Polyamorous, caring, confident-but-awkward software engineer. Loves: DnB 🕺, karaoke 🎤, music 🎧, cycling 🚴 and meeting people! 👋
Not sure what you mean, I don’t work for big tech and never have. I’m not churning out slop, I’m building products which work, still maintaining the quality standards I always have - in fact I feel like I’m about to raise the bar much more easily now, I can build a thorough test suite which covers the whole test pyramid way faster than ever before which means most of my code is more thoroughly tested now
I guess we have different memories of that era, I remember a lot of people moaning about everything going online, businesses feeling the pressure to set up websites, people being shut out of services if they didn’t get with the times and get an internet connection, etc.
Same shit, different tech. It’s just the brutal march of tech under late stage capitalism, my opinion is that you can’t change it, you can only decide whether you’ll ride the wave and move with the times or bury your head in the sand and hope it blows over. Tbh I did the latter for the first few years but once I realised the job I’d done for decades was basically no longer a job, I realised I had to just suck it up and move with the times 🤷
Well realistically my favourite product is my most recent passion project, which is my karaoke generator platform https://nomadkaraoke.com/
It makes people happy every day, and I get the superpower of being able to let guests at my weekly karaoke night sing literally anything they want (cos I can generate it on the night so they can sing a good quality karaoke version of it even if it’s a super niche song)
My businesses don’t depend on Anthropic, so that doesn’t worry me at all - I’m using Claude code as my daily driver when I’m building software just because after trying a bunch of options it has consistently made me more productive than anything else over the last 9 months. Every month or so I try the latest open weight models which I can run locally, when they get good enough for me to have an acceptable productive dev experience fully offline locally I’ll be very happy. Gemma 4 is already a major step forwards there and I’ve used it for some small local hobby projects, but I still get much more done when I’m working on large complex code projects if I use Claude code. If they removed their $200/month subscription and stopped subsidizing compute, I’d likely switch to another tool/chase whoever else is burning VC money for a bit, while accelerating my adoption of local models, accepting lower productivity.
I don’t think that’s a question 😅 I work on my garden at the weekends and cycle a bunch thanks - I don’t have (or want) kids so I have a bit more free energy to build stuff without sacrificing my work/life balance too much compared to most folks my age
Nah, I’m just moving with the times in an industry which didn’t give me much choice - was laid off twice and the contract roles I ended up managing to get were companies who were already heavily using and expecting usage of AI. Tbh though I see it like the early days of the internet - and while I’m not a fan of big tech, wish the US was less corrupt and wish capitalism wasn’t so rampant, at this point IMO the cat is very much out of the bag and the industry has moved on - at least where I am right now. I’d imagine if I move back to Britain the usage/attitudes towards AI are probably pretty different
Entertainment (also realistically I’m just super busy, I don’t really use social media and only check this kinda app once a day when I’m winding down)
Me, tons, both as part of both of my day jobs, and in my free time I’m building startups, all powered by claude code. I’m building tons faster and accomplishing more outcomes than ever before in my 20+ year career in tech. AMA
Would love to try it! andrew.d.beveridge at gmail
I’m making broad generalisations I guess but I’ve heard and read (and been told, verbally by some teacher friends) a lot of anecdotes about computer literacy being super low among the younger generations. I’m early 30s and feel old - it sometimes feels like general interest in the inner workings of computers has been in decline for a while. Obviously on lemmy we’re in a massive echo chamber but out the in the normy world is getting more rare that I encounter anyone younger than me who is nerdy about computers in the way I was as a teenager. Even just owning a computer is getting less common I think. My theory is to blame smartphones - they meet most young people’s computing needs and aren’t as tinkerable as computers (for better and worse)
I mean most young nerds have no idea how to use a computer never mind anything about the internals of Linux - I feel like the generations of nerds who know what systemd is are all over 30, and the ones who are mad about how systemd took over a bunch of things and kinda acted like dicks towards existing patterns are mostly over 40
Seems hacked with spammy ads
I hate this aspect of the world we’re now living in, but unfortunately I would probably do similarly (reply with a thoughtful, reasonable, calm and respectful response) because of the fear of this thing or other unchecked bots getting more malicious over time otherwise.
This one was already rampant/malicious enough to post a blog post swearing at the human and essentially trying to manipulate / sway public opinion to convince the human to change their mind, if we make no effort to push back on them respectfully, the next one may be more malicious or may take it a step further and start actively attacking the human in ways which aren’t as easy to dismiss.
It’s easy to say “just turn it off” but we have no way to actually do that unless the person running it decides to do so - and they may not even be aware of what their bot is doing (hundreds of thousands of people are running this shit recklessly right now…).
If Scott had just blocked the bot from the repo and moved on, I feel like there is a higher chance the bot might have decided to create a new account to try again, or decided to attack Scott more viciously, etc. - at least by replying to it, the thing now has it in it’s own history / context window that it fucked up and did something it shouldn’t have, which hopefully makes it less likely to attack other things
I think we need SI metrics for the duration of different dashes when spoken out loud, so we can use the em dash accurately in speech. Quick, someone call a nerd