"Forward Deployed Engineer" is a bodyshop with LLM.
Readit Newsjimbobimbo commented on The AI Job Title Decoder Ring dbreunig.com/2025/08/21/a... · Posted by u/dbreunig
jimbobimbo commented on Show HN: I built a tool to solve window management aboveaverageuser.com/smar... · Posted by u/atommachinist
> Alt+tab is an optimal controller.
Having to iterate through your windows is not optimal. I use sway, with windows divided across workspaces. So if I want to switch to my web browser I hit super+1. If I want to switch to my code editor I hit super+2. If I want to switch to my terminal(s) I hit super+3. I use 4 through 0 for other random windows (for example, I usually launch games or videos on 0. If I'm working in two code bases I generally put the editor and terminal for the 2nd code base on 4 and 5).
What takes you O(n) takes me only O(1).
Standard out-of-the-box Windows behavior: quick Alt-Tab press switches between last two windows; pinned apps on taskbar are switched with Win-1..9 shortcuts.
jimbobimbo commented on The story of Max, a real programmer incoherency.co.uk/blog/st... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
To make it a fair comparison, you also need to consider all the old-school Apache and PHP config files required to get that beautiful little script working. :) I still have battle scars.
You actually don't need to. Just upload this little php script to a shared host for $1/mo and call it a day.
jimbobimbo commented on Microsoft Dependency Has Risks blog.miloslavhomer.cz/p/m... · Posted by u/ArcHound
This applies to any company homed in the US. Not sure why Microsoft is singled out. Why Google, or Amazon, or Apple would oppose demands of the US government?
jimbobimbo commented on Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git danielsada.tech/blog/carr... · Posted by u/dshacker
What's Script#?
C# like language compiled to Javascript.
jimbobimbo commented on Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI addyo.substack.com/p/avoi... · Posted by u/NotInOurNames
Documentation is actually better with LLMs. In 2010s+ majority of the docs is autogenerated doxygen and alike slop or some hello world in marketing speak. Absolutely useless. The ability of LLMs to hoover up everything related to the problem at hand improved my experience manyfold.
jimbobimbo commented on The hidden cost of AI coding terriblesoftware.org/2025... · Posted by u/Sharpie4679
It's 9am in the morning. I login to my workstation and muddle my way through the huge enterprise code base which doesn't fit into any model context window for the AI tool to be useful (and even if it did, we can't use any random model due to compliance and proprietary and whatnot).
I have thousands deadlines which are suddenly coming due and a bunch of code which is broken because some poor soul under the same pressure put something that "works" in. And it worked, until it didn't, and now it's my turn in the barrel.
Is this the joy?
I'm not complaining, I'm doing it for the good money.
jimbobimbo commented on Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"? · Posted by u/jbornhorst
Get checked for keratosis? Prescription lenses make certain assumption about the shape of your eye. Keratosis means your eye is a slightly wonky shape and doesn't fit the "spherical with cylindrical astigmatism" model, so a lens won't correct your vision properly.
Does the problem persist with contact lenses? Soft contact lenses can do a better job of correcting vision for someone with keratosis, as they conform to the wonky surface of the cornea.
Edit: Just realised you're probably doing market research rather than asking for yourself. Either way, people with keratosis, who don't fit into the box, might be something to consider.
This, but also look into the rigid lenses. Was a game changer for me.
jimbobimbo commented on CrowdStrike Bug likely caused by unsafe NULL Pointer threadreaderapp.com/threa... · Posted by u/wanderingmind
"The fix going forward is that Microsoft needs [...] not just raw dog risky updates to customers."
Odd critique. Microsoft could do whatever, it was Crowdstrike who "raw dogged" the update to customers without any meaningful staging.
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