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Shehan Thamel

@ShehanThamel

Software Engineer | Photography Lover | Gamer

Berlin, Germany Katılım Temmuz 2010
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dax@thdxr·
right now everything in the world is telling you to go faster, ship more, add that feature, start another project so i'm actively working on feeling ok not doing any of that
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dax@thdxr·
please shut the fuck up i don't even care about the specific thing you're saying i'm just so tired of hearing predictions one after the other telling me what the future is going to be like just please shut the fuck up
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Nostalgia Daily
Nostalgia Daily@nostalgia_·
This was how I relieved stress back then
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Anime Aesthetics
Anime Aesthetics@anime_·
This scene... 💔
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ThePrimeagen
ThePrimeagen@ThePrimeagen·
"you miss 100% of the shots you don't take" With AI we learned that you also miss 100% of the shots you do take because your ideas are trash
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ThePrimeagen
ThePrimeagen@ThePrimeagen·
I have been thinking about this a lot. I think for a great many of engineers, the ones who did it because they loved it only to discover that money was in fact at the end of the rainbow found both the journey and the destination satisfying. In fact, I think I can argue with authority that the destination was only satisfying as the journey was difficult. The hard-fought evenings spent toiling away on an idea and codebase that slowly gives way to your vision was an incredible experience. The group of people that fell into this category of hard-fought journey and destination we will call them tinkerers. One thing tinkerers have always hated is the already known problems. The journey is clear as day. The obstacles minor inconveniences. Its purely a matter of typing the solution into the terminal. This is also why I think so many of this group goes out and does open source, or starts companies. Work largely falls into this category with few exceptions. From this reason is why I largely find UI work soul sucking. I know the solution, its a matter of just looking up the details and putting it into my editor. yawn. CSS, flex box this, grid that, put the tailwind classes in the bag. To me, the LLM software world is with little to no journey and discovery. Its more of simply taking my high level idea and just formulating it into testable, atomic chunks that can be verified. I have traded my favorite part, discovery and raw creation, with itemized list of TODOs and patience and "No Mistakes." To this, every morning from 6 to 9 I simply just hand code every thin. even UI things. It is because I want journey and discovery and raw creation. Maybe one day comes and its just so futile that I stop this. But for now, I still see such great value in this. I see such better thought through products. Because slowing down and truly thinking through everything. The architecture, the design, everything is an expression of discovery and creation. And I love it. I am sure there will come a day, maybe even in the next 6 months where I change my mind. For now, I pursue the love of the game intentionally. I do also believe that there exists people who get the same joy I got from building with tears and sweat by prompting LLMs. I am positive of it. I just don't understand how. But people love UI work. I also don't understand that.
Adam@adamdotdev

Programming was deeply satisfying work to me. Work for hours/days before getting the payoff of the code working well on your machine. I’m feeling so much friction now to open the editor and do this kind of task by hand, but also increasingly depressed with the nature of work in an AI assisted dev workflow. Back and forth prompting seems to eat at my soul. Need to find a balance that brings back some of the toil.

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trash@trashh_dev·
realizing my software engineering is cooked in about 3 years and i need to figure out what to do next
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no context memes@nocontextmemes·
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Etornam ✨
Etornam ✨@_iamEtornam·
“Just write code like a normal human f*cking being, please”
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ThePrimeagen@ThePrimeagen·
you may not like this, but this is what peak male performance looks like #ad
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atharv@notathrv·
Maturity is choosing a ThinkPad over a MacBook
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