Please show me the alternate product that is a full featured tablet with an e-ink screen so I can buy one.
Huh? The thing you want may just not exist. That’s life, right?
Readit News> One thing I always have wished that my reMarkable 2 had was web browser.
It’s crazy how direct Remarkable is about what their devices are and then the number of people who buy them and wish they were something else.
Better title: Convert sharing links between music services
I understand it probably comes from the original motivation, but the name seems unfortunate since you can totally use it to convert to Spotify from e.g. iTunes if you do have Spotify but just not one of the dozen competitor subscription services
Yes, I’ll admit that before clicking the link I thought this was going to be yet another navel-gazing tech-bro humble-brag blog post.
paulcole commented on My Failures Onboarding at Splunk people-work.io/blog/my-fa... · Posted by u/mooreds
I think many readers here have had a pretty negative experience with a new manager parachuting in (usually as a referral from other senior leadership), immediately deciding that the team is underperforming without knowing much about the business context, technical constraints, and company culture that led to the current environment, and making big structural changes without consulting the boots-on-the-ground folks. Usually we hear stories from the engineers who are disaffected. This feels like an anecdote from the other side.
It's not wrong to wonder about your career trajectory, but it's telling to see someone pretty nakedly talk about optimizing for changing their level at a company, before they've even landed there and evaluated if they can help / how they are helping their team. I'm not naive, and I recognize those people exist and can acknowledge that they can do good work. But if someone came into my workplace with the mindset of "aggressively [seeking] to showcase my leadership within the first few weeks" and their goal was going "from Senior Manager to Director in ... 12 months", I'd be skeptical that they weren't going to damage peer relationships and optimize for being recognized at the expense of their direct reports, even if I thought they could be a valuable asset in the short term.
Curious what your estimate is for what percentage of teams are actually underperforming?
And then of those underperforming teams, what percentage of those would the team members identify themselves as part of underperforming teams?
Dang, crazy that AI content appears in front of your eyes when you turn off your computer and put your phone down.
Personally I can’t get enough of AI and AI hype. It’s nearly certainly going to be the biggest technological leap forward of my lifetime and it won’t be particularly close.
paulcole commented on Flunking my Anthropic interview again taylor.town/flunking-anth... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
I agree with your sentiment, but what you're referring to is "I'm not good at this task yet" which is different from "I am inherently incapable/inferior". The first can motivate, the second does not- this is supported by a large body of pedagogical research.
https://opentext.wsu.edu/theoreticalmodelsforteachingandrese...
> the tendency to internalize rejection as a sense of being inherently 'bad.‘
OK so just avoid this tendency.
paulcole commented on Ask HN: Should we stop worrying that AI will replace developer jobs? · Posted by u/_pdp_
There’s almost nothing to be gained by writing about AI (particularly anything remotely positive). The anti-AI people are absolutely foaming at the mouth about how bad it is. Best to let them have their fun while the rest of us are quietly getting value out of it.
paulcole commented on Flunking my Anthropic interview again taylor.town/flunking-anth... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
This is such an insightful take. As someone who has interviewed many candidates, I wholeheartedly agree. While it's important to reflect on how you can improve, it's also critical to maintain morale and become comfortable with rejection during the job hunt. One of the biggest obstacles I've seen; whether with friends, family, or candidates; is the tendency to internalize rejection as a sense of being inherently 'bad.' Of course, once you internalize this belief, any motivation to study is gone. It can be challenging to help people see that this negative self-talk has become the primary barrier to their success.
> Of course, once you internalize this belief, any motivation to study is gone
This is definitely not a universal truth.
I know that if I had done better in every interview then I would’ve moved ahead and gotten the job. I guess that’s a different way of saying I was “bad” (not good enough). And it doesn’t affect my motivation in a negative way. I find that it actually helps me want to improve more.
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For large pieces of work, I will iterate with CC to generate a feature spec. It's usually pretty good at getting you most of the way there first shot and then either have it tweak things or manually do so.
Implementation is having CC first generate a plan, and iterating with it on the plan - a bit like mentoring a junior, except CC won't remember anything after a little while. Once you get the plan in place, then CC is generally pretty good at getting through code and tests, etc. You'll still have to review it after for all the reasons others have mentioned, but in my experience, it'll get through it way faster than I would on my own.
To parallelize some of the work, I often have Visual Studio Code open to monitor what's happening while it's working so I can redirect early if necessary. It also allows me to get a head start on the code review.
I will admit that I spent a lot of time iterating on my way of working to get to where I am, and I don't feel at all done (CC has workflows and subagents to help with common tasks that I haven't fully explored yet). I think the big thing is that tools like CC allow us to work in new ways but we need to shift our mindset and invest time in learning how to use these tools.
But you’re saying it can be half-decent?
The problem is that about 75% of HN commenters have their identities tightly wound up in being a (genuflect) senior engineer and putting down PM/tech-lead type roles.
They’ll do anything to avoid losing that identity including writing non-stop about how bad AI code is. There’s an Upton Sinclair quote that fits the situation quite nicely.