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No leg to stand on if you aren’t providing the proof of what you said. We’re forced to side with the mod unless you can prove what you said wasn’t worth removing.

That’s a different problem. The original question was when would a competent dev use an LLM.

I mean, it’s not like it ships it to production. You can read code it writes and modify it if you don’t like it, or choose not to use it.

I use it daily. I wouldn’t blindly trust code it writes, but it offers alternative solutions and when I’m hunting for a but it’s very good at giving me ideas of what might be wrong at a glance. Terraform and infra too it can catch nuances i may be missing.

The highest bar to getting into Linux isn’t the technical, the setup, the hardware or anything. It’s the people the ego. Those have always been the largest barrier.

What sort of manly man can’t go buy his own body wash? It’s not exactly a surprise when it’s running low

We call this a whoopsie daisy.

Stack overflow has always been ego and arrogance. Personally I’d love to see a federated version, we all host shards

Yeah you can tell it just ratholes on trying to force one concept to work rather than realizing it’s not the correct concept to begin with

No, still “perfect” for llms. There’s nuance, seeing patterns being used, it should be able to handle it perfectly. Enough people on stack overflow asked enough questions, if AI is like Google and Microsoft claim it is, it should have handled it

God knows if they needed a medical procedure and the most qualified doctor was in France or China or anywhere, they would demand that they should be treated.

Marketing really has just ran away with everything. I wonder what they’ll rename the console as

Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading

It did?

we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match their browsing habits and online needs.

So other things no one asked for?

When I lived in rural America I lauded the local politicians for being happy data centers were coming. They told the old farmers it was because they were up and coming, they were going to become the next tech capital! Plus think of the jobs!

Of course us actually in the tech industry know why. It’s cheap. The land is cheap, the power and water are cheap, and the people who would notice are few because they’re… Farmers. The politics are red so they’re happy to ease any red tape to get it passed. As for jobs, its pretty well known that the data center jobs are minimal compared to the corporate HQ, and even then those who would work there would more than likely move there.

It’s all around a bad idea for small communities. The only ones who benefit are the politicians who green light it

Honestly have to agree. I was skeptical on your take until I read his blog post. I see zero reflection on it. Instead I see blame and anger, and yes frustration.

Look, the market is trash, but there are jobs for those willing to learn. He mentions php. Php hasn’t been relevant for new jobs for a while. The only time I mention my php knowledge is it it’s in reference to an older project I did. He mentions he’s kept up on AI by “reading HN and articles” and then saying he has 5 projects he has essentially vibe coded it sounds like. That’s not keeping up with AI from a software engineering standpoint. That’s just using AI tools and reading articles. Keeping up with AI from an engineering standpoint to me is using their apis, running models, training your own models. Go under the surface, show curiosity.

We work in a field where a fundamental requirement is to keep learning. It’s very easy to get comfortable in a role and not learn anything new, but you’ll get stuck there. If you have unemployment learn every library you can. Learn Rust, Go, random languages. Choose the packages you don’t know very well to build your app. Deploy your app yourself, learn CI/CD and infrastructure. Don’t stand still.

I’m a dotnet engineer now. Right now that means I’m 40% dotnet, python, nosql, kubernetes, and React. 5 years ago I was Angular. 10 years ago I was php and webforms. You can’t just say “I learned to code, I’m done!”. In this field it’s never done.

Edit, I also want to call out two other red flags from him. He’s unemployed but the thought of in office was a red line for him? I prefer WFH of course, but if it’s door dashing or an office, it’s a no brainer. Then also if you have that many connections on LinkedIn and no one will vouch for you, that’s a moment of introspection. I won’t say all or even a majority I would expect to help out for me, but I have a decent network. You have to keep that up

Made by and for douchebags. Honestly if they actually wanted to make a little truck that was an EV I would have been all over it. Just something small to haul some dirt or lumber for home projects. I don’t want a giant f150, I want some danger ranger size or smaller for light projects. I think that could have been very popular.

Exactly. Same with Meta platforms. You’re not fighting with a concept or an idea, this is their entire personality. They don’t care how horrid the viewpoint is, they’re just happy to be better than something. There’s a reason that it’s usually the poorest and lowest of our society, it’s because they want to feel better than people when they deep down know they’re not. It’s why it’s so hateful. It’s why they get joy even when it hurts themselves. They’re winning at something.

I think back to the maps that the sites released. The weirdest stuff was always consumed by the reddest areas. Look at the biggest areas where Step anything content is accessed. It’s overwhelmingly red.

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