My take: I don't see the point of those new-IDEs. They are mostly just worktrees+sandbox+tabs+prompts, which is just git+docker+tmux+thinking, but if you actually learn to use those tools instead of handcuffing your…
> Why does AI-generated imply "not bothered" to you? 1. AI generated text is just hard to read and verbose, if you worked so hard on your docs/specs, why would you want your README to be unreadable? 2. There's so much…
My thought as well, I think this approach only works for them because: * They can afford frequent CC incidents since their value is having the best models, and 95%+ uptime is still OK-ish. * The core functionality of CC…
A bit off-topic, but on the rare occasions I help some acquaintance with Windows I always feel a bit upset that random split second console windows still pop up when installing everyday software, even that from…
I agree. For bug fixes, just write a clear issue: how to reproduce it, what goes wrong, what's the root cause. As short and well written as possible, without AI fluff. Once you get to that point, you can copy paste your…
Yeah. A git bisect can still hit it. It definitely doesn't inspire confidence in the project taking security seriously. (Also the "write-up" is almost surely a "Claude-up")
Perhaps that's true of the top 5% engineers. But the question is if the top 40% of engineers can replace the bottom 60%. The LLMs don't need to be perfect, they just need to be good enough so that the cost of fixing…
I don't look at whether the text is written by an LLM but at whether it has substance and whether the writer understands what they are doing and is respecting my time. If the text is full of punchy three word phrases or…
Sorry, I think you're right that I misinterpreted your comment. I still had in mind OP's example (BDD, mutational testing, all that jazz). I apologize! Reading your comment, it looks like you work for a pretty nice…
On the one side I reject that product and engineering concerns are separated: Sometimes you want to avoid a feature due to the way it will limit you in the future, even if the AI can churn it in 2 minutes today. On the…
To be devil's advocate: Many of those tools are overpowered unless you have a very complex project that many people depend on. The AI tools will catch the most obvious issues, but will not help you with the most…
Luckily those I work with are smart enough that I've not seen a PR thrown away yet, but sometimes I'm approving with more "meh, it's fine I guess" than "yeah, that makes sense".
The most annoying thing is that even after cleaning up all the nonsense, the tests still contain all sort of fanfare and it’s essentially impossible to get the submitter to trim them because it’s death by a thousand…
N~10^(6.5) aliens.
I hope this too but it's not a given, IMO. Previously people without technical chops failed quickly by being unable to deliver working code, now they can deliver mediocre code with the damage only becoming clear years…
This looks like LLM slop (not only the writing, but the analysis itself). To start, it is based on a single machine check. It has little context, but if this was a common problem, I'd expect more data points. The MC…
The security model is that applications run in a sandbox (e.g. Flatpak, snap) and only get D-Bus, Wayland, etc. access via restricted means (e.g. xdg-dbus-proxy). The "friction" is that Wayland developers don't want a…
In the short term, definitely. In the long term, once the damage from vibecoding is better understood (for customer impact and team morale), there's an incentive to push them out, both from the leadership and the…
There's definitely some that hold CQRS, DDD, TDD, ... as _the_ way to design software and over-engineer around it, so I can understand some pushback. Knowing those patterns is very helpful as a way to think about design…
When all leadership is asking is "what is the short term business value?", it's pointless to make that case. It's much easier to measure "yet another feature" than "fix the root causes of what makes our product subpar…
I assume it can be different for everyone. This post resonates with me, but my social anxiety mixes being sensitive to negative feedback and low self-esteem. So, you want to avoid both being disliked, but also being…
> Maybe things are this equal and fair on the senior, high-paying part of the spectrum I don't think the fundamental dynamics change by seniority, just that after some level there may simply be a smaller pool. From the…
> - How do the end user protect themselves at this point? Especially the average user? - Install as little software as possible, use websites if possible. - Keep important stuff (especially cryptocurrency) on a separate…
Not the parent, but the default `npm install` / `yarn install` builds will ignore the lock file unless everything can be satisfied, if you want the lock file to be respected you must use `npm ci` / `yarn install…
> Measuring and feeling are not mutually exclusive. They are not mutually exclusive, but they compete to a degree. If someone's time is mostly spent on what can be measured, they can't spend time on "common sense" or…
