Well, that’s fair. I haven’t seen analysis on that score.

I have one that I’m enjoying, but we are going back to 4 days in the office and it’s 1.5 hours away without traffic and I only agreed to 1 day when I took the job. I just had a recruiter hit me up for a team lead position that I had to interview for at least, so for the right opportunity I’m looking. Ideally something permanent. Feel free to DM me if you’re serious.

Sure, but they didn’t do it alone. If every last one of them voted for Kamala she’d still have lost. His popular vote would’ve been even worse but the electoral votes still wouldn’t have been close.

I wouldn’t know. I haven’t been back since and I couldn’t care less.

I have a real passion for software development. There are raw skills like algorithms that lots of other people are better at, but when it comes to API design, clean code, enacting principles of good architecture and UX, I think I am uncommonly good. Most of the people I work with don’t care and frankly I think caring and practice is all it takes but somehow that’s not something most people in the industry are capable of.

But I love making software that people like or at least hate less than what they had before.

Logically, you would be right. My practical experience is I waste a lot less time trying to google multiple explanations something because one by itself isn’t helping me figure it out, writing bugged PoC test code and thinking something is broken, sorting through a bunch of things that haven’t been relevant for 3 versions, etc.

Of course the AI is trained on the same material we can an all find and read, but it does it orders of magnitude more quickly. The trade off is that it’s not always right, but neither am I and neither are most sources on the internet right in all circumstances. But it’s so fast and easy that I can iterate and evolve designs and understanding much more quickly than I could on my own.

It sounds like you are a much better developer than me, but to be fair I’ve had to teach myself everything using nothing but books and Google for thirty years. I’ve rarely had the luxury of working with someone who had the knowledge to mentor me, and never got a degree outside an AAS in electronics, so I’ve probably missed some critical skills along the way.

In a lot of ways, the AI fills that role because it’s better at answering questions than it is writing code. Earlier today it was explaining to me how a DOM selector could return a stale element in some cases in a failing end to end test. It took a few back and forths with some code examples before I really understood why the selectors might not be working.

It also suggested some code changes that I had to push back on because, even though the code had errors, the errors weren’t causing the problem. While building an array of validators I had awaited them, causing them to run serially instead of in parallel during Promise.all(). So you definitely have to know what you’re doing to avoid having the AI waste your time (or at least more time than it takes to push back).

I’m still trying to debug it, but without the AI, I’d be googling the fuck out of typescript syntax, JavaScript idiosyncrasies, and a whole testing framework I’ve never seen before.

So…

if the only real value that AI provides is “you don’t need to know the libraries you’re using”

…returns false.

He’s 100% right and was only a little less professional than I think was deserved. A little too focused on the personal rather than the commit and wrongheadedness of the email itself. Anyone could submit a bad patch.

Was there a similarly harsh invective sent to whomever approved the PR in the first place? I’d bet so.

Many sites will just geo-block the UK. I think my Lemmy instance has, just like PornHub has blocked US states that have passed similar laws.

Within banking apps it has become the norm

“The fucking fuck?” — America

The guideline that I follow is that if a tool doesn’t enforce a rule before the code can be merged, then it’s not a rule.

Good guideline. One of the first things I did when starting a side project with a friend was to figure out how to run a code formatter triggered by git (I think?) that reformats code into a common style. If we didn’t like it we could apply our own styling when we pulled.

I don’t always love every line of automatic styling even if I have free reign over the rules, but it saved so much time and effort in code reviews.

If that was a 10% boost for you and you could’ve done it in 33 minutes without AI or experience, then my imposter syndrome has been right all along!

I’d bet that would’ve taken me a few days and maybe buying a reference book and starting with hello world.

It won’t do that well. What you have to do is ask it to help you leverage your existing development skills in an unfamiliar domain. I used it to help me write a python program to authenticate, pull and filter data from a GCP firestore database and create an XLSX with summary and detail sheets.

I’ve never used Python before in my life. It took me about 4 hours. Of course I’ve been doing that sort of thing in Java for many years. Turned out I wrote that faster in Python than I could in Java. Configuring the connection to that database in Python was so simple compared to Java.

The stuff it wrote was sometimes incomplete or wrong in subtle ways, but I could see the bits that didn’t make sense which helped me focus on those things and ask better questions to help me figure it out. I think the last hour was just me tweaking stuff by myself because I didn’t need help with it by that point.

“This is so ignorant replying would be a waste of time.”

Looks like 1126 miles. I had to guess the hospital, though. It was never home. Probably left within days never to return.

Other than that, lived my whole life within a 12 mile diameter except when I was in the Army and a 5 year stint in DC.

“Feds say…”

I don’t believe a fucking word.

Feel free to stay on Windows or MacOS or whatever floats your boat. Won’t bother anyone.

I would not switch to a chromium-based browser at all. For lots of reasons, but if I had to pick one it would be to avoid creating a dominant browser and ceding control over web standards to a single entity the way MS used IE to do what they wanted and force everyone else to comply.

Those were dark times. I was still being forced to make sites IE5 compatible in 2015 — official support ended in 2005.

Yeah. I’m with you there. We don’t display the proper amount of anxiety, either being too detached or overdramatic, and suddenly they are laser focused on us.

“Why did you google how long it takes a person to asphyxiate?”

“I watched a movie where a guy holds his breath and got curious as to whether it was bullshit or not.”

“Why is there a sword in your online cart?”

“It was aspirational. Swords are expensive and I don’t know if I’ll get enjoyment commensurate to the cost.”

“You like big words don’t you. You think you’re pretty smart, eh? You think you’re smarter than me?”

“W—well… I mean… I don’t have enough evid—”

Nightstick to the face. “Stop resisting arrest!”

My point was more about unreliable narration than the interaction between gut reactions and neurodivergence. That’s a legitimate concern. One hopes that the non-gut-reaction part of the process vindicates us.

Intuition matters — it’s part of how people make sense of things, and I’d expect investigators to use it to focus their attention. But when cops talk about ‘just knowing’ someone was guilty, that’s not a reliable narrative of how the case actually unfolded. It’s more about self-mythologizing — building a story where they zeroed in on the suspect through instinct alone. That kind of framing works well in interviews and promotion boards, but it (ideally) oversimplifies what real investigation looks like.

There are, of course, counter-examples. But those are usually more the subject of documentaries about injustice in the justice system.