Ben @thescriptedone

Software engineering isn't going away because engineering is mostly about about picking the next big unsolved puzzle and solving it. Software engineers are some of the most versatile problem solvers.

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Ben @thescriptedone

2 months ago

@om_patel5 Trash, engagement bait. We truly need to bring shame back in societies.

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DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm

2 months ago

A newly found bright spot on the moon has been named Carroll by the Artemis II crew. This is named after astronaut Reid Wiseman's late wife.

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Every single one of you sick degenerates is responsible for this. No 15 year old should be like this. No 15 year old should be a founder, should be trying to move to SF, should be raising VC. This is sick and perverse and it’s not his fault but the failure of the adults around him.

Thomas Guthrie @realthomasgu

3 months ago

I’m putting my ego on the line for this. $0 to $100,000 in 100 days. Day 1 starts tomorrow.

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Ben @thescriptedone

3 months ago

It’s not to say that LLMs / Current AI technology isn’t useful—I use it everyday. But it’s just a tool, not a miracle that I fear many in position more powerful than me think it is

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Ben @thescriptedone

3 months ago

I’m still unsure if this wave of AI is truly a revolutionary breakthrough or if we are, as an industry, in a collective AI psychosis that’ll take months/years to realize. It’s been years. All the hype implies that this is groundbreaking—but zero economic data proves that so far.

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Jessie Frazelle @jessfraz

3 months ago

I give it less than 6 months before Garry stops preaching LOC and starts preaching maintainable code bases. And with that one move he will go from junior engineer to a bit more senior. We watching his Eng journey live 🍿

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ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen

4 months ago

I have been thinking about this a lot. I think for a great many of engineers, the ones who did it because they loved it only to discover that money was in fact at the end of the rainbow found both the journey and the destination satisfying. In fact, I think I can argue with authority that the destination was only satisfying as the journey was difficult. The hard-fought evenings spent toiling away on an idea and codebase that slowly gives way to your vision was an incredible experience. The group of people that fell into this category of hard-fought journey and destination we will call them tinkerers. One thing tinkerers have always hated is the already known problems. The journey is clear as day. The obstacles minor inconveniences. Its purely a matter of typing the solution into the terminal. This is also why I think so many of this group goes out and does open source, or starts companies. Work largely falls into this category with few exceptions. From this reason is why I largely find UI work soul sucking. I know the solution, its a matter of just looking up the details and putting it into my editor. yawn. CSS, flex box this, grid that, put the tailwind classes in the bag. To me, the LLM software world is with little to no journey and discovery. Its more of simply taking my high level idea and just formulating it into testable, atomic chunks that can be verified. I have traded my favorite part, discovery and raw creation, with itemized list of TODOs and patience and "No Mistakes." To this, every morning from 6 to 9 I simply just hand code every thin. even UI things. It is because I want journey and discovery and raw creation. Maybe one day comes and its just so futile that I stop this. But for now, I still see such great value in this. I see such better thought through products. Because slowing down and truly thinking through everything. The architecture, the design, everything is an expression of discovery and creation. And I love it. I am sure there will come a day, maybe even in the next 6 months where I change my mind. For now, I pursue the love of the game intentionally. I do also believe that there exists people who get the same joy I got from building with tears and sweat by prompting LLMs. I am positive of it. I just don't understand how. But people love UI work. I also don't understand that.

Adam @adamdotdev

4 months ago

Programming was deeply satisfying work to me. Work for hours/days before getting the payoff of the code working well on your machine. I’m feeling so much friction now to open the editor and do this kind of task by hand, but also increasingly depressed with the nature of work in

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Ben @thescriptedone

4 months ago

@sama desperation.

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Ben @thescriptedone

4 months ago

@ChrSzegedy @Grady_Booch delusional

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Ben @thescriptedone

4 months ago

@snowmaker LLMs is a phenomenal tool I will continue to use daily in all of my work-streams. Changing software engineering in 3 months over 30 years is a blatantly blind opinion.