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So, the tuition for international students goes up $1200/year. Do they expect any other changes?

However if you asked your Danish roommate to write down what he said it would make perfect sense.

I've had one-line PR fixing real bugs sitting unreviewed for years. It didn't need any bumps or reviews.

So they won't have idle hands sitting around and itching to redesign something that works just fine.

Alternatively, if they could reassign that 50% of their headcount to bring Mountain Lion or Mavericks to the working state (updating cryptographic stacks, patching vulnerabilities) and just don't... touch... the... UI?

(Author here) I found that over time I spend more time striping someone's badly designed abstractions to get to the real functionality. LLMs are surprisingly good at figuring it out, plowing through the code and documentation and finding out that a 100MB library is in reality a HTTP client for 7 REST endpoints, or something like this.

(Author here) I meant "design" as in designing physical objects — and all our "programming" is "design" in this definition, because "manufacturing" is done by compilers and bundlers.

And I wouldn't write this article 3 months ago. Since then the quality of the output jumped significantly, it is now possible to put the agent into a proper harness (plan/edit/review/test) and the output is good — and if it's not, you discard it and try again, or point out a detail for the next cycle of improvements.

Yes, this requires a lot of forethought to set up, but it works.

I'm not talking only about "web things", I'm working on a project that involves engineering calculations and a lot of optimization of hot paths, both CPU and GPU.

(Author here) That's why I spent a sinificant chunk of the article talking about what should and what should not be reinvented.

(Author here) I'm actually talking in the article why it hasn't happened.

24% real vs 17% expected. Yes, some patterns, but not much.

Better never stray from code.

My faviourite configuration pattern for SaaS code: all the configuration for all targets, from local development setup, to unit tests, to CI throwaway deployments, to production is in a single Go package. The current environment is selected by a single environment variable.

Need something else configured beyond your code? Write Go code to emit configs for the current environment, in "gen-config some-tool && some-tool" stanza.

I don't see it challenged before the MR.

Linux caught Kent when he tried to sneak in non-bugfixes into a RC, and berated him.

After that (not before, this is a critical distinction) Kent said "I don't want to abide by the rules, because I have my concerns".

This is very similar to the situation I have described, except that in Linux it was Linus who was skipping reviews on Kent's code trusting him not to subvert the rules, and in situation I described the team collectively was trusting each other not to subvert the rules.

I didn't make myself quite clear — the others were raising points on _other_ rules, and as a result we tuned the rules quite often, as we discovered what works better and what works worse.

Except one person.

It is, but directly, not as a subversion.

I have had a similar experience with a team member who was quietly unhappy about a rule. Instead of raising a discussion about the rule (like the rest of the team members did) he tried to quietly ignore it in his work, usually via requesting reviews from less stringent reviewers.

As a result, after a while I started documenting every single instance of his sneaky rule-breakage, sending every instance straight to his manager, and the person was out pretty soon.

Except that every month bits of that value get chipped off.