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Bad take, if you ask me, on several points:

- I think we’ve all learned with social media that sometimes tech companies create products with good intentions that are later weaponized against their users.

- The foundation of agentic LLMs is fully precipitated on creative and knowledge theft. They stole our bread and now want to sell it back to us, one token at a time.

- Banning AI has an intention to slow down its adoption while society weighs in on its projected consequences. When did we as a society collectively agree tech entrepreneurs get to release anything they want without any oversight?

This “just accept it” attitude is democratically lazy and so very ignorant of history of what rich people in power tend to do to the working class when they don’t need their labor anymore. There’s blood in the machine, friends.

I liked this, Paul Smith had some good stories. This episode and the following one about Github CLI got me thinking a lot how we choose architecture and languages and how it’s an iterative process. Rarely do companies/orgs get it right on the first try. Needs change, estimates are way off, and budgets run out.

meanwhile, we are watching Trump's entire family profit from DTJ's presidency. Why doesn't Greenwald write a story about that? His article is basically, "well no one confirmed none of the deals happened! So there's still a chance!" Come on man, we're watching this unfold in real time in the current administration. Clean your own house.

Thank you so much for this. I have wanted something like this since getting off Facebook.

I use this for tools. From Harbor Freight to Dewalt if I use it. Anyways, in the author's context, I've been using Miro.com for all of my diagrams. I love it. If you ever want to upgrade from ASCII art, check it out!

People are complaining about what this can't do, but for the disabled, the simple things it can do is going to be monumental. I see this as an amazing tool for the disabled, not a "beer me bot" for the lazy.

EDIT: And I should add, I hope they market this to that severely underserved market. If they only market it as a product for the rich to do simple tasks, it will suffer Segway's fate. If they create a market for it in healthcare and partner with those already in that space, this could be something big. It would pay for itself for people who need 24/7 care, if it were reliable enough.

perhaps people do gitflow incorrectly? I've been using it for several years and, on teams of about 10-15 people, have rarely had merge conflicts. Feature branches should be short-lived and therefore avoid conflicts. Hotfixes pose a risk to conflicts, but that's their nature. Say you have bug in production code and you fix it via a hotfix and some other developer stepped on that code on the develop branch, you should have a human reviewing the bug fix's merge with the new feature in development.

I really didn't understand this post. To me, it seemed like someone writing a critical perspective of a process they don't fully understand. I know it's not because of a lack of documentation, git flow has been blogged about ad nauseam.

I have friends who use different branching strategies who complain constantly about the same pain points the author brought up. The only thing I agreed with the author with is to find a strategy that works.

this is really good to know. I've been using Typora for the past year and, at this point, I can't live without it for making md files before committing. Thanks!

This is so crucial. I've had managers who were ex-developers and I've had managers who are managers first and not subject matter experts. The unifying quality among the good ones was that they aren't really leaders, they're facilitators.

- They get you what you need to do your job. - They shield you from product owners and stakeholders by meeting with them and giving you only the information you need (unless it's necessary you meet with them). - They advocate for you and your work. - They give constructive feedback and insight to help you improve. - They never try to stand between you and the advancement of your career.

Again, they facilitate. They facilitate the goals of the team and they facilitate your career development. I had one manager who said his sole mission was to get developers promoted out of his team. He wanted to make developers better. It can be very frustrating to find talent if you can't nurture it but I think great managers create an atmosphere where people thrive and become better in the company of their team.

I liked it... but I'm also a pretentious, intellectual Reddit user like all you fine folk ;)