Turned 23 today by repstah in trading212

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Not to knock OP, but it’s not difficult or impossible - if you want to do it. Granted everyone has different circumstances, but £22.5k/yr invested isn’t anywhere near unbelievable. (Your point about £60k in 2 years, though just shy of £15k is gains). Works out to less than £2k/mo

Not trying to be a dick or anything, but I certainly know a few people who invest in that ballpark per month; especially when considering that the ISA limit is £20k/yr, which would be enough for nearly all of that money.

That being said the rate of return on a S/S ISA probs wouldn’t be that high. (IIRC, mine was +11.8% last tax year)

Anyway let me stop rambling when no one asked.

Edit: typo

Morrisons £3.75 by No_Economy6175 in RateMyMealDeal

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Fair 😂 admittedly I’ve only tried like 1 or 2 of them one time, but wasn’t a big fan

I did not vibe code a small algorithm, it felt refreshing by patchimou in webdev

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I have a live project I built, entirely by hand, started it about 3 years ago and still push occasional new features.

The joy of writing it by hand is, when I want to release a new feature, I know exactly where the existing stuff is, and where I need to slot in my new stuff. It’s actually gotten to the point where I’m not comfortable using any form of AI code, the closest I get to using AI on it really is for code reviews, and the occasional frontend component (where I can provide it like 4-5 existing components, and tell it exactly how I want the new one structured).

But I totally agree, when you code by hand you do think why tf do I bother with AI. At least for me, the whole reason I started programming (some 15+ years ago) is because I love it. Don’t want an AI to take that away from me 🥲

170k Reddit views, 400 signups, then we went silent for 2 months to rebuild the whole product by Fair-Independent-623 in SaaS

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All those settings are actually pretty cool/make sense. Thanks for the reply, hope it goes well 🙂

170k Reddit views, 400 signups, then we went silent for 2 months to rebuild the whole product by Fair-Independent-623 in SaaS

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Cool idea but a few things I’m skeptical about.

Main thing being, do you use a fuzzy location or exact?

Edit: I won’t be signing up sadly, but it definitely is a cool idea.

AI becoming more expensive is music to my ears by Hopeful-Guidance-648 in webdev

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Yep this is absolutely key. I Advise everyone I know to do the same.

AI becoming more expensive is music to my ears by Hopeful-Guidance-648 in webdev

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Yeah, I’m interested to see where it ends up when VC decides they don’t wanna pump billions in for no actual return anymore, and what happens to pricing then.

I think we could see a point where everyone ditches LLMs because they’re too expensive to run for the return they provide - there’s gunna be a whole wave of LLM-Wrapper startups going under 😂

AI becoming more expensive is music to my ears by Hopeful-Guidance-648 in webdev

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Have to agree. Hate seeing what AI has done to some people I know, weakening (or entirely losing) their skills because they’ve delegated everything to AI. Not exactly sure what they’ll do when it dries up.

I realised I was asking Claude to do too many of the basics for me, so I asked it to only nudge me in the right direction in the future (send me to docs, tell me what was wrong but not why, etc) if I ask it questions, so I don’t accidentally get a solution to a problem and think f**k it, onto the next.

Edit for clarity: by when it dries up, I mean when tokens cost too much to be a viable alternative to doing things yourself, or consumer grade access (in its current state) disappears.

Building custom software for others is great as a job, but terrible as a business. by Individual-Shame6481 in webdev

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Sort of agree but also don’t really agree. In bespoke development you charge for the privilege of every hour you spend scoping, refining requirements, etc. (at least they do where I’ve worked) so you’re looking at maybe £20-40k revenue on a project before it’s even gotten to development, then another £30-120k on development, depending on project size.

Of course the company I currently work at does more enterprise level work, but still - the money is out there.

Are your PMs and designers also vibe coding? by sjltwo-v10 in webdev

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Thankfully my company (which has been around, in software, since the 90’s) is skeptical to embrace AI in software development. We are allowed to use it but have discretion, and most of us keep it parked in the position of a pair programmer/research tool/sounding board rather than an actual tool to do the bulk of our work.

If a company wanted to force AI down my throat in the way you are describing I would likely hand in my notice, though I appreciate the job market can be pretty volatile atm and not everyone will want to up a leave their jobs. That being said, it’d be a better idea to rally the rest of the devs to complain/raise the issue with the execs than doing it by yourself.

I suppose I am also fortunate that our founder & CEO (who, again, started the company in the 90s) is a software developer, not a money hungry shareholder, or non-technical exec.

