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b) you confuse technical quality with product incentives
If you see this, company doesn’t care about product. And Google doesn’t care about quality for at least a decade now, all they care is a share price and speed of delivery.
By keeping my manager, and their manager happy.
I’m probably the best coder in my org, which doesn’t really say much, but at least allows me to judge about the room temperature. It is solved. I don’t say that’s you, but the only people who say it isn’t “that good” are the same people who used to yak shave, rename and move things 10 times until it “feels right”.
And in a 2024 Pew survey, among childless adults under 50 who considered themselves unlikely ever to have children:
Didn't want children - 57%
Couldn't afford children - 36%
It is. And I’m not even an advanced Vim user.
> especially given that usually speed is not the limiting factor for what I do.
For me it’s not so much about speed as about comfort. Jumping into VISUAL and selecting something in a block, yanking the line, jumping pages, editors, searching within the file, filtering, sorting. And the most important part is that because it is so old and widespread there’s pretty much vim mode for any editor so I can use the same shortcuts between vim, VScode, IntelliJ, etc.
LLMs are a gimmick, btw. This is an Anthropic marketing stunt, how much did they pay you? /s