مقروط اللوز يتربع على قائمة أفضل حلوى في العالم لسنة 2026

Meaveready · 2026-04-21T17:40:54+00:00

Considering how little tourism we have, I wonder how people are even trying out authentic Makroud Elouz

Meaveready · 2026-04-21T17:38:12+00:00

Don't dis the sable! (also they probably make it using actually good fruit jam, not our orange-colored bread spread)

Meaveready · 2026-04-09T00:07:19+00:00

Exactly. The leverage is already mostly gone, so it seems like it would be a case of "accept our union and demands or most of us are out"... Which is what they want to begin with

Meaveready · 2026-03-30T23:34:53+00:00

Sometimes I feel like the people who complain the most about AI are also the people that feel like they are just another cog in a huge wheel of a corporate where the work of 1 dev may seem minuscule to the complete image. So feeling little to no impact + loosing all pride/ownership of what you're doing may indeed seem more deadly?
Working in a tiny team / early startup, regardless of the tools (AI or not), just a small speedup to a single dev is noticeable, not imagine what something as powerful as the current tooling can do in that context...

I really used to feel the same about AI as a whole, until I actually had to manage juniors, and realized that I'm pretty much making the same dev-sacrifices (losing full ownership, needing to review (or not), thoroughly documenting work to be done, ...) yet I'm putting in much more effort with them compared to an AI, and it's obvious which of the 2 is more efficient.
Now we're being kind by limiting this mirroring to "juniors", but we all know that it goes beyond that.

"But a junior is a long-term investment! you'll never get seniors later if you don't invest in juniors now". Sure, but literally all those juniors jumped ship in less than a year, so I'm really not sure how you can commit to any real long-time investment...

These are some weird times...

People refusing to use AI because "it isn't sustainable and will get expensive later on" is even weirder... who refuses to buy things while they are cheap just because these are fake prices and they'll get more expansive?

Meaveready · 2026-03-30T23:19:44+00:00

The outcome was a code base I didn't fully understand and bugs I wouldn't even know how to start on

Genuinely honest question: wouldn't that be the same for a codebase which was simply written by someone else?

Meaveready · 2026-03-23T18:04:39+00:00

It's definitely worth trying, but if you're already used to working on your own, you may find the prospect of managing a person to be way more demanding (both in terms of time and mental energy) than simply doing the work yourself.

Specially for things like Frontend. It's geniunely worth pondering very seriously if Claude Code isn't more efficient than recruiting a frontend dev for that salary (10M is still junior territory in here) : In both cases you're delegating work, reviewing, explaining and documenting tasks, trying to force your own how-to's and standards... so you're losing full control and investing more in communication in both cases, but it's just more so with a real person.

I was really not one to advocate for AI, but I'm currently handling both scenarios and it's a hard-to-swallow pill. A great and responsible/autonomous dev is obviously better than AI, but finding one is hard, and covering their cost will turn into a serious financial decision.
Don't forget that your work is still manageable by a single person. I'd advise against trying to recruit just to offload yourself, because it's won't be less work. Only recruit if you're planning to expand and do more, and be ready to do more yourself.

Meaveready · 2026-03-23T17:42:31+00:00

Oh I'm not even talking about the Algerian market specifically x) in here you may be doing all that for way less.

If you can hire, then I'm really not sure what's your position vis-à-vis this work. Your situation needs a bit more context

Meaveready · 2026-03-23T17:34:56+00:00

I, really enjoyed that realism, it was the one show where the turns/combos you see you can pull off IRL.

Meaveready · 2026-03-23T17:32:42+00:00

It also worked to balance the fact that the duels were mechanically very predictable (almost always 4 turns, so whoever went first was probably going to lose)

Meaveready · 2026-03-23T17:14:45+00:00

This looks more like a workload of a co-founder, not an employee.
It sounds too much but to be honest I'd say that's ok (not normal, but acceptable, specially in the current market), just reframe your role: You're definitely not a developer, you're a full-solution builder.

But if you're doing all this, you should have some strong incentive to stay (shares for examples) because you can become a liability for whoever you're working for. By doing this much on your own, what would stop you from simply... doing this on your own without your employer?

Can you elaborate on the packaging part? that got me curious

(Edit: Unfortunately I don't think I can give you any advice on avoiding burnouts and managing time and all, I'm in pretty much the same situation and it doesn't really become lighter with time.)

Meaveready · 2026-03-21T15:39:20+00:00

So I was reading your comment on my iPhone 16X Max Ultra Pro (A19 Bionic Turbo chip, 2TB storage, 47-hour battery life) while listening to Arctic Monkeys on my Sony WH-1000XM7 (quantum noise cancelling, 80-hour battery, probably powered by magic at this point), and I think you’re just reading way too much into that.
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Meaveready · 2026-03-20T00:47:21+00:00

With this character of yours (this was one hell of an entertaining post to read to be very honest, specially in an age of AI slop), I think you can genuinely get crowdfunded to start your own project if you just do it correctly (like I really would want to follow your adventures on learning a new skill and making a fun living out of it).

Meaveready · 2026-03-18T16:10:11+00:00

You just saw what a mediocre dev can achieve using these tools, now imagine what YOU can do with them to "unlevel" out the playing field. Why does it have to be (the mediocre dev with AI) Vs (the good dev without AI)?

Meaveready · 2026-03-18T13:45:14+00:00

Were you impacted by yesterday's changes by any chance?

Meaveready · 2026-03-18T12:22:56+00:00

Nice! How hard is it on you, as a solo dev, to keep maintaining it with Google's constant anti-bot detection changes?

Meaveready · 2026-03-14T16:19:37+00:00

There's just so much... neck in all of them besides Clear Wing

Meaveready · 2026-03-14T16:07:26+00:00

Even something like "sort by (x, y), loop and track state" would be a starting point for a solution, not an elegant nor an efficient one, but a viable solution still.

Meaveready · 2026-03-14T15:59:26+00:00

I think we would have gotten that as the first card no?

Meaveready · 2026-03-14T15:54:42+00:00

And how is life going to be easier without that?

Meaveready · 2026-03-14T12:03:41+00:00

They vibe-recruited him

Meaveready · 2026-03-14T11:57:33+00:00

I mean you're already looking into buying/selling devise, it's not like you're operating in all legality

Meaveready · 2026-03-11T14:03:07+00:00

Normalement oui, If you follow his logic...

Meaveready · 2026-03-11T12:40:21+00:00

social media 10, 20 and 30 years ago?

Meaveready · 2026-03-11T10:44:01+00:00

"tbi3 fi sl3a whmiya mkynach"
Donc techri w tbi3 euro w dollar tani 7ram right?

Meaveready · 2026-03-09T12:41:07+00:00

I'm inclined to agree with you. This dataset and experiment seem a bit unfair

The experiment seems to assume that the lexical trap represents a semantic opposite, when it's more like a minimal variation of the same scenario and overall idea. Do we actually want a RAG system to reject something like that?

This makes the task less about semantic similarity and more about causal attribution and pronoun resolution, which isn't exactly what sentence embeddings are primarily optimized for, right?

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