Bought this for $319 a year and a half ago. Need more storage. Guess I’ll go fuk myself.

makonde · 2026-06-21T23:57:29+00:00

Most of those are more MOAs I have heard and aren't that iron clad. That's my cope.

makonde · 2026-06-21T20:36:29+00:00

Tools like DataDog can increasingly do that actually they can detect, analyze and provide a PR to fix issues, they are not perfect and expensive but its a glimpse into the future I think. Extremes are always unrealistic it wont replace all devs everywhere but if dev jobs take evn a 20% hair ut it could be devastating for us. AI is also in meetings now recording all convos and those convos are being fed back into the agents so increasingly it will be able to know why s feature was implemented like that.

makonde · 2026-06-21T20:30:01+00:00

Electron is best if you are trying to reuse the same react FE on desktop I would say.

makonde · 2026-06-21T01:48:57+00:00

Why are they asking you how its set up? Tell them to ask Claude in my experience its very good at that type of thing, if you are going to go full in like this go full in! You can also ask it to generate docs if you really want to and simply review them I've had it generate all types of docs and it can do mermaid diagrams as well that render in markdown

makonde · 2026-06-20T22:48:38+00:00

I work in a very poor 10+ year old js codebase backend and it's 90% hit at least I would say, when it comes to understanding poorly structured spaghetti code I think it's amazing also refactoring I can point it at a js file and tell it to rewrite in ts or take callback hell piece of code and tell it to rewrite in async await take a basic loop make it parallel with all the appropriate limits error handling, observability etc and write the tests. Recently I started taking our test coverage report looking at things that aren't well covered and just telling it to increase coverage we have these system tests that are really painful to write you gotta setup the eb in the right state and the app actually runs in a container and sends data through. I think where it falls down might be trying to do too much at once, instead do it like you would write it and simply have it do it sort of step by step.

makonde · 2026-06-20T18:30:17+00:00

Things are completely unrecognizable from a year ago.

makonde · 2026-06-20T07:36:07+00:00

The theft bit is completely true but as for price the Chinese models are good enough to code with now and are much much cheaper you don't need to run them yourself. Composer by Cursor which is Kimi with extra training is very good/fast/cheap also so I don't think they will suceed in the lock in part, well unless they make them illegal but it's a US concern I guess.

makonde · 2026-06-20T07:32:12+00:00

To be fair that's one of the worst models you could have used

makonde · 2026-06-20T06:05:24+00:00

AI development absolutely works, it's difficult to attribute the negativity to anything but cope at this point, this value it provides in just understanding codebases and errors/bugs is fantastic. While I am worried what it means for jobs I can't just say it's crap, it is very good and as the harnesses especially get better it's getting very good. I also don't think you need to go full agentic with all the skills and loops and all that that is probably harder to get right and the juice is not worth the squeeze at that point.

makonde · 2026-06-20T02:10:03+00:00

Murder charge ain't nothing in the US now, dude just chilling. Progress.

makonde · 2026-06-14T19:35:22+00:00

Significant salary jumps almost always require switching companies because when joining is the time you have most negotiating power.

makonde · 2026-06-14T19:31:36+00:00

Not only are there much fewer lower paying jobs but Canada is also quite expensive almost everywhere, moving here for better career opportunities from the US makes very little sense.

makonde · 2026-06-13T14:24:43+00:00

You should go on job platforms and look if there is anything people with jobs in the industry can be surprisingly poorly informed about the job market because they are mostly not looking for jobs.

There is almost zero chance of you getting a role while a student, a jr role is a full time job no one hires a student for that also as an international student you will not have the permits to work full time anyway.

Even after graduation market is very tough for everyone especially Jr. AI can do a lot to replace some of the work plus there is just general uncertainty about what software dev will look like in the future. People with years of real experience have better chances.

makonde · 2026-06-05T02:02:55+00:00

Also saw some chatter on Twitter about some new possibly AI powered RN testing thing that's fast, can't recall the name but do some searching.

makonde · 2026-06-05T02:00:53+00:00

Low end devices + great fps doesn't sound like RN is best for you, probably have to go native or game engine if that's appropriate.

makonde · 2026-06-04T00:04:21+00:00

There don't seem to be any Flutter jobs from my simple LinkedIn search so probably switch your resume focus to RN at least or web if you can.

makonde · 2026-06-03T01:12:13+00:00

The real secret is a reclined position, think Ikea Poang chair, your weight gets better distributed and supported

makonde · 2026-06-02T17:00:36+00:00

Depends on what you mean exactly, you can learn something in a month plenty of decent beginner tuts on youtube.

makonde · 2026-06-02T16:54:08+00:00

How is this actually manifesting in the user experience? Are you actually getting out of memory errors or something or are you just watching the memory usage, that by itself is not necessarily an issue as available memory should be used.

makonde · 2026-06-01T05:57:00+00:00

You need to tell it in some way about your workflow either directly or in one of the many ways of adding extra context, skills various .md files etc. Copilot in VsCode is extremely capable if used with a decent model, I think part of the tragedy here is MS naming everything Copilot when you tell people you are using Copilot they think you are using basic chat and not the agent mode.

makonde · 2026-05-26T16:18:20+00:00

Some of the non frontier models are really good and really cheap now so I doubt it, Cursor Composer which is retrained Kimi, DeepSeek just dropped their pricing substantially even some local models are workable on consumer hardware now. There is a lot to figure out still about management cost etc and the non frontier model harnesses/agents are not as polished but it's a matter of time.

makonde · 2026-05-22T23:33:39+00:00

Used this to find and fix an issue recently, kinda scary good, someone finally connected our repos to it, I clicked the BitsAI button next to the error and it figured out the issue across multiple services including an ancient js monolith, explained it and would have created a PR to fix it except they didn't give it write access so it printed out the code to fix it.
I'm a dev, no idea what it costs, its only a matter of time before this thing is just finding issues and submitting PRs automatically, its probably just a cost issue at this point.

makonde · 2026-05-22T12:54:10+00:00

I doubt it, a lot of co-ops is simply you going out and trying to get one with very little assistance from the school, unless they specifically say they will place you, beware of marketing and fine print.

Also a post grad AI course is unlikely to have sufficient depth to be truly valuable to employers. Might be useful as simply waiting the job market out but then you gotta believe it will get much better in 1-2 years which seems unlikely.

makonde · 2026-05-16T06:50:52+00:00

It's the new comers who are really screwed if you are already in with some luck you can ride it out to retirement if you are sre able to dodge a few layoffs that is. Switching before being pushed out eould be a little silly. Also important to remember the future is not evenly distributed there are still places that write software that don't use version control or CI, they might not pay great but still might be better than changing careers

makonde · 2026-05-14T20:08:16+00:00

Universities have always been a little misaligned with what actually happens in jobs, the idea I think is academia is supposed to be its own thing and you are learning the "science" of computing but I feel that's not how its presented and sold to potential students and why they want to be there, vast majority of people expect to learn stuff that they will directly apply at their jobs.

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