judahmeek

I think the term in the original comment that you're referring to was "craftsman", not "tinkerer".

Actually, for a blog, I'd look at Substack, Beehiiv, & Ghost.

Can someone explain why this comment was dead?

Loom videos sound like a decent, cost-effective way for candidates to stand out.

"Plausibility"

This thread is for job posts. You should post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156682

Loc merged per token seems like an even worse metric because it punishes tokens used for refactoring, brainstorming, & code review

Are you referring to the antitrust breakup of AT&T in 1982?

Check out https://ai-2027.com/

The latter

The foundation of human rights, universal equality, & democracy is empathy, which is basically a peer-reviewed scientific theory at a personal level that those with similar capabilities to you deserve equal respect ...or else, violence.

How did you miss out on learning this life lesson as a child?

> AI itself could subsume what we collectively consider as Engineering Taste.

Only if AI feeds on more taste than garbage.

How did that business evaluate that the juniors were actually mastering concepts they had not known before?

I think it's odd that your company has a fairly decent promotion metric (those who seek to spread knowledge through docs & meetings get promoted) and you seem to want nothing to do with it while also complaining that your coworkers don't respect your opinion.

I kind of get it as you have expressed that promotion is not your goal. However, organizational influence comes through promotion as your org & only those with influence at your org can change that.

What do you think would be a better system, that decoupled promotions from influence & enabled you to provide your experienced opinion without getting into management?

I'd bet my life savings that the person who is forced to use a tool by top-down edict is less likely to find a valuable use case than the person who is sincerely curious about said tool.

Your argument that bad processes can't possibly be improved is contradicted by all of recorded history.

Yes, leaders can & should be expected to devise experiments to determine what processes might possibly be optimized though AI-assistance.

But doing so properly requires expending a serious amount of cognitive effort & agile methodology, which is the exact opposite of what Amazon's management has demonstrated here.

> When is the last time Trump invited someone for diplomacy ... then had that person executed?

When Trump approved Israel's strike on the Hamas negotiators...

Do you think that can actually be automated? Seems like a judgement-heavy process to me.

Market forces won't apply to American models either if the American government bans Chinese-created models due to "national security".

> I remember reading that Boeing's commercial division

This sentence appears to be unfinished.

https://ai-2027.com does a solid job of demonstrating the existential risk of the singularity. If it is actually approaching, we need leaders who will give potential black swan events the severe caution they are due.

I sure hope the theoretical timeline is compressed because the singularity under Donald Trump likely means that we're all dead due to misalignment.

Time to ship, change failure, rework rates, mean time to resolve, code complexity, code churn, average age of dependencies - there's a ton of reliable metrics for technical debt, but they have to actually be looked at to do any good.

The problem is that technical debt is a more complex concept & thus requires more metrics to properly measure than a simple concept like velocity.

Something is missing in the common test suite if this can occur, right?

The term you're looking for is "homesteader"

> If Average Joe were to delegate most of their life decisions to the chatbot, it'd probably turn out better, or in the worst case, more informed.

Even if true, no one is ever going to do that because of Dunning Kruger, so it's still not magically solving problems.

Everything returns to dust eventually.

Your contributions are part of what helped humanity to get to where it is now.

I wrote a blog post of my experience playing double agent: https://judahmeek.com/p/my-first-day-as-a-technical-intervie...

I'd like to learn more about your current contracting process.

It sounds like you could use an apprentice to help handle things as a backup plan.

I think there will also be a lot of work in how to modularize month long projects into plugin sized pieces.

Pypy is looking for contributors. There was a recent HN post about it.