attention. It’s structure around what developers do, which thoughtful limits. What is the problem with that? Is it the only way? No. But to say it’s encouraging the “wrong things” pshhhh

This author’s take is dog water for coders who yearn to be controversial and (clearly) focus on the wrong things.

Seems like a bug

That’s a bet and remains to be seen.

Based lol

I feel similarly. There is virtually zero chance I’m going to clone and run someone else’s dotfiles. So the act of sharing them is a generous look into a developer’s toolchain and I’ve been inspired by others’ choices. So, if you know how, please share them!

I think this author is so far off the mark that it makes me wonder if they were high when they wrote this

Yeah this whole effort is just more money wasted on security theater and this whole discussion thread is filled with disgruntled tech workers who drive into the city rather than take Bart and are so clearly salty about the inconvenience of people being people. To be honest I would have thought sideshows would’ve gone out of style by now I’m sort of impressed it’s this much of a problem lol

Which makes sense because they might actually be people who otherwise feel powerless and deserve empathy like anyone else

Surveillance tech is the worst and I hope this fails miserably.

There should be an outreach program that goes to the community and works with the people who perform sideshows to make them less disruptive.

Narc tech won’t fix the problem it just wastes money

The article and commenter are talking about a single management role, Product. You say “retain managers” — plural. You’re putting words in their mouth.

They had something like Extreme Programming, and it was not a good time from what I heard. If you want to live in la la land of coding for a profitable business, well, sorry to break it to you, but a cohort of smart people need to be led. Notice I said led, not managed.

Also, the role is called Product Owner not Product Manager, I would imagine that was a conscious choice. If a PO feels like a manager, that’s what’s wrong. And maybe why that could be is the engineering team’s fault for having an insatiable need to.. control all aspects of their day-to-day. However, it’s a business at the end of the day, not a coding playground.

The article is basically suggesting POs shouldn’t control the backlog because engineers know better (essentially). Sounds like they’ve had a bad experience and want to vent about it. Fine, but it’s an immature take imho.

I am an engineer myself and I think it’s insulting to the people who have to take the work that engineers do (or fail to do because they want to experiment) and cross the divide and tell the business that the work you’ve done is worth everyone’s salary.

I don’t want to control the backlog with a bunch of other knuckleheads, thanks.

Leetcode?

I find it interesting that there’s an assumption that if you exist in this world as a professional software engineer and are successful by all reasonable measures that it somehow predisposes an exposure with leetcode.

I’ve never used it for interviews not because I put energy to avoid it, but because I don’t think it’s all that popular, or maybe I just don’t interview often enough. If I want a new job I wait until I’m emotionally done with the one I’m at and none of the places I have ever interviewed have used it. What, is it that if you’re not using it today then you’re somehow “behind”?

I don’t understand this post at all. What a loaded assumption. Does it do something only Leetcode can do? Is it some holy grail? I’m just burnt out on this tenor of the community here, as if any of these platforms are seated as some kind of hegemony of “the engineering scene” Yawn.

An interview is and will always be a balance of your technical skill and your ability to present your work and deal with timely feedback. That’s it.

So for people who wonder wtf this post is about, you’re not alone.

The tenor of the conversation I imagine since it’s a chatbot

At this point, anybody here likely has had the privilege of being educated to prefer primary sources of information over secondary, tertiary, etc.

The indexing feature that search engines for years provided was a side-effect and benefit of the internet’s success.

There have always been challenges with this as it is not immediately clear what should be treated as “primary source” information — it takes time and skill — the user in this model is accountable for their own exploration and consumption of other peoples’ knowledge.

AI seems to be purposefully at odds with that. So, for me, the distrust and avoidance is well-placed.

That said, it’s a powerful tool that has a place in the world, but I hope it doesn’t come at a detriment to the colloquial understanding of what it means to “search the web”

It’s been a good run everyone, good luck out there

Good to see QLab. I’m curious why MaxMSP didn’t make it on there. In college we used it for ‘These Shining Lives’ to create a harmonic, barely perceivable drone over the actors voice fed from the mic. It was sick!

It’s not even just about choices, it’s about consensus and we’ve forgotten how to see a win from a partial loss. We no longer know compromise at a federal level

You’re a natural but don’t forget to slow down, get done with school, find meaning outside of tech, and then change the world. You’re already on your way.

Great job!

Excellent work

Yes? Isn’t that implied by “losing its luster,” considering the publisher and audience of the article? I think it goes on to talk about the relationship to venture capital and local govt. so it’s more than a general thing?

There’s some good points on here that I might share with some tutoring students, esp about greenfield and how that’s really a coveted thing in a social setting of engineers. I do think the tone should be worked on so it is less.. bleak. Like, I don’t really remember being nervous about how long something would take me, unless I was concerned it was impossible to do to begin with. I also didn’t have to deal with thinking about the job all the time, because I was doing it, which is a tongue and cheek way of saying if you want to succeed, work life balance might look different to you than to the peer next to you.

Ah yes, this short, click baiting article highlights the very predictable and widely known side effect of what we all know as the software development cycle.

Hold up, they lost me at “declarative syntax” no, it’s Golang. It’s not infrastructure as code. Hard pass, use templates..

As someone who learned computer science from tinkering with abstractions until I needed to go a level deeper with a subsequent education in it—-I think this article is inflammatory at best because they are attempting to assert themselves as a voice of a wise person, or, as an expert of how the future “is bleak”

Eh, I wouldn’t. And I don’t know if he would either. He cares about his message not his personality or presence, and thank god. he’s always struck me as a guy who values showmanship, he gets his charm from saying what he says on the very payroll of the companies he criticizes.

Why on earth would he ever cheapen that affect he brings with an unfiltered stream, i.e. the dog water that is a has-beens podcast?

What didn’t you like about it? I do think he was a little rusty in the first couple but the interviews were exquisite imho

I am so upset but also proud of Jon. Right on, dude!

1st half of thought was amazing, but I’m personally still an individualist and no, we should not all live out in the open unless we all unanimously choose to. That of course is impossible.