But I enthusiastically agree with your point about engaging with your output and having that deep understanding of all the intricacies and, well, you already said it better.

I also can’t shake the feeling that many hardcore LLM proponents are actually, genuinely worse at this than I am, and that’s simply it. In my vicinity, the loudest and most extreme LLM jockeys are all people who I personally don’t think are great engineers, or even that smart. They might be right in the end and I might be wrong, but these people definitely won’t become my role models anytime soon.

The degrees, the books, that’s not the supposedly easy part. That’s the HARD PART, and it’s actually the “what you build” thing. What you build is the code architecture, knowing how to conjure objects, methods, modules, lambdas out of thin air in a way that faithfully represents a real-world problem. Literally the shape of the resulting code. It’s not product or CS.

The easy part is supposed to be actually typing out the code, putting the methods together, remembering method names and syntax quirks.

My [very normal although otherworldly beautiful] wife thinks my job is interesting and talks about me with pride.

When I tell people that I work in IT, they almost never think of FAANG, because these companies aren’t really considered that interesting or important over here. I think it’s uniquely a US thing to conflate “IT” with “SV sociopaths”.

I wonder how it would fare with just 100 kWh of storage, something you can still easily put together.

Literally # This method rejects splines that can't be reticulated. This helps us avoid murdering puppies and punching a baby in the face.

These EVs, are they in the room with us?

Every single level failed here. Nothing works anymore. No one cares about anything making sense. I want fucking out.