Cardinal7167

Awesome, I was looking for something just like this the other day. I’ll be checking this out!

That’s fine and all and I agree about CEOs reacting and needing to be ahead of the curve but when they do fail they still get the golden parachute and I still get the “we’ll write you a good letter of recommendation”.

The most mind blowing thing to me is how it’s responsive to feedback like this. It’s like pair programming with a junior. It might be faster for me to just type it myself, but it’s doing what I tell it and filling in a fair amount of blanks itself.

This definitely feels like a response to the situation unfolding in the Philippines to me, but I am just your casual armchair political power enjoyer.

Oh my god i didn’t think I’d be taking this nostalgia pill today but I’m so glad I did. This show was absolutely foundational to my high school experience haha. StarCraft, CnC, and CS were pretty much my entire life in 2008-2010. What a blast of a time on the internet. Designing maps in StarCraft’s map editor is half the reason I even got into programming in the first place.

that’s not an AI incident because no one considers that AI.

The paper community is certainly not dead, not at my game shop. However if they’re not careful they’re going to print themselves into a corner and then they’ll be just like Yu Gi Oh.

Funny, I did almost the exact same thing for a MTG app I’ve been working on, and similarly also started messing with the idea of using the same software to soft launch my own rtcg. I would be very interested to see how you did yours.

I'm going to focus on my engineering chops, finish a couple side projects, and put as much as I can in my 401k. And hopefully get my project car running.

Consider a tool where its user performs actions with such speed and intent that they occur at a layer of thought that OP had to slow down and think about what they were actually doing to explain to an outside observer. How is that not peak intuitive design?

A sure sign of a well designed tool imo

This is a good point. Do you think it is because of how much Egyptian agriculture relied on regular flooding of the Nile to replenish the soil?

> So how do you deal with bad developers?

The same way we deal with good developers? With managers, of course. That's the whole point of their role. Every developer productivity metric I've seen speaks to some disparity between engineering and the C-suite. I don't understand where these products originate that seek to do the manager's job for them but worse. I've been in management roles before, the numbers don't and can't always tell you the full story, no matter the size of the team or the quality of the data.

As always, good people are hard to find.

That isn’t what is in contention, though. The mapping of some objective metric to that speed and productivity is what I’m arguing doesn’t make sense.

> "What should we measure to improve developer productivity?"

How about nothing? Honest question. I am sick and tired of being treated like cattle. I've never seen a single convincing argument that any metric of my outputs has mapped to some productivity metric in a meaningful way, but I have absolutely seen them weaponized against me and others to punish and fire engineers. All of these metrics have only ever boiled down to a negative reinforcement mechanism, in my experience.

For me, thinking in public is the only way to get quality critical peer feedback.

I just accepted a new job offer as a senior engineer so this year I’m working on leveling up my career and raw coding skills as well as my management and leadership skills. Remote work has been a challenge for me and so I’m trying to combat that more effectively in 2023.

No, but I work with people, who are strangely tribal at every level and company ive ever worked at

Yes. Just as important as the habit of writing Zettel notes is reviewing and condensing Zettel notes into “literature” notes. That’s the part I have to consciously focus on but I have found opening a rich text editor separate from my typical Zettel flow works better for long form literature note writing than my typical Zettel editor does.

I’ve experienced this first hand. When all your colleagues only deep work and you’re tasked with some necessary grunt work, your productivity will plummet when you’re trying to move fast.

Dang, had no idea that org-mode had that feature.

TIL! https://orgmode.org/manual/Clocking-commands.html