A link to a project that does the exact same thing, except it’s built with Rust

Praise about one their older projects that I used in the good ol’ days

A condescending put down from someone who has expertise in this area but also didn’t read the article and just felt like feeling superior this morning

A low-effort continuance of the format of these comments, demolishing the comedic premise and irreparably Redditizing the thread.

Well played

It would be nice to see some of the software source. I’m super interested and i think I helped pay for it

I keep hearing “they aren’t intelligent” and spit out “crap code”. That’s not been my experience. LLMs prevented and also caught intricate concurrency issues that would have taken me a long time.

I just went “hmmm, nice” and went on. The problem there is that I didn’t get that sense of accomplishment I crave and I really didn’t learn anything. Those are “me” problems but I think programmers are collectively grappling with this.

They are not intelligent. Full stop. Very sophisticated next word prediction is not intelligence. LLMs don’t comprehend or understand things. They don’t think, feel or comprehend things. That’s just not how they work.

That said, very sophisticated next word predictors can and sometimes do write good code. It’s amazing some of the things they get right and then can turn around and make the weirdest dumbest mistakes.

It’s a tool. Sometimes it’s the right tool, sometimes it’s not.

I used to work for AWS on a service team. I noticed we were spending way too much on provisioned concurrency for dynamo and would benefit from on-demand provisioning. After proving it worked, making the change, deploying, was rather pleased with myself. "Saved $2M in costs by switching to on-demand provisioning" barely made it onto my performance review lol.

In an ideal world, you would have gotten those extra bucks. :P

Or even just 10% of them, or 50% of the first year savings

In the world of manufacturing this is known as a gain-sharing plan. Not sure I'd call it common, but it certainly isn't unheard of

They might just not have believed it. At the management level everyone is busy claiming to be delivering huge numbers all the time, and people stop trusting that sort of claim.

I'm just going to stand by until Microsoft is back in everyone's good graces again by releasing some oss software that we all swoon over

Is that a cyclical thing? I went through the VS code+typescript good graces era but I didn't know there were previous cycles.

Not that I remember. VS Code was a surprising turnabout for a company that was both adamantly closed and threw FUD around like monkeys in a zoo.

You've been here before!

I might be wrong but this sounds like an ego issue more than anything. Twice you berated less skilled programmers. I’m skilled as well and it did sting when I realized that a relatively new technology could beat me. But there’s so much more to it, especially PMs. PMs find big high value problems and solve them. The coding should be the easy part. If your coding skills are such a big part of your identity and you enjoy the feeling of superiority, a good therapist (chatgpt maybe lol) could be useful.

I still don't understand why someone would choose to essentially clone some code vs import a library. Suddenly you increase your maintenance burden, lose updates, etc. I've had no problems at all with UI libraries like Mantine. If you follow this logic, why not just clone all your npm repos and build from source. Ultimate control, right? Please help me understand the benefits here, because I tried out shadcn and wasn't into it

It's for projects that are design-first, where you'll have to implement your own component library that matches the design.

I don't think it's hard, it's harder than people think it's going to be. So they get frustrated and start abstracting away, ignoring history and hoping their fresh approach will finally make this thing easy.