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Are you mistaking your interactions with low level trades roles (the guy who's making bank fixing power sockets on the weekend) with say, the people maintaining factory electrical systems? or designing them?

Nah more like the guy who wires up the whole house.

Factory electrical systems are on another level than your typical 110V AC. But given what I know I would say that the factory electrician sits right at the borderline between comparable to SWE and anyone can learn it.


The key to every quick POC having a short life, is a reliance on manual work outside of the engineering team.

I want to know more. Can you give an example? :D

This is genius.

When you empower almost anyone to make complex things, the average intelligence + professionalism involved plummets.

It's not about that. Yes we can expect things made by unskilled artisans to be of low quality, but low quality things existing is fine, and you made low quality things too when you started out programming.

What's new is people treating the chatbox as a source of holy truth and trusting it unquestioningly just because it speaks English. That's weird. Why is that happening?


> What's new is people treating the chatbox as a source of holy truth and trusting it unquestioningly just because it speaks English. That's weird. Why is that happening?

"People" in this case is primarily the CxO class.

Why is AI being shoved everywhere, and trusted as well? Because it solves a 2 Trillion dollar problem.

Wages.


It’s been happening since we developed language.

Plenty of humans make their livings by talking others into doing dumb things. It’s not a new phenomenon.


We have successfully automated sheistering and bullshittery.

To certain demographics, adherence to facts appears to be a left wing bias.


  >> Why This Works So Well


That was the giveaway for me too!


an obvious tell from another tech influencer and Hn will eat it up



You don’t have to go ballistic!


Ditto, but .net dev for ~20 years, now fully Linux for personal compute. Workplace is making a beeline for mac / linux full stack, and completely ditching Windows.


For starters, Python uses IEEE 754, and Excel uses IEEE 754 (with caveats). I wonder if that's being emulated.


What does that even mean?


  For a while, Docker seemed to focus on developer experience.
ahh yes, docker desktop, where the error messages are "something went wrong", and the primary debugging step is to wipe it, uninstall, and reinstall.


It is honestly incredible that such an important part of the Windows dev process is nearly unusable. It is easily the most fickle and opaque bit of software that I am required to depend upon.


Yep. I used to have a ton of problems with Docker in Windows.

It has been a year without problems since I enabled WSL2 engine for Docker.

Honestly they should make the WSL2 Docker engine mandatory because otherwise things barely work.


Docker on Windows issues, back before WSL had matured enough, gave a pretty compelling argument for doing windows development on OSX inside a VM.


at work, i opted for remote development workspace because of this problem. Windows & Docker ain't meant to be together :(


Windows is the problem, not Docker. Just try wsl2 and you’ll see…


That's a very naive take. The issue is Docker Desktop, a buggy mess. I have plenty of well-functioning, complex Windows applications with detailed troubleshooting utilities.


Yeah, it's all naive when it doesn't work for you. It's naive using Windows.


Yup. How many years did I go where the most frequently pushed button in the Docker Desktop UI was "reset my installation"?


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