Michael Helvey

rustacean 🦀. platform / cloud infra engineer for work. bad at everything but writing code anyway because its fun

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@lucasmeijer the gpt models just do this themselves automatically

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@threepointone Related to this so much.

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@thdxr opencode gopro

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@thdxr I write code by hand every day. I enjoy it. I’m not gonna not practice my craft just because there are tools that I can additionally use that make it faster.

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@awesomekling I’m not mad about the abilities of LLMs in my profession. I find them useful. But I *am* upset about the amount of total garbage being produced. I’m tired of people creating garbage and then shaming me for still caring about my craft. I’m not anti-AI I’m just anti-garbage.

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@marvy_101 work is meaningless, life isn’t

valuing anything else is insanity

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@ThePrimeagen most of the time "don't recreate the wheel" just means "recreate the wheel out of a million very tiny other wheels that don't work nearly as well as a purpose built wheel and cost 10x the maintenance"

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@kysely_ @Ipenywis @DrizzleORM @typeormjs @prisma @SequelizeJS @kysely_ you are my favorite query builder, and I use you every chance I get :)

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@Ipenywis @DrizzleORM @typeormjs @prisma @SequelizeJS I think ORMs provide a lot of speed during initial development but as the project grows I spend more and more time "fighting with the ORM" to get the SQL that I want.

I'd rather bite the bullet (e.g. tedious insert statements) from day 1 so that I can just write SQL later.

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@samhuckaby I usually do an http server or some kind of chat server. Parsing message types, whether HTTP or some custom type is always useful, and the asynchronous stuff teaches me how that works in the language.

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@jarredsumner Please don't do this. As much as I wish JSON supported trailing commas and comments at the spec level, silently accepting non spec-compliant things only leads to endless headaches down the line.

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@piq9117 hoarding books ain't hoarding, it's righteousness

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@thdxr well there went an hour of my afternoon getting nerd sniped into writing a JSON parser & btree instead of doing my job :P

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@tritlo my eyes

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@kenwheeler ChatGPT in a few months:

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@kenwheeler what about 30 years of experience talking shit on the internet

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@ryanwinchester @WarrenInTheBuff don't take away my dreams 😢

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@adamwathan @linear This level of vetting *is* unrealistic for almost everyone. Glad it works for them, but as an applicant I would never go through this process in a million years.

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@0xMatt Dude it’s in the predesign phase, they only had time to design the wheels facing the camera