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reedf1 commented on Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees longevity.stanford.edu/wh... · Posted by u/andsoitis

rr808 · 4 days ago

I'm now in my 50s. I tried management but prefer working as an IC. I think I'm good but I know most companies would never hire me. One thing I do now is try to look after all the youngest grads and new joiners. Its so cutthroat now it seems no one has time to help anyone else, so I like helping people get up and running and encouraging them to enjoy their work while being productive and getting their skills up. No one else seems to care.

reedf1 · 4 days ago

I had someone like you in my early life as a soft-eng and they made a huge impact on me personally and professionally. You will be remembered beautifully.

reedf1 commented on Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level uni-bonn.de/en/news/017-2... · Posted by u/brandonb

wgjordan · 10 days ago

It's well known that an oatmeal diet lowers cholesterol (the article itself cites a 1907 'oat cure' in its intro). The new finding here is insight into the exact mechanism- a short-term, high-dose oatmeal diet (300g/day for two days) had significantly greater LDL-lowering effect than a medium-term, moderate-dose oatmeal diet (80g/day for six weeks), and they associated the difference with increases in several plasma phenolic compounds triggered by specific changes in the gut microbiome.

reedf1 · 10 days ago

What does the practical implementation of this look like? One 'oatmeal-day' a week ? Two?

reedf1 commented on How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills anthropic.com/research/AI... · Posted by u/vismit2000

reedf1 · 10 days ago

This is a fancy way of saying that if you invent the calculator, people get worse at sums. I'm not an AI doomer or a boomer - but it's clear to me that some skills will be permanently relegated to AI.

reedf1 commented on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand atmoio.substack.com/p/aft... · Posted by u/mobitar

mossTechnician · 14 days ago

GitHub copilot was released in 2021, and Cursor was released around October 2023[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37888477

reedf1 · 14 days ago

Early cursor was just integrated chat and code completion. No agents.

reedf1 commented on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand atmoio.substack.com/p/aft... · Posted by u/mobitar

dfajgljsldkjag · 14 days ago

The term was coined then, but people have been doing it with claude code and cursor and copilot and other tools for longer. They just didn't have a word for it yet.

reedf1 · 14 days ago

Claude Code was released a month after this post - and cursor did not yet have an agent concept, mostly just integrated chat and code completion. I know because I was using it.

reedf1 commented on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand atmoio.substack.com/p/aft... · Posted by u/mobitar

reedf1 · 14 days ago

Karpathy coined the term vibecoding 11 months ago (https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383). It caused quite a stir - because not only was it was a radically new concept, but fully agentic coding had only become recently possible. You've been vibe coding for two years??

reedf1 commented on What has Docker become? tuananh.net/2026/01/20/wh... · Posted by u/tuananh

gregoryl · 17 days ago

  For a while, Docker seemed to focus on developer experience.

ahh yes, docker desktop, where the error messages are "something went wrong", and the primary debugging step is to wipe it, uninstall, and reinstall.

reedf1 · 17 days ago

It is honestly incredible that such an important part of the Windows dev process is nearly unusable. It is easily the most fickle and opaque bit of software that I am required to depend upon.

reedf1 commented on How AI destroys institutions cyberlaw.stanford.edu/pub... · Posted by u/JeanKage

FromTheFirstIn · 19 days ago

Ah yes, it’s not an earnest critique that the tech is destabilizing and isolating. It’s a conspiracy! Thank you. For a moment there I thought I’d have to examine my own beliefs!

reedf1 · 19 days ago

This type of reflexive snark is just shite; I'm so bored of it. Things can be both earnest and compelled - right? I agree with you, and still hold my opinion.

reedf1 commented on How AI destroys institutions cyberlaw.stanford.edu/pub... · Posted by u/JeanKage

reedf1 · 19 days ago

In other words: the penny finally dropped for lawyers. The next decade will be every knowledge field actively conspiring against AI.

reedf1 commented on Banning Things for Other People Is Easy dogdogfish.com/blog/2026/... · Posted by u/matthewsharpe3

reedf1 · 25 days ago

This isn't a one way door. It's a warranted societal experiment. Re-eval in 5 years, ask the kids, compare to other countries... this sort of do-nothing hand wringing is why we stagnate.

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Trained as a Physicist.

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