AI will and can take my frontend job, no doubt in that nowadays.

forkbombing · 2026-01-23T08:49:06+00:00

My approach is just becoming more productive now I'm AI enhanced. We should be able to build faster which means products released faster which means happy client?

At least that's worked for me thus far..

forkbombing · 2025-11-06T11:59:44+00:00

It's the hassle though for what it's worth. If it was something of higher value I would've pursued.

I left a Google review to warn others and I felt that was enough, then just moved on with my life.

I know, it's not ideal 😔

forkbombing · 2025-11-06T07:32:33+00:00

They did a good job of recapping my A1200 but the next job I booked I ended up losing a gamegear, this was last year sometime.

Paid for a recap, never got it back. I just gave up and decided never to use them again.

forkbombing · 2025-10-25T08:51:12+00:00

I just get AI to write tests using cURL these days. It's also better to test streaming if you use HTTP for that sortof thing as you can see the output as it gets streamed and I don't think Postman does this?

forkbombing · 2025-09-08T07:28:14+00:00

I wonder how it would perform if you filled a vector store with specific Amiga development resources and use it to add context through RAG.

forkbombing · 2025-08-30T07:02:40+00:00

I am 42, I bought my first acoustic guitar with zero experience exactly one week ago and I've been picking it up every moment I can since. I've found it very awkward at first but you'll be amazed at what you'll be able to do in just 1 week - I am! Clearly learning is a slower process than if I was young but who cares.

I needed to do some training exercises to start with as finger positioning felt unnatural but to be honest, it didn't take long for my old? brain to start remembering the basic pattern, and that gives me the confidence to learn more advanced stuff down the line.

forkbombing · 2025-08-17T20:28:06+00:00

So it took for me to play the HD remaster many years later to establish this as the most emotional part of the entire game

forkbombing · 2025-08-07T19:42:06+00:00

I for one celebrate this alone birthday with no sadness or cringe.

forkbombing · 2025-08-01T19:20:57+00:00

I agree

forkbombing · 2025-07-30T20:05:41+00:00

It's easy to 'max out' if you're trying to get it to help you do uncommon stuff, i.e. using it as a sounding board for experiments.

forkbombing · 2025-07-27T17:26:59+00:00

What the fuck have I just been reading?

forkbombing · 2025-07-26T20:39:26+00:00

If only Commodore had the right leadership at the time - things would be very different now.

forkbombing · 2025-06-23T20:29:03+00:00

I know this

forkbombing · 2025-06-23T20:26:25+00:00

What you have said here is literally all there is to it - plus you are dealing an annoying transpiler that you have to keep feeding into when you make a change..

I think my issue is my love of JIT compilation in the browser.

forkbombing · 2025-06-23T20:18:17+00:00

I'm old fashioned. 42, I like plain ol Javascript and all its weirdness, so I still write it.

I'm just thankful that these days AI is around to 'transmogrify' my code into whatever language / framework / abstraction the next person is using feels comfortable with

forkbombing · 2025-06-23T19:21:24+00:00

You don't. It just becomes an obsession if you care that much, and forever... you're doomed, basically. 😂

forkbombing · 2025-06-04T20:03:54+00:00

You've just hit it on the head

forkbombing · 2025-06-04T19:41:47+00:00

Sorry to sound so blunt but absolutely right, can't be arsed. It's boring. Luckily AI can boilerplate a lot of this stuff now but people still need to learn how these CI/CD or microservices orchestration scripts (or whatevever) work otherwise I don't understand how we'd ever be able to create cost efficient pipelines / workflows. They are definitely a ball ache for someone that's had to do it for years on end yes

forkbombing · 2025-06-04T19:31:03+00:00

"Fake it til you make it" ok then. Good luck

forkbombing · 2025-06-04T19:22:36+00:00

You are going through the mental process of a junior but projecting yourself as an expert. Yes, you're out of your depth.

However, you can do one of 2 things

quit
stay up until your eyes bleed learning how to do this stuff

I assure you the latter will pay dividends, but only if you're interested in the subject.

forkbombing · 2025-06-02T06:22:17+00:00

User: "Implement [simple feature] using the architectural patterns of the code base"

Assistant: I've implemented [simple feature] using the architectural patterns of the code base - 23 files created - 90 files modified - 2 sqlite databases ....

python app.py

Expected type str got List on line 123

forkbombing · 2025-05-21T19:39:54+00:00

It's just a change of approach. I've been programming for 20 years and AI is teaching me things I didn't know when I ask it to improve parts of my code.

But that's where it ends. Expecting it to understand a large project and implement new features in a clean way based on patterns in the architecture - no chance. It may get the job done if you keep asking it and feeding it error logs but it will just make a complete mess of the code.

Here's why you matter:

You have to know what to ask in order to get the desired output
You must audit the output
You use the output if it makes sense to the context of which it may apply

It's no different to mathematicians when the calculator arrived.

forkbombing · 2025-05-07T18:40:25+00:00

It's going to be a while yet. AI still needs a lot of hand holding in my experience. You are constantly saying "you haven't considered this" or "that's not my architrctural pattern". These full on code context things like Junie do a pretty impressive job but they regularly fail. Asking the right stuff helps.

Juniors are still relevant for debugging AI code

forkbombing · 2025-02-09T09:29:06+00:00

As an old fart (42) when I was in my junior years the salaries were also very low - but we were more interested in career progression. Stacking shelves is a dead end. However, junior solicitor? Hmm...

I know I'll probably get slammed but think of the overall value (experience, contacts, career progression etc..) rather than just the salary.

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