devin

Ha! I can relate. I have cash set aside for just such an occasion. It's that second part that's the tricky bit, eh?

My hope for such an event is mostly to bring tech leadership types back down to planet earth and to get them to shut up for a few minutes. There are a lot of AI charlatans who need to be humbled by the markets so the serious folks among us can get back to doing real work.

ETA: I also guess I sort of hope for it because this whole cycle has felt so incredibly irrational that I desire a small return to sanity, even if it comes at the cost of some of my retirement.

ApoB is no doubt responsve to medication, but my understanding is that diet and exercise can't get anywhere close to achieving that 85% number.

Behavioral changes can only do so much to lower ApoB. It is a meaningful marker and may trigger additional workup. It may also signal that you should at least consider a statin.

ApoA is completely out of your control and will not change with behavioral modification.

So, no, you're incorrect that these tests are superfluous and all you need to say is "diet and exercise". Besides, even if that was always the answer to these results, you should still have a baseline to see if behavioral modification is doing anything.

Sources? That 1% number is in my understanding wildly incorrect for statins, if that's what you're referring to. Are you comparing use of statins for people who already are low risk for heart attack over the next 10 years?

I don't think pairing, nor TDD come anywhere close to the abdication of responsibility that agentic programming does.

The good devs I know avoid dependencies like the plague.

I had a similar take, but I was wrong.

It's going to be funny/sad to watch people who have deeply misapplied LLM tech discover "oh gee, this is pretty expensive. I guess I can just use ML?"

Their lot (VP-level certainly) rotates in and out, often with 3-4 layers of middle management between them and the crews executing, which makes direct assignment of blame exceedingly difficult. Every 3-4 years you get a near-complete rotation of leadership in an area of †he business, and any memory of what anyone was trying to achieve before is forgotten, either intentionally or unintentionally, and then you do it all over again.

It's different to me from text written by another person, because it is awful in a way that even a bad human writer can't replicate without first performing a lobotomy on themself.

Did you forget to put an /s on this?

> The architectural differences that made a console more compelling than a standalone PC are largely gone.

No, the main driver is still there. People do not want to build and maintain PCs. Your 14-year-old nephew doesn't want to do it, either. People want to turn on a box and play a game. I am technical and I want absolutely nothing to do with maintaining a PC. I'll take the console experience every single time.

Sure, but it's also feels like incredibly short-term thinking. Embarrassingly so.

Then after your hour long drive it happens? Great!