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Im curious, since I don’t drink coffee nor take protein supplements and the like, my question is: is the plan you keep taking what you take, let’s say, “forever”? Because the moment you stop taking, wouldn’t you notice a big drop?

One could say it’s a way of “trust, but verify “

I remember buying a Nike Tshirt in the early 2000s: good quality, and still looking decent today. Nowadays most of the Nike/Adidas/etc stuff is very low quality fabric and not necessarily cheap (at least in Western Europe)

AI as a replacement of Google. When I wanted to learn about something the usual path was: google it. Go through dozens of links, discard, filter the good ones, read them, and gain the knowledge.

Nowadays I ask the question to the LLM and for every answer I demand the links/urls where the LLM get the info from. I still read the referenced web sites. It’s faster.

We are the ones to get to decide. Do we want that? I don’t. But im just a single data point

How are (tech) consultants typically hired? They also go through the nonsense of live coding / systems design interview? Or they get asked specifically about the problem they need to solve and see if they are a good fit or not?

The problem to solve is addiction. When I was a kid I could spend the whole day and week in front of the play station… but my parents thought me that, well, that’s not normal (and ofc sent me to sleep every other night). Why social media or phones is different? Parents need to teach these kind of stuff to their kids. It’s the same for drugs, sex, money or any other thing

If LLMs can handle 99% of software jobs, then they can “crack” robotics software and then we would have LLMs on robots to replace the rest of the workers

Nerds? We are not in the 90s anymore. The stereotype of software engineers has changed dramatically (for better or worse). All my current and past colleagues are the opposite of the “nerd”: talkative, married, with kids, investing… none of them like starwars and the like

You shouldn’t run any AI cli (codex, claude code, open code, whatever) locally outside of a vm. It’s like “you shouldn’t run a .exe you downloaded from the internet if you don’t trust the source”. We will learn

Software. I typically use Macs. Previous one lasted 8-9 years (still working but bad battery). Current one (apple silicon) probably gonna last me the same time

In a world where we have people like Trump, Musk, Thiel, et al, with extreme power and resources, why would we hope for something like climate change to be addressed?

What can scientists do? Even if they are 100% right and can prove it, they have no power to do anything. Governments of the top countries are puppets of the US, so there’s not much to do. Other governments are dealing with more mundane problems. And the “A fucked up planet affects everyone equally” is just not true. Billionaires can live in a fucked up planet just fine. They don’t even need people (as demonstrated by AI and its goal of replacing workers). They truly don’t care about us. And if the worst forecast for the planet is to come, they also won’t care (they would just live to their fullest while they can)

Always surprises me how people feel identified with progress they didn’t participate with. These satellites have nothing to do with you. You didn’t build them nor researched about them. These are the toys of a far-right asshole. It sucks

I was waiting for GTA 6… but if it’s not released in disk, then I will simply pass. If new games start to be non-physical, then I will simply stop playing new games

From my naive pov: Related to computation is the concept of state (I know, functional languages can get away without it, sort of). I always wondered how the universe “knows” the mass of the sun. If there are some underlying functions/computations “running” in the background to keep planets moving and so on, and if the mass of planets is a key element in such computations… then either: the mass is calculated “on the fly” every time (seems expensive) or it’s a variable (how is it updated? Where is it “stored”?)

What is normal? You know how girls dress, let’s say in the Andes? Is that normal? Or by normal you mean what’s fashion in NY? Or perhaps what the majority of people wears today? Or what the majority of people have worn in the past?

Very little of what the west does can be considered normal.

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My existence has as substrate: shelter, food and healthcare. Money provides these via jobs. Once that’s covered, sure, pleasure comes.

I don’t like it, but that’s how im playing the game of life

Far more worry about being expected to do more for the same pay (51%), getting trapped in an unsustainable pace (46%)

This is a feature, not a bug. Not for us (engineers), but for our bosses, ofc

Are you earning 10x too? You are just cheaper to your employer… and you seem proud of that. But naive

We should rephrase the multipliers. We are not 10x whatever, we are x/10 cheaper now to the companies that hire us. That’s the correct frame. AI is not here to make the life of engineers better; AI is here for the delight of companies

But there are two types of “programming”: 1) programming per se (just you writing code for fun and perhaps building your own tools) and 2) a team of people with real-world constraints writing software for others for revenue

It’s clear why it feels so good to use something like Lisp for personal projects. It’s also clear why the vast majority of companies don’t use it

I would say it was a joke. Cannot take it seriously

The companies I have worked for before all have used open source software like postgres, mysql, go, python, k8s, etc. 99% of the time we relied on free work; never contributed to these projects nor forked them for our own needs. I don’t think this behaviour is the unusual path tbh

Don’t understand these rewrites.

- typically they are behind a single person. That’s usually bad because of spf

- typically they are achieved in a very short amount of time, so the author hasn’t acquired any discipline in creating the project. That means it’s unlikely the author is going to stick to the project in the mid and long term

- anyone that wants to contribute to the project needs to pay. Needs to pay tokens because it’s increasingly difficult to maintain these projects without AI

So, who wants to put something like this in production? Doesn’t make much sense

No. Because I will know it’s fake.

I find it painful as well. I actually find agentic coding counterproductive. I typically use LLMs the “old way”: web chat interface, asking questions and searching. I write the code by hand. This makes me 2-3x more productive than before (I guess with agents I could be 5-10x more productive but the price to pay is not worth it)

Good specs should be grounded (complete and not ambiguous), they don't need to be formal

IMHO, this is a mistake. I guess we play with it because there’s isn’t anything better nowadays. Writing and maintaining “specs” in plain english is painful.

I want to use Pi, but I don’t trust the npm ecosystem at all. I could use a VMs, but I guess it’s just not worth it

Certainly I have never been in such a situation, but just for me to understand: if the sender has enough decision power to move forward with a default action without confirmation, then the email is simply a polite notice to someone above in the command chain, isn’t it?

Why the email then? Wouldn’t a record of the decision (not via email , but in some confluence-like space) be enough? If the confirmation is really needed then a default action wouldn’t be possible, ofc