Robs

Software Engineer/Architect/Tech Lead
Dev since 8-bit 80's. Web Dev since 2000. C# .NET since 2005
Shipping Console, Desktop, Web Applications

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- Building robust, maintainable software products across a variety of sectors since 2000
- Last decade building SaaS products with Distributed Cloud/Hybrid Architecture
- Improving software quality practices and processes, advocating clean coding, testing, agile, leadership

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@Belyk_dave @RaminNasibov Err more like 20 years ago for mp3s

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@thomasgauvin I found github copilot cli to be quite good for what I was using it for, much better than cursors agent.

The subsidies just made it much better, significantly better value than Claude (when limits dropped)...

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@0xgaut Son, back in my day engineers copy typed from a magazine or book.

Improvements have been pretty useful

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Github Copilot Pro+ was great value while it lasted.

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You mean 3+ juniors. That's what you really mean.

Actually 10+ juniors. But seniors tend to also be good at architecting, and no, i'm not talking about people with just the "senior" title with a few years exp (you know like 4 or 5, instead of 7-10 is more reasonable). And tend to be great at steering AI's.

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@JMPurusa @Akintola_steve No, it's not, as is any other JS based framework/lib.

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@vic_hates_x Likely because windows dominates desktop os for most people, businesses, enterprises and the like.

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@elonmusk XPhone with GrapheneOs or similar.

Sales will be wild.

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2 parts here.

1. No documentation - which is incorrect, we used lots of books, references, technical guides, and magazines etc. there was also Usenet and BBSs... There was no "online" docs like today though, well there was no web either.

2. Libraries - yeah we didn't use pre-packaged third party libraries (no readily available packaging for programming languages). though there was shared code includes on floppies and later cd roms, monthly magazines usually had them.

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@aarondfrancis Aww no Grok build
.....lame

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@sysadafterdark I used to use, but now fedora does the trick..

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@fidexcode Hexadecimal gui editor.
Game save editor
Snake
Space invaders
2d platform jumping game.

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@fjzeit @MarioVerbelen Yeah last deployed .NET10 AOT binary is 12.5mb with OpenAPI generation, using about 18mb ram.

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@ChShersh Sums it up.

10x = competent.

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@DanielW_Kiwi In China they execute people for corruption. Seems like a fair response for the extremely greedy and corrupt.

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@MarioVerbelen

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@kapv89 @MarioVerbelen Is your system complete and how long did it take to produce?. Is it easy to maintain?

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Well yes for very simple things that's true. The issue is always around maintenance and growth.

For instance I built doc conversion tooling in about a week around 2015, not hard... simple and easy to maintain. If using AI I prob could have shortened to a day or 2 and less intense manual work.

However larger more complex projects, say for instance on-time (pm tool we were using than). Even if building it quick, would require dedicated time for maintenance regardless of AI tooling... Time that could be spent on core product.

My current tools are grok build, Claude code (though less now), GitHub copilot cli, cursor (though not so much).. been quite invested over the past 4 years. Definitely accelerated Dev, but be have to be careful how they are steered.

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@synthshareai @staysaasy Oh, so you have products?

Or a consultant?