sivanmz

Some kids love learning at an early age. If not, it’s easy to find out. Don’t worry about teaching too soon.

We own a Model Y and now subscribe to FSD. The car is basically done and I sort of see why Tesla isn’t bothering

From the point of view of a developer looking to differentiate themselves. The instinct is to look for generalizations, abstractions, composability, but as Boris says, these just get subsumed into the latest model RL. So what expertise is left for the developer to invest in?

There’s really not much to specialize in and differentiate yourself. All this harness customization is fleeting. Remember prompt engineering?

I was working on our ant build last night

It’s been my experience as of recently. I point it at an issue tracker and ask it to investigate, write a test to reproduce the problem and plan a fix together. There’s lots of hand holding from me but it saves me a lot of work and I’ve been surprised by its comfort with legacy code bases. For now I feel empowered, and I’m actually working more intensively, but I was wondering to myself if I’m going run out of work this year. Interestingly, our metrics show that output is slowed by increased workload on reviewers.

Also relied on government subsidies until recently.

I worked with XSLT almost from the beginning of my career and it was a blessing in disguise. Shoutout to Michael Kay.

I read the comments first

Often, the clients of legacy code are old too, and are hard coded to access it.

I've done this, but on a private branch, with a single merge to trunk in the end. Starting with complex integration tests, new interfaces were gradually defined and made the code testable, giving me the needed confidence.

I’ve been using an air quality monitor and a few HEPA air purifiers around the house for years. It’s affordable and effective.

I don’t even read Bloomberg and NYT links anymore, just head straight to the discussion and see if this is something I need to get bothered about.

That’s an exaggeration. Oakland is actually a nice place.

My observation is that, in the eyes of progressives, working class folks and politicians, the city government and services are first a source of jobs, and services are secondary.