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The entire infrastructure of the world relies on free open source software written 30 years ago.

And then all governments and corporations demand immediate support as if they have paid Tier 3 SLA with the unpaid maintainers lol.

Maybe Im just poor

Kinesis is a legendary keyboard brand.

Just use OpenRouter

Is this just a harness or using a proprietary model in the background? Anthropic and OpenAI are already very well trained in IBM system i and z knowledge. Unless Bob is somehow improving the integration to these midrange and mainframe systems I literally dont see any benefit to using Bob. IBM will just kill this proprietary tech in 5 years as they are currently doing with RDi or forget about updating it like SEU.

When I am not sure what direction I want to go in next, and so I try multiple versions from the same starting point.

Badass!!! Congrats. I love JJ’s mental model. Its so much less opionated and lets me do what I want. Want to make 5 versions of the same commit? Easy. Need to push out a change asap without having to pre create a branch, stash your changes, yadayada. Jj just adapts.

Once you start thinking in jj it becomes frustrating having think back to use GitHub as a code repo.

I would love to hear more about Costco's engineering culture. The fact they are still running/modernizing/supporting AS400 infrastructure and RPGLE applications is remarkable. I have to imagine that they have a unique devops model internally to keep that alive; especially facing a dwindling talent market.

Needing a QR code to order food is a signal

Bad timing either way epic games release

RIP Modular

30 years later do you think we got better or worse.

Oh yeah the Chinese Empire is not imperial… Dynasty Shymnasty!

Congratulations

Cloud migrations

RPG

In 2006-2007 someone walked me through step by atep how to assemble a computer in a newegg.com chatroom with the parts I had already purchased. That person changed my life. Thanks human.

Serious question: Dont software changes with companies dealing with human lives have to go through a rigorous lab testing environment? And then maybe a beta group?

FORTRAN and COBOL Programming is a part of the AI island, lol.

Its awesome I love the mechanics.

MacOS UX has remained pretty stable.

I work in logistics and let me tell you what I think would attract high quality developers.

#1 good benefits. More than 2 weeks pto. A paid sick leave policy. Company paid health care. Paternity leave. Company match on 401k.

#2 Leadership that cares about good engineering over deadlines. Logistics is very fast paced. There is often a lot of pressure to deploy things yesterday. Development takes time, trial, and error. You need to be able to have patience for engineering.

If anybody asks you to work on IBM i or AS400 turn and run.

The system is cool. But the majority of jobs are underpaid in comparison to the open source stacks. And they wonder why there is a lack of new blood.

There are many articles out there claiming COBOL/Mainframe/AS400/“ancient” programmers are retiring and the orgs want to pay you big bucks to replace them. For the most part they are just parlor tricks to try and get a cost savings on new grads.