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JustinELRobertson For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day

Beautifully written and while I'm not a Phish fan per se, this otherwise summarized exactly how I've been feeling this year.

JustinELRobertson The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

Funny enough in my original comment above, I also was using a G9. This checks out

JustinELRobertson The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

I once moved into a new apartment, built a new PC, but noticed that every 30 or so minutes while gaming my monitor would turn off. It was just frequent enough to make gaming intolerable. One day I was plugging something in and moved my DisplayPort cable slightly and my monitor turned off again. Turns out it was too close to the antennas for the WiFi card I had; it was inducing a current in the DisplayPort cable and the monitor’s firmware didn’t know what to do so it just crashed! I moved the cable slightly further away and it never happened again.

JustinELRobertson Ask HN: How are senior SWEs using AI?

I agree the label often means different things to different people, but ultimately I’m curious to determine if my anecdotal experience of AI being used very sparingly by the top 10% of performers is characteristic of the behavior more broadly, or just an anomaly in my circles. Do you have any thoughts on this?