steviee

This goes both ways, of course. I'm from Germany and I consider myself a "western" person, but why would anyone call the process of making the weights neutral anything like "westernize"??

FWIW I'd think the westernized version would then "retaliate" and favor western over "eastern" users.

That's NOT really creating trust...

You need to get on top of that code. Read it, understand it and rebuild the parts you don't understand.

That's essential as you should really "own" the solution you sell and take money for, as you're responsible for what it does on your customers' hardware.

I can see both:

- more bugs becoming visible that were hidden within the software we use daily

- more bugs (in absolute terms) as more people create more software in a very short amount of time (regardless of their professional training)

- less bugs in existing software as the developers and dev orgs of existing projects is capable of automating bug hunting, test case creation, ... in essence: They get a multiplying effect out of AI regarding their capabilities.

In short: Actual developers with actual experience (the more, the merrier) can do better work while the barrier to enter "the market" for untrained individuals is a lot lower resulting in a huge amount of new software whose "success" is to be determined.

> Software teams are capturing a lot of the speedup in the form of more leisure or quasi-leisure time. (To greatly simplify: software teams are offering 2x speedups to their companies. They're then using tools that allow them to work 10x as efficiently, and taking nice long coffee breaks.)

Writing code is not the bottleneck anymore, making decisions is. Making the right decisions needs context and thinking. A coffee break might actually help productivity. Driving a Ferrari full speed in a crowded city - only because you can - doesn't make the outcome better.

Is this satire?

Hey Mert, welcome! It really was a cool time at the company at the time. And the L‘Osteria across always was a nice retreat! Hope you’re doing well!

Big facepalm... EU had really only one job with the EU wallet... And missed the point completely. GrapheneOS is probably closer to EU data security and privacy standards than Android or iOS.

So, either don’t use Github web ui or don’t use Chrome. However it‘s probably pretty safe to say all browsers behave equally power-hungry.

We need to learn to be more conscious about the impact our way of doing things has.

Elon having Cursor in his claws now doesn’t exactly instill a sense of security in me to actually store IP on their servers. Forgejo works nicely enough my homelab. Thank you!

That's not entirely true, and skews the actual facts, that while Microsoft Bing Ads network is used to generate revenue for Qwant it does NOT provide BING with the full user details of their users, but only with limited anonymous (pseudonymous) data.

Suffice to say they need to get their own search index fully filled and stop using Bing (or whatever US-based) data. It's a process...

This might actually be cool hardware! I'm just wondering why anyone would waste all the overhead for the Windows OS. There's probably only 48 Gigs of unified memory left when your log-on completes...

This is genuinely cool! I have it bookmarked now and will definitely get back to it after my todo list lost its fight against me. ;)

Kudos! The site rocks as well! I also have an api-first SaaS (see https://thelawin.dev), but it unfortunately needs a bit more explanation.

Best, Steviee

Actually yes and no. The current implementation is more like a monitor of things going on. I used it to visualize the current state of a project that I let AI agents work on. So the board is read-only, and I think that's mostly fine for now. Porting this read-only view to HTML and put a little http/websocket service in there would be easy on the one hand, but break the TUI setting somewhat. Feel free to create an issue for it, though.

Hey, good question. The cli tool itself is more or less just modifying files within the repo so you should be good to go with Mercurial or any other vcs. To smooth things out for AI agents the skill files and descriptions would need to be migrated for the respective vcs of course.

This makes total sense to me. Everything that makes up the state of your project should either be part of the versioned repo (git) or not be part of the project.

I created a little Github Issues replacement for myself that puts the issues within the repo so that the work and the todos stay in sync. https://github.com/steviee/git-issues

And I bet there's numerous other projects like that.

Hope you get your submarine, man! ;)

> It would be great to see a politician as angry about lobbying as Merz is about work-life balance.

Love it! Merz (and our minister of commerce Reiche) is a desaster for Germany and all of Europe. Tump attacks Iran and Gas prices hit 2,12€ (and even more) per liter and still they think betting on fossil fuels from their dictatorship-friends is a good thing.

Saving Earth is just not cost-effective (at least not for the "right" people).

Wearing my Ruby T-Shirt (ok, Rubyconf.TH, but you get the gist) while reading this makes me fully approving and appreciating your post! It totally resonates with my current project setups and my trying to get them as simple as possible.

Especially when building new and unproven applications I'm always looking for things that trade the time I need to set tings up properly with he time I need to BUILD THE ACTUAL PRODUCT. Therefore I really like the recent changes to the Ruby on Rails ecosystem very much.

What we need is a larger user base setting everything up and discovering edge-cases and (!) writing about it (AND notifying the people around Rails). The more experience and knowledge there is, the better the tooling becomes. The happy path needs to become as broad as a road!

Like Kamal, at first only used by 36signals and now used by them and me. :D At least, of course.

Kudos!

Best, Steviee

Marketing is wrong, selling LLMs as AI is like someone giving you a clutch and telling you "now go drive somewhere in your new car!".

I'm quite out of illusions here. Small startups I'd also help (consulting-wise) for free. Bigger companies however already did so much harm to their employees with how they manage change (hint: they don't) that there's a fee attached...

Very cool. I even noticed this disconnect with bigger and big companies a lot. And also would offer help, however not for free. I do software for 40+ years and I've seen things go well and go south... Worked in a company with 4 customers and in a company with 25M customers and lots with numbers inbetween...

This title is so wild when you read it without the context of software development...

So, upon loading the page I get two Google Chrome ads displayed. It's not exactly reinforcing my feeling of anonymity, tbh...

Hack your calendar and be there for him! All the best!

I had the honor to meet him in Bangkok for Rubyconf TH in 2022. What an exceptionally bright mind! So very approach able and fun to talk to... So many words! Rest in peace, Noah!

Awesome! Will definitely give it a try!

Ruby is a fantastic language and Rails gives lots of opportunities to go fast when adding new functionality to your product. The community is great and while there are different opinions about how to evolve Rails there is other frameworks like Hanami and libraries that don't need Rails.

In the end what matters is that you can produce the functions that make your product valuable to your customers. You need to Do it on a daily basis and always on time. Ruby on Rails helps you with that.

General advice: Do not choose the tech stack for generating your income by following fashion. It is a marathon and not a sprint after all.

I'm currently working in a Typescript environment that somebody choose for "reasons" (types, hiring,...) and I regret it every day. I'd go with Rails anytime.

Ruby (on Rails) or Go.

Hi,

congratulations to you and your team! One thing a developer becoming a teamlead needs to learn is letting go.

Changeing the mindest from a maker to a mentor.

Hope it helps!

Kind regards, Steviee

Culture only happens at the office, then?

We have a rule for attending meetings: If the meeting is useless, you can leave (after telling so).

Slack time usually is spent chatting, working on other stuff, getting coffee, browsing the internet/reading. Most of the time it's work related so it's also useful in the end.