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@SasquatchVinnie and then they talked about how hard he worked for that walk

This might be the craziest walk I’ve ever seen

That was one of the greatest endings to any sporting event I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Easily one of the greatest shots/moments in the history of the NCAA tournament. I love sports so much. Nothing like it.

Jac Caglianone and Vinnie Pasquantino: @Royals and Team Italy besties 😂

wait. so coding is just markdown files now?

@gothburz when you put up your one line fix PR that took a week in the world of AI, I doubt anyone will be all that impressed

My manager asked how long it would take to fix the bug. I said two weeks. It took forty minutes. But now I have two weeks of buffer. That's called experience. Here's how it works. Every estimate I give has a multiplier. The multiplier depends on who's asking. My manager asks: multiply by 4. A VP asks: multiply by 6. The CEO asks: multiply by 10 and add "dependencies." Dependencies are other teams. Other teams are always slow. Even when they're not involved. Especially when they're not involved. Nobody checks. The bug took forty minutes. I fixed it Monday morning. I didn't tell anyone until Thursday afternoon. That's three days of buffer. Buffer is protection. Protection from the next ask. Because the moment you finish something fast, they ask for something else. Finish the bug in an hour? Great, can you also look at this other thing? Finish it in two weeks? Great, take the afternoon off. You earned it. I earned it by lying about how long things take. That's not how they'd describe it. They'd call it "managing expectations." I'm managing expectations. My expectations are that I don't want to work that hard. When I was junior, I gave honest estimates. "That'll take about two hours." My reward? Four more tasks that day. Then I watched the senior engineers. They said "end of week" for everything. Everything was "end of week." A config change? End of week. A one-line fix? End of week. A meeting that could've been an email? End of week. They were never stressed. I was always stressed. I learned. Now I'm senior. Now everything is "end of week." Or "end of sprint." Sprint is two weeks. Two weeks is forever. Forever is comfortable. Sometimes someone pushes back. "Can we do it faster? This is urgent." I pause. I look concerned. "Let me see what I can do." Then I deliver in three days instead of two weeks. I'm a hero. I wasn't faster. I was honest about the original timeline. But the compression makes me look dedicated. "He really hustled on this one." I didn't hustle. I just stopped lying for a moment. Strategic honesty. Delivered at the right time. After enough fake delays. The best part is nobody tracks this. Nobody says, "He estimated two weeks but finished in forty minutes." They say, "He finished ahead of schedule." Ahead of schedule. I set the schedule. I beat the schedule I invented. That's exceeding expectations. I'm exceeding expectations. My performance review says I'm "highly reliable" and "consistently delivers." I am reliable. I reliably estimate 10x what things take. And I consistently deliver. Right before my fake deadline. That's called being senior. New engineers burn out because they're honest. I padded my way to work-life balance. My manager asked why I always seem so calm. I said, "Experience." Experience means I've learned to lie about time. Professionally. With a straight face. And a buffer that could fit a vacation. That's engineering.

CJ Stroud on if God is blessing the Texans because of their testimony: “I don’t want it to ever be confused, I don’t think God is like ‘the Texans are gunna win.’, but I think regardless, win or loss he gets the glory, and that’s up to us, that’s just worship. Him giving us our talents, abilities, & these jobs, he’s more than worthy of all the worship is really why we do what we do. It’s not because we want favor from the lord. In my opinion, you don’t just get favor from the lord just because you give him glory, he deserves it. It’s not because we follow Jesus that we win every game.”

monthly stack overflow questions over time. 3710 questions last month, just slightly under the 3749 from the first month of it being public. human software engineering had a good run, and now we've come full circle.

Beautiful animation for Fibonacci sequence ✍️

Stop using the world burning power of a large language model in AI coding to do something basic like moving a CSS element five pixels to the left. Use it for something that is actually complicated like centering a div

Yes. Software engineers will all go away. There will be a new profession of people whose only job is to tell the machines what they should do in a manner that’s efficient and precise.

@nsxdavid @claude_code restarted my IDE, I am now on 2.0.74 and it seems like the problem has gone away.

@nsxdavid @claude_code this started happening to me as well today, I'm on 2.0.73.

@claude_code What is going on with Claude Code on Windows? It's falling apart! For many releases pasting into input is truncated, making very hard to work with. But now... the output is also messed up and doing bizzaro formatting (2.0.73) 😟

Pi being irrational.

Claude: "I've defined phase one of your project to be completed during weeks 1-4 and updated the spec." Me: "Implement phase one now." *5 minutes pass* Claude: "Phase 1 is complete."

My biggest worries about coding with AI: 1. Beginners not actually learning 2. Atrophy of skills I’m seeing #1 happen and I don’t have a good answer yet. Leveling up as an engineer requires grinding and it’s not always fun. If AI can solve most of the problems for you, when do you lean into the healthy friction? When do you embrace the suck? Coupled with fewer opportunities for pair programming, it’s definitely tougher for those starting their engineering career. It’s not all bleak though. Those with high agency are figuring it out and learning extremely fast. I just worry about the industry as a whole outside these folks. We need better products and better education. I’m hoping to try and do my part here. For #2, I’m definitely paranoid about this for myself. What will it feel like to build software in 5 years? Will I have forgotten someone of the skills I used to rely on? Maybe that won’t even matter because we will truly be operating at a higher level of abstraction. Even if that pans out, it’s always been important to deeply understand the systems/dependencies you’re building on. I normally talk about the stuff I’m optimistic for but think it’s good to have a healthy skepticism here.

Vibe-coding went wrong..

@royalsreview yes this is a no brainer

Should the Royals re-sign Mike Yasztremski? royalsreview.com/royals-editori…

Kirk Cameron is done with Israel 🇮🇱. He’s encouraging Christian Zionists to read their Bibles and to not be so retarded. ONLY THOSE IN CHRIST JESUS ARE THE ISRAEL OF GOD - If you follow the Bible.

Royals, catcher Salvador Perez agree to 2-year extension.