patrickmay

As a (sometime) TPM, you are the kind of PM I've been looking for.

I'd bet if you read the Dragon book (yes, I'm dating myself) you'd have something working in less than three months. More importantly, you would understand every bit of it.

Congratulations on finding out that you have good taste by default.

> Sometimes we use . . . Oxford commas.

Good writers ALWAYS use the Oxford comma.

I'm sorry you're going through this and I'm impressed that you are in touch enough with your feelings to articulate it.

There's a lot of great advice in this thread. The best I have is to 1) Join a gym and go consistently. Nothing improves your mood like endorphins. Plus, at 38 you'll be amazed at what kind of shape you can get in. 2) Meditate. Learning to be present and grounded will enable you to decide who you want to be and who you want to be with. One I like is called Quantum Light Breath, particularly the version from Jeru Kabbal. It's a guided meditation so you can do it alone, although it is great in a group as well. Spoiler: It has nothing to do with quantum mechanics or the physics of light. There is a lot of breathing, though.

Good luck.

I understand and appreciate your perspective. I do, however, disagree with your priorities. I mostly read here, but when I participate I want to interact with humans, not chatbots. I would much rather read a human comment with typos and poor grammar than another piece of anodyne LLM output that shows only that the responsible party doesn't value the human interaction that I do.

You're giving me flashbacks to PGP key signing parties.

I do like your idea, though.

I use em-dashes, but I use them incorrectly, with a space before and after, because I think it looks better. I'm waiting to be flagged as an LLM.

I regret that I have but one upvote to give to this comment.

If you're selling Ape Coding merchandise, send me the link!

> Just as we don't use mainframes for computation anymore outside of niche tasks like 3D render farms.

The entire banking sector would like a word.

A good start would be requiring police officers to carry individual liability insurance so that municipalities aren't paying for these lawsuits. If someone can't get insurance, they can no longer be a cop.

I suspect you're getting downvoted because the phrasing of your question implies that you don't consider this type of surveillance to be a problem.

So we know the minotaur probably didn't speak English.

Many (most?) issues don't fit on a single dimension. Using your example, people hold positions that include "Absolutely!", "Yes, but also the rights of the mother.", "Yes, but I won't impose my beliefs on others.", "No, but I don't think people who feel otherwise should be forced to pay for abortions through taxes.", and many others.

In addition to the problem with biased questions you note, there are often built in assumptions that make yes or no responses impossible.

Technically correct is the best kind of correct.

Power will always attract the corrupt and corruptible. The problem is the power. Reducing the size and scope of the federal government and devolving power to the states, communities, and individuals is the only way to minimize the negative effects of humans with too much authority.

Is the knowledge of which finger to use protected as much as a passcode? Law enforcement might have the authority to physically hold the owner's finger to the device, but it seems that the owner has the right to refuse to disclose which finger is the right one. If law enforcement doesn't guess correctly in a few tries, the device could lock itself and require the passcode.

Another reason to use my dog's nose instead of a fingerprint.

In the case of stealing tips, that's wage theft and the New York State Department of Labor has zero sense of humor about that. They will definitely investigate all claims on that topic. It might be too little and too late for the individual affected, but the business will pay.

> Takes like this seem to just have a completely different understanding of what "software development" even means than I do, and I'm not sure how to reconcile it.

You're absolutely right about coding being less than 20% of the overall effort. In my experience, 10% is closer to the median. This will get reconciled as companies apply LLMs and track the ROI. Over a single year the argument can be made that "We're still learning how to leverage it." Over multiple years the 100x increase in productivity claims will be busted.

We're still on the upslope of Gartner's hype cycle. I'm curious to see how rapidly we descend into the Trough of Disillusionment.

Tell him you need him at the code review to explain his coding decisions.

Exactly. I once worked on a large project where the primary contractor was Accenture. They threw a party when we hit a million lines of C++. I sat in the back at a table with the other folks who knew enough to realize it should have been a wake.

Upvote for "literary street food." Thanks for that.

A great example of Hyrum's Law:

"With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody."

combined with failure to follow Postel's Law:

"Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept."

I am a native English speaker and I agree with you completely that em-dashes look better when surrounded by spaces rather than connected directly to the words.

Good luck to both of you!

I found out that the reason my Mazda CX 5 infotainment console reboots repeatedly when the temperature drops below freezing is because of a low quality SD card used by the manufacturer. I'll be replacing it this weekend.

You just confessed to having taste.

I think the lesson to take from this is "Who's miracle can I be today?"

It does directly address your claim that there do not exist "more powerful languages."