teiferer (u/teiferer)

teiferer commented on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/... · Posted by u/Wilsoniumite

estimator7292 · 11 days ago

None of that is true. Not one word of this applies anymore. Being highly skilled means you're highly paid, which puts you first in line for cuts. Talent doesn't get you hired, networks do. "Future earning potential" is just nonsense words, you can't eat "future earning potential".

This advice is from half a century ago. The times have moved on.

teiferer · 10 days ago

What's your advice then, if it's not investing in your hireability?

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

suralind · 11 days ago

I'm not saying my approach is correct, keep that in mind.

I care more about the code than the tests. Tests are verification of my work. And yes, there is a risk of AI "navigating around" bugs, but I found that a lot of the time AI will actually spot a bug and suggest a fix. I also review each line to look for improvements.

Edit: to answer your question, I will typically ask it to test a specific test case or few test cases. Very rarely will I ask it to "add tests everywhere". Yes, these tests frequently fail and the agent will fix on 2nd+ iteration after it runs the tests.

One more thing to add is that a lot of the time agent will add a "dummy" test. I don't really accept those for coverage's sake.

teiferer · 11 days ago

Thanks for your responses!

A follow-up:

> I care more about the code than the tests.

Why is that? Your (product) code has tests. Your test (code) doesn't. So I often find that I need to pay at least as much attention to my tests to ensure quality.

teiferer commented on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/... · Posted by u/Wilsoniumite

johnnyanmac · 11 days ago

Are the ones newer to the workforce just screwed or is there a way out? Kinda sucks that all this went down around 6-7 years into my tenure and it's just been a few years of scraping together freelance + portfolio projects to try and climb out of tbis rut.

(This might sadly be rhetorical given what I hear of '08, but perhaps there are new channels open to take advantage of. Or at least old channels to raise awareness of).

teiferer · 11 days ago

6-7 years of experience make you prime material for employment in the sw industry. Experience but not too expensive/entitled yet.

Have you considered applying?

teiferer commented on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/... · Posted by u/Wilsoniumite

Noaidi · 11 days ago

Gold and silver mining stocks. And International ETF funds. It looks like the United States will be going through the depression alone.

teiferer · 11 days ago

Buy high, sell low. Excellent result when you follow the masses, especially when being a little late.

teiferer commented on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/... · Posted by u/Wilsoniumite

SchwKatze · 11 days ago

I'm kinda new into economy crashes, was a kid in 2008, is there a way to protect of it?

teiferer · 11 days ago

Skill. Knowledge. At your age, your biggest assert is your future earnings potential. The more employable you are, the better you will make iduring and after a downturn. In fact, the highest skill folks tend to even profit from hiccups in the economy.

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

emil-lp · 11 days ago

I worked as an "advisor" for programmers in a large company. Our mantra there was that programming and development of software is mainly acquiring knowledge (ie learning?).

One take-away for us from that viewpoint was that knowledge in fact is more important than the lines of code in the repo. We'd rather lose the source code than the knowledge of our workers, so to speak.

Another point is that when you use consultants, you get lines of codes, whereas the consultancy company ends up with the knowledge!

... And so on.

So, I wholeheartedly agree that programming is learning!

teiferer · 11 days ago

> We'd rather lose the source code than the knowledge of our workers, so to speak.

Isn't large amounts of required institutional knowledge typically a problem?

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

suralind · 11 days ago

No surprise, really. You can use AI to explore new horizons or propose an initial sketch, but for anything larger than small changes - you must do a rewrite. Not just a review. An actual rewrite. AI can do well adding a function, but you can't vibe code an app and get smarter.

I don't necessarily think that writing more code means you get better coder. I automate nearly all my tests with AI and large chunk of bugfixing as well. I will regularly ask AI to propose an architecture or introduce a new pattern if I don't have a goal in my mind. But in these last 2 examples, I will always redesign the entire approach to be what I consider a better, cleaner interface. I don't recall AI ever getting that right, but must admit I asked AI in the first place cos I didn't know where to start.

If I had to summarize, I would say to let AI implement coding, but not API design/architecture. But at the same time, you can only get good at those by knowing what doesn't work and trying to find a better solution.

teiferer · 11 days ago

> I automate nearly all my tests with AI

How exactly? Do you tell the agent "please write a test for this" or do you also feed it some form of spec to describe what the tested thing is expected to do? And do these tests ever fail?

Asking because the first option essentially just sets the bugs in stone.

Wouldn't it make sense to do it the other way around? You write the test, let the AI generate the code? The test essentially represents the spec and if the AI produces sth which passes all your tests but is still not what you want, then you have a test hole.

teiferer commented on Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/wubin

krferriter · 13 days ago

I agree with this. Hopefully they're able to track down who did this. To upload to ADS-B Exchange you need an account. But it's not that difficult to get one. I'm not sure what kind of information they may be able to get on it. As you say the person who uploaded this may not be anywhere near there. The aggregators probably should have heuristics like if only one feeder in an area with a decent density of feeder coverage uploads an anomalous track, it should get flagged.

teiferer · 13 days ago

> Hopefully they're able to track down who did this.

Why? Was anybody harmed?

Hopefully they don't find out who did this. There was never any danger, and without this kind of joke, the world would be less fun.

(Obviously it should be harder to fool critical systems, so this served also as a warning, but if you want to attack such a system, a real bad guy would do this in more subtle ways.)

teiferer commented on Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle geometrycode.com/free/how... · Posted by u/peter_d_sherman

keeganpoppen · 13 days ago

wow that is gorgeous. this is the kind of thing that convinces me that the golden ratio is a fundamental, natural construct, rather than merely a mathematical abstraction. not that the typical construction itself doesn’t make me think that— the way it is constructed absolutely lends itself to natural, physical explanation that is almost too natural to ignore.

teiferer · 13 days ago

In your mind, what is the difference between a mathematical abstraction and a natural construct?

Asking because to me, any mathematical abstraction is a natural construct. Math isn't invented, it's discovered.

teiferer commented on AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release aisle.com/blog/aisle-disc... · Posted by u/mmsc

bandrami · 14 days ago

It's... really just not, though

teiferer · 14 days ago

There are isolated islands of reliable, high quality, low bug, well maintained software. The rest is crap.