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Usually you’d choose to port features in slices end to end so that you don’t have to pull in bugs as side effects. Strangler fig.

Obviously this fails if this is a large org with many teams and microservices, but for a leaner org this isn’t really a problem.

I realize this thread is about Cisco so my comment doesn’t apply here haha.

I'm astounded that I kinda ended up building the same agentic workflow they are talking about in this article and distributed it amongst the org (eng and product/designers).

On the other hand, I would have expected Anthropic to have a drastically more elegant SDLC.

As a personal anecdote I highly recommend not using the Copilot harness. Even with the same model I found it produced mediocre results against the first class frontier model harnesses.

The learning is at that level of abstraction, so yes taking away the abstraction prevents will stymy you.

Just like if you pressed a button to wipe out our main language stack at our job, yeah none of us would know how to do anything with assembly or machine code.

I hate marketing websites especially for developer products.

“You no longer have to florp, now you can vorp!”

Big numbers, random charts. 10x 100x 200x!

Who is this for? Just make the docs the home page.

I mean look at our response to climate change and then look at our response to COVID.

Change doesn't happen until we are at the absolute brink of IMMEDIATE catastrophe.

I find it a breath of fresh air to be able to tackle backlogged tech debt items simultaneously with business priorities in parallel and stuff like that.

That being said, I can't see this entire field existing in five years anymore. I'm hoping for at least two more years, but who knows?

This stuff is coming for all white collar, the barrier to entry is completely gone now. Maybe not the barrier to mastery (yet), but the bottom has fallen out.

> Within the next 5 years, how likely do you think it is that you will have to change careers due to reasons beyond your control?

When I filled this out myself in July, I was "somewhat unlikely"

If you ask me again now, only a few months later, I'm probably leaning towards "Somewhat likely".

Insane how fast this space is moving.

This isn't something you need an AI to do for you though...

Out of every single reason given for why the bootcamp era was justified the only one I believe is that there was so much focus on it because bigger players wanted to flood the market with cheap supply and drive salaries downward.

This is not any different with offshoring before, and AI now.

There is a human in the loop that either prompted the agent or approved the code. So it doesn't matter if the AI is accountable or not.

Author is absolutely from Microsoft

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226

https://github.com/cwebster-99

You don't want to live in a society where an increasingly large percentage of the population have nothing to lose.

Regardless of whether it benefits our industry or socioeconomic status, it'd be incredibly shortsighted to just do all of that at the expense of the lower classes.

The easy infographic generation scares me on the implications for society.

I can't describe how fast my eyes glazed over seeing all those numbers. The cow was very cute.

I can think of one valuable use-case: parsing through JSON responses for APIs with poor fields/response documentation -- especially if you have to parse through a ton of information.

Still way more readable than XML.

Seriously. Its not like alternatively I can code for 8 straight hours. I treat meetings like breaks for the most part.

This is incredibly passive aggressive lol.

I agree. Its a coin flip. We don't know what the long term effects of COVID are, we don't know what the long term effects of the vaccine are. I'd argue that we know more about what COULD happen with the vaccine long term and I'd rather place my bets on that. The alternative is hiding away for 20+ years and not getting vaccinated or contracting COVID, obviously not feasible.

What good does blame do if the only thing that can potentially change the course is public policy?

I find it a lot harder trying to convince everyone to change versus forcing everyone to change through policy and enforcement through government.

I think that's where the confusion lies. Are people suggesting someone to write their own auth from the ground up, or write auth in coordination with their stack's auth library of choice?

I'd rather the money and fines flow to the US government, not random hacker groups.

I've had my variable annual bonus converted into a permanent salary increase.

I will say I like this a lot more.

Man, people really hate Mongo.

We use it for a very specific use case and its been perfect for us when we need raw speed over everything. Data loss is tolerable.

Yeah. That sounds like work and me begging business side for better requirements.

You can use RDBMS for anything that requires complex relationships and map them to unique identifiers in the Mongo documents.

In most cases though, Mongo fits use cases, we never try to use it as a wholesale RDBMS replacement.

Its 50/50.

Either you crack it or you don't.

Now convince a place that isn't doing this to spend time and resources to put this into place.

'Ship fast and break things' is one of the best and worst cultures in the tech industry.

Being 100% sedentary + eating less calories is pretty difficult.

For some reason unbeknownst to me, exercise makes eating less a lot easier.

"I can't help but groan at some of the "obvious" health and weight loss platitudes that get smugly thrown around."

On the flip side, the people that are told this are the ones that are annoyingly attempting to maintain their bad eating habits while just adding exercise, or adding fab foods, or anything really to delude themselves into thinking they can continue to eat the same way.