Reviewing code generated by AI offsets all the productivity gains you get by using AI. It takes a lot of effort to review and validate changes, and you cannot do that for 8 hours per day.
Unless you are vibe coding, the actual productivity gains are marginal in large projects where software mistakes cost a lot of money.
I don't get what all the hype on Claude is about. I am productive with copilot w gpt5.4 in an ide bc I still hand code things
plus it doesn't flash the quick-to-grow old
honking
vibing
stewing
etc while it processes your request
listened to Born to Run while running (in highly cushioned kinvaras no less) this week. It's a magical, hyperbolic, adventure with a little sciency dress up that you can't take seriously but one of my favorites
also a few years after publication...
a new kind of running shoe came out with some super springy foam and a carbon fiber plate that acts like a lever giving some additional mechanical advantage to the runner
I find it weird and amazing that humanity drives one of their most expensive assets on public roadways everyday and collectively avoid constantly bumping into each other and causing minor accidents all while juggling the distractions of phones, conversations, daydreaming, etc
@bartlebytaco my elderly neighbor gifted me a box of these stale croissants during COVID and I'd leave pieces on my windowsill across from my desk. The crows loved me for a short while
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to enroll in ICE.
spent 3+ hours posting on Xfinity forums and chatting with a sales rep trying to fix my spotty link- my plan now costs 50$ less, no more data cap and upgraded my modem. I want to be happy by they still haven't fixed my problem and apparently this deal exists for those who ask?
me sowing: ah finally, deploying with a bunch of bash scripts, no complicated ci, woohoo
me reaping: why is nginx's deploy script overwriting a global nodes file list of tagged nodes in the deployment that the API server reads later to patch a subset of nodes
I have seriously bipolar sleep lately
either I'm couch locked after 6pm and can barely concentrate until falling asleep for 8-9 hours soundly
or I'm wired up till the moment I go to sleep and again 5 and half hours when I wake up
unsure what to make of this
dinner unlocked: saute mushrooms, some minced garlic once browned, deglaze with white wine, add pepper, huge handful of spinach, boil off 90% of liquid and eat the veggies over slices of ciabatta with Brie