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Using inventions from other people or those who have now left the company.

They have no moat, their competitors are building equivalent or better products.

The point of the article is that they are a bad business because it doesn't pan out long term if they follow the same path.

It's opensource, so people would likely have caught this issue. It's opensource, so they can't just make some foolish, arbitrary licensing change to extort money from customers. It's opensource, so it is going to be a better engine in the long run.

Unity had a niche, their greedy execs killed that and Godot is one of the beneficiaries of that.

Unlikely, they're all using it.

You're not considering that they were already coerced into forced dev registration.

As someone interviewing for the first time in a long time I can tell you most assuredly that there are a disproportionate number of awful interviewers too.

Of the interviews I've had I would say about 3/4 have tried to catch you out with some inane gotcha that you would never see in the wild or have a very specific solution in mind without exploring or discussing. Sometimes both.

"Please read the full quote it makes the whole thing make more sense and is just generally better"

It's really not.

It was a mistake to treat corporations as the legal person responsible for these things. The officers of the corporations should be held legally responsible for breaking the law.

Dumping a huge PR across a shared codebase wherein everyone else also has to deal with the risk of you monumental changes is pretty rude as well, I would even go so far as to say that it is likely selfishly risky.

I dunno man, I usually close the PR when someone does that and tell them to make more atomic changes.

Would you trust an colleague who is over confident, lies all the time, and then pushes a huge PR? I wouldn't.

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You're the one who has extended their limited experience to all of software engineering.

The only reason that anyone has engaged with you here is because you're being intellectually arrogant.

This degree of ignorance is why we don't let consultants near the actually important stuff.

Yeah, just like privatised utilities that operator solely for the profits of execs and investors with a complete disregard for regulations or best practices only to hide behind govt not regulating enough when things eventually go wrong.

We've explained this all to our son at length and he's ended up fairly anti-Mr Beast. Problem is that other kids and their parents are convinced he's a swell guy and not marketing directly to them.

This has been a great learning experience for our son about how the average person doesn't question what is happening or why.

Yes, exactly this.

Most of my day job is not about bashing out nextjs websites. In fact if I did that one day a year it would be a lot.

Used both, they're great for boilerplate. Anything more they breakdown.

> The technology isn't there yet. Yes

> All signs point to it rapidly progressing towards this inflection. Not really

> Current agents are insanely good, every decent programmer using them knows this. Also not really

If you find them "insanely good" you were likely doing work that was already very repetitive or broadly implemented by others.

They have their uses, but it isn't as pervasive as people believe.

A closer analogy would be scribes and the printing press.

Except it doesn’t fit. For a while now we’ve had access to basically all the knowledge in the world and most people don’t use it.

Why would people make the effort to build a website using AI when they didn’t do so with any of the existing no-code options available.

They won’t.

Will dev be exactly the same in 10 years time? No.

Will there be more devs than there are now? 100%

Will experienced devs make bank? Yes.

Crazy how well that’s been working

My point is less around how engineers behave, and more around how organisations behave.

If an organisation is constantly retrenching experienced staff and cutting corners to increase earnings rather than being driven by engineering first, it doesn't matter what the engineers do amongst themselves. This culture, in fact, rewards engineers doing a bad job.

I don't really use golang all that much and even I was confused about OP's point because of the different depths.

I feel like sometimes people just want to complain.

Isn't communicating symbolic thought through drawn symbols that are understood by multiple people the definition of writing?

Is there any engineering culture left in the US?

I feel like this is the case across the board.

There are still people who dictate their emails to a secretary.

Technology changes, people often don't.

Programmers will be around for a longer time than anyone realises because most people don't understand how the magic box works let alone the arcane magics that run on it.

This will surely bring the users back after killing adblockers /s

Why are there 2 context menus, multiple places to change settings, and a file explorer that is somehow a worse experience to use than one they had in XP?

All the while they develop and push a product that screenshots what you are doing so that AI can "assist" you. Not to mention pushing ads and news and free to play games.

Maybe the margins or icons aren't what you'd prefer, but you're being intellectually dishonest pretending that there is any uniformity in their product let alone even a single iota of care or interest in the experience the user has with their product.

It's solid, things are where you expect, beginners can use it with very little guidance, and experts can turn off whatever they don't want or need.

Super solid, <3 for the KDE team and product.

These people should be forced to use the hair-covered-gum-on-the-floor style UI experience that Windows has become and then perhaps they get to have an opinion.

Who is your ideal customer and what could they create?

What is the plan if, like Jetbrains have recently experienced, customer usage exceeds the $20?

That is a weak argument.

The point is to benchmark against a human solving a problem. Typically these problems are posed as a question or a blank project, without that history.

You are arguing for a an apples to oranges comparison because the LLM performs better. Rather than a realistic comparison.