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tossandthrow commented on Malleable Software   mdubakov.me/malleable-sof... · Posted by u/tablet
movedx · 13 hours ago
> Employees, current and prospect, know how to work with the tool.

Just an FYI, this isn't the case at all. I've contracted and consulted at well over 20+ business at this point, and no one knows how-to use that hot garbage.

tossandthrow · 11 hours ago
Let me rephrase that to "be familiar with" then.
tossandthrow commented on Malleable Software   mdubakov.me/malleable-sof... · Posted by u/tablet
tossandthrow · 13 hours ago
Yes and no.

Malleability is opposed to institution. When everything is hyper malleable everybody will need to be trained and change management will take up a large proportion of time.

The main reason why a lot of people go with Jira is not quality of the software - but the institutional buy-in. Employees, current and prospect, know how to work with the tool.

The greater change is likely labor disruption.

tossandthrow commented on Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/apple... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
mensetmanusman · 3 days ago
Free market doesn’t plan for irrational wars.
tossandthrow · 3 days ago
They absolutely do.

You have likely not experienced it as governments and monetary systems have absorbed these risks (ie. they have moved them elsewhere, hidden away, until some major explosion happens).

tossandthrow commented on Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/apple... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
monero-xmr · 3 days ago
Also the water doesn’t disappear from the universe. It either evaporates or is pumped back out. People who lose their minds over water have been saying for 50 years we were about to enter a desert world
tossandthrow · 3 days ago
You should definitely bring this attitude into the housing affordability discussion - remind people that they indeed can find cheap housing in rural Africa.
tossandthrow commented on What is going on right now?   catskull.net/what-the-hel... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
donatj · 5 days ago
I was reviewing a coworkers code recently. It was this convoluted multidimensional array manipulation that was shuffling, sorting, and filtering all at the same time. It had a totally generic name like "prepareData". I asked for an explanation of what the function was doing and he snapped back that I should ask an LLM instead of wasting his time.

It's been a couple weeks, but I am still irritated.

I am asking you, the person who supposedly wrote this, what it does. When you submit your code for review, that's among the most basic questions you should be prepared to answer.

tossandthrow · 5 days ago
Ask the LLM, attribute the LLMs response to him, and just post the feedback you have after 20 messages back and forth on the PR.

When he gets back and don't understand the feedback, then you can conveniently ask him to ask an LLM and not waste your time.

tossandthrow commented on What is going on right now?   catskull.net/what-the-hel... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
tossandthrow · 5 days ago
If I go into a PR that requires a lot of feedback, I will usually stop after 5 - 10 pieces of feedback and let the author know that it is not ready for review, and needs to be further developed.

I am OK with the author using AI heavily. But if I continue to see slop, I will continue to review less and send it back.

In the end, if the engineer is fiddling around for too long, they don't get any work in, which is a performance issue.

I am always available to help out the colleague to write understand the system and write code.

For me, the key is to not accept to review AI slop just like I do not accept reviewing other types of slop.

If something is recognized as slop, it is not ready to be reviews.

This puts an upwards pressure on developers to deliver better code.

tossandthrow commented on I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform   old.reddit.com/r/Entrepre... · Posted by u/bilsbie
dcastonguay · 6 days ago
> At the end of it, they were sketching a completely different architecture without my "PMing". Because they finally understood who was actually using our product.

I cannot help but read this whole experience as: “We forced an engineer to take sales calls and we found out that the issue was that our PMs are doing a terrible job communicating between customer and engineering, and our DevOps engineer is more capable/actionable at turning customer needs into working solutions.”

tossandthrow · 6 days ago
On the contrary, this pm did provide engineering a valuable lesson, they likely need to repeat every year or so - call it user training, it's a bit like sec training.
tossandthrow commented on 'Reading crisis' prompts Denmark to end 25% tax on books   rte.ie/news/world/2025/08... · Posted by u/austinallegro
z3t4 · 7 days ago
The cheif/over-engineerer will account for variable tax rates in the future, especially if they plan to sell their erp system in other countries.
tossandthrow · 6 days ago
Not only that, but this person will account for arbitrary VAT schemes and embed a small, but Turing complete, dsl to calculate the vat rate.
tossandthrow commented on 'Reading crisis' prompts Denmark to end 25% tax on books   rte.ie/news/world/2025/08... · Posted by u/austinallegro
Ekaros · 7 days ago
VAT rate can and does change. As such it can be different on different dates. And this change might not even correspond to change of year. So it really has no place in code.
tossandthrow · 7 days ago
The US is used to this as the rate changes between states and product categories - it is not reasonable to adopt this view onto other VAT systems.

You can not transfer categorical statements like you do.

tossandthrow commented on 'Reading crisis' prompts Denmark to end 25% tax on books   rte.ie/news/world/2025/08... · Posted by u/austinallegro
mlinhares · 7 days ago
Insane that technical debt and general incompetency in software can produce such unexpected side effects.
tossandthrow · 7 days ago
Why the general incompetency added on?

Ad the other commenter wrote: The 25% is assumed - this has nothing to do with competence but to what level an assumption is true.

Everybody can point fingers at 25 year old code and call the developers incompetent because surrounding requirements have changed.

u/tossandthrow

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