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Five nines?

How big's the org? This setup feels unavoidable past a certain company size as growth attracts grifters who then call meetings atop meetings to appear useful.

Unless you own the shop I don't see the issue - good money for a day's work a week?

Soon.

TFA elides context that poor economic metrics started long before Brexit.

I don't have a horse in the race, mind. Just interesting to see 'damning statistics' that don't really hold up to scrutiny imo.

Isn't this missing the forest for the trees? EU as a whole has been crushed by US post 2009, to zoom in and say "recent trend bad!" is really missing the meta issue.

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Arguably, if 'real' Agile is ever found Formal Methods would be the antithesis of it: something provable and reproducible is blasphemy to True Believers.

That sounds quite daunting, Python and supply chain security are almost at odds with each other these days.

Lowkey surprised that any well-resourced org would use it given the outsized risk profile and poor performance.

Google search with less steps? Still a huge advancement, of course.

Wonder how much benefit a meta lang for describing these problems correctly for the LLMs to process into code, an even-higher level language perhaps we could call it English?

This is true pain. To think a rounding error could free grinders like us to solve Actual Problems like disrupting Chrome hegemony, building user-respecting OSes and relighting the now nearly dimmed torch dropped so many years ago by Mozilla.

Hopefully one day we can..

Weird, I pass through a dGPU for work VM sometimes on Win10/11 @ 2K without much memory usage except I don't use MSTeams but it doesn't surprise me that it needs 60GB RAM nowadays.

I'm jealous of your system's 256GB, my memory controller looks to max at 128GB but it's kinda old now (DDR4).

No, it's not terribly hard for a suitably compensated and skilled team with the appropriate tools and timeframe. Yes, we are doing it wrong.

Most of the 'inventions' you describe are more aimed toward reducing the barriers of entry: the promise that your team of expensive C wizards would now use Java at greater speed with less defects became "now we can just use cheap CS grads" at slightly worse but still acceptable levels.

Without any real consequences for poor software (see CrowdStrike's YTD despite its multi-billion dollar farce in July) it's only logical that the standard will always be "bare minimum that can be shipped". Developer productivity is a misnomer really - it just means company profits increase thanks to a widening pool to hire from and even more crapware per dollar can now be squeezed from each worker.

Clever code is always expensive, either you're paying for somebody smart to work at their cognitive peak which is less productive for them than 'simpler' code, or more likely you'll instead pay multiples more down the line for someone's hubris.

I think this is the rare direction that more langs should follow Rust in that 'clever' code can be more easily quarantined for scrutiny via unsafe.

Is that unique to the German car industry? Outside of a few tech corps or some small startups, mainly in the US, most shops seem to 'run' their tech function more like buyer/seller e.g. "here's some Euros in exchange for [thing] we'd like" instead of the traditional employer/employee dynamic where your boss can evaluate your work to some degree.

Arguably they'd be better off actually doing that as a true buyer and just engaging B2B for their easily solved CRUD variants than this weird go-between that combines the negatives of managing employees with the negatives of buying unknown solutions.

Taking your conclusion in good faith, would you really want to work in a shop that weighs immutable characteristics over actionable metrics like solving LC hards?

You don't, PM is mostly secretarial. If the actual line manager doesn't understand domain basics they're managing in name only: a deaf conductor.

Sure it happens often because tech is a very profitable, grifter magnet, but we really shouldn't normalize it nor expect to solve what is ultimately an organizational problem.

Pete's just a rational actor in this scenario, the real issue is management with no insight into the reality of what they're 'managing'.

shame they abandoned their web targets in UE5

Good points, though if an 'AI' can be made powerful enough to displace technical fields en masse then pretty much everything that isn't manual is going to start sinking fast.

On the plus side, LLMs don't bring us closer to that dystopia: if unlimited knowledge(tm) ever becomes just One Prompt Away it won't come from OpenAI.

Between skeptics and adherents who is more easily able to extract VC money for vaporware? If you limit yourself to 'the facts' you're leaving tons of $$ on the table...

Only one day? They must be juniors, that's at least a month or two - few hundred story points, dozen alignment meetings, QA, stakeholder buy-in, A/B tests, security consult, PM/PO/SM/EM/TL sign off, heck just catching up with the UX team alone would add a day's worth of calls.

"hey $name, is what you're working on going to benefit the customer"

no need for meetings, PMs or frameworks if it's a small shop

Did they build the engine from scratch? 114975 man hours on a 2D game is unthinkable!

Arguably you never really needed a SWE for those use cases, SWEs are for bespoke systems with specific constraints or esoteric platforms.

"That guy who can barely glue together a couple of pages" was never going to provide much value as a developer, the lunches you describe were already eaten: LLMs are just the latest branding for selling solutions to those "crap jobs".

wisely so, the bar is alarmingly low in most spaces.

Wonder how far a corp borrowing USMC "everyone is a rifleman" but applied to tech would get

We've such crazy margins that we can support too many "i'm not technical hehe" managers than should really be feasible

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I think the unaccountability of said magic box is the true allure for corps. It's the main reason they desperately want it to be turnkey for code - they'd be willing to flatten most office jobs as we know them today en route to this perfect, unaccountable, money printer.

Sounds like a layer of management that doesn't understand the works below, or the vision above, and has to maintain value theater.