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Cake day: August 6th, 2024
  • AI will create the most cursed entry jobs humans have yet to see.

    First job in the old days doing WordPress, managing someone’s vomit inducing PHP? Gone.

    Jobs with jQuery spaghetti calling dozens of asp APIs like a rat’s nest no rat can traverse? Gone.

    Welcome to the future: Fixing some “business” guy’s vibe coded personal hell made just for you.

  • There’s lots of valid reasons for this.

    Imo the biggest one people don’t account for is this: Dev salaries are incredibly high. if you want fast performance the most optimal way would be to target the platform and use low level native code, so C++ or Swift.

    It would cost you like 20x more than just using electron and it will cost you bigly if you have multiple platforms to maintain.

    So it turns out having 1 team crunching out an app on electron with hundreds of dependencies is cheaper, naturally that’s what most companies will do.

    Don’t want to use electron ? Then it’s kind of the same issue except this time you’re using Java and C# and you have to handle platform specific things on your own (think audio libraries for example). It’s definitely doable but will be more costly than using a cross platform chromium app.

  • "grug try watch patiently as cut points emerge from code and slowly refactor, with code base taking shape over time along with experience. no hard/ fast rule for this: grug know cut point when grug see cut point, just take time to build skill in seeing, patience

    sometimes grug go too early and get abstractions wrong, so grug bias towards waiting

    big brain developers often not like this at all and invent many abstractions start of project

    grug tempted to reach for club and yell “big brain no maintain code! big brain move on next architecture committee leave code for grug deal with!”

    https://grugbrain.dev/

  • that’s why I’m so on the fence about spamming my tech skills in resume. on one hand it’s completely factual and is probably favoured by whatever AI garbage is processing the resume.

    on the other hand to the human that reads it. it’s probably just dumb and hard to prove, they’re not going to test me on 20 competency skills for the things I have listed