galoisscobi

I just deleted my aws account. I don't need these vibes in my life.

I use jj vcs and now most of my time is spent reading the code, so I use diffview.nvim (https://github.com/sindrets/diffview.nvim) with some customizations for jj to read diffs. I also use the snacks picker/explorer to search for code.

As much as I like Claude Code, Boris has done a lot of harm by encouraging software engineering practices that lead to slopware. We have two camps of people at work, the first camp are the agent goes brrr. They don't understand the code they write. They have loops running, agent orchestrators or agent hype du jour. The second camp is people who are inundated with PRs, are holding the line on quality, and just exhausted. We've also had some management pressures where they think people are wasting time looking at code. Perhaps because some podcast they might be listening to, somebody says coding is largely solved.

I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops.

This is going to be a net negative on software quality for people who take this up, in my opinion.

I call out Boris but I also don't think he's being malicious. He's at the center of an important technological revolution and it would be hard not to get excited. I just wished he advocated for a more balanced and a realistic perspective.

You can test rigorously without token incinerators.

Let's boil the ocean for a 2 line fix and call it frontier intelligence.

This is so misguided, I don't even know where to begin. If you think that throwing more tokens at a problem with your agents cos-playing whatever fiction you cook up is the road to reliability, robustness and good design, you deserve all the misery that comes your way. If you want people to take this seriously, ground your ideas with rigorous data to prove that this works better than the state of the art. Until then, this is just irresponsible planet burning, token burning propaganda.

But Boris declared coding is solved. How is this possible? Can’t they prompt Mythos to give them better uptime?

Most people either write too much or too little. Here’s what works.

Two folders, not one

Why post AI slop here?

I think this word salad doesn’t have enough buzzwords. Throw in a few more acronyms too.

Stop giving your money at Meta, it’s a simple solution and an ethical one.

What has strongdm actually built? Are their users finding value from their supposed productivity gains?

If their focus is to only show their productivity/ai system but not having built anything meaningful with it, it feels like one of those scammy life coaches/productivity gurus that talk about how they got rich by selling their courses.

Ironic that a steak is one of the three things showing up on the landing page. Is that the beef lobby money coming in?

I enjoy an occasional steak but if the goal is to improve diet of masses, it’s not the food I’d put at the center.

Ah yes, shades of Siddhartha. I almost forgot about the part where he worked for a megacorp that was ripping society’s social fabric apart and wanted to do something else for a while.

we’re waiting on people

Right on. I have a heat pump water heater and a heat pump heating system in my HVAC. Getting those installed felt like swimming upstream. Most contractors would try to dissuade me from them.

Luckily, I found a contractor who was skilled and knowledgeable about heat pumps and rebates (back when govt thought climate change was real). Very happy with my heat pump tech.

This feels like it was written by an LLM.

Makes sense. I think they're lucky to be around you. Since you're hanging out on HN, I'd imagine you care about tech, doing things well and have a natural curiosity.

Back when I started out, I was deep in debt, insecure about my skills and being around highly skilled people who had many more years of experience only deepened those insecurities. Luckily, people were kind and patient with me and gave me the apprenticeship I needed. They deeply cared about technical expertise and doing things well, probably like you if I am guessing right. I have my dream job today, and I am in a position to mentor new grads. I continue to pay it forward as the senior engineers did when I started out. Not all my colleagues do this, but I see so much potential around me and I try to grow it. It's one of the most satisfying when I get a note from a new grad/junior engineer on how they've grown after our work together.

Thank you for caring!

On a side note, I can't imagine the anxiety they must go through now between the economy being what it is and AI exacerbating the gaps in technical skills. Seems like a scarier time than when I graduated. It's harder to mentor in this environment, but it's a fun challenge to learn how to mentor in this environment.

That's an interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing. If you had free rein of an engineering school in a university system, how would you re-design curriculum to address your concerns and establish proof of teaching critical thinking?

I don’t understand, can you elaborate? I’m trying to understand your perspective. New college grads I generally meet and work with are bright, hard working, curious and have a deep desire to learn.

I don’t think we’re having the same experiences so I want to know more about yours.

Why do you think they don’t teach critical thinking?

Not an option with modern UX. It's yes or maybe later.

I don't think there is a single founder/CEO in the 21st century that is performing better than Zuckerberg.

Depends on your definition of 'performance'. Does it include ethics?

I think he’ll be looked back as one hit wonder, lacking any ethics to grow his company. He pumped a whole bunch of money in VR that didn’t seem to go anywhere and now AI seems like a fine direction to go in, copying the herd, with dangerous disregard to ethics.

Great idea, but the feature is poorly implemented. Cannot select multiple cells/rows. I have no idea how to extend past 20 or so rows. I regret having started transferring one of my documents to Obsidian Bases.

Good read; too long to sway public opinion though.

Maybe they should have done a TikTok or a YT short? Would that be the right length?

But then also came the entitled users. This time, it wasn’t about stealing games, it was about features. “When is Thunderbolt coming?” “Asahi is useless to me until I can use monitors over USB-C” “The battery life sucks compared to macOS” (nobody ever complained when compared to x86 laptops…) “I can’t even check my CPU temperature” (yes, I seriously got that one).

This sounds so rough. I can't imagine pouring your heart out into this labor of love and continue to have to face something like this. Back in the early days of Quora, when it used to be good, there used to be a be nice be respectful policy (they might still have it), I wonder if something like that would be helpful for open source community engagement.

Regardless, major props to Marcan for doing the great work that he did, our community is lucky to have people like him!

It's a pity that people like him and Zuckerberg have so much control over technology and the shape it will take in the coming years. As AI gets better, these aren't the people that should be at the helm or have this much power. At this point, I don't understand people who try to explain away his Nazi salutes. He keeps hitting a new low every day.

What does it feel like to knowingly treat people like garbage?

I second this. I’m not a ruby dev and I watched the whole talk. It was excellent.

Goes on to show how for many applications overly priced platforms as a service aren’t really needed but incidental complexity masquerading as essential complexity is peddled as a way to make money.

Yikes. Was your manager previously a software engineer or did he come from a different background?

On the introduction page:

Rye is still a very experimental tool, but this guide is here to help you get started.

While I’m really excited about this project, I’m planning on waiting until this project is in a more mature stage. I am a big fan of everything else the Astral team has put out so I have high hopes for this.