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Readit Newsphotios commented on Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English codespeak.dev/... · Posted by u/souvlakee
photios commented on Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers tokyodev.com/articles/wor... · Posted by u/zdw
> What's preventing Japanese engineers from doing the same?
The fact they don't really need it in their life (or job). English is definitely necessary if you work service jobs in Tokyo (to deal with tourists), but not much anywhere else.
Japanese is one of a handful of languages where one can complete a postdoc entirely within the language. Many languages are not like this. e.g. in the Phillipines, STEM subjects are almost entirely taught in English, since Tagalog simply doesn't have words to describe most of the concepts. The result is something like 90% of the coursework being in English, with random Tagalog words mixed in. The concept is called "Taglish" if I recall correctly.
This is unnecessary in countries like Japan, China, South Korea, etc. If you're applying to a graduate school in Japan (or China, or Korea), expecting to receive education in English is actually the edge-case, not the expectation.
Also, at least in my company, there is an interesting trend where people are deciding learning English isn't really necessary since AI translation has gotten "good enough" for most use cases.
> The fact they don't really need it in their life (or job). English is definitely necessary if you work service jobs in Tokyo (to deal with tourists), but not much anywhere else.
But the linked article seems to imply the opposite. I mean, working with an English PM sure sounds like the language is one of the job's core competencies.
photios commented on Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers tokyodev.com/articles/wor... · Posted by u/zdw
photios commented on Poor Deming never stood a chance surfingcomplexity.blog/20... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
For the millionth time, would it kill ya to spell out the abbreviation the first time you use it? My googling suggests we're talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectives_and_key_results , but my googling isn't always right.
I envy people that haven't had to deal with the OKR crap in "modern" IT orgs. :D
photios commented on The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns nibzard.com/agentic-handb... · Posted by u/SouravInsights
Sadly we have some partnership meaning it's Copilot or nothing.
I feel your pain. I used to work for a bank and the security team only approved Copilot use.
OpenCode can use Copilot natively: https://opencode.ai/docs/providers/#github-copilot
I got Claude Code running with Copilot APIs via the LiteLLM proxy, but it was a pain in the butt. Just use OpenCode.
photios commented on The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns nibzard.com/agentic-handb... · Posted by u/SouravInsights
All of this might as well be greek to me. I use ChatGPT and copy paste code snippets. Which was bleeding edge a year or two ago, and now it feels like banging rocks together when reading these types of articles. I never had any luck integrating agents, MCP, using tools etc.
Like if I'm not ready to jump on some AI-spiced up special IDE, am I then going to just be left banging rocks together? It feels like some of these AI agent companies just decided "Ok we can't adopt this into the old IDE's so we'll build a new special IDE"?_Or did I just use the wrong tools (I use Rider and VS, and I have only tried Copilot so far, but feel the "agent mode" of Copilot in those IDE's is basically useless).
Copilot's agent mode is a disaster. Use better tools: try Claude Code or OpenCode (my favorite).
It's a new ecosystem with its own (atrocious!) jargon that you need to learn. The good news is that it's not hard to do so. It's not as complex or revolutionary as everyone makes it look like. Everything boils down to techniques and frameworks of collecting context/prompt before handing it over to the model.
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I got back to briefly [1] playing Aardwolf this (2025) summer. It's still VERY good!
[1] ~50 lvls on my paladin char.
photios commented on Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything github.com/mutable-state-... · Posted by u/austinbaggio
Can it run with a local DB? I have zero interest in another monthly subscription pretending to be "an open source tool".
https://codespeak.dev/blog/greenfield-project-tutorial-20260...