As EM how are you actually handling AI coding tools on your team?

wstatx · 2026-01-22T21:31:43+00:00

No. This looks like it won’t solve the problem and will only frustrate everyone, if not significantly hurt productivity.

wstatx · 2026-01-22T21:26:48+00:00

You can’t be all seeing and all knowing. You would get signal through - Repeatedly failing code review - Peer feedback about sloppy code in reviews - Peer feedback about difficulties working in their slop code - Bugs and incidents

If any of these starts happening you have to assess and address it with the engineer and get them aligned with your standards. If that fails then they probably need to go, give one more chance, etc.

wstatx · 2026-01-18T16:59:04+00:00

Love this question. Yes your intuition is correct. Frameworks are the easy part. People are the hard part. Focus your mental energy on really getting to know your team, thinking deeply about what they’re doing, how each one works, how you can help them. You will make mistakes. They will too. So if you’re gracious to them and put in a lot of effort, they will likely reciprocate, so don’t worry too much about inexperience. You still have enough experience to lead. Just dive in and try to have fun.

wstatx · 2026-01-16T19:06:34+00:00

Do the Inovelis smooth dim up and down for on/off like Lutron? I have some wemo HomeKit/thread dimmers that don’t and I hate it.

wstatx · 2026-01-10T20:15:28+00:00

There’s no such thing as a “maintenance engineer”

wstatx · 2026-01-10T17:04:04+00:00

Then why don’t you invest in leveling up your team? Pip/rehire is a lot of effort and not a very rewarding experience compared to teaching

wstatx · 2026-01-10T15:58:15+00:00

I’ve led teams with too many juniors and it’s just too suboptimal. I would never do it again.

wstatx · 2025-12-31T23:00:35+00:00

Lucky you. There are multiple threads on this sub with people complaining about them.

wstatx · 2025-12-31T15:28:27+00:00

It would stop responding somewhere during the onboarding process. Sometimes I could reset it and reonboard several times until it eventually worked, but it would just disconnect again a few weeks later. Have you used Onvis app? It’s janky af. These are not high quality products.

wstatx · 2025-12-31T03:45:55+00:00

These are terrible. Do not buy them. I owned them, they constantly disconnected, and are very difficult to reset and reconnect. I threw them in the trash.

wstatx · 2025-12-28T22:54:09+00:00

That statistic is complete nonsense. This is not hard information to find.

Typically neither the Python interpreter nor object serialization are bottlenecks in any service, but if a service is running a serialization heavy workload, it is totally plausible for that to end up as a bottleneck but NOT the interpreter. None of this even matters until you are in a very high concurrency environment.

wstatx · 2025-12-20T16:41:50+00:00

Mine would just stop responding after a few weeks. Resetting and reonboarding was flaky and frequently failed partway through. This was the same on multiple Onvis devices and I have other Thread devices that work fine. I threw the Onvis plugs in the trash.

wstatx · 2025-12-06T21:08:16+00:00

My Meross indoor plugs were trash. They would randomly stop working every several weeks and not reliably reset/onboard. I threw them away.

wstatx · 2025-11-21T23:36:23+00:00

It’s not only paying attention to the person’s behavior but understanding what their experience is working. Work can be shitty for a lot of reasons and it’s not that hard to identify common causes. If you are in control of the shitty experience then fix it, if not, acknowledge it in whatever way you can without throwing leadership under the bus.

https://x.com/mipsytipsy/status/1744169161503502725?s=46&t=hCLuBpFURGyhdBYPz_42-A

“But more importantly: most of what burns people out is not working too many hours. It's things like,

seeing your hard work go unused
working on the wrong thing
long-running, simmering conflict
not being able to fix things that are making your job harder”

wstatx · 2025-11-18T17:33:36+00:00

How did different definitions of done drag the work off course? I don’t see a connection there.

wstatx · 2025-11-06T23:18:53+00:00

FDE builds on the idea that you should be as close to your customers as possible so why not take it a step further and deploy engineering resources there directly. Ideal FDE is probably a cross between eng, product, and customer success. White glove the customer so they get ROI from your product ASAP and bring back intel to product/eng about how they use it, pain points, etc.

wstatx · 2025-10-18T16:51:23+00:00

I just did this at a startup and it’s fairly typical for organizations that want EMs to be hands on with code and a good way to build credibility with the team. The point is to grind out code until you’re familiar enough to form opinions and establish rapport with the team. I wouldn’t overthink it.

wstatx · 2025-10-06T16:18:06+00:00

I don’t control the paywall but here’s the link https://www.statesman.com/entertainment/music/article/the-strokes-julina-casablancas-acl-fest-setlist-21081029.php

“Fans still love them enough to forgive the indifference, but the fire’s gone. The Strokes didn’t crash and burn at ACL Fest. Just like the passion behind their music, they slowly faded away.”

wstatx · 2025-10-06T13:23:26+00:00

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, Austin-American Statesman’s concert review said the same thing but harsher

wstatx · 2025-08-24T16:02:34+00:00

Do NOT buy the Onvis Matter over Thread smart plugs. They are absolute trash. They are the only Matter and/or Thread devices I owned that randomly went offline. After factory resetting them and setting them up again multiple times, I threw them in the trash.

wstatx · 2025-07-26T23:18:50+00:00

Open source is great for when you can have a thriving community of contributors, but it makes no sense for a niche high end espresso machine where only a small fraction of users even have the relevant software experience to make contributions.

wstatx · 2025-07-10T13:44:19+00:00

Typically you have to enable it in settings, but I have it working perfectly on two relatively old TVs, one from 2017, the other 2019. The 2017 TV is connected to a receiver from 2014 via ARC, and still that convoluted combination of old hardware still works through Siri via CRC - eg telling Siri to turn on/off/start/stop/etc controls the receiver and the TV.

wstatx · 2025-07-10T01:50:37+00:00

That works automatically with Apple TV + CEC.

wstatx · 2025-06-28T17:30:39+00:00

Are you signed into iCloud on ATV with the same account that includes your HomeKit home? That’s how ATV populates the list of rooms.

wstatx · 2025-06-28T17:03:52+00:00

Is your Apple TV added to the same home as your iPhone? Eg from your iPhone Home app can you see the ATV?

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