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crudgen··on Sites in ChatGPT
Would be great if all AI slop sites lived under a common namespace...
crudgen··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
Open corruption is not like Open Source, where you can see everything, it just adds to the non-obvious publicly hidden corruption.
crudgen··on Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
I would only host worthless stuff there
crudgen··on Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
Nah they just write blog posts when they feel like it /s
crudgen··on 98% isn't much
The problem I encounter more frequently is: Advertised number is high %, then after considering all risks and terms and conditions it is sub average.
crudgen··on StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time
In principle I like it, what I don't like is that some companies will use the data only for their own benefit / dystopian nightmare mission.
crudgen··on Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types
Interesting, is there something like this for azure
crudgen··on Programmers need to start meditating
I think the more stressful part is the management expectation that things will speed up more, especially when you can generate plausible looking frontends relatively quickly. And if you have out of touch control-freak management without any technical experience, you waste more life time arguing with them.

Of course you also might exhaust yourself to some degree, as your own expectation might be that you can develop multiple things in parallel, while also having to review a lot of code where you might not have context, so in a way you have to hold more high level context in your brain state, what might be somewhat stressful. However, when you have been tech lead once, all of that is somewhat familiar.

crudgen··on Too dangerous or just too expensive? The real reason Anthropic is hiding Mythos
For marketing purposes it is always too dangerous, not saying it is safe
crudgen··on Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime
Interesting that there is consumer protection in US. But aren't dark patterns like everywhere?
crudgen··on Obsidian Bases
Is there an Obsidian alternative, that is snappy and loads instantly?
crudgen··on Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2
Had the same thought, since it is kinda slow (only have 4 pyhsical/8 logical cores though). But I think vRAM might be a problem (8gb can work, if one has a rather recent gpu (here m1/2 might be interesting)).
crudgen··on Load 'em up and throw 'em under the bus
Often ICs stay for 2 years in a company, start a project, but aren't happy with org/management/career progression and move to the next company before having to deal with the problems they have created. Eventually other developers who weren't assigned on this project now also need to maintain this project, without having the detailed knowledge of existing mechanisms and prevalent tech debt. Those developers did work on their own project and now need to care about both or even more projects.

The developers are basically invisible to upper management. PMs are the point of contact which translate between higher managment and the devs. Higher management often operates on such a high level, that they are disconnected from reality and work on a abstract level, basically using the inputs of the PMs. The PMs often also were never that technical, instead they realized soon that career progression is only possible in mgmt. This leads to the incentive to spawn new projects a PM can lead.

Eventually there are too many (poorly defined) projects with too few (original) developers. New developers are unhappy since they have to work with legacy code and the devs who are spread over multiple projects and still have some original knowledge, don't have enough time/incentive to properly take care about project development (plus, spent a lot of time in "agile" meetings for each project). Adding no career paths for devs (since the company only focuses on mgmt), this leads again to the starting point, where the ICs leave the company.

crudgen··on Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

― Warren Buffett

crudgen··on Show HN: C0D3 – A free, interactive site to learn coding
I appreciate the approach where you combine a text chat with an online course, though feels a bit strange that the content is on notion.so.

Contentwise, I have the feeling that there are at least 3 distinct skill sets with ~ 10% overlap for a swe career: Passing coding interviews, actual software engineering, climbing the corporate ladder. There is certainly a web comic for that.