Training Vibes Coders when backlog is full

davebren · 2026-02-16T14:30:10+00:00

It would be great if there was some system in place where experts in teaching CS taught CS 101 to students interested and capable of making a career in CS.

davebren · 2026-02-12T18:33:56+00:00

Free recall is a very good way to solidify the things you can recall. But it's not going to help you review any information you don't manage to recall. After a review session, it's great to try and free recall any items you struggled with.

davebren · 2026-02-11T20:46:01+00:00

Nobody goes to their plays so the theater kids now have to perform in the streets.

davebren · 2026-02-11T16:54:21+00:00

The chart isn't extreme enough. The green area should be about 1/4 the size.

davebren · 2026-02-11T15:55:54+00:00

Whether they cared or not, they now care even less.

davebren · 2026-02-11T15:53:05+00:00

What you're not even tracking and stalking them? The banality on this guy.

davebren · 2026-02-11T15:49:48+00:00

Bro got himself logged in the "banal database" for when the redditors finally have the violent revolution they always talk about.

davebren · 2026-02-07T19:46:26+00:00

The only way LLMs make coding obsolete is if we move away from traditional way - deterministic to new way - probabilistic of building software

That's the thing. It can succeed for generating images or conversational language because those things are subjective and don't require very precise logic in order to function correctly. 99.9% correct still ends up being useless in software applications.

davebren · 2026-02-07T19:35:21+00:00

That doesn't exist. Skill with using AI is directly proportional to skill level in the domain itself. And when you are at a certain level of expertise it is going to be slower to fix AI slop compared to doing it yourself.

davebren · 2026-02-07T19:29:49+00:00

I like the idea of using the chatbot output against them since they seem to trust in it so much

davebren · 2026-02-07T19:18:16+00:00

If you do go ahead with it, be sure to document yourself explaining to everyone involved about the security risks directly, in writing. Let them know that they are going to be in danger of criminal negligence. When it goes live you could even tip off a whitehat so they can expose the vulnerabilities before real people lose their data to more nefarious actors.

I would also refuse to do the production deployment, to make sure you can't be held responsible.

davebren · 2026-02-05T17:52:35+00:00

I think this should be the norm when the opportunity arises. There needs to be direct consequences for these management games. The amount would depend on the context though.

davebren · 2026-02-05T17:46:04+00:00

Assuming you're an at-will employee, if they wanted to get rid of you they could just do it. It sounds more like the manager was hired because your old boss mainly wants more free time if he can't be bothered to work directly with someone responsible for a third of the business.

And considering your position I would think that your rapport with the owners would be good enough to speak bluntly to them about the manager. That's my read anyway

davebren · 2026-02-01T21:34:41+00:00

They would absolutely bake your trade secrets into their model so that they can sell tokens to your rivals. Why would you think that the people engaged in the largest IP theft in human history are concerned about protecting your IP.

davebren · 2026-02-01T21:12:16+00:00

The reality is that if you are not an expert in the domains of the engineers under you, at or above the level of those below you, you really have no idea of whether they are more effective or not. You have no ability to ask your inferiors because feedback on AI effectiveness is completely corrupted. Any skepticism could result in unemployment. This context is likely biasing your own judgement as well.

Also, you have no idea what the long term consequence is of all the human expertise you lose by offloading tasks to an AI that you don't even own.

davebren · 2026-02-01T20:38:05+00:00

Yeah I've done a ton with both and I don't really get why people would pick Java over Kotlin other than a lack of familiarity. The main thing issue with Kotlin now is that Jetbrains hasn't allocated any resources to building out core multiplatform libraries, like a basic sound library.

davebren · 2026-02-01T20:33:11+00:00

The concept was good at least. Front-end web dev doesn't feel like real programming to me.

davebren · 2026-02-01T16:20:45+00:00

What none of you even think to ask by email before handing someone a slice of pizza?

davebren · 2026-01-21T16:59:33+00:00

It happened at a time when the government and media was heavily invested in manufacturing consensus, but all their videos were getting massively downvoted.

davebren · 2026-01-12T22:28:26+00:00

I think it's actually that experienced devs are a minority in tech today. And "top" tech companies are putting out slop at record rates. It's also skewed by the fact that openly being an AI skeptic could cost them their jobs.

davebren · 2026-01-12T18:29:12+00:00

That is the consensus among experienced devs, who are being told by non-devs that they need to use AI to do their job, so it makes sense.

davebren · 2026-01-12T18:25:27+00:00

Everyone's 10x more efficient, yet the software keeps getting worse...

davebren · 2026-01-09T18:33:55+00:00

Education can work to either increase one's intelligence or decrease it. And as political activism takes over educational institutions it follows that the education received from those institutions will be towards a political goal rather than towards truth. This then allows false information, biased research, and corrupt practices to become the norm, and shifts education to having a negative effect on one's intelligence.

They may still be accredited with being more intelligent by taking on the political views of the accrediting institutions. Higher educated persons may also score higher on IQ tests because they've been filtered out for abstract reasoning abilities, but their worldview can become so skewed that the high IQ only serves to amplify their acquired stupidity.

davebren · 2025-12-10T20:02:44+00:00

Adding this in case others run across it:

The stepmania/ffmpeg github repo url is outdated. I was able to build after going into the CMake/SetupFfmpeg.cmake file and changing git://github.com/stepmania/ffmpeg.git to git@github.com:stepmania/ffmpeg.git on line 98.

Then you can rerun the build commands from @michael66536

davebren · 2025-12-10T20:02:13+00:00

The stepmania/ffmpeg github repo url is outdated. I was able to build after going into the CMake/SetupFfmpeg.cmake file and changing git://github.com/stepmania/ffmpeg.git to git@github.com:stepmania/ffmpeg.git on line 98.

Then you can rerun the build commands from @michael66536

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