Paolo Grimaldi

a Happy Person 😁

[Paolo Grimaldi @ElFugitivoEn140]

@hispanicnomad Antigua Guatemala, can’t get better than that

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@RoryTyer I reversed engineered my Babolat play racket that stopped working in 2021 due to an abandoned app. I have a smart racket again ✌🏻

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@coryalthoff Dancers

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@araseb_ Clinic digitalization

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@mattshumer_ Depends on the use case, I built https://t.co/k4d6TnjGD6 with local models to privately read books without a subscription. This is a perfect use case and you do not need Astra for that task…

[Paolo Grimaldi @ElFugitivoEn140]

funny thing is: as a fellow 20yr experienced dev, we’ve always had the inner desire to be faster, code in all sorts of languages, solve all sorts of problems and now that we can there’s just no sense of accomplishment anymore. We used to code for the joy of coding, now we need to find a way to solve for the joy of solving…

[Dan Greenheck @dangreenheck]

Holy cats I did not expect this post to blow to the far reaches of the internet.

Since the internet loves to spin everything to fit their own biases, time to clear things up a bit:

- Yes, I am seriously considering a career outside of software development. Most professional software developers I've talked to that have been in the industry for a long time feel the same as me—overwhelmed and/or bored. People that weren't developers before don't seem to care or understand this. But it's also kind of hard to switch careers when you're almost 40, so maybe I'll be stuck doing this until we're all robot slaves on UBI.

-About half the comments misunderstood why I want to leave software development. I want to leave because I'm bored. I've coded for 20 years, enjoyed it very much, and now I don't code. Not a very surprising outcome. I'm sure if you took any craft tradesman and put them into a factory to build the same thing, 90% would want to quit.

- No the industry is not dead, it's just shifting. I just have no interest in shifting with it. There will be less software engineers for sure but they aren't going away entirely.

- I will still continue to support my assets and release the assets I had planned (Water Pro v4, Fire Pro, potentially the rivers add-on not sure yet). After that, I have no idea what I'll do.

- People seem to think I am anti-AI. This is hilarious because I've always been very transparent about my AI usage and talked about it on here often. Personally do I think AI is good for humanity? Absolutely not. But as someone who is self-employed, it's either adapt or die.

-For some reason people think my post was engagement bait or grifting? What better way to get new customers than to tell them "Hey, you can make all of my assets with AI in 10 minutes so I'm closing shop!" Tongue-in-cheek obviously, but what a ridiculous take on my post.

Alright, done talking about this.

[Paolo Grimaldi @ElFugitivoEn140]

@dangreenheck Felt exactly the same way as you for almost the first half of this year. I’ve recently stopped developing and started trying to learn problem solving skills, I feel I always had it but coding and the love of coding overshadowed it.

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We humans need to find a way to fight back, this is not sustainable.

[voxium @v0xium]

I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.

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@DerekUrizar Dónde puedo ver tu simulador ?

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@LinusEkenstam Checkout EpubGraph GitHub repo (https://t.co/I0NAJ1sWd6 downloadable is outdated) it has these same feature plus it tells you which book to read next using local AI

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I tried exposing this same issues recently at a company I worked for. Got sacked. CEO only had the visual of PR counts vs 18 months ago. Shit works, who cares about the rest…

[George Mayer @GeorgeMayer]

This one triggered people on all sides, so let me expand:

1) agents have gotten way slower, more verbose, more paranoid, idiosyncratic

2) yet they still (or even more often) make massive blunders.

3) This is more costly now. Opus will take a day to build something totally incoherent, even after a very clear plan

4) meanwhile sol is hyper focused on the nearterm goal, can be steered, but cannot regain its original trajectory

5) they write too many dumb tests, catch too many errors, build too many guardrails

6) which makes the codebase slower to parse, harder to read, slower to build, costlier for them to work in

7) they solve all of these problems with MORE complexity. Let’s multithread your tests, let’s create a fast running CI script, let’s create more packages, more repos.

8) so the loop goes on

9) many (most!) codebases at this point are worse off than they were 18 months ago.

10) oh just have another loop refactor everything? Another loop clean up the tests? Spend twice as many tokens tearing things down that were put up yesterday? That’s the solution?

11) this doubles the change requests of the already verbose code. Oh just get code rabbit? Greptile my PRs? All I need is a factory?

I mean, don’t get me wrong. We’re past the point of no return. The only way out is through, I just hope we get there.

[Paolo Grimaldi @ElFugitivoEn140]

@AbraGlobal @mbullen @billbar We should all sue and place a class action lawsuit

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Software engineers burning out thanks to using AI coding tools is becoming a major problem I don't see anyone talk about all that much. There's some "vampire effect" in these tools, and it drains a lot of devs.

This video by @stolinski is a very good and important one, to start:

[Paolo Grimaldi @ElFugitivoEn140]

It was never the hard part, it was just what non-technical people thought was hard. Now that anybody can code, people start to realize that making a movie is more than having a video camera on your phone.

[グラフ理論 @graphtheory]

If coding was the hard part how come most architects and principal engineers don’t code?

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@theo Wonder how many moms there are versus engineers… 🙄

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@marclou I would pay money for that

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Obstacles are the universe’s hubs of unspeakable creativity, redeeming us from tired victories, from the banality of crossing the finish line, from the soundtrack of getting everything we want, and especially from the hubris of thinking we are in control. Bayo Akomalafe

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@_javierivero @cursor_ai Interesting your moodshelf app is similar in spirit to my https://t.co/I0NAJ1sWd6 glad to see the concept getting explored

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@levelsio Conway Airmega

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This is just…. Bananas!

https://t.co/qB3hBlaRwo