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Blocking is a "no" and also a "I don't even respect you enough to deliver my answer to you or acknowledge your question". About as tactful as ghosting.

The charms of Indiana have been consistently lost on me over the years; it enhanced the article for me, and I read nearly his entire blog after his Greenland rantlet. I learned a few things.

Different strokes I suppose :)

From coveting the corner office, to coveting the corner 200x200px zoom square. What a time to be alive. :D

I job hop frequently, and have a large zeroth-order network because I did good work at each one.

When I am in a hiring role, I am not flipping through memories of good times with former coworkers that I had deep and meaningful time with -- I'm thinking back to who was the verb who got ish done and will make my project a success.

I have a dryer outlet that caught fire charging our little i3. I'm not sure why GP said "some countries" -- I'm in the US. The heat warped the plastic just enough to bridge one leg of the power socket to ground. It got pretty melty before the house breaker stopped things.

The torched outlet was installed specifically to charge prior homeowner's EV and was only 3 years old.

I moved to an EV-rated 50A outlet which can handle the duty cycle. We have charged two EVs off of it and so far so good. It has a cute little green logo on it and costs 5x as much as a typical NEMA plug. :) Weighs about 5x as much too and grips the grizzl-e plug very tightly and with much larger contact areas.

I'm a believer.

Very excited for my impending choice between a 30-day extension to my Prime membership or a $5 off of $50 coupon for anything in the Prime Fresh store.

...after 5 years of lawfare and gozillions spent, of course. :/

FTR I had no problems reading this. I think the writing style conveyed a gritted-teeth tension and added to the seriousness of the subject for me.

Yeah, after I posted (and disappointed a few people apparently) I was thinking about just how sticky this stuff really is, and how our political system is a "broad brush" system. It seems to muddle a lot of the smaller sensible details.

Thought-provoking for sure. I'm glad I ride in a filtering-legal state :)

Ignoring the massive political elephant that exists in all of this stuff -- isn't this a good trigger, as demand for the "updated standards" products will force these companies (or resellers of these products) to either validate their products for sale in the US or force the US to recognize these EU standards?

I suppose an immediate counterpoint is that the US Consumer seems unwilling to clamor for high-quality products. :/

Claude and some of the edgier parts of localstack are not friends either. It's pretty okay at rust which surprised me.

It makes me think that the language/platform/architecture that is "most known" by LLMs will soon be the preferred -- sort of a homogenization of technologies by LLM usage. Because if you can be 10x as successfully vibey in, say, nodejs versus elixir or go -- well, why would you opt for those in a greenfield project at all? Particularly if you aren't a tech shop and that choice allows you to use junior coders as if they were midlevel or senior.

(somewhere far away, the sound of beers being held)

Thank you for expounding, but man, I have so many "wait, what? who?" reactions to that narrative.

I'm addicted to coding, not work. I know this because I've tried other jobs, even in late career, and they sucked in comparison and brought me no joy.

"The company" is mine, so yeah, probably it doesn't care about me, but it's definitely not dropping me without consent. :)

48, soon 49, heart still going. Not even sure what that's referring to. I don't feel stressed in these crunches, I feel excited! I build cool shit! They pay me to build cool shit! They pay me way too much to build cool shit!

I guess I don't know what I would balance that excitement with. I have cool hobbies too, and those have their place, but... I just don't resonate with your take and view on the industry.

IF someone hated coding, creating, or the tech industry itself -- then I could squint and get behind your balance suggestions. For them. :)

Thanks for sharing the perspective though. If nothing else, you're fanning my gratitude flame.

> you have the problem that you are never able to do coder.Health++ for bank.Money-- afterwards.

Can you expound on this for me? This rule is not at all obvious to me. I'm curious what perspective this hails from :)

For example, most of my career, I will take 6+ months off between particularly intense work crunches for contracts/startups/jobs. I find the time off restorative to the point where I get restless for the next crunch.

I am thinking of that quotation that said [paraphrasing] "90% of my skills went to $0, but the other 10% are now worth 1000x"

This LLM-fuelled rant/departure is a thought-provoking expression of frustration from someone who focused on the 90%, not the 10% -- namely someone willing to handcraft software like an artisan.

