My guess is that some powerful hormones must be released or something after having a child to make people think that they are enjoying their life even though an outside observer can view their immense suffering.

It’s partly that, and partly that the brain needs sleep to form memories and to think things through to conclusion - so we (parents) are all a little delusional and don’t really remember how hard the early part was.

(I adore my kids!)

Pro tip: smell their heads as often as possible. There’s all kinds of healthy chemical bonding that comes from that delightful fresh baby head smell.

You keep using the word “you”. You don’t know what I can automate or what I have automated.

And another thing, there are some tech companies that operate very short-term, like typical social media start-ups of which about 95% go bust within two years.

This is a very generous sentence you have made, haha. My observation is that vast majority of tech companies seem to operate unprofitably (the programming division is pure cost, no measurable financial befit) and with churning bug riddled code that never really works correctly.

Netflix was briefly hugely newsworthy in the technology circles because they… Regularly did disaster recovery tests.

Edit: Netflix made news headlines because someone decided that Kevin in IT having a bad day shouldn’t stop every customer from streaming. This made the news.

Our technology “leadership” are, on average, so incredibly bad at computer stuff.

They do more than just autocomplete, even in autocomplete mode. These Ai tools suggest entire code blocks and logic and fill in multiple lines,

We know. “Improved autocomplete” is still an accurate (the most accurate) description for what current generation AI can do.

When compared to current autocomplete, AI is a delight. (Though it has a long way to go to improve at not adding stupid bullshit. But I’m confident that will get better.)

When measured against a true intelligence, I know I’m interacting with a newbie or a con man, because there’s no honest reason an informed person would even consider making that comparison.

Good point.

This is the point that the “AI will do it all” crowd is missing. Current AI doesn’t innovate. Full stop. It copies.

The need for new code written by folks who understand what they’re writing isn’t gone, and won’t go away.

Whether those folks can be AI is an open question.

Whether we can ever create an AI that can actually innovate is an interesting open question, with little meaningful evidence in either direction, today.

But many of us automated those tasks out of our workflows decades ago.

An interesting trend is these comments: the worse a code base is, the more helpful AI is for expanding it (without actually fixing the underlying problems like repetitive overly long unexpressive code).

“I didn’t lay off 10% of the workforce because the company is failing. It’s because… uhmmmm… AI! I have replaced them with AI! Please give us more money.”

Exactly. I would print this on a shirt if I still had to take meetings with those clowns.

The problem is that the AI won’t take a bribe to issue a return to office mandate to prop up their real estate holdings.

But we can patch that in version 2, I guess?

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AI can absolutely save you time, if you use it right.

That’s a very “you” statement.

For all we know, AI cannot in any way save this developer time.

Some developers know their area so well that there’s no reason for them to waste time dictating non-code into a guessing machine.

I don’t honestly believe that AI can save me time as a developer. I’ve tried several AI agents and every single one cost me time.

I have had the exact same experience many times. But I just keep trying it out anyway, often with hilariously bad results.

I am beginning to realize that I like cool technology more than I like being productive.

No wonder so much shit online doesn’t work properly lol

I know. I live in a constant state of shock that my peers think the next stupid tool will fix everything without any discipline or hard work, and equal shock that (almost) nothing online ever works correctly.

I should be able to find a correlation between these two observations, but I’m just too naive.

I don’t think it’s known for burnouts any more than any other industry.

Whoever your project manager is, I hope you have thanked them today. You’re clearly working with some of the least shitty ones.

This is the way.

Anyone can stop their vehicle in a single meter if we’re both going slow enough.

The car behind chooses a following distance. The car in front can choose an appropriate speed to help things stay safe.

Plus, it helps them overtake safely to go have their inevitable future accident somewhere far from me.

AI hype is also Collusion among the ultra wealthy to artificially prop up their investments.

Hitting a tree with a good stick.