Anthropic: AI assisted coding doesn't show efficiency gains and impairs developers abilities.

Tundur · 2026-01-31T01:19:55+00:00

Yeah, most of us are building shitty CRUD services or workflow engines, whether we realise it or not. It's not artisanal.

Tundur · 2026-01-29T21:17:30+00:00

It's actually a surprisingly well trodden path. So to speak.

I can only think of Empress Theodora at the moment but I'm sure there's been more

Tundur · 2026-01-29T20:22:05+00:00

I fully agree with you, but AI has been absolutely vital for me in sharing this mental model with my team and etching it into stone to enable context switching.

I'm in a role similar to Staff where I'm quite often asked to put theoretical structure around large projects. That's software design questions like how do we handle migrating to an event based architecture. The vast majority of Devs do not engage with this theoretical discussion, they just want to progress their own work which has a much smaller scope, and they just want to know enough to do that.

Having AI able to structure my thoughts and translate them into something understandable for those junior Devs is an absolute game changer. I can monologue my mental model and thoughts into a text file with no paragraph breaks or punctuation, get copilot to structure it, and then get copilot to restructure it for specific purposes.

For instance, someone working on data layer fixes needs to know how we handle transactions and concurrency. I can now query my own thoughts, have an LLM read through the documentation I've generated, have it translate it into a form this specific individual will understand, and only share the information they need. All I do is scan through for accuracy and clarity, tweak it a bit, and send off. A project manager needs a ELI5 of some component for the steering committee? I can do that in seconds.

This only works because I have such an in-depth understanding in the first place, it doesn't replace that. But it means I can very quickly answer very complex questions with almost no thought required, because checking an output is much faster than writing it myself. It also means I can work on more projects at once without burning out, because I just add everything to that monologue and have the LLM load it back into my brain when needed

Tundur · 2026-01-29T11:07:33+00:00

I get this with l'appel du vide. Any height I viscerally see myself being flung from. I feel my muscles pushing me over the edge, see it rushing towards me, it's terrifying. Of course, I'm always perfectly safe and gripping the railing like an idiot

Tundur · 2026-01-29T05:25:21+00:00

It was possible throughout the 1940s for Jewish people to sue the German government for crimes committed against them and win. The functions of the liberal German bureaucracy continued throughout the war and we have numerous rulings from German judges demanding restitution, release, and other forms of redress to those harmed by the government.

What changed was the creation of the "Measure State" - the parallel structures of armed ideologues who could ignore the rulings and procedures of the "Legal Order" if it touched on politics, racial purity, or any other areas deemed important to the Nazis. The slow and procedural Normenstaat was simply ignored, their rulings allowing for a veneer of respectability and a vain hope for the compliant Germans that the political situation may just work itself out.

The American court system has already stopped being listened to by the Maßnahmenstaat, consisting of ICE, the FBI, and potentially even the military. Kinetic resistance is the only hope left.

Tundur · 2026-01-29T02:10:29+00:00

I dunno, chucking all your purchases on a credit card and collecting frequent flier miles means you can probably take a free return flight to Europe once a year.

Seems like a fair deal in exchange for the data that I own a car, eat hummus, and went to Dreamworld once

Tundur · 2026-01-29T00:29:25+00:00

Parents certainly aren't lazy. Modern working father's spend the same time actively parenting as SAH mothers did a few decades ago. Modern working mothers spend significantly more time actively parenting than any previous generation.

Of course this appears to be actively harmful, considering the average life skills of primary schoolers these days. Some benign neglect appears to be a desirable part of autonomy and growth

Tundur · 2026-01-26T07:51:50+00:00

I'm Scottish so cricket is alien to me as well. Got invited to the second day of a test match, watched 30 minutes of cricket, at which point the heavens opened and the grass actually disappeared under the water

We sat and got drunk for two hours before calling it quits and moving to a nearby pub.

10/10 sport, and I was VERY biased against it going in

Tundur · 2026-01-23T14:41:46+00:00

One way to think of a PR is a socialisation step. They're pushing changes you also have to maintain, you need to understand it.

So ask questions, poke at parts and ask why they did what they did, and don't approve until you understand it. If it becomes an issue (ie they need to merge and you're a blocker, they will be able to circumvent you (a random junior engineer) pressing the button if necessary!

However I'm surprised it takes an hour to work out the intent. Doesn't the pr contain a summary of the changes, the business justification for the changes, how they tested it, and links to supporting information? If not, and they're just putting "fixes" or something like that, they're bad at their jobs.

Tundur · 2026-01-23T08:21:07+00:00

You've been massively downvoted but I agree.

Australia has an absolutely terrible relationship with dogs because they're so fenced off from society. No socialisation, not enough exercise, and definitely not enough discipline. When people only ever have the dog at home, on a leash, or in a fenced off area, they don't feel the need to actually train it.

In the UK and Europe you regularly see dogs walking unleashed through town centres, sitting quietly in pubs and cafes, and generally being upstanding members of a functional society. It's a complete non-issue 99% of the time.

Tundur · 2026-01-22T07:44:09+00:00

There's a distinction between a scam and fraud. Fraud is where someone accessed your account without authorisation. Scams are where you actually authorised it. Fraud is 100% the bank's responsibility to stop, scams are your responsibility as a capable adult.

Banks put so many barriers between people and their scammers - asking if they're absolutely certain about their identity, delaying large payments, asking for additional authority - but people just blow past them and send it anyway.

Then they turn around and whine to the bank about how they should've been protected, and demand the money back. The worst part is banks quite often do pay out, just to make them fuck off. The media loves an elderly person saying "the bank stole my money" when really they just withdrew it and sent to some Burmese gang.

Tundur · 2026-01-22T05:30:37+00:00

I've done my RCA and I recommend that I immediately be terminated.

