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Ed Andersen
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Ed Andersen
@edandersen
"Principal" developer, slightly rubbish content creator. Views not those of employers past, present or future. 57K on YT: https://t.co/BVrwWaiqLh
Japan Katılım Ağustos 2008
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Imagine being asked a question about the content of the deck you just prompted in the car on the way to the meeting and you can’t answer the question because you didn’t write the deck
haha wild
Gabriel Chua@gabrielchua
Create Google Slides in Codex without opening your browser, clicking buttons, and manually aligning figures. Plus, you (and your team) can view the progress in realtime. Codex isn't creating the deck locally, then uploading it. It's actually iteratively building it, checking it's work and polishing it. Imagine kicking-off hundreds of these decks over night, and polishing them the next morning (or en-route to the meeting haha). Wild.
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@fjzeit My laboured point is that nobody cheap will be trusted to blow company money like that
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@edandersen i genuinely don't understand how anybody could spend that much on tokens. i assume they are speedrunning a slop factory or something.
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I've decided to have a positive take on the whole paying for AI tokens thing
➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=js3MvX…
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Maybe companies will start demanding software engineers are properly licensed before being let loose to randomly spend money on tokens
Ed Andersen@edandersen
I've decided to have a positive take on the whole paying for AI tokens thing ➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=js3MvX…
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@McClellandRuss That’s assuming there is guaranteed positive output from that extra spend. I’d wager it’s far from guaranteed
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@edandersen But the math says that 100% is cheaper than a 140% to staff another position.
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The funny thing about tokens is that they are the same price globally but SWE salaries are not
So in SV it might be ok for a dev to spend 2k USD a month, but when that’s 50-100% of the dev’s salary outside the US, say UK or Asia, it ain’t going to happen
finbarr@finbarrtimbers
AI coding is interesting because SWEs are so highly paid that it’s economically viable to pay $100s to $1000s per month to make them more productive Unclear how many other careers that’s true for
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@McClellandRuss 25-40% fine but no way will they let people spend near 100% of their salary extra on tokens
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@edandersen Unfortunately, this isn’t true. Companies are looking at the spend not just in terms of raw cost, but “lift”, which can be 25%-40% above salary alone. So lots of people I speak to are filling future openings on increased tokens for existing people instead.
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@simonbrown It’s also tone deaf coming from GitHub, a brand that used to be on the side of programmers. Spec Driven Development is just BDD on steroids and just as bleak
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Spec-driven development makes very little sense to me.
The software development industry has repeatedly shown that devs don't like writing docs, often saying "it's tedious and time-consuming; I'd rather be coding".
- How will this turn out to be different?
- Why automate the fun part (coding) and force devs to write docs instead?
developer.microsoft.com/blog/spec-driv…
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@edandersen If it increases productivity by 100x as they claim (which I doubt) then it would still be worth it.
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@Dorizzdt I actually think long term devs will get paid more as they need to be incentivized NOT to rack up a 100,000 USD token bill in a week
Allowing devs to randomly spend opex cash is new to the industry
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@edandersen actually i never stopped to think about that.... good points. I always wince at USD "just $200 a month" and you're like "maate.. that hurts when the AUD is less than 60c 😂"
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As much as I like to dunk on LinkedIn, the fact that MS is making money from scamming the worst people you know with ads for fake doctorates makes me happy
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@Dorizzdt If someone at Apple even considered shipping a first party app on Mac in something other than SwiftUI/UIKit they would be fired
I don’t get how being disciplined is so hard
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@edandersen even that is a hard sell. peak WPF/silverlight days we had to threaten budget cuts to move that needle. you'd be surprised how even internally they can be. maybe way different culture today (don't know). I just remember back in the olden days, it took a lot of political capital
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10 years ago, this would have been amazing win for everyone involved. Today, I do not see any upside anymore for feeding this beast especially with AI giving you native go big or go home moves.
UI Development in the Microsoft community has been an absolute disaster, it has fragmented and scattered to the wind in so many directions since WinForms was told "not cool anymore" (despite it still being used today).
Broken promises, strategy shifts, more broken promises and it going dormant has made targeting Windows somewhat a bit of a "why bother?" when react / shadcn for day to day business applications can absorb most of the body blows.
Then if you *have* to target Windows Desktop, sure I can see you biting into this cherry, but tbh I'd probably ask the question outloud "whos this for and is a thick abstraction layer framework heavy client really going to give you return on costs?"
As remember the ONLY reason you would head down this path is because you have a team of devs who are skittish about UI development at the best of times and you need a common meeting point of minds. You need a way to retain your C# skills but do the UI heavy lifts. You need a way to bind that data to that control and not get stuck in theology wars over MVC? MVP? MVVM? wtf??
Like I said 10 years ago, easy sell. No brainer. Today, by far the hardest thing you have to do now is convince a team to even weigh up the consequences of NOT touching a Windows only client.
There just isn't an incentive I can see at even enterprise level anymore.
NextGen OS Network@nextgenos2026
WinUI 3 is Microsoft’s modern UI framework for Windows desktop apps, offering Fluent Design controls, high‑performance rendering, and cross‑platform support via the Windows App SDK.
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@edandersen FYI WinUI 3 is an overabstracted and sluggish mess (see Windows Settings, simple apps like Calculator or that bloated piece of shit PowerToys). NOTHING will change and you people actually believe the shit they're feeding you to stop you from switching to Linux.
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Like why wasn't it this way all along
What possibly was going through their heads when they thought using web tech for an OS interface was a good idea
It's great they are adjusting course but what a wasted 5 years....
Windows Latest@WindowsLatest
Microsoft’s distinguished engineer teases that “native apps are back,” as the company plans to build 100% native apps for Windows 11. Windows 11's biggest problem isn't ads or performance, but the app experience. Apps like Netflix, WhatsApp, and even Microsoft's own Windows apps are now powered by either WebView2 or PWAs (web app technology). I don't hate web apps, but they feel slow and not truly part of the operating system. A right-click makes you feel you're browsing Edge, and have options like Inspect Element. Microsoft has confirmed it'll build 100% native apps for Windows 11, and it's also moving some OS features back to native code. This includes the Start menu, which is currently powered by React and is now moving to WinUI. The upcoming Agenda view, which was a WebView2-based component, is also moving to native code. However, the biggest challenge is that Microsoft needs to convince developers to build native apps for Windows.
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@edandersen My current joy is the calendar app, which launches with a popup at every boot, but requires a business account login, and therefore is useless. It repins itself to the taskbar as well
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