> v5.5 You don't still feel that mental friction when 5.5 responds with a wall of text and you drop into that first tedious sentence? I even had it generate a syntactically invalid English sentence the other day. It's…
> they ask Claude to write an explainer for exactly that slice If their Claude is the same as our Claude, then this is a joke. Claude’s writing style is insidiously mind numbing. It takes constant pushing to get it to…
Sublime was/is still the best, unfortunately had to finally abandon it due to lack of first-class agent support. Hard to find something that emphasizes core text editing first and that doesn't constantly have some new…
This is vibe coded I guess? Toggling the "Happiness plateau line" does nothing.
Agree with what you're saying, but what are you ultimately driving at?
That's crazy. I did a Notes migration to a custom Java/Red Hat platform 20 years ago, even at that time it was like "can't believe these guys are on Lotus Notes". I remember Howard Stern used to reference LN on his…
> acquiring assets that can make the money for you Any ideas beyond real estate?
It is rage inducing.
> And more directly, I believe good software engineering is really hard. It really is, if there's one sentiment that's remained consistent in me over time it's awe at how harsh of a mistress software is. As good as…
> Call me a gatekeeper if you want but, we ended up with a lot of people that just can't do the job. The vast majority! I think I've come across 1 or 2 competent engineers in 20+ years. It's a miracle that software…
> "Why am I paying a consultant for something AI can do in 15 minutes?" Tech consulting takes all kinds of forms. I've been doing it for a while. A lot of clients aren't thinking about time spent. A lot of clients have…
> Hmm - I need to map these results onto objects I can use. What sql client is going to hand you raw text? > Hmm - wouldn’t it be great if the object tracked changes and could save itself. Lost me there.
> The founder is very good. He builds a plan that, on paper, is flawless and airtight Premise is laughable right out of the gate.
> I feel like we as a profession generally don't like sloppiness Thanks for that, needed a deep guttural laugh.
> The people who most argue for vibe coding will themselves never accept responsibility for the technical outcomes. This is right, and don’t think this isn’t all partially fueled by spite. I’m not sure if engineers…
> grinds its way to profitability over 3 years, can't raise, and grows 15% / year. You've been a part of some successful ventures! I've worked at places that grind their way to an uneventful shutdown over 3 years, can't…
Am I being advertised an ARG via HN thread?
> LaMDA Wow thanks for reminding me of this. Remember that leaked story of an engineer claiming it was sentient, even before ChatGPT came out?
> Nowadays carriages are split between 'normal' and 'quiet'... And the number of quiet carriages seems to have increased over time... It's like there are forces in society which try to prevent people with different…
> Each business domain is divided into a fixed set of layers, with strictly validated dependency directions and a limited set of permissible edges. These constraints are enforced mechanically via custom linters…
> No project "needs 10GB" to compile You've never tried to compile NextJS slop, have you? It absolutely can take that much. All those junkdevs have 64GB in their MBPs for a reason. NodeJS max heap is now dynamic because…
Albert, nice to meet you. Let me be the first to say I'm impressed by your generous casual dress policy for remote work. My current employer makes me wear a 9-piece tuxedo with cummerbund while I work from the comfort…
Hard to have sober talk about this since a lot of discourse is AI psychosis vs. AI naysayers. Does software quality seem to have taken a jump in the past few years to anyone? Not to me, seems to be getting worse. Think…
I run it, it's good other than WSL.
You are. Human bookkeeper makes a mistake? You're liable. Accountant makes a mistake? You're liable. Have you ever run a business?
> v5.5 You don't still feel that mental friction when 5.5 responds with a wall of text and you drop into that first tedious sentence? I even had it generate a syntactically invalid English sentence the other day. It's…
> they ask Claude to write an explainer for exactly that slice If their Claude is the same as our Claude, then this is a joke. Claude’s writing style is insidiously mind numbing. It takes constant pushing to get it to…
Sublime was/is still the best, unfortunately had to finally abandon it due to lack of first-class agent support. Hard to find something that emphasizes core text editing first and that doesn't constantly have some new…
This is vibe coded I guess? Toggling the "Happiness plateau line" does nothing.
Agree with what you're saying, but what are you ultimately driving at?
That's crazy. I did a Notes migration to a custom Java/Red Hat platform 20 years ago, even at that time it was like "can't believe these guys are on Lotus Notes". I remember Howard Stern used to reference LN on his…
> acquiring assets that can make the money for you Any ideas beyond real estate?
It is rage inducing.
> And more directly, I believe good software engineering is really hard. It really is, if there's one sentiment that's remained consistent in me over time it's awe at how harsh of a mistress software is. As good as…
> Call me a gatekeeper if you want but, we ended up with a lot of people that just can't do the job. The vast majority! I think I've come across 1 or 2 competent engineers in 20+ years. It's a miracle that software…
> "Why am I paying a consultant for something AI can do in 15 minutes?" Tech consulting takes all kinds of forms. I've been doing it for a while. A lot of clients aren't thinking about time spent. A lot of clients have…
> Hmm - I need to map these results onto objects I can use. What sql client is going to hand you raw text? > Hmm - wouldn’t it be great if the object tracked changes and could save itself. Lost me there.
> The founder is very good. He builds a plan that, on paper, is flawless and airtight Premise is laughable right out of the gate.
> I feel like we as a profession generally don't like sloppiness Thanks for that, needed a deep guttural laugh.
> The people who most argue for vibe coding will themselves never accept responsibility for the technical outcomes. This is right, and don’t think this isn’t all partially fueled by spite. I’m not sure if engineers…
> grinds its way to profitability over 3 years, can't raise, and grows 15% / year. You've been a part of some successful ventures! I've worked at places that grind their way to an uneventful shutdown over 3 years, can't…
Am I being advertised an ARG via HN thread?
> LaMDA Wow thanks for reminding me of this. Remember that leaked story of an engineer claiming it was sentient, even before ChatGPT came out?
> Nowadays carriages are split between 'normal' and 'quiet'... And the number of quiet carriages seems to have increased over time... It's like there are forces in society which try to prevent people with different…
> Each business domain is divided into a fixed set of layers, with strictly validated dependency directions and a limited set of permissible edges. These constraints are enforced mechanically via custom linters…
> No project "needs 10GB" to compile You've never tried to compile NextJS slop, have you? It absolutely can take that much. All those junkdevs have 64GB in their MBPs for a reason. NodeJS max heap is now dynamic because…
Albert, nice to meet you. Let me be the first to say I'm impressed by your generous casual dress policy for remote work. My current employer makes me wear a 9-piece tuxedo with cummerbund while I work from the comfort…
Hard to have sober talk about this since a lot of discourse is AI psychosis vs. AI naysayers. Does software quality seem to have taken a jump in the past few years to anyone? Not to me, seems to be getting worse. Think…
I run it, it's good other than WSL.
You are. Human bookkeeper makes a mistake? You're liable. Accountant makes a mistake? You're liable. Have you ever run a business?