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Someone asks where a setting lives. The reply is four paragraphs and ends with "Sent using ChatGPT."
Correct. Thorough. Addressed to nobody.
New essay on what a two-line human reply means now:
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I spent years staying on top of things.
Turns out they were somebody else's things.
New piece on who actually decides what developers practice, and what's left that's yours:
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25 years of experience means I can glance at a stack trace and know exactly what's wrong.
It also means I can be wrong faster than ever.
New piece on skimming, attention, and Epictetus:
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Definition of done for "AI ends humanity":
* Tests pass
* Code reviewed
* Nobody left to review
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Stoicism will teach you to stay calm during a production outage. It will not teach you how to tell your dad his retirement plan assumes 1994.
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Being a senior developer is being asked for your honest opinion about a decision that is not going to change.
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It’s like clockwork on this app to be hating on this chick
She is genuinely average looking when it comes to her facial proportions & physiognomy.
The majority of men are retarded monkeys so they see giant tits & rave about her like she’s the newest thing since sliced bread.
Now let’s compare her to actual 10/10’s.
Light years.
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Amazon just made senior engineers sign off on every AI-assisted code change. Not because the model got worse. Because somebody finally has to own the mess it leaves behind.
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They say AI could wipe out humanity.
I've noticed it needs me to click "continue" every few minutes.
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