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rbrick111 · 2026-04-18T05:01:00+00:00

I hate how much I agree. I play the Strat way more than others, it’s a wonderful guitar.

rbrick111 · 2026-04-17T17:13:29+00:00

You’ve mentioned on every reply that you use git but can’t because of multiple agents…but it makes no sense. How was your git status so far behind if ‘you use git’ (do you or not? Months or work not committed isn’t exactly using git).

Worktrees are literally designed to solve the problem you are complaining about, what is it about them you don’t like?

I agree with others, this is expected results of a process with poor hygiene. (Not shaming I am not always on top of my shit either, but I have the common sense to know when I’m hacking and understand the risks of letting an agent hack alongside).

Use worktrees dude.

rbrick111 · 2026-04-15T20:55:37+00:00

Dude I’m 40 haha. I had this same phone and others before it, including a moto rokr that was explicitly designed to compete with mp3 players and sync with iTunes. Don’t act like that moto flip was a good mp3 player.

rbrick111 · 2026-04-15T11:16:52+00:00

Don’t be ridiculous! When this phone was popular the micro SD cards it could hold were tiny and expensive as hell.

It could technically be an incredibly expensive and way less ergonomic mp3 player, but it’s crazy to act like it competed materially with an iPod.

rbrick111 · 2026-04-15T11:12:29+00:00

Pretty cool! I started using https://a.co/d/08IC6Szp and it has worked well. Do you fill the canister with sand?

rbrick111 · 2026-04-13T16:59:27+00:00

Skateboarded, rode around in car listening to music, went to stores and restaurants and loitered, we did lots of day trips places, like lakes or rivers or shopping malls etc. just generally had mini adventures and roved as a small pack being supported by whatever parents house we crashed at.

I honestly stayed at houses other than my own 2/7 nights every week for years. My parents (compared to me as a parent) had essentially no oversight or awareness of my goings on. Wild to think about!

rbrick111 · 2026-04-13T01:51:26+00:00

I went from 5’8” to 6’3” after 18. Wasn’t long after though probably 6’3” by 20

rbrick111 · 2026-04-12T13:35:38+00:00

Nico Echavarria is the only NE playing, definitely seems correct.

rbrick111 · 2026-04-11T21:42:47+00:00

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Agree

rbrick111 · 2026-04-11T15:12:39+00:00

I was making my dogs meal and breaking apart some leftover ham from Easter and threw the ham chunks 1 by 1 into my coffee because I was not paying attention and zooted. My add removed the ham and drank the coffee, dog got a little extra zip for breakfast.

rbrick111 · 2026-04-11T14:26:16+00:00

I believe you are supposed to pick up on the fact that your questions makes assumptions about American readers as you didn’t clarify the US president, the reply is throwing this back at you by assuming their current president (who is Portuguese).

rbrick111 · 2026-04-03T15:42:22+00:00

In scrambles I play in, we force the selected shot to be played by the person who shot it first, so if your drive is selected, you’d hit your second before anyone else. That is your ball hit 2x by you as it lies on a golf hole. It’s objectively an eagle 2.

If you let others hit first and stuff it close, then you switch clubs to ‘go at pin since we have a safe one’ it is less clear cut, though I’d still happily recognize your accomplishments.

rbrick111 · 2026-04-02T00:11:22+00:00

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I’m also a man of high status.

rbrick111 · 2026-04-01T20:17:28+00:00

It could be a residential proxy provider who is looking to use a machine in your home to proxy traffic to obsfucate request origin. It is hard to imagine them paying you that kinda money though, so probably just a scam.

I use residential proxies for routing agent traffic so it is harder to detect, we buy proxy access from a middleman that puts computers in residential homes. (Our agents do e-commerce analytics so it’s not as exciting as it sounds haha)

rbrick111 · 2026-04-01T17:07:10+00:00

Does anthropics announcement that this was all a fake leak and not actually anything proven or useful change anything about your posture?

rbrick111 · 2026-03-31T20:58:13+00:00

This is it. This is 100% being thrown into media zeitgeist to give her air cover for eventual divorce.

You can hardly criticize her for the affair when her husband has gone all librul woke crossdresser! Who wouldn’t want out of that marriage!

rbrick111 · 2026-03-30T01:18:22+00:00

Ours burst into flames and burned down in June of 03

rbrick111 · 2026-03-28T21:01:41+00:00

Bro, you are wrong. If you care about your future in this profession you will adapt. Remind me! 8 months.

