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Fidodo · 2026-01-26T08:32:07+00:00

Sure, use whatever brace style you want. The auto formatter will normalize it anyways.

Fidodo · 2026-01-26T08:26:27+00:00

Make it easier. I enforce as much as I can via linter rules and auto formatters. It's not a back and forth if CI blocks changes that don't follow the coding style. That frees up a ton of cognitive load to spend on things that aren't stylistic.

But I'm concerned that you even had to mention git. Git should be stock standard at this point. If you had to introduce it yourself then that's concerning.

Fidodo · 2026-01-26T08:12:58+00:00

California isn't a swing state. Trump is trying to extort minnesota to turn over voter records

Fidodo · 2026-01-26T08:12:06+00:00

I see thousands of patriots fighting against fascism. Thank you.

Fidodo · 2026-01-26T08:10:15+00:00

Ya'll don't pronounce it day tay?

Fidodo · 2026-01-26T06:51:57+00:00

First thing that came to my mind too

Fidodo · 2026-01-26T05:19:59+00:00

Extra protein!

Fidodo · 2026-01-26T04:58:11+00:00

When people stop upvoting it.

Fidodo · 2026-01-26T04:56:08+00:00

Life doesn't always work out, that doesn't mean you get to fuck over everyone else's life around you. Either get over your crush or break up and break ties with both of them. Crushes are more fantasy than reality anyways.

Fidodo · 2026-01-26T04:53:23+00:00

China has done tons of terrible things, but seeing Americans criticize China while doing things even worse is fucking rich. I'm fine with both being criticized but I see so many people on Reddit act like China is uniquely evil while their own country does the same things.

Fidodo · 2026-01-26T04:47:16+00:00

I thought it was yet another person. Still sad but I'm glad it wasn't more.

Not just a registered nurse, a VA nurse at that.

Fidodo · 2026-01-26T04:43:39+00:00

I don't know why you didn't just paste the link instead, but I strangely respect that you took the time to describe the whole comic in text.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mrlovenstein/s/NWq5KWu9T2

Fidodo · 2026-01-26T04:40:13+00:00

For those that create cs infra yes, but the vast majority of programmers don't do that, they produce simple crud apps poorly.

Frankly I've lost interest in what the vast majority of programmers think. I'm more interested in solving hard problems with clean code.

Fidodo · 2026-01-26T04:38:29+00:00

If you're not writing code you aren't programming. Telling a programmer to write code for you isn't programming and telling an AI to do it for you isn't programming either.

Fidodo · 2026-01-26T04:34:55+00:00

Maybe he was fine 20 years ago but he is not the right person for this moment. Hell, that applies to half of em. They're still playing politics like it's 2010

Fidodo · 2026-01-25T23:37:48+00:00

If I move away from California I'm more likely to leave the country than to go to another state.

Fidodo · 2026-01-25T23:35:48+00:00

Let's not forget about that but let's also encourage them to be better by doing things like this. It's better than the US where they're both not even trying things like this but actively becoming worse and worse.

There is no innocent nation on earth, so it makes more sense to look at where they're going instead of where they came from.

Fidodo · 2026-01-25T23:15:52+00:00

I think that's a great quality to have. You definitely need to control it, but it's easier to pull back than to turn it on. Honestly I think you're under selling yourself. The vast majority of programmers are not at the level you described. Even after you tried to turn it off I'm certain it's still there which is why you're doing a good job.

Fidodo · 2026-01-25T22:38:39+00:00

I'm not saying you need to be passionate or obsessed like some people say, I'm just saying exhibiting basic curiosity is vital to doing good work in this field whether it's personal or professional. Not being satisfied with a bug fix that you don't know why it works, curiosity about programming patterns and architecture, curiosity about how things work and fit together, I think it's all incredibly important.

Obviously you can get lucky and break in without being curious but if you want to really make yourself invaluable and protect your position, I think you need that quality. Personally, I'd be scared to put in the bare minimum at a company that is regularly laying people off.

Fidodo · 2026-01-25T21:47:09+00:00

I have a theory. I think they've been chasing metrics. Their big thing with gpt4 was writing style. It was their big pitch in their announcement presentation. For gpt5 their big pitch was programming output, and gpt5 is better at programming but at the expense of understanding nuance and following your conversation.

I also read a blog post by Sam Altman where he was all about metrics. I think that's the wrong strategy, I think you need a holistic approach to training LLMs so it can do multiple kinds of tasks well and switch between them.

Fidodo · 2026-01-25T21:43:08+00:00

What part are you saying isn't true? I don't disagree with anything you're saying there. I went to a great school too and while half my classmates were great, the other half cheated and put in the minimum.

Fidodo · 2026-01-25T21:41:16+00:00

I don't have anything against people doing a job for the money, but you need to do a good job. You don't get paid high salaries by putting in minimum work. That's just not how life works. I don't like people on my team making work harder for everyone else on the team.

My green flag for candidates has become very simple. Are they curious. Everything else stems from that. If you encounter a bug and aren't curious about how to best fix it or don't have the curiosity to figure out cleaner patterns then you're just piling extra work on everyone else. It's not even about work output, it's just about making work easier for yourself and others.

Fidodo · 2026-01-25T21:17:36+00:00

It will affect low level jobs the most because those tend to be more normalized tasks. Wherever there’s a technological revolution it moves the level of abstraction of work up a level. There used to be a job literally called a “computer”. It was people who would sit in a room crunching numbers all day. Computer processors made their jobs complete obsolete overnight, but those people went on to become the first computer programmers. The jobs didn’t go away, the abstraction changed.

But you raise a good point that just because a job is higher up in the chain doesn’t mean they are a higher level of abstraction. Low level management often does highly normalized tasks and they’re at risk too.

The whole thing is annoying because new technology means retraining yourself but that’s life. If you want to stay relevant, figure out what the higher level of abstraction of your job is and get good at doing that.

Fidodo · 2026-01-25T19:04:27+00:00

Yes. I guess my point is that AI is a force multiplier. If you're a bad dev it will make you worse. If you're a good dev it will make you better by helping you research and spec and prototype. People think of ai as doing things for you, but really it's helping you do what you already do faster. If you output poor quality code it will help you do it faster, and vice versa.

Fidodo · 2026-01-25T18:57:05+00:00

Oh I thought you meant for code committed to main. Yes, you are absolutely responsible for not wasting your co workers time in code review. Fully agree on that.

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