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Project has been around longer than typical AI initiated ones: https://github.com/yorukot/superfile/graphs/code-frequency

I have experience two of these AI "interviews". The absolute dumbest interviews of my career, with the exception of a recruiter sending me to a C++ config manager role when I was a DBA with zero C++ experience. They follow a script worse than a call center drone, can't clarify their own questions, and respond to hallucinated questions. For now, they are an immediate candidate side rejection from me.

Real jail time for corporate officers.

Currently there is no downside for sociopathic behavior. Employment contracts guarantee they earn if the stock does well. If not they get a golden parachute on the way out.

If those that ran the company were actually responsible for what the company does, then this shit would not happen.

The layoffs will continue until morale improves.

You should not.

Jobs are ephemeral, as companies consider employees to be replaceable / expendable cogs in the machine.

Keeping expectations equal makes sure all parties benefit. Companies base their decisions on revenue and cost, employees should as well.

Any past illusions that loyalty to a company has personal beneift are long since dispelled.

Drivel.

This clickbait reads like a long and twisted version of the old boomer adage "Just walk in there with a firm handshake and ask for a job". Yes the job market has changed, just like it has for every generation, but plenty of candidates are adapting, but there's only so much an individual can do against the odds. If the employment statistics are so fucking great, why is this board and others filled with stories from people of all ranges of age experience spending months and hundreds of connection attempts with zero effect.

The author needs to upskill learn and how to write like a professional, or pay for a better LLM. The lack of proper capitalization and sentence structure would make him unemployable with any company or hiring manager I've ever worked with. Including myself when I was a hiring manager.

https://duckdb.org/docs/lts/sql/dialect/friendly_sql

This is really nice. I have tried, but not quite configured tig to do exactly what this does.

Companies do not have moralities. They have revenue targets.

Any statement to the idea of a moral compass is just a form of marketing when the politics of the day align with it.

The best we can to is have independent moralities, while balancing that with the need to eat.

Because Astral is now owned by a profit driven org, and that often becomes problematic.

Also because Pip ain't perfect, but it is stable in a sense.

Not quite as simple as learning it once. SQL evolves like other languages, across vendor implementations.

The ClickHouse and DuckDB dialects for example extend the language with analytic options not found in ANSI SQL, nor T-SQL, Pl/PgSQL, etc. DuckDB QoL enhancements are greatly missed when not available.

His investment in time is guaranteed to pay off for him, and the investment in time of the people who work for him is guaranteed to pay off for him.

The rest of us have no guarantees, and have learned the trade-offs are less and less likely to be worthwhile.

My org has a monthly team plan, and because I don't use what I would call unsupervised agents, I rarely come close to exceeding limits. I guess I am one of those "chat only users" that so many articles limit my output. A split terminal with Vim on the left snd Claude on the right has been a great combination. Neanderthalic AI.

Personally I'd consider efficient and economical use of AI to be a key skill for a good developer. Using AI for everything at full throttle would appear to be a crutch. I wonder if this will eventually become a hiring criteria for companies without unlimited budgets (most of them).

Share some examples?

What would people here _not_ use DeepSeek for?

Obviously business IP for non-China based companies should be treated carefully, but for personal projects where would the cost savings not be worth a risk?

The mistake is university choosing commencement speakers that are completely out of touch with what students about to enter the workforce need. Unless of course the university itself is choosing speakers based on their contribution to the university bottom line.

Big tech executives, no matter what their previous accomplishments were, eventually become sales people. Their job, as they see it, is to push a narrative that benefits the businesses or industries their wealth is tied too.

Students don't want to hear what billionaires want. They want to hear what will enable them to survive in a newly chaotic job market that seems ever more weighted against job seekers.

Tired of decyphering the Perl code you wrote last week?

This is what brought me to Python (1.5)

Working on Windows servers, using the ActiveState Perl Development Kit satisfied the need for a better scripting environment than batch files, but I was a poor Perl programmer, it just never stuck.

Python solved the problem of "What the heck was I trying to do?" when looking at my own 6 month old code. It is still my primary language today.

What is the advantage of building a browser engine from scratch?

Same reason some of us choose Linux over Windows.

I can create more videos as soon as your limit resets. Check your usage in Settings.

I have not used Gemini in a month.

It is more than one fiscal quarter away. May as well be a lifetime.

Same here, but on Windows 3.1 or OS/2 in my case.

I think use of the Watcom compiler led me to Vi way back then, and I am still trying to learn to not use the arrow keys.

The very first thing they show this new machine doing is helping people shop for clothes using AI.

I can only imagine the fashion horrors created by AI sycophancy. That said, most "fashion" is already a horror show.

Although not quite the same without a pipe operator, https://pola.rs was an improvement for me when missing the R dataframe syntax.

So just starting a new and completely different company, but using an old brand name from a completely different business?

If Austerity is not working as an economic model; the answer isn't to invest in growth, it's to cut even more corners.

The do-more-with-less cancer that is infecting so many companies, where the tumor is Continuous Growth.

“Agile” doesn’t mean that you release the first iteration

Someone needs to inform the management of the last three companies I worked for about this.

"Non Features: No Electron. No telemetry. No subscription."

OS and Cloud quality do not result in next fiscal quarter revenue gains, but AI "features" might due to hype. Reliability while important to users is less important to investors.

Could this be used for Clojure as well?

A bit confused:

SparkID generates 21-character IDs using the Base58 alphabet, which specifically excludes 0, O, I, and l. No visual ambiguity, no hyphens, no underscores. Just clean, alphanumeric strings.

But the example ID has both the "1" digit and the letter "o":

"1ocmpHE1bFnygEBAPTzMK"

Am I missing something?