makk

I'm pretty happy with how PIPs work.

The first and last time I was put on a PIP I went into early retirement the next day. In doing so, I caught the VP Eng who did the PIP completely flat footed. It turns out they did the PIP against the advice of their boss, the CTO. Egg all over the VP's face. The VP got canned 6 months after that and had to scramble to find another job while I was at the beach.

Reminds me of expertsexchange.com before they put the hyphen in it (now experts-exchange.com)

Who is it for?

Yeah, boring old trope.

So frustrating. Keep trying! You’ll find someone who values your background.

Yep. Craftspeople take their craft seriously, sweat the details, learn the patterns, go deep.

And that’s complimentary with marketing oneself as Ruby/Rails dev or whatever else the market needs at the time.

Choose different publications.

publishing != talking

Yes, this is seriously flawed for other reasons but is the best way when you can.

Yeah. And never mind debugging that codebase. How about being on call for that codebase in production.

> Categorizing yourself exclusively as "a Ruby developer" is a career trap.

And a lucrative one at that.

What are you talking about? “The industry”? Securing the trust? ??? I’m done here.

<< And this is where it gets fun. Who is doing the regarding? MSNBC? Me? You?

Their peers.

The internet has lost its mind.

If there is an equally well regarded academic who holds that contrasting view, then yes I agree with you have that lecture otherwise there is an appearance of favoritism. But none of us should feel obliged to conjure that lecture if no such academic exists.

That is an unserious argument. Or, at least, one made in a vacuum.

When making judgements there is following the letter of the law and then there is making equitable decisions, which takes into account both the letter of law and the context in which the decision is being made.

In our current environment, where a potential incoming chief executive of the USA is, according to some military leaders who worked closely with him, a fascist, the equitable decision is to have the lecture now.

The alternative is to wait until that chief executive may be in power, at which point pressure not to have the lecture will only increase.

If the lecturer in fact violates the hatch act, that can be dealt with when it happens. Even if it is a pain in the ass. Who said this was supposed to be easy?

I’m using the private beta of Solver by Laredo labs. It’s very early. That said, having tried Cody, cursor, copy/paste chatgpt… Solver is far and away the best.

It’s a straight up pair programmer. Point it at your GitHub repository and then just converse with it. It drives, you look over its shoulder. imagine OpenAI GPT o1 that connects to your GitHub repo and produces diffs or PRs on command, and a chat gpt view with tabs for switching between the conversation and the diff.

Also, for front end, there is v0.dev — which is great for whipping stuff together.

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> I hate to say this…

Then don’t say it. Do us all a favor.

Aren’t they a reference to Heinlein? Seems “grok” is on point for what it does.

> How to polish a turd over time.

You mean iterating and pivoting.

It’s all in the names. Highest rates of other-driver deaths are caused by vehicles named “Ram” and “Gladiator”.

Not sure. Tell me about it.

> Who regulates the regulators?

The voters and their representatives, if they put their minds to it.

> Notably, less experienced developers showed higher adoption rates and greater productivity gains.

And that is why demand for senior developers is going to go through the roof. Who is going to unfuck the giant balls of mud those inexperienced devs are slinging together? Who’s going to keep the lights on?

Why not start 10?

What if the test is irrelevant to the current times?

“Those with ChatGPT solved 48 percent more of the practice problems correctly, but they ultimately scored 17 percent worse on a test of the topic that the students were learning.”

So, in the real world, where people can use chatgpt in their jobs, the kids that use it will do better than the kids who don’t.

Maybe a better test is: can you catch chatgpt when it is wrong? Not, can you answer without ChatGPT?

Agree. Unless there is a breakup clause that pays the employee (er, contractor) for severance, it puts all the risk explicitly on the employee, which is horseshit.

I’ve yet to find a way to deposit social expectations in my bank account.

> a major commercial bank I work with couldn’t improve credit risk models because critical data was stuck in PDFs and emails.

Great use case! Worked on exactly this a decade ago. It was Hard™ then. Could only make so much progress. Getting this right is a huge value unlock. Congrats!