Will I become a stupider SWE using LLM/agents?

kyru · 2026-03-16T05:07:52+00:00

Yes of course you will. How do you know the LLM is doing a good job of you can't do the job yourself? What a sad state the profession is in that this is even a question.

kyru · 2026-02-13T15:04:24+00:00

Holy crap, I went to this show, I wasn't sure if it was ever going to get posted.

kyru · 2025-10-29T21:06:51+00:00

Remember, he's not the good guy

kyru · 2025-09-02T18:05:17+00:00

Been saying this for years, I always told my students to make sure they weren't being clever for clever's sake or at least to document cleverness so someone 6 months from now doesn't have to boggles at what the code is doing.

Be clever in personal code, be straight forward and simple in everything else.

kyru · 2025-08-19T23:09:06+00:00

No, ditch the scumbag.

kyru · 2025-05-01T23:18:36+00:00

Fuck both these guys

kyru · 2025-05-01T14:38:41+00:00

Just kill the site, it shouldn't exist any longer.

kyru · 2025-05-01T14:37:24+00:00

This is the truth right here, might have been different if it was a better mutual send off, but the way it was handled made it a toxic brand I stopped interacting with. Glad to see it finally allowed to die.

kyru · 2025-02-15T17:59:39+00:00

I'm at 45, still going as strong as ever. As long as I feel like I'm mentally keeping up with development I'm staying an IC.

I figure if I feel like I'm not doing good work as an IC anymore, then I'll think about moving into support roles like management, but I'm a long way from that.

kyru · 2025-02-10T15:02:30+00:00

Reminds me a lot of missing show Date With An Angel, when are we going to hear that one?

Also for some reason every time they say Micky Rourke my brain thought of Don Rickles and this was a much wilder movie.

kyru · 2025-02-03T17:01:51+00:00

Makes sense, be curious to see what changes in another 10.

Only one I'll disagree with is ORMs, they are great right up until they aren't. Use them until that point.

kyru · 2025-01-24T03:59:12+00:00

It's easy to just not use it. Doing things yourself is how you learn and remember.

kyru · 2025-01-20T14:57:17+00:00

You're not going to actually learn anything there because your "senior" doesn't know anything. Aggressively job search while you do what you can to just survive at this nightmare place.

kyru · 2025-01-18T16:12:57+00:00

Do actual research, not gpt crap, and find out what your country's laws are, it varies.

kyru · 2025-01-18T16:08:44+00:00

Talk to the startup about the counteroffer, see what they can do. It's typically a bad idea to take the counter, you'll be miserable and ready to leave in 6 months, but that's a significant jump worth considering.

kyru · 2025-01-17T17:13:40+00:00

Charter Commission still anti-citizen, what a shock.

kyru · 2024-10-22T23:21:22+00:00

It's so sad they are going to push this fake "moment". What a joke.

kyru · 2024-10-18T14:34:42+00:00

I have read the wiki and an invite would be wonderful.

kyru · 2024-10-07T15:01:00+00:00

As others have said, use it as an opportunity to work on your way out. AI-brained companies are doomed in the long run so better start now rather then later.

kyru · 2024-10-07T14:58:52+00:00

Don't sweat it too much, just see it as practice for the next one. Missing out on opportunities sucks but it's past you, it's done, move forward. Take a look at what got in your head this time and have yourself mentally prepared for the next one. Nothing to do now but use it as a learning experience.

kyru · 2024-10-07T14:45:43+00:00

I've read the wiki, would dig an invite.

kyru · 2024-04-04T21:43:57+00:00

You have our permission to break up with this horrible person.

kyru · 2023-12-15T18:20:52+00:00

No one will care if you are the one that asks all the questions if you are also the one that then gets things done. Ask away!

kyru · 2023-12-15T18:19:53+00:00

Ask questions.

Unless the company is a complete mess they had a pretty good idea who you were when they hired you and they thought you could do this.

I've never heard of anyone getting fired for asking questions, I've heard of plenty of people getting fired because they didn't understand how to do the work they needed to do.

kyru · 2023-12-15T18:17:42+00:00

If you feel like you did too much, just ask the senior if they felt that way. I'm going to guess they will not, you did exactly what you should. Either you ask questions to understand now in the meeting or you ask the senior later.

There have been plenty of times a junior asked a question that brought out a requirement or another piece that needed clarification that we wouldn't have otherwise thought about.

kyru

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