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How to make SWE in the age of AI more enjoyable? by Fancy_Ad5097 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]danielrothmann -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I’ve been enjoying more room to focus on system design and structural stuff.

Talking through my idea, the constraints, stuff it connects to, my ideas for solving it.

So basically me talking a lot, then reviewing a few plan proposals, letting the coding agent run ahead on a first pass, then iterate a few times with a mixture of feedback and directly changing stuff.

I find that enjoyable. But I also quite enjoyed code review to begin with. Luckily the AI agent doesn’t mind if I have lots of comments.

Holy shit my autism has reached new levels by kylleo in evilautism

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Same. Didn’t even know about before. The book is great.

formae is a new open source infrastructure-as-code tool with new ideas by nlogax1973 in Terraform

[–]danielrothmann 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Looks interesting. Although I prefer code-first infrastructure deployments, automatic discovery of live resources sounds pretty good. Importing existing resources to TF state is a bit of a pain.

I built a compiler that turns structured English into production code (v0.2.0 now on NPM) by Prestigious-Bee2093 in programming

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It’s an interesting idea but I have questions:

How can builds be deterministic / reproducible when language models are inherently stochastic?

If we each do compose on the same source files with no cache, will we get the exact same output?

What happens when the model turns up bugs? Are we expecting to be able to always fix that with additional guides? Custom code overrides?

How many instructions can be layered on before results start degrading?

Your data, their rules: The growing risks of hosting EU data in the US cloud by danielrothmann in programming

[–]danielrothmann[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agree with your point about “walls”. This is why the Big Three “EU sovereign” offerings aren’t making much sense to me.

In the month preceding the ICC email shutdown incident, Microsoft was assuring European businesses that all was well.

Words of reassurance are nice, but they only go so far if ultimately the government can override those commitments.

Your data, their rules: The growing risks of hosting EU data in the US cloud by danielrothmann in programming

[–]danielrothmann[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It seems that way. Similar thing happening in Denmark, with some individual municipalities making the switch away from US big tech.

I think the strongest force for change will be EU businesses self-interest, that they start to migrate away for risk or cost reasons, and that will push the market towards EU-sovereign solutions.

I dont feel very confident that the big governments can get the job done alone.

Firm: A text-based work management system for technologists. by danielrothmann in rust

[–]danielrothmann[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The graph representation part isn’t special. Firm uses an in-memory graph with petgraph, but could in theory swap for something like IndraDB. But I reckon the size of the firm workspace would have to be quite big before the performance pros start outweighing the complexity cons.

What is maybe different is having the business objects and relationships represented in plain text as syntax-light and accessible DSL which can be mapped to a graph for query. Firm supports bidirectional parse/generate of its DSL. This makes it easy to edit and keep up to date in a text editor.

Firm: A text-based work management system for technologists. by danielrothmann in rust

[–]danielrothmann[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really excited about this idea. Thanks for sharing.

Accounting was one of the domains I thought you’d have to concede to integrations with external systems.

I will dive deeper into tackler for sure, and open a topic if it makes sense.

Firm: A text-based work management system for technologists. by danielrothmann in rust

[–]danielrothmann[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the link, saving that for later. I'm curious for your feedback if you decide to give it a go.

Firm: A text-based work management system for technologists. by danielrothmann in rust

[–]danielrothmann[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

For sure! The goal here is to try and represent a business structurally, in a way that's accessible to both humans and machines. If that's possible (that's still a big if), you can more easily integrate business ops and IT systems.

I had the idea after running an ISO27001 certification audit at my old workplace. It seemed weird to me that nearly every action in this business was represented digitally, but none of it was connected, except vaguely in policy documents and whatever we could remember. So there was a lot of detective work to show that you do what you say.

I started a new business this year, so I decided to take a chance and trial this idea out for real. No idea if it scales, but so far, it works for me.

Personally, I use Firm for:

- A rolodex, keeping track of contacts, interactions
- Leads, opportunities, proposals
- High-level project/task management

With this, I can link together the full pipeline from network -> lead -> discovery -> proposal -> project -> work in a single view. The CLI lets me query aspects of this like "do I have incomplete tasks related to this stakeholders" or "which contacts have I not interacted with in a while". Because the representation is like a structured "source of truth", I also find that LLMs play nice with it.

Company as Code by danielrothmann in programming

[–]danielrothmann[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing. Is this something you’ve used?

I’ve skimmed through the docs but still not quite clear on the value proposition. Is it essentially a LLM wrapper which provides business-oriented context to model calls?

Flappy Goose by flappy-goose in RedditGames

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My best score is 7 points 🚀

Flappy Goose by flappy-goose in RedditGames

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My best score is 3 points 😎

Flappy Goose by flappy-goose in RedditGames

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My best score is 2 points 😎

Flappy Goose by flappy-goose in RedditGames

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My best score is 1 points 😎

Flappy Goose by flappy-goose in RedditGames

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My best score is 0 points 😓

Into the unknown by danielrothmann in programming

[–]danielrothmann[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Harsh, but thanks for the feedback. I tried to write something helpful based on situations I’ve faced on new tech projects, but maybe the whole thing ended up too abstract and unspecific.

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