I think we're in the mass-production era for code and nobody wants a hand-crafted anything anymore. Automated and mass-produced please. "Quantity has a quality all its own"

We have owned 4 EVs and each allow you to configure the regen braking strength. You'll need another reason to not buy one.

AI solving the too-much-AI complaint is heart-warming. We're at the point where we will start demanding organic and free-range software, not this sweatshop LLM one-shot vibery.

Love it. :D

I would enjoy an LLM that had to suffer and mope over its prior poor choices. Particularly if these life lessons got baked into context somehow. Particularly Claude on one specific project where I've dubbed him Clod due to some breathtaking over-engineering that I am undoing today.

If your comment was autobiographical, though, uh... some soul-searching might be in order :/

...until it's time to fight over the same scarce holiday gift item that your bucketeers all crave also? :D

Bold strategy given how most vesting cliffs work. He was betting on not being caught for a year.

Yeahhhhhh I've been to enough code reviews / PR reviews to know this will result in 100 opinions about what color the drapes should be and what a catastrophe we've vibe coded for ourselves. If I shoot something to GH I'll highlight it for others, but nothing yet. I can appreciate this makes me look like I'm shilling.

It makes usable code for my projects. It often gets into the weeds and makes weird tesseracts of nonsense that I need to discover, tear down, and re-prompt it to not do that again.

It's cheap or free to try. It saves me time, particularly in languages I am not used to daily driving. Funnily enough, I get madder when I have it write ts/py/sql code since I'm most conversant in those, but for fringe stuff that I find tedious like AWS config and tests -- it mostly just works.

Will it rot my brain? Maybe? If this thing turns me from an engineer to a PM, well, I'll have nobody to blame but myself as I irritate other engineers and demand they fibonacci-size underdefined jira tix. :D

I think there's going to be a lot of momentum in this direction in the coming year. I'm fortunate that my clients embrace this stuff and we all look for the same hallucinations in the codebase and shut them down and laugh together, but I worry that I'm not exactly justifying my rate by being an LLM babysitter.

I use Zen MCP and OpenRouter. Every once in awhile, my instance of claude code will "phone a friend" and use Gemini for a code review. Often unprompted, sometimes me asking for "analysis" or "ultrathink" about a thorny feature when I doubt the proposed implementation will work out or cause footguns.

It's wild to see in action when it's unprompted.

For planning, I usually do a trip out to Gemini to check our work, offer ideas, research, and ratings of completeness. The iterations seem to be helpful, at least to me.

Everyone in these sorta threads asks for "proofs" and I don't really know what to offer. It's like 4 cents for a second opinion on what claude's planning has cooked up, and the detailed response has been interesting.

I loaded 10 bucks onto OpenRouter last month and I think I've pulled it down by like 50 cents. Meanwhile I'm on Claude Max @ $200/mo and GPT Plus for another $20. The OpenRouter stuff seems like less than couch change.

$0.02 :D

You have a homelab.

If this colloquialism continues bothering you, seek help. Of the psychiatric variety.

I will answer this question for only slightly less than $600/hr. :)

Kindly revert back to me if you discover the needful solution.

haha, it's getting dystopian isn't it? At some point you end up letting your guard down just to be a human again -- it's all so exhausting.

While I've been an Econ subscriber in the past when magazines were a thing, the podcast didn't con me into subscribing. _this time_ But I enjoyed their free eps all the same.

The Economist has an interesting podcast about this phenomenon called Scam Inc. You need to be a subscriber to hear more than the first few eps, but they were interesting and went into this situation in detail. Worth a listen to understand this crime and its nuance a little better.

Yeso, Exactlyo :D

I am 100% road warrior like you describe. I'll do a coast-to-coast in 29ish hours of driving.

I recently moved to an EV for my road-tripper vehicle. Yes, I need to stop and recharge every 4-5 hours for 20-40mn.

I find that I like it. A stretch, a coffee, snacks and replenishment. My favorite chargers are at a supermarket and a cafe' nearby.

I agree the pro-EV types try to whitewash this a lot, and I agree it is dishonest.

...but I find that I am okay with the cross-country EV reality anyway.

$0.02

I have trouble with a worldview that does not include "the Dakotas" in "bumfucklandia"

I'm not as allergic to AI content as some (although I'm sure I'll get there) -- but I admire this analogy to low-background steel. Brilliant.