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Unfortunately the appeal for these glasses has dropped once someone dubbed them, "pervert glasses" and it stuck around.

I've been donating $5 to them monthly for I don't know how long. I've only recently bumped it up to $25. They're the heroes of the internet age

I'd been donating $5 for a long time and I just bumped it to $25. These posts are great reminders for passive donators like myself.

A very prolific coworker who fully embraced claude has inflicted the team with a flood of AI-generated PRs. About six months later, it is his frequent bemoaning at the standup that their PR don't get reviewed, languishing in inattention. I don't think anyone - including myself - _intentionally_ avoid his PRs. It's just that he doesn't make it easy for the team to look at.

This single headline perfectly captures what I have been thinking. It's not that I reject AI content, but it takes _effort_ to review and weed out any mistakes. When your thoughtful reviews that take an hour(because the PR is typically large, and you want to be _right_ when you're pointing out a hallucination) gets an AI-generated response with AI-generated amendments, It doesn't feel _nice_. I feel dismissed and it has continuously trained me to subconsciously avoid his PRs. After all, the team is fully onboarded with AI, so it's not like there is a lack of PRs to review.

It looks like the sentiment isn't just isolated for me.

I can only speak for myself here.

In the end it's an emotional response. I am "anti-AI" because it has caused a net negative experience for me, so I feel bad towards it. Confirmation bias makes it easier for me up-vote or voice concerns for "anti-AI" posts and stay silent for "pro-AI" posts.

When I first started working with claude at work, I had a mixed bag of emotions. On one hand, it was awesome, surreal experience that lets me go 10x overnight. Then the negative experiences started hitting me.

My team who has fully embraced AI now generate slop. They're 2-5x more "productive" and churn out code for me to "review". I point out things that don't make any sense, and their AI agent enthusiastically agrees with me, "You're right to push back, great suggestion! You're right that this didn't make any sense". I feel dismissed and it has contributed to my dissatisfaction at work significantly.

A lot of my work is seeping through the AI slob because I can't get away from it. AI PR descriptions like a novel and it's so _verbose_. It's tiring. It allows juniors who are being so extra with the new tool and give bad ideas with bad implementation. Shooting that down nicely doesn't work and because other people in the team who have embraced AI accepts it.

I enjoyed writing code and reading code. I used to take pride in writing a clean, maintainable code and writing a good documentation. AI has made bad developers think they're right, and very confident. It's tiring to talk to. So I don't like AI, because that's the source of all this frustration.

Yes, I am definitely more productive with AI. But the net result for me is decidedly negative.

I'm being completely honest about it. Hopefully this helps someone understand why some engineers dislike AI.

Just read through the readme and I was fairly sure this was a well-written satire through "Smart Frames".

Honestly part of me still thinks this is a satire project but who knows.

> I always try to say to the person helping me "I know you are not the person responsible for my issue."

This simple sentence that shows empathy to the person on the other side of the line is so profound. In a single breath you let the other person be heard, be seen, and appreciated. At the worst, it makes you stand out amongst all the abusive asshats they interact with day to day. It makes them want to help you. I've used this line every time I had to deal with a customer service agent and the voice always softened after that. A simple "thank you", or "take your time" seem to mark you as a person, rather than a case to close.

Seems like a lot of non-instantiated claims. It's easy to mark a faceless bureaucrat that we are allowed to hate and project out frustration onto it. It's a good writing trope that works, because it's so easy to relate.

The OP's point was that the "faceless" bureaucrat may be helpless and the smug emotion the original author implied may not be unfounded. I can see a valid point for both.

I got my first Bose headphone in 2008 or so. It was a treat for myself as a poor university student after a paycheque. I loved the headphone and one day it broke down after several years of heavy abuse. I called their customer service for repairs and how much it would cost. Rather than recommending me to just buy a new one, the customer support agent asked questions about the model, what the issue was, and offered a replacement.

I've loved their product and support ever since. Glad to see this happening as well. Kudos.

Made a switch to FF/Brave. I did try to embrace ads for a bit but that attempt expired within minutes.

That's also how I initially read the first sentence and I'm glad I'm not the only weirdo.

I'm going to take a walk now...

I've been struggling to explain the principle behind the "stupid questions" and your example illustrates the point perfectly. Thank you. I'll be shamelessly stealing this point from now on :)

Absolutely. As I get more and more senior, I found myself prefacing a lot of questions with "let me ask some stupid questions" to ask some broad questions or context of the meeting. It can be something seemingly obvious, what's important is it somehow breaks the barrier for others to ask questions. I used to say "I'm going to play my 'new guy' card one more time" when I'm new at a company, but this seems to work more generically, and tends to work in the team's benefit.

It's kind of boring but I'm learning k8s and argo-cd to figure out if I can do feature-branch deployment to a cluster.

like, it would be very cool to do something like have your feature branch be deployed to a separate pod in dev cluster, and have an ingress rule set up so that it points to that pod only.

So if your dev environment usually points to <some-app>.dev.example.com,

Deploy your feature branch to a dev cluster, but on a different pod. Then have it reachable to <some-app>.feature-branch-1.dev.example.com without touching main.

I think it's a neat idea and I'm sure it should be possible if I configure some istio settings.

It's all new thing and it's fun to have a direction towards learning

Just out of curiosity, what were the reactions like from what you saw? I had the opposite take from Reddit, which proved to be incorrect. So I'm just curious how you read(more correctly than me) the reactions vis-a-vis Reddit.

FRED continues to amaze me with the kind of data they have availab.e

LMN, Signal, Internet Archive, and I _think_ wikipedia.

So we didn't need a philosopher's stone, after all!

jokes aside, how wonderful that the stories we heard when we were growing up are happening(albeit not exactly as was told). Science is cool.

I did laugh, so there is that.

Absolutely love it. Thanks a lot. A fancy hit me yesterday and I've been looking through JDK's String commit history to see little tidbits that I could grab.

Shipilev's website looks like a fascinating resource. I appreciate the pointer!

I appreciate it! I will take a look this weekend,

Ah, I certainly remember these anecdotes! What other resources would you recommend(even the tidbits) could there be for more modern Java? The original article like this one should be treasured.

I love hearing more about this, especially the historical context, but don't have a good java writeups/articles on this. Would you mind sharing some suggestions/pointers? I'd very much appreciate it.

I've been using Kagi since they first appeared here on hackernews, and I cannot be more impressed with them. The value proposition is crystal clear, and I know what I am getting. I love the customability, and I like that I'm paying for _search_. I'm getting the 2005-2007 Google vibes from them.

I'm wearing my Kagi shirts to tech meetups and I do recommend it to my friends. I wish there would be a better way for me to "refer" a friend, but I like how straightforward they are.

I do recommend Kago. It's a good service and you get what you pay for.

I'm in exactly same situation myself.

I've been very happy with my Synology NAS that has served me so well, but forcing this sort of vender lock-in is simply unacceptable. I suppose this means I'll have to look for some other solution.

The problem is - I've formatted my drives with SHR(Synology Hybrid RAID - essentially another exclusive lock-in) and this would mean a rather painful transition to the new drive, since this now involves getting a whole new drives to format and move data to, rather than a simple lift-and-drop.

Ugh.

When I was posting, `document.title ` said "US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers". I didn't want to introduce my editorialization.

Semi-related, but is there any repository(ies?) that comprise of these technical white papers? I'm fascinated by these papers whenever they show up in my feed and I gorge on them, and I'd love more. I can't be the only one thinking this way.

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