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Could you just make a CICD process that for each minting of a software license it cost a person's time to review and accept and then the wages for that individual become the write off. I.E. Convolute the software delivery process so that like a physical good, it has a per-unit to license cost to recoup. Or would that be argued as it could have just been automated and it's not really a real loss leader just bad policy?

This is great but also i want to vomit

Ever since my boss has transitioned to doing code reviews by AI and off loading his brain fully to AI, I could just use my AI to do the same to fix the things and I no longer have to deal with petty design arguments. I no longer have to deal with stylistic problems and that's great. When somebody offloads their communication to AI, it's easy to deal with. Meet with the same energy. Let the AI waste their time in the communication because the lack of effort on one side deserves the same type of communication-style.

As I wrote this i switch to the phrase communication-style because I realize that when he does his code review it's literally just a quick pass and a paste, but unfortunately when I do AI code reviews I review every single review item and push back individually on each item, research the items, write tests against what the review says and basically curate the code review I give out, which takes me 3 hours and then I have a boss angrily messaging me asking why the code review isn't done.

So on the one end I've managed to reduce toxicity in the reviews, but the tradeoff is toxicity in the expectation of a rubber stamp.

on this day, hn made thousands crack their knuckles

If the more skilled programmers become managers, then it's theoretically their job to become teachers, as their goal is to be force multipliers as opposed to people who can't delegate and accept a lower quality (temporarily) in exchange for higher throughput later.

For me is the fact that before I was worry free, and now I'll be worried until the grave.

I read, "Our kids sleeps like crabs" It was interesting trying to figure that out.

The lack of tolerance towards BS is like a super power gift now! I wish I had this backbone before.

Before mine was born at the workplace they complained about how long paternity leave was and how unfair it was to those without kids. Now that I'm on the other side, anybody who thinks that is a jerk. Yes likely everyone deserves more time off, but don't you dare think that paternity leave is "time off".

150 of em. Just gone, for no reason. That week was agonizing.

The changed I noticed is twofold: + If a situation would not be acceptable for my son (bullying) then I shouldn't have to tolerate it at work (workplace bullying)

+ Priorities shift dramatically. I see director level people running around like chickens without heads trying to fill in an excel sheet because one of the higher ups has sent down a directive; without them realizing that the time spent doing so is meaningless dribble that doesn't matter. It's like things that were not obvious time sinks are now very obvious and I'm less patient (of nonsense) because I have something more important to care about.

And now you have to create your own portal that hosts the pdfs so that the client can download it.

yeah at some point my job was: "I create complicated PDFs for clients that want them but will never read them."

Very interesting site. I share the consensus that the premise is bold and it has the "feeling" of having some good questions. I never thought of asking whether a computer is really adding "productivity". Maybe the "productive" element here for the company question is volume?

Not more efficient at handling this but more able to handling things at a lesser quality at scale.

Oh I'm sorry, but this makes total sense. I say sorry so much that I have seen people take it as admission of responsibility. And it's not good. Glad there are laws that understand the nuance of language.

Sub question if anyone is interested. I often have to ask people to repeat themselves but when I go get hearing tests they say I'm perfect. It's a little annoying. I've copped it out to this framework: the hearing tests only tests the range of the human voice, but it doesn't test say, understanding through other systems. For example, I cannot for the life of me understand anything my nieces or nephews say over the phone. Speech practice aside I believe that given that their voices are high pitched, I'm assuming the phone lines (and online meeting rooms) collapse the human voice to a smaller wavespace for efficiency, hense forth clipping the highs and the lows making it harder to distinguish the nuances of the sound. I can understand them just fine in person, but over the phone is such a nightmare. I've developed a bit of an ear as you when when you are around a group of people for long enough. (I.E. parents not able to understand customer service folks when they resort to short form, "slang" English, vs standard pronunciation.) Wonder if anybody else has gone down this rabbithole a bit deeper and can share their insights. (All this because I wanted to qualify the "actually interesting" statement....