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That sounds hella interesting! Do you have any examples or pointers on how to try myself?

"means to an end"

As much as they'd know how to bake bread by buying a loaf in the shops.

I also thought I had a relatively normal childhood but it turns out those long episodes of terror and anxiety at home and school, later repressed through a slew of coping mechanisms, were -if perhaps "normal" enough- definitely not healthy :)

Finally mankind can return to it's intended 3-phase form of existence as described by Niven

> I don’t think it’s possible to build a software factory unless you truly do not care about what you’re putting out

In the article they talk of a swarm of agents autonomously speccing out the software and I can't help but wonder -- at that point, what are you creating, and for who??

"Power user?" Having a Pixel Watch 2 (or 3), I keep thinking no one working on this device really uses it. It's supposed to be a sports and health device but the stopwatch app doesn't even support laps.

Computers and AIs can't be held responsible.

I take it you've never been to Japan...

Wouldn't wanna live there permanently. Wouldn't want to have been born Japanese. But my god the products and services are head and shoulders above my baseline expectations; it's simply nicer.

Was left stranded in Berlin last night trying to get home to a neighboring city, which should have taken 45 minutes (more like 1h20 nowadays due to time tables and whole regional train lines being down for maintenance til EOY).

The lack of communication was probably the worst of all. Announcements saying to take alternative means of transport. The DB Navigator app insists that everything is still running and it was impossible to get clear info as to whether RE trains were also affected.

Eventually we took a Miles car home and because of this and past unreliability I'm, sadly, thinking about getting a car instead.

This was also my first thought when reading the title: because Claude is a tool you use and co-workers are either competitors or people preferably dependent.. an anti-pattern and not good culture but sadly the norm.

That's not to say that the help-vampires the parent mentions don't exist. I think we culturally are afraid of pushing back against them: telling them to RTFM and then come back.

Yeah it does feel like much tech competence that sprouts in Germany is either sequestered off and penned in, and/or leaves the country.

> disagree with the fact that skill and taste are correlated

> lots of amazing engineers have an awful taste in everything that is not their immediate field of knowledge or interest

which one is it?

During the first World War, Belgium divided in its Dutch (Flemish) and French (Walloonian) speaking constituents, had many such Walloonian officers rule over often Flemish soldiers. It wasn't unheard of that an officer got shot by his own people.

I'd dread managing technical people in a field I have no experience or knowledge; in my experience, especially in tech, such managers are often held hostage by engineers who stubbornly don't want to do things, tell fibs about feasibility, ... The other side of that is that such managers often make progress making said engineers promises that often turn out to be carrots on sticks or outright lies.

If you can't go with in the trenches, what good are you and how do you expect to build a trusting relationship?

Муч лике хов Ю кан/кулд спел Енглиш ин Кирилик.. but who in their right mind actually does that?