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1. Work in sh-tty and buggy codebases to begin with

2. Then you can't see the AI slop in mountains of existing spaghetti

3. Profit

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If you're (speaking in general) going through such extremes - working 16h/day then farming and 'discovering' god - I would suggest looking into therapy; simply to regain balance; I also had a period in my life in my 30s where I tried to overcompensate, correct the life course so to speak

overall I don't believe neither extreme is healthy; doing A, then doing 2x the opposite of A because you realize A was not really good for you in the long term

but I'm glad it so far worked out for the author

> So something like pgBouncer together with transactional queries

FYI - it's already supported by cloudnativepg [1]

I was playing with this operator recently and I'm truly impressed - it's a piece of art when it comes to postgres automation; alongside with barman [2] it does everything I need and more

[1] https://cloudnative-pg.io/docs/1.28/connection_pooling [2] https://cloudnative-pg.io/plugin-barman-cloud/

I love synology; bought one around 2018, runs nicely until this day; received last DSM 7.3 update so will be supported until 2028 but I will probably keep it running until it dies as I don't expose it to The Evil Internet anyway

does everything and more I need it to (backups, photos, storage, jellyfin, various media servers, torrents etc.)

> And finally you have a brilliant idea of hiring a second $150k/year dev ops admin (...)

in my experience you always need a "Devops team" to operate all that cloud stuff; so to paraphrase - suddenly you're spending $400k on three devops to operate $500k cloud

I think The Promise behind the cloud was you just pay for the service and not worry about it, but in practice you need some team to maintain it

> And it is hard to spot the mistakes because they can be quite subtle

aw yeah; recently I spent half a day pulling my hair debugging some cursor-generated frontend code just to find out the issue was buried in some... obscure experimental CSS properties which broke a default button behavior across all major browsers (not even making this up).

Velocity goes up because you produce _so much code so quickly_, most of which seems to be working; managers are happy, developers are happy, people picking up the slack - not so much.

I obviously use LLMs to some extent during daily work, but going full-on blind mode on autopilot gotta crash the ship at some point.

don't bother; this company is in constant hiring mode; you can check previous "who is hiring" threads to confirm; random example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228613

LLMs are great for self-contained boring tasks; recently I have started to refactor ruby tests with a simple prompt (getting rid of various rspec syntax in favor of more explicit notation at cost of code duplication - so kinda like unminifying things I guess) - works _ridiculously_ good as well

Typesense has been a godsend; amazing piece of tech and on top of that fairly easy to operate even in HA mode; if you can fit your dataset in memory I really recommend giving it a try

> Bandwidth is not as expensive as people think

Now we only need to explain that to AWS folks

> besides "it's really quick"

I can see the appeal, as the demo looks really smooth; then again, I'm a terrible slow developer, so personally I find saving few ms here and there irrelevant to my daily workflow

I second that - similar experience; and it was like two years ago; seems they are in constant hiring mode without need to hire anyone, I will never that - why waste time?

> If you haven't tried yet, there's Hacknet that's similar to Uplink albeit a bit simpler, but still fun

Perfect timing as it's on sale on gog :) thanks for the suggestion, will ride that nostalgia wave and check out hacknet as well!

TIL you can create kanban boards in Obsidian :mindblown: thanks!

> You shouldn't expect the same productivity

Hmm, in my experience rarely anyone looks at a real productivity; you can thread water/even waste everyone else's time, but if you do it 5 days a week it's fine

at _current place_ after more than a year of exceeding the expectations (I got really good feedback from my peers and I pushed many projects forward) I asked for 1 day off a week as a form of a raise and I could reasonably justify it (I need my time off so I can stay productive in the long-run, I felt a little bit burnout at that stage); I only got big fat middle finger

obviously after that my productivity plummeted down to all-time-low, but seems like nobody really cares, so I stopped caring as well :)

> (...) and going back to plain old virtual servers

Some of us never left ;)

While applying for new job once I made a self-unpacking CV in ruby using this trick; whole binary content was compressed with zlib, I also added some blank padding to get some 'nice' numbers, so I could stuff like DATA.seek(1337 * 32, IO::SEEK_CUR); needless to say either nobody appreciated the idea, then again, what I was expecting? :D