My guess is either someone raised this internally and was told it was fine, or knew but didn't bother raising it since they knew they’d be blown off.
Readit Newspeacebeard commented on 2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025 mybooklist.club/reading-s... · Posted by u/BigBalli
I assume you know, by now, that everyone poops
I have never been more certain.
peacebeard commented on 2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025 mybooklist.club/reading-s... · Posted by u/BigBalli
Does reading to a toddler count? If it does, I'm bringing up the mean to say the least.
peacebeard commented on Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy phys.org/news/2026-01-cof... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
I'm reminded of how blacksmiths use instant coffee to stain damascus steel, at least the ones on YouTube
Does that last long? Commercial damascus is typically acid etched which seems like it would last better, but it wears off eventually too.
[edit] oh, I guess coffee is acidic, so maybe it’s not that different. I was thinking of using it as a stain at first
Interesting framing. The article makes a compelling case that we're seeing the hangover from 14 years of ZIRP-fueled hiring rather than an AI apocalypse.
But I'm curious what people think the equilibrium looks like. If the "two-tier system" (core revenue teams + disposable experimental teams) becomes the norm, what does that mean for the future of SWE as a career?
A few scenarios I keep turning over:
1. Bifurcation - A small elite of "10x engineers" command premium comp while the majority compete for increasingly commoditized roles
2. Craftsmanship revival - Companies learn that the "disposable workforce" model ships garbage, and there's renewed appreciation for experienced engineers who stick around
3. Consulting/contractor becomes default - Full-time employment becomes rare; most devs work project-to-project like other creative industries
For those of you 10+ years into your careers: are you optimistic about staying in IC roles long-term, or does management/entrepreneurship feel like the only sustainable path?
I am 10+ years into my career. I don’t think mgmt / entrepreneurship feels like the only sustainable path. But I believe I may become a manager of a 5-10 Claudes.
peacebeard commented on The age of Pump and Dump software tautvilas.medium.com/soft... · Posted by u/brisky
The framing of the title makes me wonder what we as humans will think of software from this time 100s of years from now. Will the future be a complicated, dense ecosystem of interconnected intelligent systems, putting our current complexity to shame?
Or in the future will we look at the current time as the Wild West, the time when software moved more swiftly than the law. Where oil was there for anyone with a big enough guns to protect it.
Maybe we will experience our own butlerian jihad and realize that the thinking machines were controlling us the whole time. We will look at TikTok how we now look at the proliferation of ether in the 1800s.
Put on my gravestone “I Was An Internet Cowboy”
peacebeard commented on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand atmoio.substack.com/p/aft... · Posted by u/mobitar
> My way is to understand my own codebase and look at the output of the LLM.
Then you are not vibe coding. The core, almost exclusive requirement for "vibe coding" is that you DON'T look at the code. Only the product outcome.
This seems to be a major source of confusion in these conversations. People do not seem to agree on the definition of vibe coding. A lot of debates seem to be between people who are using the term because it sounds cool and people who have defined it specifically to only include irresponsible tool use, then they get into a debate about if the person was being irresponsible or not. It’s not useful to have that debate based on the label rather than the particulars.
peacebeard commented on When employees feel slighted, they work less penntoday.upenn.edu/news/... · Posted by u/consumer451
Sometimes the best managers are the ones that aren’t emotionally vested and just expect the work to be done right.
You don’t have to be anyone but yourself. You don’t have to change who you are simply because you’re a manager now. You can simply continue being you. Allow those under you to be them. The hardest part of management is managing up.
“They don’t pay you to be perfect, they pay you to be yourself.” -Ted Lasso
peacebeard commented on The recurring dream of replacing developers caimito.net/en/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/glimshe
The dumb part of this is: so who prompts the AI?
Well probably we'd want a person who really gets the AI, as they'll have a talent for prompting it well.
Meaning: knows how to talk to computers better than other people.
So a programmer then...
I think it's not that people are stupid. I think there's actually a glee behind the claims AI will put devs out of work - like they feel good about the idea of hurting them, rather than being driven by dispassionate logic.
Maybe it's the ancient jocks vs nerds thing.
Devs are where projects meet the constraints of reality and people always want to kill the messenger.
You can control this behavior, so it's not a dealbreaker. But it shows a sort of optimism that skills make everything better. My experience is that skills are only useful for specific workflows, not as a way to broadly or generally enhance the LLM.