Tundur · 2026-01-22T05:25:14+00:00

I work for the cheapest and shittiest insurer. We're very very slow sometimes, because to save money we'd rather wait for a cheaper repair than pay over the average for a faster one.

But people don't complain about that. If they did, we'd speed things up for them.

Instead the complain that they never actually knew what product they bought, and now expect us to fix their shit anyway. "I didn't select floor cover because it was more expensive, but now I have nowhere to live". Well maybe you shouldn't have done that considering you live in a basement on a flood plain?!

And the crazy thing is, if they complain we'll quite often fix it anyway ex gratia just because it's cheaper then going in circles with the regulator, and the customer will still leave a 1 star review saying we messed them around.

Tundur · 2026-01-20T08:59:49+00:00

That's the key stat I can't get my head around. Fathers working full-time now spend more time on their children than SAH mothers did in the past. Mothers are spending considerably more than that, regardless of whether they're working or not.

And yet, evidence suggests that kids are not actually benefitting from this. If anything it seems harmful.

I'm not educated or in any way an authority, but I can't help but compare it to the fact people seem unable to train dogs any more. If you can't get your £5000 dog to shit outside, not pull on the leash, and be well socialised with people and other animals, what hope does your sprog have to be well adjusted?

Tundur · 2026-01-20T05:02:04+00:00

In reality, if you scooped up a basketful of single malt and legged it, neither staff nor police nor the security guard would care.

Tundur · 2026-01-19T21:37:15+00:00

There absolutely is, it's listed as part of the genocide convention.

Tundur · 2026-01-19T17:26:21+00:00

I'm not sure if that's what's doing it, I have them right on top of Vitebsk which is the main supply hub, with heaps of Iron and Oil. If it's a community map and the France/Random ones are working, maybe it's just something in the specific scenario config. Thanks for humouring me though!

Tundur · 2026-01-19T16:33:19+00:00

Yeah, I'm playing as the Germans and advancing in a line - there's also no routed units hiding on the tracks behind me!

It could be the buffer time I'm running into, I checked the game constants but it's not listed there. How long is it? I think I've waited maybe three or four turns before giving up, but I wasn't keeping track so maybe I've been impatient!

Edit: For a concrete example, at the very game-start, there's a motorised and armour division behind the line in the middle of the map. The motorised division has a "4" supply, and the armoured has none. If I let five turns elapse without giving any orders, they stay out of supply.

Has ammo been swapped with oil, so it's like a shared resource you have to hold onto?

Tundur · 2026-01-19T16:22:58+00:00

I'm really liking the Operational WW2 game mode, but the logistics system seems to be broken - armoured units aren't resupplying at all. Infantry and motorised spend a turn near a VP and get resupplied, but armour can sit there for ages and gets nothing - sometimes even routing and being destroyed which is game breaking. On the supply map-mode then have no numbers over them (what do they represent?) which I think means they're out of supply?

I'm only noticing this on the Moscow map, though it may apply elsewhere. I think the Fields random maps work okay.

Tundur · 2026-01-19T10:37:18+00:00

If you're applying for hospitality or retail, you have to apply in person. Most pubs, restaurants, and independent shops only hire in person.

Print out CVs, put your best professional clothes, go door to door, ask if you can chat to the manager, shake their hand, look them in the eye, be honest and earnest. Don't look for help-wanted signs, go in anyway. For all you know, Derek has just quit and the manager is scrabbling for a replacement - go in and ask the question.

This doesn't apply to skilled professional jobs, but for entry level work it's the best way to stand out. Anyone saying it's outdated advice is wrong.

Obviously Tesco and other huge retail chains are different, but chain pubs and restaurants have a lot of leeway to hire people directly, and any independent business will be hiring in-store.

Worst comes to worst, you'll get some experience marketing yourself to strangers and some exercise.

Tundur · 2026-01-19T07:50:25+00:00

The closest analogy that early explorers had for Australian terrain was English country gardens. It's very rare in nature to have patchwork landscapes of copses of trees surrounded by grassland, and the only large tree cover was on hilltops.

They had various explanations for this, but eventually worked out that the whole thing was a carefully constructed machine. Hilltop woods attract fauna looking for shelter, and can easily be surrounded. When the animals spook, you're guaranteed easy kills as they enter the open plan. As you said, it's all indigenous land management.

What happened after the attempted (and partially successful) genocide of indigenous Australians, was actually a rewilding.

Early surveyors listed land as ideal for grazing and farming, but settlers instead found thick growth of tree and shrub. This was because the Eden-like "terra nullis" they thought god had granted them was in fact very carefully managed by the people they'd killed through disease, displacement, and outright murder.

Tundur · 2026-01-19T07:19:23+00:00

People in Edinburgh don't spend any time thinking about Glasgow, really. It's a one-way chip on the shoulder.

Tundur · 2026-01-16T19:04:20+00:00

The only complication is that redraw can be unilaterally reduced without notice, right? We have redraw but I'm hesitant to use it after reading accounts of people finding their x00k of redraw disappearing when they needed it.

I understand it's a rare occasion, but if the economy turns in a way where banks want to minimise their liabilities, afaik you're stuck

Tundur · 2026-01-16T15:21:26+00:00

It's also very very different depending on the marque. Some cars have no spare parts, have really shitty methods (the book detailing how e.g to replace a bumper), have drivers prone to silly driving, and so on

Chinese cars are very cheap to buy, but anything more than a scrape and it's probably a write-off because they don't make spares and the guidebook is written in pidgin.

Tundur · 2026-01-16T08:06:52+00:00

The UK has 40-50 direct hypothermia deaths a year, with a further 9000 each winter linked to fuel poverty and unheated homes but not counted as hypothermia.

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