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I never done an iq test, but just curious, can’t one simply “rehearse/study” for such tests? I dunno, let’s say you do a few past IQ tests (with answers available), I guess one could get a higher score just by doing that

If you want the job, can’t you just lie? Or are SAT scores something that cannot be faked? I dunno, I also say I know Kotlin when I have more experience in Java (and honestly I couldn’t care less about specific tech stacks), or that I know about tcp/udp when all I have is read a couple of (good) books about it.

I don’t feel bad lying about some stupid requirement

Technically speaking, yeah, those things are cool. What’s not cool (anymore?) is that people like Zuck and other similar billionaires are behind such tech. I didn’t give a shit of the millionaires of the 80s/90s… but these billionaires of today, simply suck big time. So fuck them

They are billionaires, so it’s fine for us to make fun of them (because the joke is on us)

By that logic, same can be said about code. So, ig everyone “gets there” equally fast, then nobody has an advantage

Because there’s little good about it

Isn’t it clear that the “enemy” of 99% of the people in the world (and in HN) are the ultra rich? Therefore we shouldn’t use Claude/Gemini/OpenAI?

It’s not about stopping progress, rather stopping the ultra rich getting richer and more powerful over our lives. Whether we can use claude to automate a fucking script or service is meaningless compared to that.

The dream of elon musk et al is to keep accumulating power and have non-humans serve them. They don’t want us, and as soon as they can they will replace us. But here we are giving them more power. Ridiculous

Nah. I think you got it wrong

There are no hackers around here anymore. HN is mainly about business nowadays

> I'm getting a shit ton of work done.

It’s weird when people are proud of doing ton of work. Im the opposite, Im proud that Im doing minimal stuff without llms.

> They should also be changing jobs when the effort to reward ratio starts to become unfavorable compared to other jobs on the market.

The problem here is that all tech companies look alike. Take for example the interview process (copied by almost any company out there that thinks they are google). Another example: the under/meets/above expectations BS. And now the most recent example of “token usage as sign of productivity”.

So, it’s getting tremendously difficult to simply switch jobs that offer something different

We can also slow down (or keep old pace) and still ship quality.

A bit sick and tired of arguments like yours

Your boss cares only about the end result. Good engineers care about the process too

It used to be. Any image is allowed now.

Im running Multipass on M1 for full linux VMs. Are container machines better?

Well, I think there’s some difference between talking to a colleague and taking to your manager (or to your manager’s manager). One cannot talk shit in front of the latter (e.g., “this company sucks”) without fear of being laid off.

Agentic coding.

Nobody wants ai slop

What does verified means? Anyone can create fake linkedin profiles claiming they have worked for faang.

It doesn’t help to know that using and supporting private LLMs is only making openai/anthropic/google/etc even richer. I myself cannot justify its usage.

> You are likely to get better results if you do not use the same model for review that wrote the code

There’s no evidence of this. I guess you are anthropomorphising models (i.e., it’s good that - different human reviews your code)

But you cannot learn it “once”. You need to continuously use it (over those 30 years, for example) to be proficient at it. It’s not that you can study sql for let’s say, 30 days, and never touch/study it again.

I did “learn” sql at uni… but had to study it again at every company i worked for (different problems triggered different solutions). Im still learning it.

Not a service, but do you remember Scrum Masters? We had them as full time employees not so long ago. Pure fad.

> Evaluating whether it’s actually correct and maintainable is the hard part.

But AI can also do that. So, what’s the point? And if you think it can’t, wait one more year

Wouldn’t that devalue movies, though? For the consumer is great, but for the people in the industry… I guess it doesn’t sound that great?

It’s because people value different things. I could not care less if LLMs make me push code faster to prod. Couldn’t care less if they improve my emails grammar. Couldn’t care less if they crack one unsolved math problem.

Cut by half AI usage. Works wonders. Focus on the good stuff, ignore the rest

Most of software engineering is accidental complexity. Sharding, buffering, caching, load balancing, contention, async, functions, classes, recursion…

Big corporations behind LLMs are taking it all.

Must be horrible

Would love to see this more widespread.