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The AI code takeover will not free engineers up to do craftsmanship. It will annihilate the last vestiges of craftsmanship forever.

that doesn't mean they're not useful

yeah actually it does mean that

Neither. LLMs are destructive.

We use AI-assisted responses as the first filter for email support.

Literally no one wants this. The entire purpose of contacting support is to get help from a human.

I will completely forget why I wrote it that way.

This is the main reason for comments. The code can never tell you "why".

Code is inherently about "what" and "how". The "why" must be expressed in prose.

Multiple times daily I encounter sites that are brutally slow not just on my beefy Android phone, but on my 3GHz+ 8-core 64GB desktop machine.

You need to take performance seriously or it will just be bad. Most of the industry has chosen to be bad.

React performance concerns in the real world are typically measured in, at worst, hundreds of milliseconds.

Many years ago I worked at a wonderful company that made the terrible decision to rebuild the frontend in React. We had a performance dashboard permanently displayed on a TV in the office, prominently showing the p99 time-to-interactive of our home page. It sat at TWENTY SECONDS for at least 2 years. No progress was ever made, to the best of my knowledge.

This was an e-commerce site, more or less. As per the author's reasoning, it absolutely should not have been an SPA.

It is often the case that the nifty Python thing you want to pass around uses one or more nifty Python libraries that have no C/C++/Rust/Golang equivalent (or no obvious equivalent), and so rewriting it becomes a herculean task.

It is funny reading the replies here.

I am a database specialist and have worn the DBA had for many years. I have run MySQL and Postgres in production, both self-hosted and using managed services. Postgres wins on every single dimension that matters, every time. Yes MySQL is easier to setup for non-experts. That counts for nothing.

If you are sticking up for MySQL in this thread... I just don't even know, man.

"Not as robust as MySQL"? Surely you're joking.

I am plausibly a person this is for.

Right now I rely on TabsOutliner when using Chrome (which I only use for work). It lets me keep 400+ tabs open and stay sane. I like it so much that I've paid for it 3 times, and would have paid a 4th time but it seems you can't anymore, and I fear it's abandoned.

In any case, this is how I work. I use browser tabs as a kind of short- to medium-term memory. I open a bunch of things, and keep them open for as long as I might plausibly need them. To me this is just normal. I don't know how anyone lives with only 10 or 20 tabs open, or a 50 tabs in a single window. How could you remember anything? But without TabsOutliner or something like it, this becomes a sprawling mess, because the browser gives you no native means to search it, or "zoom out".

Unfortunately TabsOutliner isn't available for Firefox, which I use when I have a choice. So seeing SavaOS promote Chrome... I lose a little interest right away. If it doesn't work in Firefox it's not worth getting excited about, because Chrome as a piece of software treats me like an enemy and I don't like that. So: support Firefox!

That said, if SavaOS gives me the capability to organize my tabs, maybe treat them like files I can put in directories etc etc, that sounds awesome and I want to try it. At the very least maybe it's better than TabsOutliner.

But seriously: Firefox!

This is true, and in principle a good thing, but in the time since Parquet and ORC were created GDPR and CCPA are things that have come to exist. Any format we build in that space, today, needs to support in-place record-level deletion.

My Zenfone 9 has a headphone jack. No SD card slot though, which I don't need.

So yeah, I voted for this position with my dollars, and will continue to do so.

Any phone with mandatory AI crap is Hard Pass.

it could have been much worse, I have seen passwords leaked this way

("seen" meaning "I worked at a company where this happened and read the code with my own eyes" not just "I read it in the newspaper")

1. customer enters their address in form fields

2. those form field values are templated into a GET request to the Meta tracking pixel (or POST request to the /events endpoint, or ...)

3. profit

they've made it very easy https://developers.facebook.com/docs/meta-pixel/implementati...

Not sure about the goal of providing a hosted service cheaper than SQS. SQS is already one of the cheapest services on Earth. It's pretty hard to spend more than a few bucks a month, even if you really try!

"take a ticket and do the work" doesn't describe ANY software job I've ever had

it's all meetings, design docs, fighting in PR comments, agile ceremonies, etc etc

building things / fixing bugs is maybe 10% of the work

So, parameters?

You absolutely 1000% do not need an ORM to prevent SQL injection. You just need to Not Be Flagrantly Incompetent. As the psycopg2 docs say: never use string concatenation, not even at gunpoint.

ORMs are such a toxic idea, we'd be better off if we could un-invent them. Look how thoroughly this poor author's mind has been poisoned by long-term exposure.

Please get out there and write some SQL. I promise it won't hurt you.

Those aren't the filters being used, not when there are hundreds of applications for a role.

You could be the platonic ideal candidate yet be screened out in the 0th round because you didn't go to a fancy school or you're missing one keyword from an irrelevant list.

Getting past the resume screening to a recruiter call is always worth it. Always.

You really think The New Guy can change an entire corporate culture through sheer force of will? You are literally the lowest person on the totem pole. You have ZERO social status, ZERO influence. If the rest of the org/company is culturally aligned around seriously bad practices, you are going to sound like an crazy person, even if you are the only sane one in the room. You are simultaneously Sisyphus and Cassandra.

Yeah. 7 jobs in a row. Maybe the next dice roll will work out, or maybe I'll finally leave the industry.

"The very people who comply with and execute the GDPR consider it to be positive for their company, positive for privacy and not a pointless, bureaucratic regulation."

I have been involved in multiple GDPR compliance pushes and I want to emphatically state the opposite position. It is not worth it. It is not worth ANYTHING. It should be destroyed.

Why? This stuff is garbage.

Go build something that doesn't suck. They're not even trying to compete with that.

This person's style is a great sorting machine. If you don't like it, you're not going to get along with them.

I like it very much. I would probably hire this person.

The federal government can absolutely regulate both employment and contract law

Where in Article I Section 8 does the Constitution grant that power?

that would be fantastic tbqh

the web could be fast!

trained by the best at McKinsey

Then the maintainers of the system have failed in their duty, the evidence cannot be verified, and it must be thrown out.

Consumers don't care.