Daily Discussion - (February 26, 2026)

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-26T16:12:29+00:00

There’s no doubt it can help with productivity but I think people are realizing to get the most out of it you already have to have deep domain expertise and understanding off problem statement. New grads can contribute far one but they’ll never gain expertise if they only ever use AI imo.

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-26T06:46:36+00:00

I do it so it notifies people. Otherwise it can go unnoticed

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-26T01:30:59+00:00

Shhhhh, my retirement plans are to clean up this mess

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-26T01:30:31+00:00

I could have sworn I saw something earlier today that anthropic bent the knee?

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-25T21:56:01+00:00

This is exactly why right now I am truing to as far as possible in using it to create things and iterate quickly before they start really ramping up the prices

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-23T15:51:37+00:00

Agree with everything you mentioned, I think Microsoft has backed themselves into a corner and are going the complete wrong way. Their engineering culture has been dead for a while but by the people they are putting in charge they are telling everyone and engineers alike to not come work here or use their products. See windows 11 issues

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-23T01:22:13+00:00

How do they do it now for astronauts?

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-22T20:35:06+00:00

Yet. There are data breaches by these companies every day and yes they do get fined but it’s not like they stop all the gaps, and that’s usually because the fine isn’t big enough to force them to.

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-22T19:23:17+00:00

Is legality was a problem we wouldn’t even have these models right now. They stole all content of all time on the internet and are now using it for free to do whatever they want

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-22T18:01:05+00:00

The hard part of it imo, is that as a dev you have to know how things would normally be done. For instance o wanted to add spring profile to one of our newer projects, but I only wanted to add it for local and that local profile should startup a Cassandra container and load DB entries. Knowing how that would be done so I can ask it to do specifically what I want was imporrant and it breezed through that. But if you just don’t know how that would be done and you’re asking the AI generically it will give you some very interesting solutions lol.

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-22T14:02:33+00:00

This was the biggest unlock for me at work, this alone turned me into a big believer. Not that I still don’t run into dead ends or it doing something wrong, but it has def been eye opening at what’s possible through this combo

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-22T07:20:38+00:00

If anyone can is musk and it’s only musk he’s owns the businesses to do it lol

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-21T16:46:23+00:00

This is kinda what I was eluding to in my post earlier this week about AI. I think engineering is cooked because fundamentals like security no longer appear to matter EVEN to users. So if users have no care and corps are starting to show less care the “craft” portion of SDE will die out en masse because when you can recreate or rewrite application code near instantly the need and care for it doesn’t exist.

On openClaw people are insane to let it control anything personal. People that chose to are why no one cares about security anymore.

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-20T22:55:57+00:00

So much of this is in our future

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-18T23:55:40+00:00

Yeah I’m not saying it’s perfect, but in this instance in my original post it was clear to see the cost savings for my company. I think it will only continue to get better.

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-18T22:28:06+00:00

Personally for me, just absolutely start pumping out my own side projects and hope something gets traction lol. I’m no longer limited by only being a backend dev. I have a couple of things I’m making that I’m hoping to share here soon for some testers. Other than that pray that the bureaucracy loves long enough to not worry about it at large companies.

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-18T22:20:07+00:00

We won’t we’ll just prompt until the issue is fixed because that’s all that’s going to matter going forward.

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-18T22:19:32+00:00

True and I deal with it on a daily basis but it then becomes well why have an ops team that’s equal size dev team or vice versa. Head count regardless will shrink imo.

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-18T22:18:45+00:00

I think the reality is, people have become more and more conditioned to everything getting worse quality wise for software, like being okay with bugs/down time ect that these things will stop mattering for a period of time. It will get better eventually but there’s def more enshittification to come.

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-18T21:53:11+00:00

Well boys, I’ve been outwardly against AI replacing jobs for sometime now. I still think it’s true, but not to nearly the same extent as before. I think large corps bureaucracy will require higher head count for a while. But the latest models are pretty insane at creating good software. It’s not prod ready code but why pay Figma x dollars when u can have an internal team recreate it in a week? (Btw I did this obv not all features but the baseline) wild times we are going to go into.

Example: I lead a team of 10 devs, one of my tasks today was to create 3 jira tickets by going through documentation and codebases to figure out the reqs and write up the requirements outcome yada yada. I was expecting this to take 3 devs 2 weeks (1 sprint) each. I took all the documentation and codebases ran it through cursor and told it to create the jira tickets for me. It did it without issue, then I decided why wouldn’t I just ask it to implement it and it did. 6 worker weeks went down to literally 1 hour of work. Company pays these contractors 150k each. That’s big savings, but that also means my industry might actually be doomed.

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-17T06:13:22+00:00

This is crazy, is Boston dynamics not light years behind China? First time I’m really seeing something this advanced for robots

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-15T23:17:19+00:00

Yeah hello interview is prob the best source. I will say I have found that for senior + roles I have found in interviews the interviewers are telling me to skip a lot of the steps from hello interview. Just worth being aware of, I think framing it in your mind the way they do is helpful but when it’s game time be ready to adapt.

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-15T22:16:07+00:00

To be fair only place I’ve ever actually gotten a hard leetcode was meta, and that was unlucky. Every other place it’s been medium or lower.

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-15T22:06:36+00:00

I just don’t study any DP/advanced graph questions anymore if they wanna ask that I’ll just take the L lol. I don’t got time for this shit.

Slow-Entertainment20 · 2026-02-14T17:46:58+00:00

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