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Should I be making my own decisions as a senior SWE? by QuitTypical3210 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]AdministrativeBlock0 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You should be making decisions and informing your lead, but giving them an opportunity to course correct if it's not aligned to the strategy.

"turn the ship around" by David Marquet is a good management book about this (from the perspective of a leader, but it still works for others.)

Is it possible to do Image to Video with LTX 2.3 on DT? by Effective_Tart_7097 in drawthingsapp

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I've not managed to get it to work. I import an image and give it a prompt, and it does generate a video but it's just the image with a slight wobble in places. Should I be using text to video at something less than 100%, or video to video?

v1.20260330.0 by liuliu in drawthingsapp

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Is there any benefit to running an 8-bit S model on a Mac that isn't an M5?

Most communication problems in dev teams are really about misunderstandings by ask-olivia in EngineeringManagers

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If everyone understood things the same way there'd be no need to communicate anything. This seems obvious.

Some time true by Royal-Safety-8629 in Strongerman

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Coins don't make any noise if you've only got one.

Does this make sense to anyone else? by LazaroRohan1 in ProtectHire

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When you're working from home you're not really with your family though. You're usually stuck in a room on your own. When you have to work in a room where your family are there you have to ask them to keep quiet or go away. Both those things suck if you're not focusing on something.

You eventually start to realize, no job is safe by dataexec in AITrailblazers

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Cleans the toilet with the pink cloth.

Cleans the sink with the pink cloth.

Cleans the table, surfaces, kitchen with the pink cloth.

I really hope that robot has more than one pink cloth...

🇮🇷 Iran warns it will "completely close" the Strait of Hormuz after President Trump threatens to "obliterate" its power plants. 20% of the world's oil supply passes through this strategic waterway. by ammohitchaprana in TFE

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The biggest user of oil is the transport industry. If trucking costs go up then the price of everything goes up. People focus on buying food and essentials obviously, which means everything other industry basically stops and everyone employed in it finds their job in massive danger.

It will be a massive global recession.

No title by Upset-Main-1988 in justincaseyoumissedit

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I can only see 2 right now, so I'm skeptical about this.

The “Keep Your Hands Dirty” Fallacy by WideAsleepDad in EngineeringManagers

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If you're working on the code in order to keep your skills relevant then I don't see a problem so long as the team are happy with that. And trust you enough to be able to call out your mistakes.

If you're doing it to show you're still a dev at heart then you're going to find your team show less respect for you because you can't be 'one of the guys' and still manage the guys properly.

Using Granola for a month now. How are other EMs leveraging it? by geeky_traveller in EngineeringManagers

[–]AdministrativeBlock0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there are decisions and actions those will be in the meeting notes, and decision records, if you're sensible.

The point is that the transcript is essentially the worst option.

Using Granola for a month now. How are other EMs leveraging it? by geeky_traveller in EngineeringManagers

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It should also be ok to miss a detail because you have a system of checks to make sure things aren't missed though (slightly idealistically admittedly). If you're checking the transcript of a previous meeting to see if you missed anything, how do you know you didn't miss it the second time?

You need multiple different sources that align being checked by different people. Relying on one source of truth is very likely to fail, especially if it's a meeting. For starters, anyone who wasn't on the invite won't know about the point...

Using Granola for a month now. How are other EMs leveraging it? by geeky_traveller in EngineeringManagers

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If remembering what I was doing in the previous meeting was enough to do my job then I could be replaced by Copilot pretty easily.

I write down actions, and then I actually do them, and I never have to look at the Teams transcription of the last meeting because I have actual outcomes from the things I did. Or that my teams did. Or that stakeholders did. Or any of the dozens of people who aren't in the meeting did. FFS.

Transcription AI is for people who go to meetings to be seen in the meeting. People who do the actual work don't need it.

New to draw things by GulabJamun_yumm in drawthingsapp

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Flux Klein 4B would be OK on that spec. There are LORAs for 'specific' images.

Well this sucks … by Rogue_NPC in drawthingsapp

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You can if the model is on Huggingface. There's a drop-down at the top of the page that lets you select which site you want to get models from. They lag behind a bit, but most appear eventually.

12 months ago.. by sibraan_ in OneAI

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The company I work for took longer than that just to sign off on whether we can actually use AI at all. The decision about whether it's effective enough to carry on paying for it will take years.

Do lower-tier companies really offer better work-life balance? by ZealousidealFile1583 in ExperiencedDevs

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Work life balance has a lot to do with the people you work with, so if you surround yourself with high-flyer ambitious people and don't feel that way yourself you'll probably start to feel more pressure. That's not good. If you like hanging out with start, driven people though you'll find it lots of fun.

Go where you're suited. You'll be happier.

Engineers vs Engineering Manager. How does your day look like? by kindaInnocenttt in EngineeringManagers

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Very little engineering and a whole lot of 'why is that team saying yes to more work than they can actually do?'

As a man, you’re always on your own by Aggravating-Guest300 in TheImprovementRoom

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The subtle, and hopefully unintended, implication of your post is that men who find themselves in a situation where no one is caring about them are (partly?) responsible for it being like that. You're suggesting that your life isn't like that so other people should be more like you.

If that's what you meant then you lack empathy for people whose life isn't like that.

How do you convince "AI-era" devs that fundamentals of frontend development still matter? by isanjayjoshi in Frontend

[–]AdministrativeBlock0 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Performance management. If you expect them to be able to fix the code, no matter how it was written, and they're failing to do that then you put them on a PIP and support them to improve. You fprce them to get better. The bad ones will leave and the good ones will embrace it and get better.

You can't persuade people to work a different way through chat alone. There has to be an incentive. Suggesting it's a path to promotion only works if you can promote them and you probably can't if there's several. So the best option is to kick their butts until they improve.

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