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New comment by coffeebeqn in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

coffeebeqn — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:56:18 +0000

Not really in my experience. I’d much rather have just the prompt rather than the seven paragraph slop

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026"

coffeebeqn — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:01:41 +0000

12 TWh

New comment by coffeebeqn in "The Shape of Things to Come"

coffeebeqn — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:09:50 +0000

Writing short posts is the new test

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%"

coffeebeqn — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:01:34 +0000

We had a pretty good run there from NES onwards. Today the state of the games industry is weird - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

New comment by coffeebeqn in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

coffeebeqn — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:56:25 +0000

I use CC to do the testing and verifying in multiple deployment environments. It’s faster at things like coming up a plausible test payload or ten, querying a bunch of metrics from datadog, querying and verifying state from a db before and after testing, scanning all the deployed logs for relevant errors. For me that has been more of an uplift than the coding. I still feel like communication it’s worst at. So writing tickets, getting a decision out of a group, documenting only the important things, etc. it’s still not that good at

New comment by coffeebeqn in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

coffeebeqn — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:17:03 +0000

The VAR calls 5 minutes after the fact were the most bothersome thing to me

New comment by coffeebeqn in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

coffeebeqn — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:13:19 +0000

UEFA is Europe basically. So like the nexus of modern football

New comment by coffeebeqn in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

coffeebeqn — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:12:00 +0000

Guaranteed slots to the tournaments for patrons

New comment by coffeebeqn in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

coffeebeqn — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:11:33 +0000

I don’t know whos on Infantinos side on this

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

coffeebeqn — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:02:21 +0000

What does that mean though? Like some kind of a ROM memory ?

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed"

coffeebeqn — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:30:25 +0000

> and don't make me read 2653 words when 300 do it better.

A million times this. Can we please RL the next models to learn the “if I had more time I would’ve written a shorter letter” method please.

I see it every day in tickets, many communication channels, PR descriptions, comments, documentation. All have at least 70% verbose fluff which is so taxing and makes it very hard to keep track of the one important thing they’re trying to communicate in the message

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed"

coffeebeqn — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:26:07 +0000

Sure and having some in repo documentation markdown makes it a lot easier

New comment by coffeebeqn in "NYC Apartment Aquaponics"

coffeebeqn — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:53:32 +0000

There are a lot of cool growing technologies but it’s really hard to beat the sun and rain and soil on cost. Once you go inside you have to provide the medium, the energy via lamps, watering system and all the micro and macro nutrients. Gets more expensive naturally

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Claude Opus 5"

coffeebeqn — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:33:54 +0000

Some AI bro will pop it into their LLM of choice and pretend to learn something

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

coffeebeqn — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:59:29 +0000

Can’t anyone already do that with a screenshot or a log dump? I’m always assuming company provided comms platforms are fully readable by the admins

New comment by coffeebeqn in "After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch"

coffeebeqn — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:31:17 +0000

My automatic has a 3 day reserve and a quartz will stay on time for years

New comment by coffeebeqn in "England World Cup 2026 Preview"

coffeebeqn — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:56:29 +0000

I don’t get it. You’re predicting a past event? Is this some AI spam bot

New comment by coffeebeqn in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

coffeebeqn — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:56:00 +0000

A electric toothbrush does a much better job at cleaning your teeth though. I have a basic oral B one that I can get new heads for cheaply and easily and it has a usb-c charger. It’s great honestly. I’m sure it’ll die one day but so do normal toothbrushes. I’ll crack the shell open and recycle the battery it’s not a big deal. I had a random Amazon one before that broke after a few months but the very basic “old” style electric brushes seem to last some years. The more “UI” and features it has the less it’ll last

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Resetting Xbox"

coffeebeqn — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:33:23 +0000

That’s the size of active duty but it’s a conscript army so in case of a war there would be a general mobilization of the 900k trained conscripts

New comment by coffeebeqn in "Resetting Xbox"

coffeebeqn — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:21:02 +0000

I just don’t know how great the IPs at Xbox game studios are. They have a few staples but most studios they bought have struggled to put out any major successes in the last 5+ years. There’s only a few Pokémon’s and Harry potters out there. They even ran Halo to the ground ffs