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I'm very skeptical of that graph. What does it mean for code to be AI-generated vs human-generated?

If I merge a PR that was opened by Claude do all the changes in it automatically count as AI-generated? How about the individual commits? If I'm reviewing locally and make manual changes but then have Claude create the commit it appears to be AI-generated but might not have been.

The point is that these metrics are easy to game and I've definitely wasted time and tokens refining code with Claude that would have been easier to just edit by hand. It can be kind of fun and when the goal is just "use AI" I don't find it surprising that graphs showing 100% switch to AI-generated code could be defensibly generated without really saying anything about how much manual intervention is happening or how efficient the process is.

The crazy thing is how cheap it is to spin up a cloud server, but how little actual processing power you're getting for your money. Even if the business manages to keep their cloud spend in check it's probably going to be at the expense of a terrible user experience because everything in the web app will feel slow and all that matters is individual P95 request latency is within some arbitrary number of seconds.

Isn't it also true that the deeper and thicker the quagmire, the more tokens one will have to use to wade through it?

This seems like a path to eventual LLM lock-in once the codebase gets messy enough. These things could end up being like 0% interest credit cards for technical debt. I guess it all depends on how the token usage scales over time. My guess is it will be steeper than linear.

I don't think there are good analogies to physical tools. It would be something like a nondeterministic version of a replicator from Star Trek which to me would feel much closer to a slot machine than a CNC mill.

Lots of hair splitting in the comments. The service is so unreliable at this point that I don’t trust them to not train on private repos even accidentally. You’re one vibe-coded PR away from having all your data scooped up regardless of any policy or intention.

I can't even imagine what these exams would look like. The entire profession seems to boil down to making the appropriate tradeoffs for your specific application in your specific domain using your specific tech stack. There's almost nothing that you always should or shouldn't do.

Results over time are important. Or at least they should be.

Great read: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...

Interested to see how this plays out. ESPN is the only reason I subscribe to YouTubeTV.

Exactly! All LLMs do is “hallucinate”. Sometimes the output happens to be right, same as a broken clock.

I blame the experts. It's their responsibility to explain things to the public and engage in forums that the public is paying attention to (e.g. podcasts). They don't have to bloviate about everything under the sub, but they do have to be able to break down and communicate their ideas to the non-expert public. Failure to do so creates a vacuum that is filled by the Marc Andreesens and Peter Thiels of the world.

Yeah I definitely struggle with this. You need downtime to relax but it's easy to "over relax" just like it's easy to oversleep or overeat or overdo any other number of things that are healthy and necessary but only at the right amplitude and frequency. I think that's why it can feel so good to be in a rhythm. You get a nice oscillation going that rides the wave of momentum instead of some monotonic rise or fall that is going to lead to burnout or stagnation.

This is the first time I've heard anyone argue that a food product must be good for you because Americans are consuming a large amount of it. How on earth could you come to that conclusion given how unhealthy our population is?

Have you ever tried the LeetCode live competitions? I found those to be really fun with a great community. Just grinding problems in isolation can definitely be depressing.

I agree generally, but I feel like we're slowly coming to realize that maximal leisure and safety might not necessarily be the recipe for a happy and fulfilling life.

No dark mode? Seriously?

That's exactly what we do now.

Did the site owner remove the malicious ads since this was posted? I wanted my report to count so I didn't use the link in the blog post and instead googled for "notepad++ download" and clicked on the offending website which was ranked third for me. I didn't see any ads on any pages. I don't doubt the complaint but some screenshots and timestamps would be helpful since it's so easy for the site owner to cover their tracks.

Yup, I remember when I got a loaner car that had those new momentary switches and I couldn't believe how terrible they were. What made it all the more baffling/disappointing was that earlier BMWs had some of the nicest turn signal switches available that were so satisfying to use.

Well that's unfortunate and exactly what Apple was trying to protect their users from.

For me at least it's about the ergonomics of the microphone form factor. I'm not comfortable with a standalone mic in front of my face. I don't like having to remember to keep the proper distance.

I got a nice high quality broadcast headset that sounded amazing but then I couldn't get the monitoring levels to work well with any combination of audio interfaces. On any given call I might have to boost my headphone volume considerably depending on the other person's audio quality but that would invariably throw off my own monitoring levels.

In the end I got a high quality gaming headset that doesn't require monitoring due to the open-back design. The microphone sounds fine but not nearly as good as the other options unfortunately.

All that to say I spent a few thousand dollars over a few months trying to solve this problem and couldn't find a great solution!

There's some good advice here but I take issue with this statement:

> I used to ask ‘tell me one of the SOLID principle you strongly agree or disagree with’ but I had to stop because it ended up with the interviewee listing/describing the SOLID principles rather than critiquing them.

How many people have internalized every part of SOLID such that they can immediately start critiquing one of the items?

I learned about SOLID in some book 10+ years ago and I'm going to need a minute to remind myself what the acronym stands for. It's a sign that I'm taking your question seriously rather than just giving pros and cons of the first random thing that pops into my head.

I think this is just a bad question and that it reflects poorly on the author that they automatically assumed the fault lies with the majority of interviewees.

Thank you for sharing this and for providing explicit instructions during your interviews.

It's confusing and awkward when the interviewers set it up as a casual conversation. There are no natural conversational cues when you're talking to muted participants who are looking down writing notes and continue to do so for a few seconds even after you stop talking. It feels rude and uncomfortable to just deliver a short statement and stop but I suppose that's probably always going to be the best strategy. I'm new to interviewing and suspect I just failed a final round due to word vomit. I would have much preferred to be working through a coding problem instead of having a "conversation".

The pictures are strange but the OP neglected to notice the captions which make the intent much more clear: https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ap1345/...

Hypermedia?

Define "rich." Have you been working in a coal mine since you emerged from the womb or did you maybe have a few things provided for you at some point in your life?

The secret to Jack Welch's success was squeezing the sweetest juice from his employees' mind grapes.

Is this an argument for or against meetups?

I had assumed it was satire so you’re absolutely right if it was not!

Same, personally. But I also did on-site tech support in the same era and would always give customers the option if they had a drive I couldn't recover. Honestly seems negligent to me not to. On several occasions they opted to spend the ~$1,000 to recover their family photos, business documents, or other important files and were always extremely happy when it worked. These were not exceptionally wealthy people either.