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phist_mcgee commented on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'   finalroundai.com/blog/aws... · Posted by u/birdculture
lokar · 2 days ago
Just curious, are you mostly FE? I could see this there (but there is still a lot of browser esoteria, etc)

Doing backend and large distributed systems it (seems to me), much deeper. Types of consistency and their tradeoffs in practice, details like implementing and correctly using lamport clocks, good API design, endless details about reworking, on and on.

And then for both, a learned sense of what approaches to system organization will work in the long run (how to avoid needing to stage a re-write every 5 years).

phist_mcgee · 2 days ago
>Just curious, are you mostly FE

Gatekeeping?

Why couldn't a backend team have all tasks be junior compatible, if uncoupled from deadlines and time constraints?

phist_mcgee commented on Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's   bourdain.greg.technology/... · Posted by u/gregsadetsky
rgovostes · 23 days ago
Awesome. I refer to https://bourdain.greg.technology/#food-im-thinking-about about once a year. One of my favorite vacations was going to a different hawker stall on his list each night in Singapore. Unsurprisingly, his picks are all pretty good, and #1 is justified in crowning the list.
phist_mcgee · 21 days ago
I've never ordered it, it always looks so incredibly bland, am I missing something here?
phist_mcgee commented on What Did Medieval Peasants Know? (2022)   theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/thinkingemote
daxfohl · a month ago
Yeah if anything I'd say people imagine things to be worse than they were. At least in the American education system, there's Rome, then 1000 years of plagues and misery, then the Renaissance. I was shocked the first time I went to a preserved middle ages village in Europe, and it was a moment of realization that the middle ages weren't just dead people carted around on wheelbarrows.
phist_mcgee · a month ago
Although a westerner transplated back 1000 years would be utterly shocked by the level of disease, childhood death, and complete lack of modern medical care or basic germ theory.
phist_mcgee commented on Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it   ajmoon.com/posts/mesh-i-t... · Posted by u/alex-moon
giancarlostoro · 3 months ago
The debugging experience and the lack of context shift when going from thinking about how C# works to JavaScript (and all its zillion quirks!) is insanely better. I can put a breakpoint for the front-end and debug it just fine withing VS. I do wish Microsoft would finally open source their debugger, since I've heard loads of complaints about it being proprietary still.
phist_mcgee · 3 months ago
> Zillions of quirks

A bit hyperbolic, if you use a modern linter like biome or eslint it can warn you of the few that may cause issues.

phist_mcgee commented on React is winning by default and slowing innovation   lorenstew.art/blog/react-... · Posted by u/dbushell
chairmansteve · 3 months ago
Plus, I have no interest in front end innovation. I think HN and Craigslist are as good aw it gets.
phist_mcgee · 3 months ago
I wish hacker news had better support for collapsing threads, it's pretty barebones. Something like what old reddit does would be great.
phist_mcgee commented on React is winning by default and slowing innovation   lorenstew.art/blog/react-... · Posted by u/dbushell
gorbypark · 3 months ago
What keeps me and a lot of people/companies on React is React Native (and React Native web / strict dom). I'm sure we could move over to Svelt or Vue or any other number of frameworks on the web, however having a shared codebase and/or shared components across native and web is a game changer and not currently possible with anything but React.
phist_mcgee · 3 months ago
100% agree.

Our react/react-native monorepo has been a pleasure to work with and has massively reduced the overhead for development with a limited number of staff.

phist_mcgee commented on Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults   bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentr... · Posted by u/redbell
nicce · 3 months ago
Does someone have a medicine for negative thinking?
phist_mcgee · 3 months ago
Take a look at stoicism. Not the pop modern version but the ancient roman and greek traditions of Seneca, Epictitus, and Marcus Aurelius.

Essentially letting go of controlling our lives in ways that cause suffering. Accepting that bad things can and do happen. Realising that life is temporary and we should focus ourselves on things in our power that make us a person of better character. Everything else is out of our control and should be accepted without judgement.

It's brought a lot of comfort to me over the years.

phist_mcgee commented on Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed   zed.dev/blog/claude-code-... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
jackhuman · 4 months ago
Zed has really good vim bindings + mix of native shortcuts making a powerful workflow. The window management keyboard shortcuts are great and is the main reason I switched from some vscode use. Its kind of what I wanted neovim + tmux to be with less work and setup.

Zed doesn’t have file delete undo and I found the AI autocomplete to be so bad I had to turn it off. I still use vscode for work. Zed is kind of in a purgatory state where its lacking in way to be a main for many folks but its close. Just the AI focus is sadly the best way for it to keep investments going, but are really not the top things I think Zed needs.

phist_mcgee · 4 months ago
I wish it natively supported vimrc, I dislike having to rewrite all my bindings in zed format.
phist_mcgee commented on Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)   github.com/universal-tool... · Posted by u/edweis
donperignon · 4 months ago
nah, i am too old, i already know that this is not useful and it will generate security issues in the short term.
phist_mcgee · 4 months ago
Wow, must be amazing to be the first omniscient human being!
phist_mcgee commented on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context   anthropic.com/news/1m-con... · Posted by u/adocomplete
rootusrootus · 4 months ago
If you are suggesting that LLMs are proving quite good at taking over the low skilled work that probably 90% of devs spend the majority of their time doing, I totally agree. It is the simplest explanation for why many people think they are magic, while some people find very little value.

On the occasion that I find myself having to write web code for whatever reason, I'm very happy to have Claude. I don't enjoy coding for the web, like at all.

phist_mcgee · 4 months ago
What a supremely arrogant comment.

u/phist_mcgee

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