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Curious question, how many Amazon Engineers flunk basic CS?

If you know CS you know two things:

1. AI can not judge code either noise or signal, AI cannot tell. 2. CS-wise we use statistic analysis to judge good code from bad.

How much time does it take to take AI output and run the basic statistic tools for most computer languages?

Some juniors need firing outright


that isnt computer science at all though? if it is, that would be phd research topics, rather than than basics.

maybe as software engineering topics, but thats a different discipline


“Haha, sure man. CSI, great tv series. Look, just review Jeff’s PR and move that button down, okay? Have a tennis lesson, kbye”

by what metric....

for example name the only Twitter investment that made money....

hint...Bluesky.....all other Twitter projects failed.


I remember idiot lab staff telling me in early 1990s that I could not install the free version of Mozilla browser on university lab computers....my go to reply was can you effing read the damn TOS.....free was in the very first sentence....

There are reasons why I measure code quote input unquote via testing and static code analysis:

1. re-establishes mind mapping of the code base 2. separates out noise from signal. 3. makes it a breeze to refactor to reduce code complexity.

Notice anything yet?

If I replace the AI code input with my own curated techniques from known and measured code sources in long-term I save more time than those who rely upon AI vibe coding.


has anyone at MS tried unplugging azure and plugging azure back in yet?

It's Microsoft. You're supposed to Ctrl+Alt+Del.

remember when they sued a HS student Mike Rowe for his microrowesoft website?

Shocking that devs are forgetting that writing and testing code gives us a conceptual map of what the code does...

Almost like someone never ever learned what the core of code development is....

This is why I use zettelkatsen as my own coding AI....long term results are far better than using AI to pretend to code.


and the fun fact, the other new drug targeting the mid-receptor of acetyl-choline that functions like mu-opioid receptor also has the same exact addiction problems.


you mean its not used for the Paul brothers latest meme coin rug pulls?


What people do not understand about housing crisis:

1. Baby boomers biggest demographic group holding on to homes, that means a huge decrease in housing supply

Read it twice as that is the major obstacle, nothing more nothing less; and notice you cannot solve it by asking retirees to sell that home and downsize as over time they lost purchasing power to do exactly that move!


New construction is physically and logically possible, and not morally objectionable. It's just a regulatory impasse, because people with money and time to lobby against new construction are mostly the same people whose investment in realty would be negatively affected by new construction and lowering prices. California is especially badly affected.


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