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Yes sorry to the horseshoe crabs that get abducted by aliens, get their blood drawn, and then they're dumped back into the ocean miles from home.

I guess it's better than when we literally injected a sample extract into a bunny to see if he gets a fever. (The old test before LAL)

(We also use the LAL test for bacterial endotoxins in med device for implantables

Also curious to see what issues people are having. I'm a not-software engineer but I use antigravity quite a bit for my own projects.

If you give it a task, it completes it. It might so a single agent chug, or delegate some parallel tasks..

The architecture is essentially what was agreed on during the planning and spec phases.

So I'm just not understanding like... The codebot produces everything I ask, I use Gemini all day every day and I don't hit limits.

I see that if I were trying to code 10 hours a day the limits might be a problem but... This is a personal plan.

So. When people say that Gemini sucks, or they're hitting limits, I'm not understanding what problems they're encountering...

/Not a software engineer perspective working on side projects

I guess if you're letting it vibe code huge chunks. I'm doing mostly handwritten code for my current project with a little bit of "I don't want to deal with this, Claude can handle it" and I've spent $1.26 this month for my 446 lines of code.

But yes I suppose at that rate, if Gastown or Beads or whatever is 300,000 lines of code (just to use a project known to be fully vibe coded with rough LOC reported), that would be over $800.

Don't let it vibe code hundreds of thousands of lines of code I guess.

When I was a teenager I submitted a random/unsolicited pull request to something in the spree ecosystem, got a very nice message from the maintainer/author saying that he appreciates it but it wasn't in the direction he wanted to take the library, but I could collaborate with him in some other way. Glad for the patience in that message, if it were spicy I might have been put off programming.

Summary: A winding rant about finding value as as a med device QE in new product introduction, getting along with difficult personalities and risk tolerances that don't mesh well with mine, and wondering why I'm pushing for excellence when the organization just wants to ship.

I take the opposite viewpoint as the criticisers -- they're too real, too foreseeable, that I would almost ask the Black Mirror writers not to give "them" any more ideas.

I don't code for a living, and I'm probably worse than a fresh grad would be but I use:

"Please don't generate or rewrite code, I just want to discuss the general approach."

Bc I don't know any design patterns or idiomatic approach, being able to discuss is amazing.

Though quality and consistency of responses is another thing... :)

If one is really hard pressed to use a windows box, I have found WSL to be a godsend. (eg at work, which is luckily at a relatively small company where IT isn't as locked down as other places I've worked.)

On the other hand, I tried to use powershell the other day for some simple admin tasks and ooooh wow I sure don't have anything nice to say.

Also my living is made on the Windows side, and not the Linux side, so I guess I don't know the pain points of WSL.

This is super funny when it's hitting the resource limit for a free tier. Like... I see that you already spent the resources to answer the question and send me half the response...

Classic phenomenological analysis. "This is not reality, but as a model it's good enough for a first pass design analysis"

I draw pictures. Had some difficulty dreaming up a part to create in engineering school but 3D cad programs made my own shortcomings irrelevant.

We had a 'intro engineering' class that taught orthographic drawing (by hand, about a decade ago, so thankful for it) which included puzzles on what the various 2D views should be given a 3d object, and the opposite direction. Holy crap those were so hard for me, but picked it up with practice.

I have visio open constantly at work. Lots of mind maps, flow diagrams. Take lots of pictures on vacation because the visual memories are basically gone as soon as my body is.

The 'language is a tool for communication' thread from today has some discussion on different types of thinking. For example it was inconceivable to me that someone would visualize words in their head, but I guess that's a thing for some people.

I do have to ask people to draw me a picture occasionally when they're trying to describe something. Don't need a lot of detail, just a rough sketch and I can figure out the idea.