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Most people think being rich fixes all your problems
So you work yourself to the bone, possibly taking great risks to get there
Then you finally make it and you realize that being rich is even better than you imagined
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beautiful explanation. this is 100% happening. xitter.cf/sotak/status/211179423…
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I know there are people who use OpenCode keys in Autolith, since we added support, by request.
Please, if this message hasn't reached you yet, OpenCode had a breach, revoke your existing keys
If it takes more than 3-6 months to get a job it would likely be easier to start your own agency and sell your skills as a project-based service
How long it took me to find each SWE job:
2014: 1 job applied, 0 interviews, 1 day (nepotism)
2015: 1 job applied, 2 interviews, 1 week
2016: 1 job applied, 4 interviews, 1 week
2016: 1 job applied, 0 interviews, 1 day (friend is a CEO)
2018: 1 job applied, 2 interviews, 1 week
2019: 1 job applied, 5 interviews, 1 week
2021: 1 job applied, 0 interviews, 1 day (invited)
2022: 7 jobs applied, 16 interviews, 3 months
2026: 167 jobs applied, 54 interviews, 1 year 4 months
Opus 5.5 and Astra write the most naive implementation possible or re-implement the same thing over and over
They have a complete misunderstanding of code organization and modularity and stick pieces of functionality related to a feature in 3 different places when no human being would ever even conceive of doing such a thing
But sure, they write framework code fine because that's like 90 percent of the training data and the frameworks act like guardrails
That said, they DO work and make me more productive. But they definitely don't write better software than I do. I spend hours per day reviewing code in Tuicr to keep them on track.
Plus, didn't someone post yesterday that opus dropped his prod database? Skill issue but still, I won't be firing myself from engineering just yet.
the coding agent haters are getting dunning-kruger'd so hard right now
do you really think that your engineering ability is better than the models at this point?
it is very very likely that fable is better than you in every branch of software
it has been trained on all the code of the internet, it knows almost every trick in the book, all the design patterns of every domain, every single low-level detail, every bit-twiddling hack, it's read every single blog post from every cracked engineer that ever existed
do you really think you can beat it? do you really think you can be more creative than it?
unless you are 99th percentile expert in some niche domain of software, it simply is not possible. sorry.
Muse Wonder did some great work for me today. I appreciate how it's both wildly faster than 6.1 Sol and doesn't seem like it has an ice pick in the prefrontal cortex
If you are over the age of 26 there is no reason to tell people you meet which school you went to
Nobody cares. They only care if you did something cool, or are doing cool things
Two robot cars argue with each other and then put the passenger "distressingly" close to a fast moving semi
I'm still very happy I bought the 2026 Toyota
Waymo and Zoox first impressions
I use self driving on my Tesla all the time, but I finally got around to trying the commercial autonomous ride hailing services this week in Las Vegas.
The biggest issue by far is the very limited pickup and dropoff points, and only having a couple minutes to get to them resulted in a bit of a rush.
If you are going to have a small-integer number of locations, you should make it super-obvious where those locations are. Waymo included a picture, but it was a rather undistinguished parking garage image and it wasn’t clear which floor it was on. Being able to switch the map to an aerial photography view might be helpful in some cases. Pan-able 360 photos of the target points might also be helpful.
The first Zoox ride was flawless, but we had a lengthy walk to get to our actual destination.
The first Waymo ride was a little rougher. It felt more indecisive with steering, like Teslas did a couple years ago. This was still early-access in Vegas, so it is probably better in the active commercial markets.
The second Zoox ride had a small incident – there was another Zoox ahead of us at a stoplight (and a Waymo and another Zoox next to us!) that repeatedly tried to back up into our Zoox, to the point that ours actually honked at the one ahead of it a couple times. Eventually, after multiple light cycles, ours started to tentatively try to get around it, which left it partway into the next lane and distressingly close to a fast moving semi. The one ahead finally moved, and the ride continued normally.
Overall, the Zoox experience felt a bit more charming than the Waymo, with several nice little touches, but they both get the job done. I still need to try a Cybercab.
We'll probably end up with a really good ambi bullpup shooting plastic-cased rounds that are a bit spicier than 5.56 and have a modestly better ballistic coefficient
The real question is what we're able to innovate on BARS / ATAK to tighten up the shoot move communicate loop
Their progress was already glacial, so I'm not sure this even matters
This is sad, because they were working towards a very user-friendly DE with tiling working well and looking nice without the jank that comes from extending kde with Polonium or Krohnkite
Linux hardware vendor, System76, has banned all AI generated contributions to their Cosmic Desktop Environment (part of the Pop!_OS Linux distribution).
All contributors must agree to the following when submitting any changes:
“I have not included any LLM (also known as AI) generated content in this PR, including code, comments, and descriptions.”
The biggest problem with rust is that it gives people more confidence than their competence can support
This is a pattern of behavior that extends into everything
Disaster prevention? Unfair - share your food and generator or you are a bad person
Saved money? Unfair - how could you plan ahead when nobody else did
Carry a gun for self defense? You guessed it
It's everywhere
Some communities are incapable of understanding that cultural norms are leaky abstractions
If you have many "in-group" people in your company, those cultural norms inevitably spread into work
You cannot combat this with rules and policies. Rules will inevitably be applied by people who are inside the group if the in-group is large enough.
You can only prevent this by having strict cultural standards in your hiring process and an iron fist around violations that come from on high (with the understanding that you may very well be sued over this)
But at the end of the day, the people you hire are who they are. If you hire people who treat sex as a communal activity, they will bring it into the community they spend 40 hours a week with.
Or to keep this shit simple, just don't hire degenerates. They will try to get handsy with the cute girl in the office and either attract a lawsuit or drive quality talent out the door
The thing I hate about poly circles is that as a woman it feels inescapable that I am seen and treated as a sex object.
When I work with more professional industries, I can be an ice queen, and the relationship stays professional. When I'm in tech, at least I can say "I'm taken" and we keep the focus on the tech.
In settings where everyone's poly, suddenly, I am unable to work 1:1 with a man on anything without things feeling a little slimy, and the greater social vibes start feeling cruising mixed with a Hobbesian all-against-all of female intrasexual competition.
Like, I was talking about game theory, why am I suddenly receiving a shoulder massage I didn't ask for?
Reminded of this passage from Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind, and Plato's Republic about the necessity of modesty for women's participation in public life.
