People have been writing about it for years. This is why we have child labor laws, work week standards, etc except in white collar and tech work we've been tricked into thinking we don't need those things
In my experience, a lot of the time the people who COULD be solving these issues are people who used to code or never have. The actual engineers who might do something like this aren't given authority or scope and you have MBAs or scrum masters in the way of actually solving problems.
People need to learn manners, nobody should be using video calling without headphones. It's insane whenever someone joins and we hear all their background, feedback of whoever is speaking, etc as if nobody has ever told them to mute or stop using speaker in their life.
My org hosts it on prem, and while I don't like the way pages are organized for projects, I only really interact with the PR page and that is laid out well. Most of my interaction with git is happening from my terminal anyway so ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Not to be anti YC on their forum, but the VC business model is all about splashing cash on a wide variety of junk that will mostly be worthless, hyping it to the max, and hoping one or two is like amazon or facebook. He's not an engineer, he's like Steve Jobs without the good parts.
Pair programming - I just want to share my screen and audio with a teammate, so a full video meeting software is over the top bloat.
And this https://tuple.app/ is tuple, previous company gave us subscriptions to use and I was a huge fan of it.
On a personal level, that's why I started using them for self hosting. At work, I think the simplicity of scaling from a pool of resources is a huge improvement over having to provision a new device. Currently at an on-prem team and even moving to kubernetes without going to cloud would solve some of the more painful operational problems that send us pages or we have to meet with our prod support team about.
Why would OpenAI buy Replit? My point is, if Sam's model is so great and advanced, it should be able to autonomously code a replacement. Or Cursor, or any of the others.
If OpenAI and Anthropic's models are good enough at coding to make coding agents useful for non-technical employees Replit is targeting, why can't either of those companies use their AI to build a wrapper around their product as good or better than Replit? Has this guy never taken n -> infinity in a problem before?
There was an article here recently about alpha school that mentioned this is how of of its backers made a lot in the aftermath of the dot com bubble - picking up companies with products that happened to implode in the bust. He's not the only one and that's not the only bubble that had that happen
Stock buyback isn't a total scam as it seems, but it does mean "we can't figure out any productive use case for this cash in advancing R&D or scaling our business anymore" which is still pretty worrying
Isn't there one company wide channel? With slack or email, you still need to make a list of people who get the announcement. Slack has been a lot better in my experience for joining a team and looking back at the history
There might also be a high level design page about the feature, or jira tickets you can find through git commit messages, or an architectural decision record that this new engineer could look over even if you forgot. The LLM doesn't have that
Stupid question but does this mess up using alternative OSes? I have a rooted 7" nexus from 2013 that I out lineage on and use for carplay when rentals don't have it installed and have been thinking about upgrading. Will this mess up doing that in the future, and should I just upgrade now? Also open to tablet recs to put carplay on, no familiarity with android tablets aside from the one I own
They definitely aren't as good as they could be, but I have always been able to get stuff done if I reserve a study room. Even suburban libraries are better like that
My mother worked in engineering back in the late 80s until early 2000s and always told me about people who didn't document things because they wanted to be un-fireable. I didn't believe her or take it too seriously until some of these more recent teams, but I think it is a lot more common than it should be.
You're right that it's not a complete solution. The overall process on this team aren't good (we never do a retrospective, ever) and I don't get to decide how we solve #2 and #3. The best I can do is bring things up to date, keep it up to date as I run into new info or we add new systems to access, and hope that future new hires are smart enough to check created and last modified dates on documents to find the most recent one.
Most places I've been could have been upgraded with stream of consciousness. It's not surprising that they aren't all perfect, and the one place that was done to a very high standard was properly overdone, but at most places whatever counts as onboarding docs either doesn't exist, is essentially unusable, or directs me to legacy things that on day one I don't know enough to not bother with
As much as I'm not an AI booster, it has helped a lot when I hit a wall with poorly done documentation where the related bits I need are scattered all over and even a text search isn't helping me
Way too much documentation is like this. Then again, lots of times asking coworkers about an existing system or a new ticket that's not detailed properly ends up with them saying 30 pages of fluff to me before I can get to the nugget
It's crazy how bad most onboarding docs are for corporate teams. I think it's a great first look the culture and how much of a hassle the role will be.
The last three teams I've joined have been brutal with how little was documented or how out of date the docs that did exist are. I've had to spend up to two weeks tracking people down to find out what access group I need for our logs, deploy pipeline, etc. and I end up writing up a new doc that's good for its point in time, immediately becomes out of date when someone adds a new system or access group but doesn't document it anywhere.
The one team I was on previously that got me everything I needed in about two days was great, but it's sad that this isn't the norm. Everywhere else has been pretty hostile to getting set up, and the poor onboarding experience has been a preview of the developer experience. My current role is standing up a new devex team which I'm hoping turns the tide here.
First off I do think being a NIMBY about amazon and data centers is fair game, I wouldn't want those either. But I've been to Columbus, and as far as the metro area goes, this is not the highest and best use place.
There's a lot of land in neighborhoods nearer to downtown actually being redeveloped for higher tax value with residential, offices, shopping, and nightlife or that's primed once developers make their way through Old Town East and Franklinton. Even the land being redeveloped in the new fake-downtowns of suburban developments are more around Dublin and mostly within the bounds of 270.