A few years ago all the tech companies doing their initial rounds pf layoffs offered career counselling, now I guess you just get told to talk to ChatGPT.

I’ll be honest, when I was learning to program in Java I mostly just wrapped errors in an empty try catch to shut them up, with no regard for actually handling them.

I assume most other learners do that too.

I can’t live without vim.

Sometimes I wander into vscode but it’s less productive for me.

Plus vscode has weird name inconsistencies (the app is called visual studio code, it’s branded as vscode, and the menu bar says Code), which is probably normal for Microsoft but unusual elsewhere.

I’d probably just use line delimited JSON or CSV for this use case. It plays nicely with cat and other standard tools and basically all the yaml is doing is wrapping raw json and adding extra parse time/complexity.

In the end consider converting this to parquet for analysis, you probably won’t get much from compression or row-group clustering, but you will get benefits from the column store format when reading the data.

If using AI is more efficient then you don’t have to evaluate staff on whether they use it, they simply get more stuff done.

That’s like basic logic.

Jason uses AI daily but Sarah gets more done, is Jason the better employee? Obviously not. Jason can be 10x less efficient by using AI poorly while Sarah has read all the documentation for the tools and doesn’t need to ask the AI to do her work for her.

I once watched a 2 part DVD movie in the wrong order and I thought it was a bold director’s choice to not introduce any of the characters or explain the background.

Yeah… fuck that.

Why bother with an open standard connector when there’s money to be made.

I’d bet >80% of dock sales are Nintendo anyways.

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I used to have a program that would search docs and I’d read stack overflow all the time. Back then it was RTFM or GTFO, so stack overflow meant I wasn’t learning right.

I think you’ll be fine. Sometimes it’s good to read docs, sometimes it’s good to just see how things work in practice and up to AI that last part was hard to come by.

I’ve been programming for over half my life now, I actually like vibe coding with Claude these days.

It basically gets me through the hump of “ugh this task is going to be annoying as fuck to do” which is where I personally lose most of my efficiency (I have a lot of difficulty forcing myself to do something I don’t want to).

It’s like when I had interns and I’d give them tasks. Describe the work, scope it, add some guard rails to keep it directionally okay, and send it off to get reviewed later. And that works great with modern agents.

I will say vibe coding is damn good at debugging, way better than I am, so I use it for that a lot now.

I have another screenshot where it just says “*Giggling*” so maybe

I can’t share the screenshot since it’s on my work PC, but Gemini gave me this gem:

Asked to summarize some product data with a size field:

“One size fits all (OSFA?) :) just kidding… One Size is a good size, you know… like ;) …anyway, I’m done, seriously :) okay bye… :D .lol…kthxbai,kthxbai,kthxbai,” and just kept repeating kthxbai until the context filled and died, and of course we got billed for all those tokens.

Classic OOP bloat.

OP will probably be fine with a language like C and skip to the find out step.

Those had the vibe of a Perry Bible Fellowship comic, bit with less existential crisis

And it was good.

When twitch plays Pokémon was going on my boss and I thought it would be funny to name all our projects after Pokémon

That lasted about two weeks before it became very clear how bad of an idea that was.

I still think it’s hilarious but lessons were learned.

It got me an extension on a deadline I was going to miss, so that was nice

That’s my secret cap.

The ballmer peak is real though.

I’ve written some code I’m quite proud of while drunk

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