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flankstaek··on Why craft-lovers are losing their craft
I think this article misses a potential connection in the capitalist critique of LLMs to correlate this to the equivalent "industrialization" of coding. When a craft becomes industrialized, as is talked about here, you see the divergence in hobbyists and mass production.

I think because of the uniqueness or newness of the craft of programming - this shift hadn't actually occurred and you were seeing hobbyist programmers landing jobs and being able to output professional code by crafting it thoughtfully as there wasn't a major output difference previously. Now we are seeing that difference.

Food for thought, interesting article!

flankstaek··on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
Maybe I'm "vibecoding" wrong but to me at least this misses a clear step which is reviewing the code.

I think coding with an AI changes our role from code writer to code reviewer, and you have to treat it as a comprehensive review where you comment not just on code "correctness" but these other aspects the author mentions, how functions fits together, codebase patterns, architectural implications. While I feel like using AI might have made me a lazier coder, it's made me a me a significantly more active reviewer which I think at least helps to bridge the gap the author is referencing.

flankstaek··on Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit
Better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all. Why not buy the Framework, support the business, and have a laptop that's making you happy while it's around?

There's no guarantee any company lasts forever. What's the point in not using something now because it might be gone in the future?

flankstaek··on Telo MT1
>EVs SUCK as trucks.

What makes you say that?

flankstaek··on Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout tracker
Usually the L stands for Libre indicating full freedom of usage of the software and that is not just "free" as a price tag.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html

flankstaek··on 10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends
It's interesting what the "Decreasing Technologies" graph implies by omission. Assuming this means that technologies not included in that graph have been consistent through the same time period. Without a corresponding data view for "Increasing Technologies" there's not really any data on current trends.
flankstaek··on Heat pump disappointment for climate-minded Massachusetts state senator
Why do you think the manufacturers mislabeled efficiency has any relevance to how the installation team performed?
flankstaek··on Note Taking in 2021
Would you mind explaining what Mdbook does in this context?

It seems like it fulfills a completely different purpose than what's being talked about here.

flankstaek··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2020)
Location: Richmond, VA (USA)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not likely

Technologies: ReactJS, Python, React Native, MySQL, C#

Résumé/CV: https://www.flankstaek.me/resume.pdf

email: ian@flankstaek.me

flankstaek··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2020)
Location: Richmond, VA (USA)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Unlikely but possible

Technologies: ReactJS, Python, React Native, Unity

Résumé/CV: https://www.flankstaek.me/resume.pdf

email: ian@flankstaek.me

flankstaek··on To software engineers criticizing Neil Ferguson’s epidemics simulation code
This letter feels as though it is overlooking a large point of contention.

>The scientists who wrote this horrible code most probably had no training in software engineering, and no funding to hire software engineers

Shouldn't the argument be, that for research that is reliant on coding models, funding be allocated to experts that can assist in creating said models (software engineers)?

flankstaek··on CalVer: Calendar Versioning
Interesting to see that so many of the exemplary projects are python based. I wonder if there's any correlation there.
flankstaek··on Zwitterion: a web dev server that lets you import anything
Cool project.

  "Also...Zwitterion is NOT a bundler. It eschews bundling for a simpler experience."
I get that, run locally, it's not bundling, but how is it not a bundler when running static builds for production?
flankstaek··on Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales
What confuses me is their reluctance to attempt to use other third party distributors (itch.io, GOG, etc.) when Steam clearly isn't working in their favor.
flankstaek··on The End of Employees
http://archive.today/XirsP - Link for those who don't pay for WSJ.
flankstaek··on The Twilio API for WhatsApp
[Removed]
flankstaek··on Swift has a special category of “starter bugs” for newcomers
Should get added to http://up-for-grabs.net/
flankstaek··on Iπstant – Realtime Tweet Notifications
I'm pretty sure the default Twitter app supports notifications on users tweets.