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I've done something similar for a refactor.

It simply forgets code exists during a port. It will port part of a function and ignore the rest, it will scan a whole file into context and then forget that a different codepath exists.

I would never rely on it for a 1:1 mapping of large features/code transformations. Small stuff sure, but beyond say a few large files it will miss things and you will be scratching your head for why it's not working.

I do know that AGI has a different meaning internally to what we think it means:

https://www.fanaticalfuturist.com/2025/01/microsoft-and-open...

Massive grain of salt though.

And yet altman talks about AGI being imminent, but his company has only ever produced LLMs.

The joke's tired now bro. It hasn't been true for a good 5-7 years now.

The article refers to the banality of evil in realation to Eichmann. There's actually been quite a bit of historical push back on this assertion, which in some ways has been used to rehabilitate Eichmann's image as a bureaucrat. Eichmann while not the chief architect, was definitely partly responsible for the Holocaust's "success" and actively climbed the nazi hierarchy by finding a niche to fill - exterminating jewish people.

It's both Claude 4 Opus and the secret sauce that Claude Code has for UX (as well as Claude.md files for project/system rules and context) that is the killer I think. The describe, build, test cycle is very tight and produces consistently high quality results.

Aider feels a little clunky in comparison, which is understandable for a free product.

I recall watching a video on YouTube from the creator Paolo in Tokyo, and he mentioned that bread is now more popular than rice as a breakfast staple in Japan. Not sure how true it is though.

Storygraph is brilliant, but it really needs some UX love for things like viewing your book piles (read, to-read, dnf) etc.

It's also quite slow, but I suspect that's just part of it being a smaller site.

I have never once trusted xcode to get provisioning profiles and certificates right.

It's always manual for me, at least that way xcode won't suddenly tell my app is not registered to a team and refuse to build.

I know it's not relevant to the discussion, but I want to voice publicly how much I loathe the build error system in XCode. How can they possibly think anyone will find their obtuse and downright impossible log system is helpful.

Kebabs in Australia are basically a different food to the one you get in continental Europe.

Good, but different.

I had no idea that was a thing!

Thanks for teaching me something today.

I use underscore to prevent shadowing of variables names. Not sure where I picked up that habit though.

Please take the scrum masters first.

>why would I even want to become a frontend lead and sacrifice the part of development, that is much saner

That's your choice, but myself personally, I like the deep focus on one thing along with guiding my team. I think we perform at a pretty high level and we are a happy productive team by all reports.

Our frontend is sane and that was because I was given the scope to make it sane. Others will have different experiences, and I agree that full-stack would have less sane by default, due to the lack of time or care for it.

I agree, getting all the pieces together and having it be maintainable and enjoyable to work on is part of the craft.

I enjoy the challenge, and have found a great niche for myself doing exactly that.

You don't have to follow hype when doing frontend, you can pick whichever technologies you want and stick with them for years.

Part of being a good frontend lead is personally is not falling for the hype, and only adding packages I know will a. be supported for the foreseeable future, b. have an exit plan if those technologies aren't supported, and c. keep an eye on my juniors/seniors to make sure they're writing sensible long-term code.

The gnashing of teeth over the "upgrade cycle" I think speaks to poor team planning/leadership than it does for the actual tech now.

These days web/mobile is implied by frontend. I'd say a very large proportion now work on these two compared to desktop.

Reminds me of TechLead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbUU-D2Hil0

I like the hardware aspect, it feels very intentional and deliberate for context switching.

> In any case having a well funded startup is a far better safety net than a forced insurance.

Not for the average person

>It's because we don't have literate programmers. They don't know how to speak CLEARLY.

Mate, I think this is a bit of a reach.

It had quite a bit of dead space in the video, especially at the start. Recall the first switch trailer which was completely different stylistically.

Entirely subjective and I would disagree with dart. JSX is one of the most important things react ever popularised in the frontend space.

I don't recall violent video games and rap music influencing elections.

Same here, i've always wondered what other people see. An optometrist once said that I see everything as if viewing a tv screen through my eyes, but having no point of reference it looks normal to me. I am pretty bad at parallel parking though, perhaps that's my lack of 'native' depth perception.

You say mainland Europe, were you on a smaller island somewhere?

Australia is a good counter example.

We use preferential voting and haven't had a minority government, that is a government formed by coalition as the result of an election since 2010. We still typically have 2 major parties and 3-4 minor parties that can (but by no means always) hold the balance of power, particularly in the senate. It means that the govt has to compromise more often to get bills passed, but the minority parties rarely hold legislation hostage (barring things like the Housing Future Fund, which was a dog's breakfast).

Isn't that like saying that a "competent" woodworker has to know how to use handtools first before trying to build anything with power tools?

What's the problem with starting from an elevated starting point?

I've deeply internalised that with flexbox, when using rows or columns that I need to visualise a row that holds multiple columns. And for a column, it's got multiple rows inside it. I literally have to visualise this in my head to remember the correct property.

Never heard of tuna fish as a phrase, do you say salmon fish and anchovy fish? Genuine question.