Developers need to talk to real people.
Which is why I quite prefer to have some client contact when working in a project and not have everything filtered through tickets written by project managers. Especially when LLMs have been used to write those, which happens more often than not these days.
I needed to run a couple of jobs in a docker container and for reasons I couldn't install cron inside the container or call docker exec from the host machine. This thing here works really well.
Sad to say: that's not an AI-specific thing, just one that is accelerated by AI.
Also, I should really stop using the term AI for LLM and machine learning things.
Oh, boy don't I know it:
I can write code for hours because I am the one doing it, and doing it delivers dopamine shots every few minutes, when I compile/refresh my page to see my changes. It keeps me focused and interested.
"the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI into their field of work"
Sigh. Again.
Something tells me I will be thinking about this blog post a lot in the coming days, weeks, years.
Sigh.
Very much this. And maybe start caring as well. This might be the main problem: many people just don't care.
Until now I just happily used the one provided by the framework I use (or was grumpy that I didn't get to use one, in the case of WordPress things) and never thought too deeply about how DI works. Turns out: it's actually not that complicated if it is very basic.
It's getting worse and worse.
It does introduce hard to notice bugs 10x faster, though
Who would have guessed.
When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.
Same with (good) developers
This is a very good talk
Not everything needs to be a job.
Who would have thought.
Who would have thought?
This is very interesting - I looked into the folder before but never in this detail
Hah
Fascinating
Hahahaha. Sorry. But. Hahahaha.
Let's just not chat?
One of the projects I've been working on for the last couple of years is pretty unceremoniously moved to different developers and I'm having very complicated feelings about it. This article captures some of it.