Dara

Cat Enjoyer, Software Engineer.

[ふかもどき @V6Bhpsz46MFgrS1]

家の猫に歯茎見せる遊びしてる

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

I'll say it again, I think this AI cycle we are in is a net negative on society

A man/team that has made the web significantly more pleasant as a platform for many people and spent years doing so for free has AI effectively destroy the business model by first taking his work

And this is how a member of the community responds. Real sad times

IP theft is real and I personally think that the C-suite of these current companies deserve jail time for the level of theft they enabled

[Conner Cowling @conner_xyz]

More than microservices vs. monoliths, the underlying anti pattern here is the Death Star project.

It’s the arrogance of believing you’ll single handedly redesign the whole thing better than the evolutionary process that created the original, that the landscape is static, and that you’ll have all the time and money needed to do a complete overhaul.

In other words, a recipe for failure in form of faulty assumptions, partially completed reforms, delayed schedules, and budget overruns.

If you end up here, pray execs see it for what it is and don’t end up in sunk cost fallacy land.

What’s the answer then? Test and iterate.

Whether its architecture or org changes, have a destination in mind, make changes in degrees, respond to what happens next.

It doesn’t matter what the architecture is. Focus on outcomes, acting and adapting.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Organizations that can't measure performance end up measuring performativeness instead.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Replies like "can this be solved through better tooling? better models? better pre-human PR automation?"

No. Jesus Christ, No. The solution is school. An education. Learning something. School. Its school.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

In over 15 years of open source, I can't remember ever saying "your example doesn't compile" (I probably did, but it's so rare I can't remember). Now, I literally say this everyday. Please, can people using AI be less fucking stupid about it.

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

"People smarter than you already figured it all out" is the stupid people's way to tell other stupid people to stay stupid, ignorant, and uncurious, because they need to justify their stupidity somehow.

The question is not WHO (smart, not smart) made it this way. But WHY.

[十筆斎 @jissunboshi96]

ケバブを食らうマヌルネコ

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

You guys do realize that the best engineers becoming farmers is not a natural process but the industry cannibalizing itself by squeezing the best talents out of motivation in an unsustainable way leading to its eventual collapse cause there'll be nobody dealing with all the shit?

[kache @yacineMTB]

there is a man in the mirror.

he is chinese, from a humble family. he has his own place. he works out, and rolls his own cigarettes. he just finished a 14 hour work day. he closed business deals by meeting vendors that sold hardware in markets, walking around and giving out business cards. he does all of his own accounting, design, ML, software, customer service, and manufacturing. the manufacturing happens in his tiny apartment. his cost per unit is 100 times smaller than yours. his funding? non existent. when he needs help, he hits up his cousins on wechat.

he's going to outcompete you in your home country, selling his units on etsy

farmers in ohio are going to buy his drones
yacine is going to buy his custom split keyboards
american manufacturers are going to buy his 3d printers

and rightly so
because you aren't half of the man in the mirror

[Zarathustra @zarathustra5150]

“Anything you do to optimize your work, cut some corners, or squeeze more "efficiency" out of it (and out of your life) will eventually make you dislike it.”

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

i love reinventing the wheel, let me make a better one

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

join standup
3h later you are still in the same meeting now discussing data modeling and a graph database

[The Bag Hunter @fute_nukem]

@samswoora All the best innovation comes from the other side

[kache @yacineMTB]

if you program enough you'll eventually invent dependency injection or MVC on your own. you don't need to be taught it, god will whisper in your ear if and when the time is necessary

[smol silly cat @Catsillyness]

canon event

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

@heyotetsuo The best DX is no users.

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

The antidote to nihilism is realizing that meaninglessness is also meaningless. All concepts ultimately fail. Truth exists, but our minds can't represent it.

The universe is not cold & cruel. Nature is not red in tooth & claw. Those are words of grief, of absence and fear.

Count the sunny hours, the synchronicities, the happy accidents, the petty victories, until you can see the whole picture again. Existence is all of it - beautiful, brutal, business as usual - and nothing at all without you.