I was reviewing some code done by a junior hire at my company last week, and it certainly didn't look like he was cramming 25 years into 2. It looked like he had no understanding of anything he had generated, because it was garbage. Meanwhile this week I've just reviewed the largest single PR I've ever seen, from a senior dev who disclosed it was mostly generated and cleaned up by him, and the code was perfectly fine and it was a breeze to review.

LLMs are a great tool, but more often than not it does show if the person using them knows what they're doing or not pretty clearly. Especially if it's anything larger than a trivial small change.

Yeah they seem to just amplify who ever was behind it.

> it's a stretch to assume this will also translate into making Bun worse

For me it's far from a stretch, in fact it matches closely a pattern that I've seen repeated many times over at this point.

I'm in Southern Europe and developer salaries here are definitely above average. Sure, much less exaggerated than in the US, but still above than the average salary in the country. Even if you limit the comparison to only office workers in the same city, dev is still on the upper half, at least for now.

I am Portuguese, and to get above average salary you really need to be lucky working to one of the top companies in either Porto or Lisbon.

If I would return today to Portugal, I would probably earn less after taxes than in the dotcom days when working for Altitude Software, by moving into my home town.

Sure it is above minimum wage, yet plenty of office workers get similar salary levels, provided they have an university background.

I am also aware that IT salaries in Greece and Italy aren't that great, versus other office workers with high education background, and we all three enjoy our unpaid overtime.

There is a huge difference between above average and multiples of the average.

I agree that alerts should just be the vital ones. But in terms of monitoring and metrics, more is generally better. I joined a company where something broke and the only way to figure out what was wrong was to ssh and hop through several services and it was a massive waste of time for something that just having set up basic otel would be trivial to narrow down.

Only if you're poor, the rich don't pay taxes just fine.

Incidentally these rules probably don't apply or won't be enforced on the rich because of some loophole.

In the article the only explanation he gives is that it doesn't make sense to him, doesn't mention any papers or anything at all. But I'm pretty certain that he's wrong and it works. The difference in gas if I've been eating beans recently vs if I haven't eaten them in a couple of months is not just "I feel like maybe I get a little bit less gassy maybe" it's going from "two dozen farts at least, guaranteed" vs "one or two, if any at all" it's a night and day difference and if there even was a paper that says the contrary rather than change my mind I'd just assume that there must be something wrong with how the study was made. Of course, I'm just a sample of one and I haven't done any study either, so I don't mean to imply that there might not be other factors or that it may not work to the same degree for everybody, only that I'm pretty sure that dismissing it is wrong because I know at least one counter example.

More anecdata here. For various health reasons, about six months ago I started eating beans every day for lunch. At first it was… intense. But within a few weeks, the gas entirely disappeared. I now have no issues whatsoever.

FWIW, some beans are easier on my system than others. Kidney beans (sadly), my favorite, can be murder if you don’t cook them thoroughly enough. Lentils, on the other hand, seem to be pretty gentle. They also soak up whatever flavor they are cooked in so they are a great “starter bean” if you want to eat a more vegetarian diet.

Yeah, given the number of vegans / vegetarians I know who have gone through this I find it completely self obvious. If I went and ate meat today, I would almost certainly barf… But I wouldn’t spend ages trying to find a way to cook meat to make me not barf, I would just slowly introduce it back into my system little bits at a time until the adverse effects go away.

I agree that responsibility is the wrong word, but I've also noticed there's certainly some form of expectation, social responsibility, or care that other projects have and gnome has always lacked. When I started using Linux it was the desktop I liked the most, but some of the choices seem almost hostile or intentionally designed to drive current users away, and unlike most other projects I've used, I've never seen them listen or make improvements based on any feedback from users.

Here in Spain a huge chunk of the population lives along the coast, so obviously what we need is a radial network along the coast, with a few spokes connecting to Madrid in the center. But for whatever reason it's impossible to make any trains that go anywhere other than the capital.

Here's my 100 file custom scaffolding AI prompt that I've been working on for the last four months, and can reliably one-shot most math olympic problems and even a rust to do list.

Case in point

Let's come back to these comments in ten years, shall we? Should be pretty entertaining.

You must be using it wrong, because I'm getting 100x the work done and currently at 1.5 million MRR with this SAAS I vibe coded over the weekend.

After I solved entrepreneurship I decided to retire and I now spend my days reading HN, posting on topics about AI.

You're still manually posting? All of my HN posting, trolling, shitposting and spamming is taken care of by a fleet of bots I vibecoded in the last 5 minutes.

You gest, but I know people who've done this.

"I gotta be present." Me: Reenacting the Malcolm Reynolds too many responses meme.