It's just a blogpost, Michael. What could it take? 5 minutes?

Hailey is one of the most talented engineers I’ve ever met and a very good friend. I will miss her so much. If you ever have the chance to work with her — take it RE:

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hailey (@hailey.at)

As we bring in the New Year today, I have some bittersweet news to share...Today will be my last day working on Bluesky as a part of the core team....

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I think this might change. Through some combination of caching, token cost reduction, or local models, I think the endpoint might be plain-English written specs and test suites as source code, with LLM compilers RE:

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Tony Larch (@tonylarch.bsky.social)

Exactly. If the prompts were the source and the bot was built into the toolchain we would be off to the races. But I think it would turn out to be ...

I’m going to be the old man (41) who talks about understanding the code the AI generates and being able to write it by hand. The kids will say I’m out of date, and I’ll never be sure they’re wrong. The indignity will never be lost on me that I’m talking about hand-writing god damn Javascript.

I’ve seen enough. I’m calling it. The cat understands when you’re taking pictures of her and she doesn’t like it

As a fairly experienced and middle aged software engineer, this advice “sounds right” to juniors but it’s wrong and it needs to stop being suggested RE:

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Adam Chalmers (@adamchalmers.com)

if I could go back in time and give myself advice when I was a fresh grad working his first real programming job, it'd be: stop eating spiders.

From the other room, my laptop emits a few volume change sounds. The cat has nested

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Ryan (@snarfed.org)

https://snarfed.org

) hey hmu in DMs and I'll see what I can do to help with the bridgeyfed relay issue

Disk or RAM space has "weight" and a lot of data is heavy for the computer to carry around RE:

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futur (@futur.blue)

I wonder if there's any predictive value in whether a person is more inclined to describe a compiler error as it "yelling at them" vs "getting sad"

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This is the conclusion I came to after testing tap for backfill RE:

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hailey (@hailey.at)

the biggest blocker is processing events off of the websocket in a timely manner. it was pretty easy to get it into a borked state if i wasn't proc...