The apologists be damned. This article nails it. A grand reduction. Not a bicycle; a set of training wheels.
Where is the dignity in all of this?
Readit Newsthor_molecules commented on Breaking Up with On-Call reflector.dev/articles/br... · Posted by u/0xlosh
This is exactly why I gave up a position as a full stack / devops engineer in favor of going back to low level drivers - there were too many unknowns, and far too many unknown unknowns often paired with expectations of prompt (and cheap) solutions to complicated issues.
Technically it was interesting and challenging, but in terms of stress just not worth it. You could pay me twice my current salary and I still would not go back to it. Now I try to place myself as far away from paying customers as technically possible.
> ...far too many unknown unknowns often paired with expectations of prompt (and cheap) solutions to complicated issues.
That describes pretty much all of my "full-stack" experience.
What sort of job/background do you have where you are writing low level drivers? I'd love to get into that side of things but I don't know where to start.
thor_molecules commented on Career Advice in 2025 lethain.com/career-advice... · Posted by u/herbertl
> Many people who first entered senior roles in 2010-2020 are finding current roles a lot less fun.
This resonates with me.
I find that the current crop of new tech (AI) produces a lot of cognitive dissonance for me in my day-to-day work.
Most initiatives/projects/whatever around AI seems to be of the "digging your own grave" variety - making tools to replace software engineers.
Definitely not fun.
thor_molecules commented on Why “alias” is my last resort for aliases evanhahn.com/why-alias-is... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I reach for the ~/bin/thing approach when I want the utility to be useable from vim.
For example, if I define an alias thing, vim won't know about it.
But as a executable on my $PATH, I can do any of the following:
:%!thing
:'<'>!thing
:.!thing
#!/bin/sh
python -m json.tool --indent 2
:%!fmtjson
Thanks for the suggestion! The plugin currently supports toggling between <Leader>/<C-*> via USE_LEADER config flag. I will add a field in the config file for more customizability (e.g., "KEYBINDINGS": {"mapl":"<C-a>", "mapj":"<Leader>o", ...} in cfg.json).
https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive/blob/b068eaf1e6cbe35d1... for reference, an example from a tpope plugin
Consider exposing commands that the user can then assign to their own preferred keybindings instead of choosing for them
thor_molecules commented on Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs? · Posted by u/throwaway_43793
After reading the comments, the themes I'm seeing are:
- AI will provide a big mess for wizards to clean up
- AI will replace juniors and then seniors within a short timeframe
- AI will soon plateau and the bubble will burst
- "Pshaw I'm not paid to code; I'm a problem solver"
- AI is useless in the face of true coding mastery
It is interesting to me that this forum of expert technical people are so divided on this (broad) subject.
If you ever find yourself interested in living in a NetBSD system, check out the SDF: sdf.org
the SuperDimensionalFortress has been around since the 80s and is now one of the largest installations of NetBSD in the US/world. Membership gets you such perks as: email address, a private (invite-only) Mastodon instance, a hosted Matrix instance, and more.
While you aren't an administrator on the SDF instance, you can definitely get a sense of what it's like. Different membership tiers get you access to different tools: Free users don't get IRC outbound, MetaARPA members are granted access to the big disk store and hosted websites and even development tools.
That's very interesting! Love finding little nooks and crannies like this
thor_molecules commented on Famous Programers with Repetitive Strain Injury (2022) xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/e... · Posted by u/Lammy
I’ve been strongly considering a split keyboard recently, and have been looking at (and loving the ergonomics of) the Moonlander, but struggle to reason paying $365 when every keyboard I’ve bought in the past has been <$80. Do you by chance know of any cheaper alternatives with similar ergonomics?
I have an iris, I would highly recommend.
Similar to a Moonlander (not as many keys though).
https://keeb.io/collections/iris-split-ergonomic-keyboard/pr...
LLM’s are inherently non-deterministic. In my anecdotal experience, most software boils down to an attempt to codify some sort of descision tree into automation that can produce a reliable result. So the “reliable” part isn’t there yet (and may never be?).
Then you have the problem of motivation. Where is the motivation to get better at what you do when your manager just wants you to babysit copilot and skim over diffs as quickly as possible?
Not a great epoch for being a tech worker right imo.