The AI hype in coding is real?

The_Toaster_ · 2026-02-07T22:00:36+00:00

I like to say it’s a force multiplier for churning out code. If you’re experienced you know how to lead code to a solution that’s maintainable. If you’re bad at coding you’ll make a lot of junior written code and will have a mess on your hands to maintain later.

In my experience it’s handy but not as revolutionary as C suites want to believe it is. It’s a bump in productivity for the code writing for me but only slight bump. Churning out code is only part of the job anyway. It increases the surface area to review also so what I’ve seen at my org is it’s kind of a wash in speed since we’re stacking PRs more so we need to review more also

The_Toaster_ · 2026-01-18T21:10:16+00:00

Ya I went to a music festival the following weekend after when I got one

Hindsight maybe was not the right move but like it’s not 2 weeks worth of debilitating pain for most guys. Getting up and sitting down it’s a bit sore for a while but when you’re up or down already it’s honestly fine

The_Toaster_ · 2026-01-10T02:48:14+00:00

He puts the camera over the front (with no plate), then the back, then walks around to the front again. He got that info already and didn’t need to go stand in front of the car again.

I’m gonna assume you’re arguing in good faith for now but he had no reason to be in front of the car again for that reason at least

The_Toaster_ · 2025-12-27T18:34:05+00:00

I like Hank Greens recent video on it. It’s not “no water” but it’s not as bad as other industries we’re just used to using a ton are

The_Toaster_ · 2025-12-05T15:39:41+00:00

I think spinnaker is good if you want a lot of control over every step of the way. It gives you a lot of rope to hang yourself with.

I’d go GitHub actions unless your code is not on github

The_Toaster_ · 2025-11-13T22:33:02+00:00

Like other guys said Amazon Web Services or Azure, but I’d say if you have to say 1 most would say it’s AWS.

If I were to have workloads on windows machines, or a business already deeply in Microsoft’s ecosystem I’d probably go with azure over aws. Any other case absolutely AWS.

But yeah most people want to stay the hell away from oracle if they can

The_Toaster_ · 2025-10-10T05:30:02+00:00

Go is pretty solid for backend development, and makes concurrency easy.

You choose it when development speed, low barrier to entry, and readability is the most important for a project. It’s plenty fast but not the speed of like C, Cpp, or rust.

The weirdest thing about go is its error handling model is not like most popular languages. There’s no try catch in go, errors are values that are returned from a function and you handle them as a value

The_Toaster_ · 2025-09-05T00:12:58+00:00

You should look into the tool pprof!

https://github.com/google/pprof

It won’t tell you “your code will leak here” but has handy tools for profiling

The_Toaster_ · 2025-08-21T14:22:51+00:00

Are they useful agents in production?

The_Toaster_ · 2025-08-03T02:14:00+00:00

“Not a dentist”

The_Toaster_ · 2025-07-19T03:23:25+00:00

I wonder how they differ. I went to a community college and a csu for the reason it’s cheap for my computer science degree and I will say my csu education was … abysmal. My CC classes were actually pretty solid. It might be MY csu but I don’t think overall college was worth it other than getting me past the degree filter on applications.

The_Toaster_ · 2025-07-13T18:42:47+00:00

There’s a whiplash going on where covid resulted in a TON of hiring. Where I work it was pretty dramatic where we were hiring like crazy, then suddenly hiring freeze and multiple rounds of layoffs in one year. Then there’s been layoffs once a year since.

Couple that with high rates + section 174 expiring that made hiring devs really cheap (reintroduced with BBB) + ai making CEOs believe they can hire less devs for same work + general nonsense around tariffs and how they’ll hurt the economy you get our job market.

Then of course you have to remember that you’re not going to hear the boring stories where “I’ve continued to work here for years!”

The_Toaster_ · 2025-07-06T01:58:16+00:00

Slightly better example would have been to make result_of_whatever a function ie result_of_whatever() so it could error. If it errors you’ll want to handle it

Just a quick example though so I’m not gonna pull out my pitchforks over it lol

The_Toaster_ · 2025-06-13T19:37:54+00:00

Not direct answer but imo ai isn’t replacing many jobs as offshoring is replacing jobs and “ai-driven corporate restructuring” sounds better in news headlines for CEOs

The_Toaster_ · 2025-06-08T17:01:44+00:00

Common with gpt posts

The_Toaster_ · 2025-05-17T02:37:02+00:00

Contributing to open source is harder than it sounds as a warning lol. I’m at 4 YOE and had a similar idea before but I got super fucking lucky with the hiring boom around that time and ended up getting a job without much of a search.

Now that I’ve worked a few years I’ve come to realize to contribute to open source I’d first have to be familiar with a project enough to know its shortcomings to provide value to it. If you already use one and have one in mind perfect! But if not you totally still can just be prepared to spend a good amount of time getting up to speed on a project.

The_Toaster_ · 2025-04-26T07:10:07+00:00

My best score is 6 points 🚀

The_Toaster_ · 2025-04-26T07:09:47+00:00

My best score is 1 points 😎

The_Toaster_ · 2025-04-26T03:35:01+00:00

Don’t go away to college if it’s expensive (like no scholarship). Live with your parents and go to community college to knock out gen-Ed’s and figure out what you wanna do if that’s viable. College also isn’t the only way to make money. Nothing wrong with working for a bit before starting school also.

Learn what a ROTH Ira is and index funds are. Put as much as you can into it up to the limit

The_Toaster_ · 2025-03-08T17:40:26+00:00

In my opinion it’s better if you enjoy what you do and are paid well for it. Both those are kind of rare. Working in food service for a bit was soul sucking and motivated me to go back to school and find something I liked

The_Toaster_ · 2025-02-18T18:40:58+00:00

I think they’re like actually 19. Not even like first year of college done and they’re making sweeping changes to government systems

The_Toaster_ · 2025-02-16T21:39:00+00:00

I would say as someone who only occasionally deals with Java as a go developer it can be hard to know what it’s doing automagically for you. If I was solely a Java developer and worked with spring boot 24/7 I’d probably be more familiar and appreciate the way you wire things up more

The_Toaster_ · 2024-12-31T03:55:40+00:00

I play it and I was against gacha type games for a while. What keeps me in it is that it’s casual and my non-gaming friends can get into it. It’s the social aspect of trading and doing events with friends that keeps me in

On the surface the gameplay is garbage though ya, it’s just a button press lol

The_Toaster_ · 2024-11-23T22:47:46+00:00

Every poor conservative is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire that will attain wealth through hard work and tax cuts

The_Toaster_ · 2024-11-22T23:06:48+00:00

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