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devdp430on Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes

Precise.

Basically copilot+pc by google. What a tragedy.

devdp430on Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager

The mindset shift from IC to EM is very complex. And the newly appointed managers don't always know how to not be a programmer when in that role. It sometimes bleeds into the reports' work and damages than helping.

I guess the "coaching" is to understand that mindset shift.

devdp430on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

I use AI at work. We have a huge codebase in Golang.

1000s of files.

I had tried cursor, claude code, gemini cli, openai codex and all sorts of vscode based idea (like windsurf, antigravity etc). All of them get overwhelmed when there is something to implement or change in the codebase primarily due to the amount of code.

But I like aider. I had better capabilities and is controllable, you can try. And if you use it with latest claude sonnet or gemini 2.5 pro it will be most accurate. Adding files is a manual process but it has nearly 100% code accuracy.

And it will never change anything without your knowledge.

You can try it.

devdp430on Stop Breaking TLS

This is 100% true.

devdp430on I made a history timeline to learn what events happened around the same time

I like it very much. I could also include the philosophical advances in the timeline and also events that are happening.

I'm thinking of building one for climate change.

devdp430on Donkey code

The writing style is very beautiful.