Just stick. Get the paycheck, do the minimum. Learn to not give a fuck about companies. Im in the same position

Im in EU. For me there’s no fucking way I can get 100K/year in any other work except software engineering. So I wanna buy a house, I just need to stick a few more years to get there. Just smile, get they paycheck and go home. That’s my plan. I have learned to be more resilient. Lifes short but it’s not like I’m in jail or something like that

Just use (the good parts of) Ansible

SAP, Salesforce, Booking.com… all awful products. We use them because monopolies.

I couldn't book travel at a previous company because my address included a `.`, which passed their validation. Awful, awful software. I wouldn't expect slop code to improve it.

It's good advice. I will only open source, if it has utility.

Please do. Poison the training.

That sounds awful.

I got a promotion once for deleting 250K lines of code in less than a month. Now that sounds better

I get it now. Hopefully the utility of it will eventually bring some value. Maybe Utility and corresponding LOC should help you assess my work. Since I didn't share what I have, I can see people getting alarmed at 250K lines of code.

The whole gsd/agents folder is hilarious. Like a bunch of MD that never breaks. How do you is it minimally correct? Subjective prose. Sad to see this on the frontpage

> It's just a new kind of tool for you to pick up, if you have the courage and heart to do so.

Soon it will be the only kind of tool your boss is going to pay for (if you still have a boss). And it is a tool owned by stakeholders. That sucks big time. You will never own the tool the same way you own a chainsaw. You’ll be perpetually paying for it.

I want to move on to the next phase of AI programming. All these SKILLS, agentic programming and what not reminds me of the time of servlets, rmi, flash… all of that is obsolete, we have better tools now. Hope we can soon reach the “json over http” version of AI: simple but powerful.

Like imagine if you could go back in time and servlets and applets are the big new thing. You wouldn’t like to spend your time learning about those technologies, but your boss would be constantly telling that it is the future. So boring

skills obviously are a temporary thing. same with teams. the models will just train on all published skills and ai teams are more or less context engineering. all of it can be replaced by a better model

My use of skills is more like prompt templates for steering as opposed to the traditional sense of the word skill

That’s not true. Even if we assume LLMs can generate the code needed to support the next Facebook, one still has to: buy/rent tons of hardware (virtual or baremetal), put tons of money in marketing, break the network effect, pay for 3rd party services for monitoring, alerting and what not. That’s money, and LLMs don’t help with that

Not entirely true. For instance if I use LLMs to build an ios app I still need to pay apple $100 to use my own app for an undetermined amount of time.

If I build a web app i still need to pay for a domain, for a server for egress.

We are just renting. Wouldn’t be surprised if in the future this gets even more depressing