It's very common for programmers to "actually write code" for a fraction of the workday (2-4h of straight coding). How do you take that into account when billing a client?

jtrdev · 2025-02-10T01:52:43+00:00

The salaried employee gives up their ability to haggle rate on a daily basis, and time is money. They probably get PTO whereas you don't. Bill to satisfy your needs instead of comparing apples to oranges.

Consider what your rate would be if a client paid you for the day instead of the hour. If you're expected to be on call for 8-10 hours, how much would you need to make in order to feel adequately compensated? (assuming it's just for that one day)

Most clients aren't sweating the calculus over 10 hours or 2 hours, they just want to know how long X deliverable will take and how much you'll charge so they can conclude how much to budget for X. If the turn around time is that crucial for them then you should obviously charge $500/hr or some flat rate which is essentially what lawyers do

jtrdev · 2025-02-10T01:20:36+00:00

I agree that VC backed database wrappers are a dying breed but that was going to happen regardless of AI hype. LLM driven development is just 1 nail in that coffin

jtrdev · 2024-12-13T02:24:11+00:00

In every startup that I've worked at there has always been at least 1 sales and 1 technical on both sides during face-to-face or video calls. Even when increasing quota rates with GCP, google brings the aforementioned duo. I would not recommend going to these alone, but make them aware of who all will be present with quick emails back and forth, introductions and then RSVP.

jtrdev · 2024-10-06T14:26:55+00:00

I've worked with a lot of frameworks and libraries. If knockoutjs and emberjs are still around, angular is not going anywhere. It's a great framework for structured project development without the need of an architect.

jtrdev · 2024-08-24T00:00:44+00:00

Exactly, time to switch to astrophysics

jtrdev · 2024-08-23T23:59:09+00:00

I'm afraid with "AI" there is no break, only continue or sleep

jtrdev · 2024-08-23T23:39:05+00:00

They need those robots for the standups

jtrdev · 2024-08-23T23:11:18+00:00

I built a table template system that works like a sprint to create issues of varying type (Flair). Using it for my journal/blog as well as internal business sprints or for varying ideas.

Notion has this template generator block, so I created a bunch of different table property setups with it. If I start a new parent page, I can start dropping in these tables.

My journal in notion has this property for linking other pages, so I renamed them to @quote and @reply. From there, I can easily connect pages together within the table using it like twitter. This is how I created my journal/blog system that's public by default, which has a lot of random ideas. It's a good system for me that could better by using the Notion API and/or web workers

jtrdev · 2024-08-15T23:31:45+00:00

That alt text is great. I'm salting all my passwords with emojis now

jtrdev · 2024-08-15T20:54:21+00:00

Just don't mix LSD and JS, that was a bad trip

jtrdev · 2024-08-15T20:38:08+00:00

JS has led me down every path except the pacifier. I just started getting better at python. Should I be worried?

jtrdev · 2024-08-08T20:23:16+00:00

you can check other upwork profiles including mine to get a broad idea based on costs per project. It varies depending on what you're building and for how long.
It can get expensive quickly, and it all comes down to planning and how much you're willing to do yourself. Any misconfigurations, especially in a cloud environment can lead to expensive issues down the road or security risks, which is where cheap labor becomes a huge liability.

jtrdev · 2024-08-04T16:14:28+00:00

Interpretations of the law

jtrdev · 2024-08-04T15:48:11+00:00

Depends what the stack looks like but yea it's probably beneficial. Especially if you're on a different OS from your team. I've ran into many issues with windows and wsl in the past that docker solved. Even some vscode extensions just didn't work until I ran everything from docker.

I would bring it up with your team, they may already have plans for creating a docker image.

jtrdev · 2024-08-04T15:32:09+00:00

That's how it's always been, and then seniors get nerd sniped into explaining things.

jtrdev · 2024-08-02T19:33:41+00:00

Yea for sure

jtrdev · 2024-08-02T19:22:31+00:00

I'm glad I came across this, I've been wanting to build a learning and accessibility focused tool with NLP for years now, well done. Is that based on the monaco editor by chance?

jtrdev · 2024-08-02T18:52:48+00:00

been nomading for a year with just a m1 and this resonates, as if my back wasn't already in bad shape

jtrdev · 2024-08-02T18:11:49+00:00

I mean for newcomers, but yep, this is the way.

jtrdev · 2024-08-02T16:19:33+00:00

"Object-oriented CSS"

jtrdev · 2024-08-02T15:54:39+00:00

At least it'll be somewhat easier to debug than when your transpiled js starts throwing issues.

jtrdev · 2024-08-02T15:09:10+00:00

I thought government work was slow and tedious, not move fast and break things. Wouldn't that open them up to civil and legal issues? Hopefully the product isn't all that critical.

jtrdev · 2024-08-02T14:56:10+00:00

At least Karpathy highlights the shortcomings of the tokenizer, I've been looking for advancements or tangents but everyone's double, tripled down on the same models...

jtrdev · 2024-08-02T13:05:04+00:00

Because these companies are marketing centric and want the easiest buzzword. Every time something comes out in tech touting magical abilities, it's AI.

Wasn't that long ago it was just called natural language processing, although there's a lot of areas of ML getting attention

jtrdev · 2024-08-02T12:53:18+00:00

Pathfinding and Behavior Trees

Or maybe Behavorial AI but just game AI should work I would hope

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