madrox

I was a horrible student as a child, and in my 20s I strongly held the belief that education was broken. Now that I'm a few decades older I wonder if my problem was not education but life. I did …

I'm with you. I don't think we talk enough about careerism and how toxic it can be.

Over a weekend about a decade ago, I toyed with making a Final Fantasy Tactics-like game in the browser using CSS for the renderer. I could not get it to work in the time I gave it. I realized too lat…

I worked at a fully remote company that did the best job hiring juniors in my 20 year career. The talent and enthusiasm in that pool was great and really injected something into teams. What changed wa…

> When did designers become the gatekeepers in what a page should look like and how it should behave? Since...forever? You may not like the waterfall model, but unless you're at a small startu…

While I tend to agree, if that email were about arranging a D&D session, I don't think I would care. Especially if the alternative is we never find a time to play D&D.

Humans are valuable, but I think we've been putting human output on a pedestal lately. There's a lot of human slop (as the author put it) on the internet. Slop businesses. Slop social media …

MCP is still great if you're running AI in an environment that precludes a shell while needing dynamic tool discovery, but that's a narrow set. People are learning how useful it is to give A…

Calling that an argument from assumption is fair. I am basing this on where I think the puck is going, but I don't think I'm wrong. The issues you mention are not unsolvable problems, and AI…

Frontend web development has always been particularly vulnerable to changes in technology. The role has mostly been responsible for translating the vision of the designer into code. You could say FEs …

I tend to agree. I believe most of these arguments, whether consciously or not, are rooted in sour grapes. If AI were already the norm, and someone came along and said, "hey! I've got a grea…

This has been me as well. While I don't think my time is quite up, I have heard the call of the sea. Grey ships are waiting. There have been times in the last decade where I wished I had chosen a…

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If crypto was a bunch of autodidacts speed running the history of finance, then AI is speed running the history of religion. This whole "permanent underclass" thing seems like it's just…

I think you're choosing to ignore what I said about the implication of durable workflows, because you seem to be inventing some stories about my comment. I find that well documented plans do pret…

I've long held the current agent permission model is like playing a game of "Papers, Please" and most permission models engineers implement in their own AI products is more a measure of…

I was in a park today, and I watched a man play a saxaphone. Other people had stopped to listen to him play. It occurred to me that we appreciate this kind of public performance, but we get annoyed if…

I personally believe in rolling company shutdowns. Give engineering a week off every quarter. Give product the following week off.

I love silly stuff like this and can only hope that with AI we see more of it. Enjoyed dropping in and the beats were fire.

You have my vote. Clearly anyone can do it.

Pretty much everywhere outside the US has stronger employee protections on this (with a few obvious notable exceptions). France is a great place to be an employee.

This is true, and there is usually a tradeoff you make for it. To your point, it's a negotiation. You usually give something up to get something or be so good you simply cannot be replaced. Such …

I think you are right. It is practically baked into the American Dream.

You, too, can do these things. I welcome you to. I will be happy to say I am wrong. Unions have real potential for creating change. I personally have no interest in joining a union for other reasons, …

If you think it's so doable, I welcome you to do it. I will be happy to say I am wrong if you pull it off. However, if congress has not even banned a seven day work week I don't see how they…

This is a great question and I encourage you to learn the history of it, because it's fascinating. It’s rooted in labor movements and industrialization.

Unless you are exempt. Guess what profession tends to be considered exempt? If you are a SWE, you don't get paid overtime for working that incident on the weekend or going over 40 hours in a week…

Amusingly, there is literally not even a 7 day work week ban for companies in the US. You can require employees work every day. Employers are just required to pay employees overtime under various cond…

Have you not seen people who work longer and harder get more promotions? That has been my experience.

Interestingly, software engineers are usually considered exempt in the US, meaning they can be required to work more than 40 hours a week without overtime pay if employers choose to. Unless you'r…