My take: I don't see the point of those new-IDEs. They are mostly just worktrees+sandbox+tabs+prompts, which is just git+docker+tmux+thinking, but if you actually learn to use those tools instead of handcuffing your…
> Why does AI-generated imply "not bothered" to you? 1. AI generated text is just hard to read and verbose, if you worked so hard on your docs/specs, why would you want your README to be unreadable? 2. There's so much…
My thought as well, I think this approach only works for them because: * They can afford frequent CC incidents since their value is having the best models, and 95%+ uptime is still OK-ish. * The core functionality of CC…
A bit off-topic, but on the rare occasions I help some acquaintance with Windows I always feel a bit upset that random split second console windows still pop up when installing everyday software, even that from…
I agree. For bug fixes, just write a clear issue: how to reproduce it, what goes wrong, what's the root cause. As short and well written as possible, without AI fluff. Once you get to that point, you can copy paste your…
Yeah. A git bisect can still hit it. It definitely doesn't inspire confidence in the project taking security seriously. (Also the "write-up" is almost surely a "Claude-up")
Perhaps that's true of the top 5% engineers. But the question is if the top 40% of engineers can replace the bottom 60%. The LLMs don't need to be perfect, they just need to be good enough so that the cost of fixing…
I don't look at whether the text is written by an LLM but at whether it has substance and whether the writer understands what they are doing and is respecting my time. If the text is full of punchy three word phrases or…
Sorry, I think you're right that I misinterpreted your comment. I still had in mind OP's example (BDD, mutational testing, all that jazz). I apologize! Reading your comment, it looks like you work for a pretty nice…
On the one side I reject that product and engineering concerns are separated: Sometimes you want to avoid a feature due to the way it will limit you in the future, even if the AI can churn it in 2 minutes today. On the…
To be devil's advocate: Many of those tools are overpowered unless you have a very complex project that many people depend on. The AI tools will catch the most obvious issues, but will not help you with the most…
Luckily those I work with are smart enough that I've not seen a PR thrown away yet, but sometimes I'm approving with more "meh, it's fine I guess" than "yeah, that makes sense".
The most annoying thing is that even after cleaning up all the nonsense, the tests still contain all sort of fanfare and it’s essentially impossible to get the submitter to trim them because it’s death by a thousand…
N~10^(6.5) aliens.
I hope this too but it's not a given, IMO. Previously people without technical chops failed quickly by being unable to deliver working code, now they can deliver mediocre code with the damage only becoming clear years…
This looks like LLM slop (not only the writing, but the analysis itself). To start, it is based on a single machine check. It has little context, but if this was a common problem, I'd expect more data points. The MC…
The security model is that applications run in a sandbox (e.g. Flatpak, snap) and only get D-Bus, Wayland, etc. access via restricted means (e.g. xdg-dbus-proxy). The "friction" is that Wayland developers don't want a…
In the short term, definitely. In the long term, once the damage from vibecoding is better understood (for customer impact and team morale), there's an incentive to push them out, both from the leadership and the…
There's definitely some that hold CQRS, DDD, TDD, ... as _the_ way to design software and over-engineer around it, so I can understand some pushback. Knowing those patterns is very helpful as a way to think about design…
When all leadership is asking is "what is the short term business value?", it's pointless to make that case. It's much easier to measure "yet another feature" than "fix the root causes of what makes our product subpar…
I assume it can be different for everyone. This post resonates with me, but my social anxiety mixes being sensitive to negative feedback and low self-esteem. So, you want to avoid both being disliked, but also being…
> Maybe things are this equal and fair on the senior, high-paying part of the spectrum I don't think the fundamental dynamics change by seniority, just that after some level there may simply be a smaller pool. From the…
> - How do the end user protect themselves at this point? Especially the average user? - Install as little software as possible, use websites if possible. - Keep important stuff (especially cryptocurrency) on a separate…
Not the parent, but the default `npm install` / `yarn install` builds will ignore the lock file unless everything can be satisfied, if you want the lock file to be respected you must use `npm ci` / `yarn install…
> Measuring and feeling are not mutually exclusive. They are not mutually exclusive, but they compete to a degree. If someone's time is mostly spent on what can be measured, they can't spend time on "common sense" or…