You missed the most important sentence… “While all of this is anecdotal”. The rest you should read as though you are talking to the ceo of nvidia after he bought a huge short position on every AI company in the world.

It’s not hypocritical. Because you use AI to code, you know how easy it is to just let the AI do it’s thing and not check it’s work. It’s almost like a sirens song. So you know the odds that a library that was coded with AI probably wasn’t checked by a human. That’s just called experience.

The worst was one AI hallucinated but really was so perfectly following the pattern of all the ones we already had that it just looked right. When it didn’t work, I asked AI to implement it (opensource helm chart), and it said no. That is where the opportunity is. For things like helm charts and what not that are just wrappers, AI should really excel. We could have very consistent interfaces for things like that, and it would save a ton of time.

The new one will be “claude is pondering”

I would say, I do enjoy riddles, so this will be fun. But I am concerned that if you think my skill at riddles is critical, that it may mean your management has gotten used to not fully thinking through the objectives they give and how those objectives interact with the existing systems or other objectives. That would result in the kind of product that looks like the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing. If that is your reasoning for the question, how is the company countering it to create a coherent product.

And the reason I might say this is tgat in my experience, companies who ask such questions aren’t the kind I want to work for.

The encryption is meaningless unless someone physically take the drive. The os has the key, and M$ owns the OS. So it can read that data anytime it wants. So can anything running on the machine generally. It’s mostly theater.

But yes, my point was that people don’t want to because it is too much work. It needs to be easier.

All said and done… people should have personally controlled access to their data. For physical things, some people have safes, others use safety deposit boxes at banks. But we don’t have a digital equivalent. And the problem is that the complexity is too high for a lot of people. So something like this would be good for some people, it still won’t get the majority. What we need is the digital equivalent of a fiduciary. Someone who is legally bound to look out for a person’s digital interests. That would allow people to trust such a person to vet simpler wrappers around set ups like this, or anything.

In my experience… nope. Never seen it happen. Even when there are clear coding guidelines, and stacks of code smell violations.

I’ve been told that it struggles at very high scale. But other than that, everyone I know of who has tried it, like it.

Have you seen the manuals today? 90% of the content for a product manual is CYA. In the next year or so they will all be written by AI.

Also, different people have different learning styles. A manual is just one. Many of us learn better by having something real to do, and learning by doing.

The more CEOs believe this, the more I will be able to demand in salary about 5 years from now.

You can slap anything on your resume if you can explain it in the interview.

Yeah, but finding it the second time is the problem. For most things I want to get back to the part of the app I was on. Google cal is simple, so doesn’t have that issue. But aws console would. And most other apps too.

If the major OSs could treat a web browser instance like a separate app, I wouldn’t hate it so much. Like I want a dedicated thing on my taskbar/dock that will always take me to my google calendar. I hate having to search through browser windows (even when named) to find the right one.

I use a seperate browser for aws console to make it quicker to find.

But I do love being able to have more than one tab per app (like for aws console) which most standalone apps don’t support.

A lot of people don’t realize how many times the problem they are solving has already been solved. But after being in the industry for 3 decades, very few things people are working on haven’t been done before. They just get put together in different combinations.

As for AI, I have found it decent at wruting one time scripts to gather information I need to make design decisions. And it’s a little quicker when I need to look up a syntax for a language or like a resource name for terraform. But even one off scripts I sometimes have to ask it if a while loop wouldn’t be better and such.

Fortunately, 90% of coding is not hard problems. We write the same crap over and over. How many different creat an account and signin flows do we really need. Yet there seem to be an infinite amount, and each with it’s own bugs.

Sadly, the lack of junior devs means my job is probably safe until I am ready to retire. I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, yeah for me. On the other sad for the new grads. And sad for software as a whole. But software truely sucks, and has only been enshitifying worse and worse. Could a shake up like this somehow help that? I don’t see how, but who knows.

While I agree about most of your gripes. I don’t think requiring an account to contribute is unreasonable. I can underdtand not wanting to create an account and give them personal info and such. But if that is your stance, stop using them entirely. Giving them code is even worse.

Missing the “oh shit need to fix this other thing but I am in the middle of a big change,” flow. I use git stash, but I wish I could include files that haven’t been added and I wish it could be tied to the branch

So here is one of the pages I read… https://linux-gaming.kwindu.eu/index.php?title=Should_you_switch_to_Linux_gaming%3F I saw similar sentiment in other places as well. Sounds like you are saying this isn’t the majority opinion?

Overall, I have a strong dislike for apple in general, and I won’t take a job where I have to work with windows ever again unless I am desperate. And I am also getting very tired of Microsoft’s bs. But I don’t want my main home pc to be a project either. I already use Firefox and a vpn. But every time some page doesn’t work right I have to turn off the vpn, and try chrome before I know the problem is on thier end. And it usually isn’t, well other than not supporting firefox and a vpn, but these are banks or doctors offices, I don’t have a lot of choice in most of them. There is only so much of that I am willing to do on my main home pc. But overall, I would like to be part of the solution, as long as I am a target user, which from what I have read, I am not.