TheNerdAssassin

@Austen I have moved to the point of having 3 agents writing every line of code

I know dozens of great engineers coding full-time who haven’t written a line of code manually in 6 months. There’s zero exaggeration or hyperbole in that.

I would 100% take the other side of this bet. You really don’t think there are engineers at Spotify who haven’t manually written a line of code since December?

"Do you use Jira?"

@RhysSullivan Because this is more reliable than mid file edits

anyone know why cursor & other coding agents prefer to regenerate files using a ton of tokens rather than just running a find and replace? have tried to adjust this behavior with rules, prompts, etc but they really love sticking to it for some reason - feels token inefficent

How do you feel about the litter of comments Claude or other AI drop throughout functions? Anecdotally I have heard it helps future AI tools running on top of your codebase? Truth and I should keep them? Or false and I should clean them?

The days of coding by hand are over

@_trish_xD Scala

Programming language you learned once but never touched again?

@TheMcGloneCode I found a bug!

I spent some time tonight updating my blog. blog.themcglonecode.com/p/blog-update-…

@GergelyOrosz @EngGuidebook This is great bc my copy was over used and left in the Texas sun so pages are falling out from the melted glue

The Software Engineer’s Guidebook (@EngGuidebook) is now available as hardcover from Amazon. Here’s me holding the first print (the proof - it’s nice!) And it’s also out as an ebook on the O’Reilly platform. Get it here: engguidebook.com

@Kelseypinkcabin @SecondaryDAO @TheMaineWonk @MorePerfectUS Lies. I just had an email come in this week for a class action settlement about my data leaking.

@thenerdassassin @SecondaryDAO @TheMaineWonk @MorePerfectUS Microdata cannot contaminate water because it's not a tangible object. It's digital.

🚨 JUST IN: Indianapolis residents SHUT DOWN proposed $1 billion Google Data Center that would have used 1 million gallons of water PER DAY. Google was set to build 500 acre site, but citizens organized and stopped it. People power works. @MorePerfectUS with the story.

@Kelseypinkcabin @SecondaryDAO @TheMaineWonk @MorePerfectUS The microdata is even worse than the microplastics. Data leakage is a problem which doesn’t get enough attention

@thenerdassassin @SecondaryDAO @TheMaineWonk @MorePerfectUS Incorrect. Microplastics do not evaporate.

@hansen_jack_ @copeasetic @Austen

@thenerdassassin @copeasetic @Austen That’s why they call it data leakage. It gets everywhere

This is a great thing to focus on. While the amount of water may have been insignificant relative to the jobs that would have been created, you can only use water once and it’s gone forever.

@copeasetic @Austen But how do you filter out the bits? Microdata will leak into the water supply

@Austen Water does not disappear - the same quantity of water exists today as it did eons ago. It's called the water cycle.

Incredibly foresight from the Indy residents. Some people would make you believe there is infinite water in great big lakes in the Midwest. But once water is used in data centers there is no known way to filter out the bits. Microdata is a forever chemical.

@SecondaryDAO @TheMaineWonk @MorePerfectUS Once water is used in data centers there is no known way to filter out the bits. Microdata is a forever chemical.

@TheMaineWonk @MorePerfectUS I would like to point out that it 'uses' the water to cool. The water still exists, it's just hot.

@NathanDollinger @Austen If only there were number of great big lakes in the Midwest

@Austen How many gallons fall on 500acre site in Indianapolis per year? Average inches per year in Indy = 43.6 inches 43.6 inches of rain over 500 acres = 596 million gallons of water. The data center will use about 60% of the average rainfall that physically falls on the site.

@RamblerAdam @JoshMMcClure @Austen You can’t drink data water. There is no known way to filter out microdata bytes.

@JoshMMcClure @Austen Wrong it is rendered completely useless for other purposes

@dennis_lysenko @GergelyOrosz The duplication I see LLMs do which is the worst is when there is a standard library to do the functionality, e.g. retry logic like Python tenacity, but the LLM decides to write it’s own retry logic or library.

@thenerdassassin @GergelyOrosz genuine q; how many years have you been coding/what's the biggest project you've worked on? not trying to be a dick, trying to figure out what the point is where this starts to become an obvious answer via experience.

Code repeating itself in a codebase slowly becomes a form of tech debt-and it’s tricky to avoid on larger projects, even at Google. I wonder when using AI coding tools, duplication would start to become a problem sooner vs before? From Code Health Guardian by Artie Schevchenko

@jerzydejm @oliverjaun @GergelyOrosz I agree. In my experience, the engineers I work with over index on clean code and end up removing duplication even though the logic is separate and just happen to follow the same pattern now.

@oliverjaun @thenerdassassin @GergelyOrosz not only that, you will also waste a bit of time in establishing if the code snippets is _actually_ the same as a similar one you saw as with everything, its a balance, sometimes it makes sense, sometimes 2 things just happen to do same thing, yet they are seperate

@Sc_Meerkat @GergelyOrosz Yes. Although much more in the microservice architecture than a monolith since almost all of my years are spent at Amazon

@thenerdassassin @GergelyOrosz Have you ever maintained existing code?