You would not believe the number of people I’ve interviewed who excel at making Python read like ass.

This is how I feel about vibe coding

“Claude can you help me with this”

“Sure, taking a look”

you’ve exceeded your allotted token limit

Oops.

I store iso country codes and use them as the primary key in a countries table.

First thing I remember, was asking Scrum Master “Why”?
For there were many things I didn’t know
And Scrummy always smiled, took me by the hand
Saying, “Someday you’ll understand”

Well I’m here to tell you now, each and every scrum,
You’d better learn it fast, you’d better learn it young
'Cause tech debt sprint never comes

The time and tears went by, and I collected story points
For there were many things I didn’t know
When Scrummy went away, he said “Try to be a PM
And someday you’ll understand”

Well I’m here to tell you now, each and every scrum,
You’d better learn it fast, you’d better learn it young
'Cause tech debt sprint never comes

And then, one day in April, I wasn’t even there
For there were many things I didn’t know
An intern was given to me, Scrummy held his hand,
Saying “Someday you’ll understand”

Well I’m here to tell you now, each and every scrum
You’d better learn it fast, you’d better learn it young
'Cause tech debt sprint never comes
Ooh, tech debt sprint never comes.

Think it was September, the year I went away
For there were many things I didn’t know
And I still see him standin’, tryin’ to be a PM
I said, “Someday you’ll understand”

Well here I am to tell you, each and every scrum
You’d better learn it fast, you’d better learn it young
'Cause tech debt sprint never comes.
Ooh, tech debt sprint never comes.

Amen

And to add that smart people fall for dumb biases, we just need to look at the object oriented mania of the 2000s to late 2010s to see us shoehorn in one paradigm into everything without critically considering whether it made sense over other models.

Can an LLM do everything I need yet? No.

But is a stochastic parrot good enough to help me complete a function and help me restructure code? Yes definitely.

Claude is good enough for so much of the low value code I write that is actually a useful tool. I have to review the code but it’s useable.

I use AI search to lookup functions that I don’t need detailed docs for, or to help me debug arcane library specific errors (just had one earlier today where in polars the list and array types are very much not interchangeable and the explode method was failing).

I still read the docs on things that are critical, and I write the critical paths and dictate structure and understand the problem im solving well.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop

I’d tell you but that would violate the temporal prime directive

I avoid the ides of March only for the ides of July to get me

I would vote no for this as a user

I hate how many discord notifications and emails I get about this, I don’t want to see it on other platforms. It’s potentially way too spammy of a feature.

I’ve never seen where that meme came from

You actually hear back from companies?

It’s not really much extra effort though

They just added so e text to the __repr__ method on the exit callable object

That’s much easier than figuring out if your running this interactively and trying to figure out if this is going to break stuff.

I call it the clicktorus

I’ll be honest, I’ve never found regex that difficult, bit if you cannot read or write it, then it seems incredibly dangerous to blindly trust output from an AI.

Why would you waste a function call on something so completely redundant?

~For real though, arg parsing goes in the if, then gets dispatched to whatever function call is needed to run the proper script.~

Yeah, it’s still super useful.

I think the execs want to see dev salaries go to zero, but these tools make more sense as an accelerator, like giving an accountant excel.

I get a bit more done faster, that’s a solid value proposition.

It catches things like spelling errors in variable names, does good autocomplete, and it’s useful to have it look through a file before committing it and creating a pull request.

It’s very useful for throwaway work like writing scripts and automations.

It’s useful not but a 10x multiplier like all the CEOs claim it is.

Did it at least try puts?

It helps you get up to the baseline but will never make you great.

And she was surprised he killed those younglings

Smh.