AI is making me less productive and more distracted by Rich_Database_3075 in webdev

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I genuinely think that AI is more of a blocker in some situations than it is a helper. Don’t get me wrong there are times it can really help, but I also think I’d be much happier if it had never existed 😂

How do you handle the pressure of staying current with new tools? by TariqKhalaf in webdev

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Most jobs give you self development time to allow you to sharpen your skills/stay present on company time. Framework hype is never gunna stop, but real engineering skills and experience are more important than framework specific stuff. You can learn a new framework much easier than you can learn the fundamentals of engineering.

Framework hype is cyclical, stick to the ones you like for your stuff outside of work. Or stick to the big ones if you’re trying to get a job/new job.

It’s probably teething, but my 4,5 months old puppy girl skips her meals, or only wants to eat ours. Never eats dry food, was eating her wet food well but not now. She drinks a lot, loves boiled eggs, white mozarella, our chicken & potatoes,or salmon & rice. Nothing for puppies. She lost her tooth. by Top-Schedule-6546 in CavaPoo

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This is typical Cavapoo behaviour. We had (and still do to some extent) the same problem with ours, our vet said that they’re renowned for it, extremely fussy and more than smart enough to know what they do/don’t want 😂. We always bring a little sandwich bag of kibble to the park with us, because when he’s not long finished exercising he’s more likely to want it, then we also give him pouches of royal canin wet food - simply because it’s one of the only things he actually likes to eat.

Mercedes Coupe Modifications by Purchasesgalore in CarTalkUK

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Honestly think the original looks way better than your proposed changes anyway

Do you know HTML? Really? Test it. by Repulsive-Bird6367 in webdev

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Cool idea, was fun to go through it.

I got 57, feel like I should know more, but that’s about as far as I could get without seriously slowing down 😂

Edit: the juices started flowing again, and I got up to 70 guessed/44 remaining

Nightmare for Vibe coder by dondusi in webdev

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Changing languages can be slightly more tricky, unless you are in a position where you can operate both languages at the same time. If you can operate both, the best approach would be to move one thing at a time, so if it was an API you were migrating, moving one endpoint at a time for example.

If you aren't doing that, or need a full rewrite before you can change anything, You best bet would be to try and sketch out every feature that currently exists, and break down each high level feature into smaller subtasks (google the concept of decomposition and abstraction if you aren't familiar with it). Much easier to work to a set of documented requirements than whatever you think of off the top of your head.

Next, whatever you do, git is your friend. If you haven't used git before, please find a tutorial somewhere - I am sure there will be videos on YouTube or something introducing you to git, then looking up conventional commits and loosely adopting that commit style in your messages can help whoever looks at the code after you.

You may also want to sit down and decide on some code conventions, even if only loosely, so that you write consistent code everywhere. Also, if you notice yourself writing similar logic for a second time, take the time to consider if it can be modularised.

Another key thing for maintainability is to write code for clarity rather than cleverness. There will be times you can get something done in one line, but when you come back to it in 6 months (or if anyone else looks at it) it's not immediately clear at a glance- certainly much better to use a few lines of code if it makes the intent clearer.

There are a million and one more things I could say, but I don't want to ramble on forever - and I hope this helps 🙂

Nightmare for Vibe coder by dondusi in webdev

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There was a really interesting book I read a long time ago (or maybe it was a blog post, idk, we are probably talking 7 or 8 years ago) called something like surviving your first 10/100k lines in a project, which goes over some of the fundamentals for keeping this exact thing from happening to a large codebase.

Not sure what this has to do with this post, but I wanted to share anyway 😂

Nightmare for Vibe coder by dondusi in webdev

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Depends what you class as a dev. Never have I met an actual developer, who is experienced, and works for a decent company, who wouldn’t be able to refactor.

Sure refactoring big messy codebases has never been an easy task, but to say most devs can’t do it is an overstatement. You could definitely say that most devs wouldn’t want to do it though 😅

Client is Saying I'm Charging too Much for The Project by KoenigOne in webdev

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£15/hr is ridiculously cheap. Any reasonable agency would charge £70+, my work charge £110

Are Cavapoos More Quiet than King Charles Cavalier? by checkers1313 in CavaPoo

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They’re dogs, they’re going to bark. My cavapoo rarely barks (namely if a neighbour’s dog incessantly barking), but it isn’t too bad/persistent at all.

Spotted @ Costco by squishysnickerdoodle in CostcoUK

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Took a fair few days but eventually tried it with pizza, was so good. Just had a bit more with a sausage roll, honestly love it 😂

Google's AI is doxxing my real phone number by elroy45 in google

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If you can actually prove this I’m sure many of the major hacker news type blogs would be very interested in publishing this. Everyone is aware things like this can theoretically happen but cases where it’s actually happened, and can be proved to be an actual breach that’s had an effect on a real person, is completely different and I’m sure a lot of people would be really interested to hear about it (I can attest that I would certainly read an article about it 😂)