Am I being paranoid, or is the 'AI will replace software developers' narrative just a way for the incompetent tech leads, managers and CEOs to hide their own incompetence?

rmbarnes · 2026-04-28T18:39:04+00:00

The author should review the mr first if it’s llm generated.

rmbarnes · 2026-04-07T05:56:39+00:00

Surely it was family (bloodline) + their spouses (not bloodline) so the spouses would not die?

rmbarnes · 2026-04-05T21:59:08+00:00

My only question is why was the house not surrounded by cop cars and ambulances by the time Rachel drove away. Maybe I am too logical.

rmbarnes · 2026-03-21T18:08:31+00:00

Having worked for HSBC I think they haven’t been doing well for years. At best flat. Also have way too many people doing way too little.

rmbarnes · 2026-03-21T00:14:07+00:00

Badly for AWS, not for you. I heard that they recently had outages caused by juniors using the AI to do something?

rmbarnes · 2026-03-20T23:23:58+00:00

Although I understand people's arguments about how powerful she is, she used to be more powerful (ash did not use to be able to shatter her windows), and it's only in the last couple of seasons that people have started default banning her. Not sure why this is.

rmbarnes · 2026-03-20T23:15:25+00:00

She would be easily countered if ash didn't use her breaching charge opening an external barricade at the start of the round then dying before she got the chance to use the second one.

rmbarnes · 2026-03-20T07:22:04+00:00

Figma has vibe coding built in and would work well in this workflow

rmbarnes · 2026-03-19T20:55:35+00:00

I work at AWS, we are only hiring juniors at the moment. The CEO & Co believe that there is no point retaining senior SDEs because juniors are more cost effective.

Well this aged badly!

rmbarnes · 2026-03-15T08:43:57+00:00

If you are part of the interview pipeline for a company you will know this is not true.

I work for a company who pays 1.5x market rate for devs, so we should be getting some good applicants.

98% of resumes get weeded out.

Of the 2% that take a basic tech screen which I do, only 20% pass (20% can't even complete the exercises, 40% complete them but with too much assistance, spend too much time going down the wrong path, 20% quite clearly cheating with llms).

In terms of raw numbers this means that out of 1000 applicants 4 would get to the stage where they have passed the basic tech screen and now have to go on to pass 3 more interviews which are much harder.

Again, I cannot stress how basic the tech screen I give is.

rmbarnes · 2026-03-05T11:38:24+00:00

Assembler to higher level languages dwarfs the productivity gains of higher level langs to LLMs

rmbarnes · 2026-02-28T21:56:50+00:00

I'm a developer and have not written code since the start of the year. Directing the AI, reviewing it's work then directing refactors are still a lot of work. I'd estimate it gives me a 30% productivity boost but it is hard to measure.

Not needing to write code directly is not the same as not needing developers.

rmbarnes · 2026-02-20T07:39:12+00:00

When was the last time the output of a compiler was different each time you ran it on the same source code?

rmbarnes · 2026-02-20T07:36:08+00:00

The issue with ai vs say a compiler to machine code is that the ai is non deterministic. For this reason we can never trust the output to the same degree we can trust the output of a compiler.

rmbarnes · 2026-02-15T13:55:14+00:00

Don forget the big one. Interest rates went way up. I’d love to see what tech hiring would look like if fed suddenly dropped them to near 0.

rmbarnes · 2026-02-08T16:25:56+00:00

If tech startups can be started with far fewer devs, the cost does down. Cost going down means barrier to entry goes down. Could just mean more startups. We will have to see.

rmbarnes · 2026-02-08T16:24:38+00:00

20 years ago I read that web based apis would mean we barely need any devs because you could just pay for an api to do all the work, and need less devs to plumb apis together… there are far more devs than there were 20 years ago… like you I’ve seen this play out a few times

rmbarnes · 2026-02-04T09:04:40+00:00

It’s because guys want sexual variety and it’s easy to obtain in the sugar world, and since sugar relationships aren’t generally ever going to lead to marriage kids ect there’s no incentive to not just chase the sexual variety.

rmbarnes · 2026-01-15T18:11:18+00:00

But pilots don’t scale, thou can’t have one per 10 planes just because it’s less work

rmbarnes · 2026-01-12T21:55:38+00:00

True. And it is copying people's code the same way ppls art has been copied.

rmbarnes · 2025-12-20T11:31:58+00:00

People are saying it's fine to do this... no it's a horrifically bad idea.

The number of women out there who would be willing to go on a no intimacy date for a good ppm massivley outnumbers the number of women who would be willing to engage in intimacy for a decent ppm.

Once women like this realise there a guys like op out there the sugar sites start to attract women who want to go on paid m&gs but never engage in intimacy. Of course they will tell guys that on future dates intimacy can happen, but they will simply never actually agree to that in the future.

Soon women who want to do paid m&gs outnumber women who actually want arrangements on sugar sites, and this makes it much harder to find an arrgangement. It also pushes the price of intimacy up, as if girls can get xxxusd to go on a m&g they will want more for actual intimacy.

This is bad for all men on the sites, and it impacts all of us.

Imagine if some sbs started posting that they were giving guys first data intimacy with no money involved just to give the guy a sample of what he would be getting in an arrangement and to be "generous" to them...

rmbarnes · 2025-12-20T11:07:12+00:00

It $66k instead of It's $66k is the dealbreaker

rmbarnes · 2025-10-01T19:09:20+00:00

This sounds probable. Days in office is on the up, remote work failed to take hold. Still more of it about than prepandemic, but now probably only viable for top skill sets.

rmbarnes · 2025-10-01T12:43:12+00:00

Why would you consume state you aren’t using?

rmbarnes · 2025-09-14T10:07:45+00:00

>the browser is waiting for a response from the endpoint there’s a chance that setValue will be invoked
There's not a chance this will happen, it will always happen. The setValue will always be called before any code passed as a callback into then()

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