Yup. Very similar. I quiet the voice in my head saying “I’m too tired” or whatever with “ignore it and just get to it”.

…with teeth

Enterprise Architect here.

This is the answer. All the way.

At my job, employees haven’t written code since the asp classic days and it was garbage back then. This meant almost all new code is written by contractors, which is often garbage. And slow, expensive garbage at that.

Now, AI can at least make better code than the contractors at a fraction of the price.

It also tightens the feedback loop between getting half-assed requirements and getting the deliverables back to those who requested them so they can say how it’s not what they asked for. That process used to take months, now it takes like a day between iterations.

I honestly don’t know where people are working where they say they have tight control of first party deliverables and clear requirements with a cogent SDLC. All companies I’ve worked for have been about 1-2k employees. Are these people working in 10k large organizations where people can afford to be an expert in only one thing and camp on it their whole career?

Also, remember those debugger skills because we’ll all need it.

Best “car guy” trope I’ve ever heard is that BMW signals work fine and the drivers use them. They just emit a spectrum of light that the poors can’t see.

As a BMW driver myself, I’m on the opposite end of that spectrum. I signal my intent to an obnoxious degree. If I get into an accident, the other motorist can’t claim they didn’t know where I was going.

Literally reading it now. I hit that section last night. I put the book down immediately and started reading about the Chinese Room.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Worth a read for anyone who thinks AI may be sentient, or for those trying to pop the psychosis bubble of an buddy.

Yeah, I really like the view that my wife is my partner. We have a shared stake in the other’s success, but can act independently.

I think the opposite is the ideal. If using AI, write an architecture document of the code, then point an LLM at it. Be prepared to open up the debugger and troubleshoot someone else’s code.

Honestly, I’ve gotten a lot of lift from this technique since the devs at my job legit don’t know how to even use source control.

Before AI, my former boss would do this but with email instead. She’d call a 2hr meeting and no kidding spend the first 1.5hrs answering emails or editing a document, and then complain no one was getting anything done. I’d regularly stay until 7 or 8pm (starting at 8am, before my boss) just to keep up with workload.

Worst leader I’ve ever had. Sorry you’re going through something similar.

I’m on the other side now and promised I’d never look back.

Formerly steam deck, now unseated by my AYN Thor. It can play 70-80% of the games the deck can in a package that fits in your pocket.

My breville coffee maker and bratza burr grinder. It makes the best coffee and doesn’t complain.

Also, my dolphin pool cleaning robot. Vacuuming a pool manually is such a hassle. Outsourcing that to a bot is truly amazing.

Anything that buys me back my time.

Herniated L6/L7. No chair has helped me. Only things that have are

• sit/stand desk
• movement (the best position is the next position)
• dead hangs, progressed to pull ups
• deadlift, slow progression, perfect form. Teaches proper lift positioning and bracing to execute successfully.
• same for squats

Not medical advice in any way. These are just the things that have helped me immensely. If you take any lifting advice off the Internet, get a coach.

I know if my back starts to hurt it’s because I’m not doing one or all of them enough.

Why not put solar over parking lots? We have ridiculous minimum parking requirements in the US. Why not lattice them in solar panels and derive energy from them?

Please say more.

I use both on a daily basis and from what I understand, there’s no implicit access from within a container. If you set it up right, there’s no access outside the container of any sort unless you explicitly say so.

I agree with this. I have an openclaw setup since I want to own my own data and services. A few months ago Sonnet was the clear leader for general use task for me. Now Gemma 4 performs nearly as well hosted off my gaming PC. Based on resource utilization, I actually think I can run it from the same nuc that openclaw is hosted from.

It’s a pricey one, but a kegerator converted to corny kegs. Infinite seltzer water.

Plus room for another carbonated beverage of your choice.

I’ve literally never celebrated a death. Any loss of life should be considered a tragedy IMO, even if that tragedy brings with it relief. Even people we’ve considered evil in the past were deeply damaged and unfortunate. They were innocent at one time, until the world corrupted them. That’s who I mourn for.

I’m going to make an exception for this man and his cronies. I promise to make it my own annual holiday. Take the day off work, go out with friends and talk about how batshit the situation was, read aloud his worst hits, go out to dinner and toast to his demise, play this David Cross bit which I hope to have memorized someday.

I hope to start this tradition as soon as possible.

Right?! Dating myself here but I remember paying $4/gal in the mid-late 2000’s the last time we were bombing the Middle East and then had a “once in a lifetime” economic meltdown that has happened a half dozen times since I was born.

Adjusted for inflation, that’s $6.30/gal.

I’m in the states and wondering when the shock will really hit us. I’m looking at local gas prices (Upstate NY) and they’re high; just not a sigh as I’d expect them to be. Certainly not high enough to curb demand in any meaningful way.

Playing guitar

I agree with nearly all of your sentiment here, other than “people with C’s shouldn’t go to college”.

I like Scott Galloway’s take: colleges and universities are the opportunity to take the unremarkable and give them a chance at being remarkable.

Of course there needs to be a cut off here, but I’d say curriculum is a better indicator than average letter grade. Often, I’d rather work with someone who has really struggled to earn mediocre grades, but knuckled down and made it through because they wanted it that badly. Because that’s most of life after school. Most of my friends that struggled after school were the ones that never had to try when we were in school. Then they graduated and life hit them in the face for the first time.

My undergrad degree is in Computer Science and I really struggled because I didn’t have a quality maths foundation. That said, I worked my ass off and graduated with a 3.8 in my major, and now am the Sr. Solutions Architect at my city’s largest employer, soon to clinch a director position. College enabled me to do that and fostered a life long curiosity of all things.

My partner is another good example. She barely earned C’s in high school, worked at a grocery store, and decided she wanted something better. She went to community college when she was ready, and now owns two extremely successful businesses. She would have not done well in trades.

Having access to higher education at the “right” time for people is critical. And as you said, also having options for those who aren’t motivated to continue in higher education but still want to make a fair wage, like trade school.