Yes, let's look to the founder of Palantir for life advice. Great plan.
He'd be fairly good for business advice though
Readit NewszeroCalories commented on Competition is not market validation ablg.io/blog/competition-... · Posted by u/tonioab
zeroCalories commented on There is an AI code review bubble greptile.com/blog/ai-code... · Posted by u/dakshgupta
Style guidelines should be enforced automatically. Leaving that for humans to verify is a recipe for conflict and frustration.
Ideally yes, but there's plenty of cases where that's not desirable or possible.
For example, most people would agree you should use exhaustive checks when possible(matching in rust, records in typescript, etc.). But how do you enforce that? Ban other types of control flow? But even if you find a good balanced way to enforce it, you won't always want to enforce it. There's plenty of good use cases where you explicitly don't want a check to be exhaustive. At which point now you gotta make sure there's an escape mechanism to whatever crackhead check you've setup. Better to just leave a comment with a link to your style guide explaining why this is done. Many experienced developers that are new to rust or typescript simply never think of things like this, so it's worthwhile to document it.
zeroCalories commented on There is an AI code review bubble greptile.com/blog/ai-code... · Posted by u/dakshgupta
Yeah or worse like my boss. We don't have a style guide. But he always wants style changes in every PR, and those style changes are some times contradictory across different PRs.
Eventually I've told him "if your comment does not affect performance or business logic, I'm ignoring it". He finally got the message. The fact that he accepted this tells me that deep down he knew his comments were just bike shedding.
You should have a style guide, or adopt one. Having uniform code is incredibly valuable as it greatly reduces the cognitive load of reading it. Same reason that Go's verbose "err != nil" works so well.
zeroCalories commented on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand atmoio.substack.com/p/aft... · Posted by u/mobitar
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. I am getting code that works from Opus 4.5. It seems like people are living in two separate worlds.
It depends heavily on the scope and type of problem. If you're putting together a standard isolated TypeScript app from scratch it can do wonders, but many large systems are spread between multiple services, use abstractions unique to the project, and are generally dealing with far stricter requirements. I couldn't depend on Claude to do some of the stuff I'd really want, like refactor the shared code between six massive files without breaking tests. The space I can still have it work productively in is still fairly limited.
zeroCalories commented on The future of software engineering is SRE swizec.com/blog/the-futur... · Posted by u/Swizec
By "SRE", are people actually talking about "QA"?
SREs usually don't know the first thing about whether particular logic within the product is working according to a particular set of business requirements. That's just not their role.
Most companies don't have QA anymore, just their CI/CD's automated tests.
zeroCalories commented on Vibe coding kills open source arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494... · Posted by u/kgwgk
But as a heart surgeon, why would you ever consider using a spoon for the job? AI/LLMs are just a tool. Your professional experience should tell you if it is the right tool. This is where industry experience comes in.
As a heart surgeon with a phobia of sharp things I've found spoons to be great for surgery. If you find it unproductive it's probably a skill issue on your part.
zeroCalories commented on Vibe coding kills open source arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494... · Posted by u/kgwgk
> it struggles
It does not struggle, you struggle. It is a tool you are using, and it is doing exactly what you're telling it to do. Tools take time to learn, and that's fine. Blaming the tools is counterproductive.
If the code is well documented, at a high level and with inline comments, and if your instructions are clear, it'll figure it out. If it makes a mistake, it's up to you to figure out where the communication broke down and figure out how to communicate more clearly and consistently.
Not all tools are right for all jobs. My spoon struggles to perform open heart surgery.
zeroCalories commented on Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced github.com/anthropics/ori... · Posted by u/myahio
I have foregone our take home for exceptional candidates, but let me ask you, do you also demand compensation for in person or zoom call 1-1 interviews? Surely thats the same time of your life.
It signals a degree of investment from the other side if they're willing to burn their own time talking to you. I can understand a small screening process to filter candidates, but I'm not going to do your silly dance for multiple hours if you're not going to do it with me.
zeroCalories commented on Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced github.com/anthropics/ori... · Posted by u/myahio
It shocks me that anyone supposedly good enough for anthropic would subject themselves to such a one sided waste of time.
Basically, people need to evaluate news as a utility, not a service or something that will just reach them. Definitely not entertainment. That means you need to evaluate the accuracy, and vote with your wallet. Any free, or publicly available option, will be compermised, because they're not aligned with your interests.