dolebirchwood (u/dolebirchwood)

dolebirchwood commented on How to Attend Meetings docs.google.com/presentat... · Posted by u/spagoop

Elephant in the room: what about meetings where the purpose is to receive updates, maintain context on project progress, etc.? Yes, sometimes (often!) these meetings can be emails or messages — but sometimes it's important to be able to ask or even hear others ask questions, and to get a sense of how people are feeling directly.

This seems to be missed by the author.

dolebirchwood · 23 days ago

> sometimes it's important to be able to ask or even hear others ask questions, and to get a sense of how people are feeling directly

Or just hire adults who know how to proactively communicate issues and concerns without a group babysitting session?

dolebirchwood commented on LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell ramones.dev/posts/linkedi... · Posted by u/austinallegro

munk-a · a month ago

I think it's more just a bizarre platform for us to gawk at. I'm not really certain why LinkedIn even has social features available if it's purporting to be a professional space and especially a professional space that is going to be your first impression for a new job prospect. Maybe having a loud profile is a positive to some sorts of recruiters but posting anything beside resume information on that site just seems like a guaranteed malus on future prospects. Even if you'd like to run a live blog on some project you're working on as a sort of portfolio - do it on a platform you have full control of in case you want to rescind it or modify it later.

dolebirchwood · a month ago

> Maybe having a loud profile is a positive to some sorts of recruiters but posting anything beside resume information on that site just seems like a guaranteed malus on future prospects.

At one of my past companies, I recall a recruiter disqualifying a candidate for a SWE role solely for having a "weird" headline banner image on their LinkedIn profile.

The "weird" image was a benign screenshot of a landscape backdrop of some Miyazaki film. No characters, no action sequences -- literally just trees, mountains, shit like that.

This is the kind of lunacy you're up against.

dolebirchwood commented on Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser strudel.cc... · Posted by u/birdculture

lyu07282 · 2 months ago

That channel has been all over my recommendations, it's awesome so much skill!

dolebirchwood · 2 months ago

Me too! Came on YouTube feed today. Blown the fuck away. I Google Strudel REPL to learn more and found this thread as well. :)

So stoked to play with this.

dolebirchwood commented on Vibe engineering simonwillison.net/2025/Oc... · Posted by u/janpio

taylorlunt · 3 months ago

These seem like a lot of great ways to work around the limitations of LLMs. But I'm curious what people here think. Do any career software engineers here see more than a 10% boost to their coding productivity with LLMs?

I see how if you can't really code, or you're new to a domain, then it can make a huge difference getting you started, but if you know what you're doing I find you hit a wall pretty quickly trying to get it to actually do stuff. Sometimes things can go smoothly for a while, but you end up having to micromanage the output of the agent too much to bother. Or sacrifice code quality.

dolebirchwood · 3 months ago

> Do any career software engineers here see more than a 10% boost to their coding productivity with LLMs?

No, I just put in less effort to arrive at the same point and do no more.

dolebirchwood commented on Indefinite Backpack Travel jeremymaluf.com/onebag/... · Posted by u/renjieliu

raffael_de · 3 months ago

Two months isn't really that long.

dolebirchwood · 3 months ago

Maybe, but as someone who's done a 4-month backpacking stint, I was over it after 1 month, so I think even just that amount of time is enough to make an impact psychologically. By month 3, I was acclimated to it, but still eager to be done with it.

(As an aside, the experience actually made me less enthusiastic about nature and gave me a deeper appreciation of civilization. Never in my life did I have such deep gratitude for having a flat paved sidewalk to walk on.)

dolebirchwood commented on Sora 2 openai.com/index/sora-2/... · Posted by u/skilled

dolebirchwood · 3 months ago

This makes me less excited about the future of video, not more.

It's technically impressive, but all so very soulless.

When everything fake feels real, will everything real feel fake?

dolebirchwood commented on People got together to stop a school shooting before it happened nytimes.com/2025/09/27/ny... · Posted by u/whack

dolebirchwood · 3 months ago

Anyone with that mindset shouldn't be working anywhere near children.

dolebirchwood commented on A lifetime of social ties adds up to healthy aging news.cornell.edu/stories/... · Posted by u/XzetaU8

pojzon · 3 months ago

My only real „friend” is my wife.

Over years I lost contact to all the ppl I considered friends.

I dont have time to nurture long distance relationships.

After studies we all moved away 200-300km from each other.

I have a lot of „pals” or „gaming friends”. But those ppl wont show up 4am at night to pick you up from a street fight.

I’m missing „meaningful” connections. Its easy to find ppl who dont care.

dolebirchwood · 3 months ago

To be fair, I'm not sure I'd want to be friends with someone who gets into street fights at 4:00 a.m. My cut-off would be midnight.

dolebirchwood commented on Getting AI to work in complex codebases github.com/humanlayer/adv... · Posted by u/dhorthy

fusslo · 3 months ago

Maybe I am just misunderstanding. I probably am; seems like it happens more and more often these days

But.. I hate this. I hate the idea of learning to manage the machine's context to do work. This reads like a lecture in an MBA class about managing certain types of engineers, not like an engineering doc.

Never have I wanted to manage people. And never have I even considered my job would be to find the optimum path to the machine writing my code.

Maybe firmware is special (I write firmware)... I doubt it. We have a cursor subscription and are expected to use it on production codebases. Business leaders are pushing it HARD. To be a leader in my job, I don't need to know algorithms, design patterns, C, make, how to debug, how to work with memory mapped io, what wear leveling is, etc.. I need to know 'compaction' and 'context engineering'

I feel like a ship corker inspecting a riveted hull

dolebirchwood · 3 months ago

Guess it boils down to personality, but I personally love it. I got into coding later in life, and coming from a career that involved reading and writing voluminous amounts of text in English. I got into programming because I wanted to build web applications, not out of any love for the process of programming in and of itself. The less I have to think and write in code, the better. Much happier to be reading it and reviewing it than writing it myself.

dolebirchwood commented on When the job search becomes impossible jeffwofford.com/wp/?p=224... · Posted by u/pertinhower

the_real_cher · 3 months ago

False information targeting a group should be banned in my opinion.

dolebirchwood · 3 months ago

Or just counter bad ideas with good ideas and let the up/down votes take care of the rest.