Fruitmaniac

Underwater datacenters make way more sense

I admit I still don't understand Kotlin generic types. Or most of SOLID.

One company's name was conspicuously absent from the article. Does anyone believe Tesla is still a player in the autonomous driving game? They always seem to be playing catch-up.

Saying AI writes code is like saying your clarinet plays music.

I've earned stock options from three startups and none of them ever went public. The only company that ever actually paid me equity was Amazon and it was a pretty big payout. You will earn a lot more with RSUs than options.

I need to do more of these

America is so fucking backwards it makes me cry

I'm an engineer with an MBA and they definitely don't teach in business school that respect is optional. It's just something bad managers do all on their own.

I think the biggest career mistake engineers make -- myself included -- is assuming your contributions will be automatically recognized when in fact the amount of credit you receive is equal to how much you contributed multiplied by the amount of attention you draw to it.

Try playing a game of Hangman with ChatGPT. It's hilarious.

Is Tcl still a thing? At my first job I extended with a set of data-processing commands.

Not everyone is as impressed as us by new tech, especially when it's kinda buggy.

The article makes a lot of good points. I get a lot of slop responses to both coding and non-coding prompts, but I've also gotten some really really good responses, especially code completion from Copilot. Even today, ChatGPT saved me a ton of Google searches.

I'm going to continue using it and taking every response with a grain of salt. It can only get better and better.

Memory leaks are easy to code by accident in Java, so it must be even worse in Rust.

They just Streisanded themselves.

Raw materials costs are mostly based on scarcity, not salaries. If it weren't, steel would cost more that gold because it goes through more processing.