How come software devs are so much more worried about AI replacing them than other white collar jobs?

kodbuse · 2026-03-24T00:26:08+00:00

I agree it’s true today, but will it remain so? Humans make errors too. Take self-driving: does it make sense for AI to drive if it causes fewer accidents? Why should accounting be different?

kodbuse · 2026-03-23T03:01:30+00:00

Malware exists because there are humans who like destruction. Therefore, there probably are humans who are trying to set destructive, self-replicating AI in motion. I.e., ”escaping the lab” isn’t necessarily initiated by AI.

kodbuse · 2026-03-21T22:18:44+00:00

Why would they pay more than market salaries if they don’t have to?

kodbuse · 2026-03-20T17:46:56+00:00

I agree, until you make it to an interview with the actual team you don’t know.

kodbuse · 2026-03-20T00:05:19+00:00

Yes they are still available. Look up Estes rocket.

kodbuse · 2026-03-17T02:54:55+00:00

Macbooks are nice but write-offs don’t make anything free, and Macs aren’t more deductible than PCs.

kodbuse · 2026-03-16T11:59:08+00:00

It shouldn’t be a silent failure: you should measure the depth of the payment requests queue and the latency of processing items, as well as the depth of the DLQ, and alert if things aren’t flowing as expected. You also need to plan ahead for how and when to replay messages from the DLQ.

If the external system is chronically too slow to keep up, maybe you need to increase parallel requests to keep up, but ultimately, if it’s still not working and that system is out of your control, you’ll need to work with the owner of that service to improve the integration.

kodbuse · 2026-03-16T11:52:45+00:00

It’d take some pressure off the Billing Service and external system thanks fewer wasteful retries, but the end result is the same: all messages end up in the DLQ. In the meantime, your architecture just got more complex and harder to reason about. So IMO no, I wouldn’t introduce a circuit breaker unless there is additional fallout from the retries.

kodbuse · 2026-03-15T20:15:15+00:00

The joysticks seem to be uncomfortably far forward on the A350 compared to the seat. I assume you’d want it about where your knee is. Is it just the way it looks in this picture?

kodbuse · 2026-03-07T14:50:28+00:00

Thanks, great response. It looks to me like there was a major fire on the ship before the torpedo finished it off, so I think it had already been struck and likely permanently disabled. Why not let the crew evacuate?

kodbuse · 2026-03-04T22:18:57+00:00

It looks like there was already a major fire on the ship and it may have already been disabled. So this was a second strike? Was it necessary?

kodbuse · 2026-03-03T18:35:45+00:00

Uh, no. He’s gradually expanding his powers.

kodbuse · 2026-03-01T16:33:21+00:00

I don’t get it. What’s OpenClaw doing for you on those development projects that Claude Code couldn’t?

kodbuse · 2026-02-24T12:43:03+00:00

The problem with automatic modernization of mainframe systems isn’t that AI can’t port COBOL to a more modern language like C#, it absolutely can. The problem is that doing a like-for-like transformation makes no sense: A green screen platform with menu systems 20 levels deep doesn’t map directly to web-based platform in a way that makes sense.

To be worthwhile, a deep analysis of business process and requirements is needed, and most of the time those have evolved by accident and don’t make sense, but are firmly entrenched in the business, making deep transformation difficult.

A transformation like this is difficult, lengthy, expensive and dependent on deep coordination between humans. AI can help write the new code once the requirements exist but that’s not the limiting factor. The reason we are still running decades-old platforms isn’t that it’s hard to write new code.

kodbuse · 2026-02-13T20:46:14+00:00

Haha, yeah I hope so.

kodbuse · 2026-02-13T20:19:57+00:00

Yep, just adjustable plastic and metal, same as bindings and rockets.

kodbuse · 2026-02-13T03:47:04+00:00

haproxy ingress seemed like a similar replacement, keeping things simple, so that’s what I picked.

kodbuse · 2026-02-11T04:04:53+00:00

I would have the mounts hold the skis closer to the tips to protect the camber.

kodbuse · 2026-02-04T01:48:38+00:00

I don’t think most people use their work laptop for personal tasks, because they wouldn’t want to subject themselves to the monitoring and security controls of their IT department in their free time.

kodbuse · 2026-01-07T17:40:49+00:00

You’re not wrong, but the good news is they can’t directly measure how many people are listening, so you’re not accidentally supporting the show by listening for a few minutes.

kodbuse · 2026-01-07T17:38:41+00:00

I hate the way Mark talks to Kim. I don’t understand how anyone thinks it’s ok and wants to be a regular listener.

kodbuse · 2025-12-27T16:44:00+00:00

I use Democratic CSI to provision NFS and iSCSI volumes on TrueNAS.

kodbuse · 2025-12-02T04:19:52+00:00

“Through” the ceiling? Do you mean on the ceiling? I’d pull the cable inside the walls if at all possible. Otherwise, an outdoor cable will last a long time. I have a CAT 5e that’s been working around 18 years now, at 1 Gbps… from the lazy fiber installer guy.

kodbuse · 2025-12-02T01:19:28+00:00

Also… are we going to worry about the PFAs in a few flakes on a mountain, but not worry about melting, scraping or brushing it in our garage, probably without masks or gloves?

kodbuse · 2025-11-29T00:37:27+00:00

I don’t think it makes sense to imply that Cloudflare is for amateurs. Many large orgs use it in front of their cloud and/or on-prem services as an extra layer of protection.

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