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Self hosted Atuin would do this for you too. Unless you don't want the added tooling/complexity

Wife is ER nurse, she goes through a pair of Hokas every 3-6 months.

I am going to take my 401k and open up a coffee or bike shop. If I am going to be broke, might as well enjoy what I do.

My first real job was in McKinney, sad to hear they are all dead.

Yes to all, but it's just me responsible for monitoring performance/cost. I either push back or fix it myself, but I am behind. So this is an attempt to give/push more ownership to the teams.

Startups have limited resources, we prioritize the best we can. As a staff engineer it's my responsibility to bring this to my company, but it's not an overnight process.

It's not the whole culture and product, it's specific teams that do it. And trying to push back on teams that are "producing" is not a simple task.

This 100%. I just requested a hackathon for performance improvement (might be wasted effort).

We are pushing tons of code and now our CPU usage has grown exponentially over the past year because the bad engineers just ship whatever Claude gives them and do not think about the consequences.

Our biggest consumer of CPU right now is HTTP connection churn because engineers are creating new clients every request we handle. If the engineers would just think for a second, push back on Claude, even Claude would tell them this is bad. But they don't... Platform engineering is now 10x harder with terrible engineers and unlimited code machines.

Don't even get me started on ffmpeg usage, engineers act like the resources are unlimited.

For my small team we are not creating our versions, we're just more likely to find a self hostable version and use an LLM to help setup in production. For us it's a middle ground between the build your own SaaS and paying $10ks. But in some instances we do still pay for the other company to own the on call.

Interested in examples of the types of scripts others collaborators wouldn't be able to use? Like scripts for PR workflows?

I would ask for references for the suicide claims, so others can assess the impact themselves. That's a very serious claim to provide without any proof, especially to a group of people who very well be going through the same thing. I am not saying it did not happen, only it's the right thing to do.

Any other engineers just living life frozen at this point. I am unable to make any life decisions because it seems like I won't have a career in the near future. I am unable to purchase a home to settle down for my family, because dad might not have a job next week. I know I am fortunate to have a job, many don't, but fuck if this career isn't the worse thing ever for my overall health and happiness.

It's great, I'm in my 30's, two kids, relatively high income family, but can't make any financial decisions because it feels like on a dime we will be living paycheck to paycheck all while having zero debt. It's a stress I never thought I would have.

Guess I am scared to program for real since I don't use a "real" language like Rust. What a wild statement to make.

Feels like the most important thing we can do is document it all. Save multiple encrypted copies. There is so many things worth documenting, but don't let others tell 'you' what happened. Write it down.

Make sure to opt-out before handing your ID over to the agent. They will claim you can no longer opt-out at that point, even before scanning. I had one plead to my wife to go through, because they are being watched by management and it wouldn't look good.

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Media platform for businesses. Music, TV, digital signage, ads. Runs in restaurants, bars, retail chains across the country. ~20 engineers, real ownership, backed by Google and UMG.

Stack: Go, Vue, GCP, Kubernetes, NATS (future) for device comms.

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This right here - I am migrating all of our GHA to use the mise action. Makes keeping the version of Go, linters, formatters etc. for the project so much easier. Haven't added the mise.lock yet, but on the list. Now getting my small team of devs to try using mise is much harder.

Rockbot | Senior Engineers (Fullstack & Ads) | Remote (US) | rockbot.com

Media platform for businesses. Music, TV, digital signage, ads. Runs in restaurants, bars, retail chains across the country. ~20 engineers, real ownership, backed by Google and UMG.

Stack: Go, Vue, GCP, Kubernetes, NATS (future) for device comms.

Fullstack: Own features end to end. 5+ yrs backend, 2+ yrs frontend, cloud infra. https://grnh.se/kf32f5fk4us

Ads: Ad serving, targeting, measurement, data pipelines. Ad tech background helpful (VAST, IMA SDK, SSAI). Distributed systems, SQL. https://grnh.se/f8msf4aw4us

$150K-$210K + equity + benefits.

Questions welcome, or email ryan dot sheppard at rockbot dot com

I am a big fan of lunchmoney, built a TUI for it with their API too.

https://github.com/Rshep3087/lunchtui

this is just marketing material for github products...

I would love to figure out why I don't see this at my company. People still shipping at the same rate as before, customers bringing up more and more bugs, problems that require planning for scale are not being thought about (more bugs), zero tests still being written. All the code I am seeing generated is like one shot garbage, with no context around our system or the codebase as a whole.

She says it's both. By new stuff, it's mostly one off programs that handle small changes to the way billing or claims are handled. It sounds like they have a library of programs to start with and she extends it to fit the new edge case.

Correct. Updated.

My mother and her husband are COBOL devs for a US state government. She works on the health insurance side for teachers and other state employees. Think claim processing.

Lots of batch jobs running at night. Their alert system is an actual human who calls my mom when jobs fail in the middle of the night.

It's high paying for the city they live in, but not high paying for software development. They will both have full retirement and healthcare for life, assuming the government can fulfill it. They are both fully remote since COVID too.

She's also worked for state lottery, teacher's retirement system and DOT.

edit: she says they have a SQL database, but mostly store in IBM IMS

Just re-wrote an internal CLI to urfave from custom, but having issues with v3 autocomplete scripts. Might just take the time to switch over to cobra and use this.

from my experience of late, engineers usually toss stack traces into LLMs and ask what the issue is. good error wrapping, engineers grep for one of the first errors and get to the error code right away. both ways work.

Agreed. Using Claude Sonnet 3.5-7 with Aider produces significantly better output than any other models I have tried.

I would guess most people in leadership have no actual clue how they would replace the human in the seat with AI. They are riding the hype that the companies who provide the tools are putting out, but when it comes time to execute they don't have a plan. The steps between generated code to running in production is completely being ignored.

My company moved away from Level last year, but for the year we used the product, it was nothing but issues with approvals for purchases.