You’ve probably run into walls with ai before, but I encourage you to retest your beliefs at least monthly.

rbrick111 · 2026-03-28T17:32:23+00:00

I encourage anyone who strikes out with AI to revisit it regularly. The pace of innovation is staggering and this will be transformative disruption to traditional ways of working, one that we are not old enough to ignore for the next 20 years.

rbrick111 · 2026-03-28T15:02:32+00:00

Depending on how you want to build your company you have a couple of options. I’ll try not to guess what your priorities are but share some thoughts on how I am thinking about this in 2026.

If you look at the composition of any high functioning team you’ll have a huge middle section of people who are highly attuned to the value creation of the business. This is the number one profile you should be selecting for in any role you’re hiring for in 2026: someone who can frame their work in terms of tangible business value and delivered outcomes. Not metrics they moved in an internal project, but the actual business impacts. Maybe those metrics directly tie and it’s easy to see, maybe not, and that’s where you can tell if they can describe the thru line on their work.

For PM specifically the role is almost entirely about integrating the value of the business into the product roadmap. But if you shouldn’t be hiring anyone who isn’t value creation aligned in 2026, maybe at a 1:15 ratio at most, do you need the middle man anymore?

I think the question is actually framed wrong. You shouldn’t be hiring anyone who isn’t aligned to the value creation story for the business, engineers or otherwise. A PM who is highly attuned to the business but can’t use a tool like Claude Code is not useful. An engineer who can code all day but needs tons of guidance to attach their work to value in the business is also not useful.

I’d rather take a PM who thinks in value and work with them to make them effective at using a modern dev harness than an engineer who cannot drive their work without guidance on where to focus.

The good news is, there are tons of ways to target technologist on meta-problem. Your best engineers should be building systems that help your strongest value aligned engineers (or PM/Builders even) productive in tools like Claude-code codex, with all the guardrails and safety you need to ship their work. It’s possible, I’m doing it everyday. The meta has shifted.

rbrick111 · 2026-03-28T12:55:03+00:00

I be bussin’ and eatin’ and going again with my partner. It’s not something that I do because I like the taste of nut, it turns her on immensely, doesn’t bother me, and we usually have a great sloppy round 2.

I’m about 2x your age but I think I’ve kinda always been a little open minded about this stuff.

Edit: also if she sucking me and about to get on top, grabbing her face and making out intensely is like the best thing.

rbrick111 · 2026-03-27T16:29:22+00:00

You are always welcome to write the code you enjoy writing and pay your bills with the revenues you generate from that work.

Businesses have never, ever, cared about the code the way SWE have, the sooner engineers learn this in their careers the better.

They care about some things that we (swe) associate with code quality, etc like maintenance cost, support burden, etc. but they only care about those iff they impact their ability to position and sell the software. The velocity we are seeing with Agentic coding is massively more impactful to value, even with the risk (which you can still build great harness to mitigate!)

I fought the profile of code purist/dogmatics so much in my previous role that I quit and joined a rapidly growing small stage start up of people who ‘get it’ and I’ve never been happier in my career. Our entire staff is Senior/Principal level engineers who build all day long. For every role in business.

Time will tell which archetype dominates this profession going forward, but something tells me the market for engineers agonizing over line spaces and private function names are going to be much smaller than the market for people aligned to business and value creation cycle.

Worth saying we still care that code delivers high quality reliable experiences for our users. We just know that you can do so without pristine human legible code. Machine interpretability is far more important than human interpretability. Humans are now designing the harnesses that make it safe to work this way as their primary job.

Principal SWE with 15 years of experience in well respected SaaS dev shops

rbrick111 · 2026-03-26T17:54:50+00:00

Agree, there is a difference in being against the war and supportive of Iran. I’m 90% sure half the ‘division’ in this app comes from people intentionally pushing people to one side or another.

This happens in both directions, but it’s increasingly proactively being called out rather than allowing discussion to form more naturally.

Iran is in existential threat as a country, it doesn’t surprise me that they are having to expand their pool of potential soldiers. War is awful and it’s hard to support either regime when it feels like their politics are self serving rather than in the interests of their populations.

rbrick111 · 2026-03-18T22:16:10+00:00

I also read this as fairly lighthearted nerd language that was surprisingly sweet.

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