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Just a joke. Was self deprecating.

I’m quite sure they are not offended by these HN comments. They probably think we are all nerds.

It’s more than that. Anything like this that takes me away from constantly checking my phone, and can be glanced at by the whole family is better.

You just don’t get it but that’s fine. I get it. If the price was more affordable I’d have one on my hall asap.

This is great. Always wondered why this didn’t already exist.

Interesting article.

Linkedin is the sleaziest thing I’ve seen on the internet since it was invented. The sight of it makes my skin crawl. The way they have desperately tried to onboard you via data that they seem to have that they shouldn’t. The way users even present themselves, posting updates that probably make them want to vomit themselves and shower in disgust even tho it’s not their fault, we need to find work. The bloody badge that you have to wear on your forehead to say you are available for work. The thought of the money they are raking in from recruiters and corporations. The way they try to be a little bit more like Facebook to make it look a little more ‘fun’. I hate it.

Well they made it. They conquered the recruitment scene and I can’t think of a company I’d wish had gone out of business sooner.

Am I wrong?

Exactly. Software development is 20% of what your average software developer does. Figuring out what to build is a skill some don’t even realise they are doing every day, and it’s an incredibly valuable skill.

I think what is left is that understanding pain points and knowing what problems needs solved is more important now than ever. If anyone can create a product now then the one who knows what product to actually create is the winner. And who might this be? Well it might just be the people who spent the last 10 years speaking to customers, building a SaaS. They have 10 years of taking to customers finding out what to build. Even if they were to start from scratch today they already have the requirements in their pocket.

The game has change. The ‘how’ we build it is easy. The ‘what’ we build is and always has been the hardest part of any SaaS or business.

They’re probably spending all their time on Teams calls like everyone else.

Think you need to work on your use of AI and not just copy paste 10000 lines and hope for the best.

No you didn’t. You lead a team of gardeners to develop your grand vision. Or you directed an epic movie leading a cast of talented actors bringing your vision to life. You can choose an empowering analogy or a negative one it’s your choice.

Great post. Good to see someone posting something positive for a change about the shift in development.

I’ll keep a close eye out for it.

Glad I don’t use it.

You’re hard. Seriously hard.

It’s not. It’s raining here.

I think you need to lighten up and adapt the way programmers have adapted since the 50s. There’s been a lot of pomposity over the past ten years around “craft”, you’d think we’re all precious Renaissance artists pining for recognition over our heavenly crafted code rather than engineers. I’m in my late forties also I’m case that matters at all, I don’t think it does. If anything that gives me an advantage to spot and quickly filter out the 1/10 insanely bad suggestions that AI pukes out and know when it’s giving me decent code. Who knows where it will lead but stubbornly refusing to move won’t help. Please take this in a positive way also, rather than a dig. Be positive. Also think of all the job opportunities you will have rewriting all the crap code that gets punted out over the next 10 years. You’re going to be rich. Seriously tho, if you are in your forties you have the advantage of leveraging AI yourself but also knowing when it is bull shitting you.

If he can only remember two programming languages then he wouldn’t stand a chance in today’s dev ops, t-shaped, m-shaped world I’m afraid. Imagine asking him to help setup an CI pipeline, or some infrastructure but he’s worried learning a bit of Terraform will make him forget his second last language. You just can’t be like that these days. You have to be a jack of all trades and a master of all trades. That’s just where we are and it’s not going to change anytime soon.

Using a common language between platforms, whether it’s Swift or Kotlin always sounds great on the surface but I don’t think adds the expected efficiencies when it comes to the crunch. I expect teams would always still end up with two codebases, with enough differences and workarounds to make it that you might as well just enjoy using Kotlin or Swift as you need to. Knowing two languages isn’t all that bad. Most developers learn many languages during their careers and switch between them without a thought. Just my opinion tho, I’m sure this is a good project.

Mockito is fine if you know how to write tests. You can write bad tests with Mockito or many other frameworks if that’s what you do. You can even write bad tests while programming in Rust from high up in your ivory tower. You can write good tests also.

Yes. American chocolate doesn’t really taste like any cocoa beans were invoked in the process at any point. It’s like chocolate would taste like if Ronald McDonald had invented it.

They wouldn’t have to fix the entire codebase to be doing the right thing. That approach would be more likely taken by a junior who would soon find they are fighting a losing battle. The senior engineer would accept the state of the world and consider how to make small, deliverable, manageable improvements one PR at a time, to improve the code over a longer period of time without breaking the system.

You can’t often demote them because usually the people responsible for bad initial design decisions left the company years ago with a desperate need to go and start a new mess somewhere else.

Victorian Dad is on HN

Both

There may be a reason for it, but best to understand what that reason is before applying the same approach.

Doing something because all the big companies do it also leads to cargo cult mentality. You should know exactly why you are building every little part of your system. “Oh Google used a really annoying captcha on that page, I better do that as Google knows best”.

Have some confidence and don’t assume that other bigger companies are smarter than you are, think about what you can improve. Most of what Google have to offer, they bought from smaller companies that had the confidence to do just this.

Or refactor it

Grad schemes are generally the way any graduates get introduced to a company in any career.