Up to now, my attempts at doing what the author claims to be possible ends up in a broken piece of code that the agent only makes worse when asked to debug, and finally it wont even compile. There seems to be a threshold of difficulty above which the agent will go bug-runaway. I honestly haven't seen this threshold going up. If anything, it seems to be saturating.
Readit Newssasaf5 commented on Coding agents have crossed a chasm blog.singleton.io/posts/2... · Posted by u/simonpure
Org mode versioned with git.
Every issue at work becomes an item in this org, and all information relevant to the issue goes there: emails, chats, code snippets, documentation paragraphs, etc...
It's amazing how clearer things become, and how quickly you can get back in action if the issue resurfaces a few years later.
sasaf5 commented on My Struggle with Doom Scrolling allthatjazz.me/posts/doom... · Posted by u/saeedesmaili
I don't have this problem. Recommendation algorithms disgust me so much that I end up closing the site/app in anger.
sasaf5 commented on Master the Art of the Product Manager 'No' LetsNotDoThat.com... · Posted by u/mikhaill
Yes, until all managers become "idea anti-bodies" and the winner is who can push all work to other teams. The company coasts along while its cash cows live.
sasaf5 commented on GLP-1s are among the most important drug breakthroughs economist.com/briefing/20... · Posted by u/car
I find it philosophical that suddenly everyone wants to take a medicine to stop wanting food. "I want to not want, but I can't help but wanting, so I want a medicine to make me stop wanting..."
sasaf5 commented on Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021) slate.com/technology/2021... · Posted by u/dotcoma
> It also told me that it had permanently disabled my Facebook account—an account that I’d had for more than 15 years, and that was my primary way of staying in touch with family and friends around the world.
You don't need Facebook for that. Write down a list of the people you care about and contact them with some frequency, at least on their birthday.
sasaf5 commented on AI copilots are changing how coding is taught spectrum.ieee.org/ai-codi... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Early 2023, when everyone started using chat GPT for coding, I thought it would be a big boost because it enabled us to quickly employ a large number of people in a project regardless of language or framework.
An year into the project I am forced to revise my opinion. When browsing my code-base I often stumble in abstruse niche solutions for problems that should not have existed. It was clearly the work of someone inexperienced walking through walls in an AI-fuelled coding frenzy.
Having an oracle that knows all answers is useless if you don't know what to ask.
sasaf5 commented on My 25-year engineering career retrospective hybridhacker.email/p/my-2... · Posted by u/thunderbong
> The advice I would give, is: Do what you are passionate about, what really interests you.
I don't mean to offend, and I'm happy for you that you've been so successful, but the advice does not make sense for people whose interest is not in popular demand.
For example, there are many failed artists out there, and it would be more helpful to these people if they were given realistic advice early on.
Finally, I meet a lot of young people (developers as well), who do not know exactly what their passions are. They are quite miserable in feeling lost, searching for their "true passion" -- which they probably simply don't have.
Also, I have seen several times someone "following their passion" and doing something that was not required by the business. The end result is a huge mess of overcomplicated things that doesn't do what was needed and no one else can fix.
Many times the business just needs a boring old solution for a tedious problem that no one would be passionate about, and it's normal to engage in that kind of grind.
I would change that advice to "do what you are passionate about, among the things that the business needs, and understand that sometimes you just can't do that".
On the other hand I have seen several devs who were just good at quickly tackling whatever was necessary at the moment and became very successful without ever showing a sign of passion for computing. For them it's just a craft and they go do some hobby after that.
The same issue plagues many private companies. I’ve seen employees spend days drafting documents that a free tool like Mistral could generate in seconds, leaving them 30-60 minutes to review and refine. There's a lot of resistance from the public. They're probably thinking that their job will be saved if they refuse to adopt AI tools.
What I have seen is employees spending days asking the model again and again to actually generate the document they need, and then submit it without reviewing it, only for a problem to explode a month later because no one noticed a glaring absurdity in the middle of the AI-polished garbage.
AI is the worst kind of liar: a bullshitter.