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Average Joe here - The problem is when your boss/PM is also an average Joe that bangs a 200 page doc and he doesn't even care to review properly leaving lots of gaps, redundant details and doesn't even know the rationale behind the decisions in the document.
Bottom line: there is no true ownership in the upper level so why should I take ownership in a product based on garbage produced documentation specs?
What is Bending Sppons?
The company that made me unsubscribe from Evernote after 8 years because it got slow, buggy and skyrocketed their prices.
Good riddance, now I am using Obsidian + an LLM and works way better.
Just stop arguing with your family or friends about politics and religion, not worth it.
Lately I think I only argue when I know I will get something about it...
This reminds me of the first time I was shown this in college.
I loved this method so much that in my first formal logic test I tried to solve all of the problems via this method. It was a fun experience lol
Why?
Welcome to the slot machines!
Don't you forget about India and Latinamerica... No way I see companies paying that much for outsourced employees
Tbh I don't care if vibe coding or generated art is produced as I think general public will eventually accept them or decide when it's worth to use/consume those kind of products.
What I really hate is agentic customer support, sales etc. - when you have to use them you realize how stupid the workflows, tool call, MCP, and all that garbage that is glued is just to reduce costs instead of churn.
PS: Ironically I'm working on coding an "agentic platform" for the product suite and their backend services. I simply don't feel confident about the product I'm building but I guess it is paying my bills for the moment
This is why the grill me skill went viral - https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/grill-me/SKIL...
He literally explained why within the first paragraphs, because a stock LLM can answer a different price of the shop for a given repair
I'm just using Copilot CLI for mindless stuff and set it to the premium models to meet the quota, as long as they can't see the prompts I think I should be fine
+1 searching anything non-business related is so good compared to the bloated AI + ads Google serves nowadays
On my side I have used Claude code, tbh for solo projects it's good enough if you already know what you need to do.
Answering your questions:
On my job we've been spoon fed to use GH copilot everywhere we can. It's been configured to review PRs, make corrections etc. - I'd say it's good enough but from time to time it will raise false positives on issues. I'd say it works fine but you still need to keep an eye on generated BS.
I've seen coworkers show me amazing stuff done with agentic coding and I've seen coworkers open up slop PRs with bunch of garbage generated code which is kind of annoying, but I'll let it slide...
Stack - .NET, Angular, SQL Server and ofc hosted in Azure.
Team is composed of about 100 engineers (devs, QA, devops etc.) and from what I can see there are no Juniors, which is sad to see if you ask me
I was using it the same way you just described but for C# and Angular and you're spot on. It feels amazing not having to memorize APIs and just let the AI even do code coverage near to 100%, however at some point I began noticing 2 things:
- When tests didn't work I had to check what was going on and the LLMs do cheat a lot with Volkswagen tests, so that began to make me skeptic even of what is being written by the agents
- When things were broken, spaghetti and awful code tends to be written in an obnoxius way it's beyond repairable and made me wish I had done it from scratch.
Thankfully I just tried using agents for tests and not for the actual code, but it makes me think a lot if "vibe coding" really produces quality work.
Agree, I'm not the kind of guy that has 100 tabs open (10 at the time I'm typing this), but when I came back 2 years ago I noticed that it isn't as snappy and fast as it used to be 15 years ago before I switched to Chrome.
For BTC and high tech surveillance
Absolutely right, only AAA games get to showcase the true power of GPUs.
For cheaper guys like me, I'll just give my son indie and low graphic games which he enjoys
You just described my experience with MOBA games like League of Legends and Dota. Around 15 years ago there were only about 50-60 playable characters. Nowadays there are more than 100 and more items and customizations.
As for shooters this is the same. Too many weapons classes and subclasses, maps, game modes eventually divide and distract the playerbase from the core essence of the game.
I think this is one of the reasons that you still see Counter Strike still around.
Agree, Airbnb blows in crowded areas but it's nice in small towns
I began doing AngularJS and have been doing Angular 2 for a while, as another commenter said: there are jobs still out there.
In my experience I get more Angular & Vue offers than C# and React. For what is worth I'm convinced that across the industry React jobs wages are lower. Who knows, I could be closed in my own bubble but am pretty sure the pool of react devs is bigger and this might be the reason.
Dense housing is great until you're the first one to build in your block and then someone slaps a few 50 story buildings near you and your city hall doesn't give a damn about water usage and sewage.
Source: living in a developing country where regulations suck and am facing this awful problem.
My only advice is "if it ain't broke don't fix it". And if you're going to improve something, make sure it's something small and local, ideally further from the "core logic" of the business.
I feel cheated, will definitely look into curated playlists by users rather than the generated garbage.
But Elon says Twitter (also known as X) has never been more alive and engaging in its history... This makes me wonder if advertisers are choosing other platforms or if they're being conservative with their ad budgets
I can't believe this, but it makes sense now lol I think I heard a streamer say it was for kicking out the cheaters
I used to work for a company that was in the fintech space and had several scenarios and rules for deciding whether a person could apply for a loan, the interest rate, prime, insurance etc. A lot of the code written was way back from the early 2000s in Visual Basic and migrated improved towards C#.
I didn't knew a thing about how the business operated and the rationale behind the loans and the transactions. The parts of the application that had unit and behavior tests were easy to work on. Everyone dreaded touching the old pieces that didn't have tests.
This is the main reason I haven't upgraded my headset that included a USB dongle.
I've been trying to use my Google pixel buds and it's the same garbage experience you're mentioning. Random disconnects, output/input device swapping, and if you're using MS Teams or a video game that controls the devices it's a nightmare...
I began as a junior dev and climbed up the ranks til the point where I became the SME in some areas of the product.
Got laid off because sales goals were not met while they retained people which I think were incompetent in their work. Even some guys which I think were better and more critical to the projects were dumped.
I'm not climbing that ladder by being proactive and "pragmatic" again...
Call me a paycheck stealer, quiet quitter etc.
Just give me some JIRA ticket and let me read books while I get my job done in 1-2 hours a day.
I wish management knew this... It's a nightmare when some manager that hasn't coded in years thinks it's a good idea to push unit testing into the CI builds so that it fails if it doesn't meet code coverage criteria etc.
In Costa Rica this is illegal too but going through the hassle of reporting it to the local authorities is a pain and you won't gain much, just annoy the dealership.
Usually the POS rate is around 2% so at the end of the day you'll split it evenly and get a 3% discount. A few years back it was even highter and I bought several home appliances and saved around $100 so it's worth for both parties.
Now imagine people that deal with ranges from 10K to 100K - It's definitely worth it shaving a few bucks here and there