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A big part of the journey is the exact thing AI took away though! The destination mostly has remained.

If you can't resist the temptation to pull the AI slot machine lever (which is not necessarily a personal failing!), you might want to seriously examine what your actual motivations are. If you have to use AI for your day job, then yeah it sucks the journey is being taken away from you.

Yes pretty much have to do it for work or at the very least deal with AI PRs and reviews. Also it now feels kinda silly to do it manually even for personal projects because I know there is a faster/better? way and before I wasn't doing it to be hardcore I was just doing it because that's what needed to be done now doing it by hand is like people who enjoy working with those old punch card computers which is a thing but not really the same. The broader ecosystem where you could get help like stackoverflow is also disappearing so I am not even sure how you would solve tricky undocumented issues now maybe by digging really deep into the systems but doesn't seem practical.

This is one thing that has really hit me: I have a question and I always default to Gemini flash or haiku instead of finding quality writing on a subject. So I get the same tinned bullet-point format every time, and my knowledge has become wider, but can only be so deep--only so many things can fit in one's head at any time--so I pay the opportunity cost of finding something that I enjoy sinking my teeth into.

I think about my favorite bands, or games, etc. the ones I cherish most are those hidden gems that I either stumbled upon during some rabbit hole or as a recommendation from a friend. How do I get that now? I can ask Claude, I guess.

If you do try to go down rabbit holes with AI, you get a deluge of information, but it is basically like what Google has become, minus the ads: aggregates the most easily accessible data, blends it up and distills it to some slurry that might kind of be coherent, and which will definitely sound authoritative, but... Is it?

And, of course, then what happens to the hidden gems that have a very low (whatever the equivalent of) PageRank but maybe because they're not highly optimized, ultra-processed and generally agreeable or popular. The channels through which one could readily receive information are all being flooded out/absorbed. Maybe I should try Kagi, or get into irc and build that rss graph.

Two's complement just had a great episode on this topic. None of us have absorbed the costs of the tradeoff we are all making by using these things, much like we didn't for using social media, or the slide into the techno-corporate surveillance state that happened after the patriot act. We are paying those costs and I am certainly feeling them more than ever recently.

It seems most companies who employ developers are going the direction of agentic coding, so for most of us there is not an option. This is where the real crisis is.

They are foing to store it underground in plastic covered hole? Would this really cause an issue just to dump it into the ocean maybe spread out a bit?

And Amazon going to add their own 100k, I'm sure there's nothing to worry about

There are also several Chinese satellite constellations which will expand more quickly once several Chinese partially reusable rockets are online.

I haven't been helping up with the development, are they getting close?

Competition is going to be grand!

Their Composer model (trained Kimi) is kinda amazing.

Fixed a nasty bug in one of my tests where a mock in a completely different test I had never worked on was incorrectly setup and intercepting my mocks, I don't think I would have found it ever because the amount of effort it would have taken means I would have needed to move on to some other way to test.

Reverse engineered an old audio recorder USB driver which only works in windows 7 and also reverse engineered the custom audio encoding the device uses and the software to convert it to a standard wav file. This took recording the USB traffic with Wireshark for each function in the original software in a VM then disassembling the various dlls and exes and driver files and feeding them into Clause step by step.

That AI button in DataDog not only diagnosed the problem across micro services but also created a fix PR. I think we might be unemployed soon.

I never read the commit messages always straight to changed files.

Also find doing it like this either incredibly hard or have to do a ton of git magic after I'm done to get commits into this state which is very frustrating.

I think it might be the codebase I work on but who knows.

Yes! I once read a great article I can no longer find that talked about 3 types of PRs. Simple ones that you self approve. Ones that you tag someone because you want to spread the knowledge of what has been done. And ones that need actual review. Everything being reviewed is simply unnecessary and exhausting.

To replace something with the momentum of React both as tech and an industry "standard" you are going to need something which provides an incredible leap forward and is pushed by someone with very deep pockets, its hard to see it happening. The negatives if any of React simply aren't big enough to go for a less popular framework

Moving to a much cheaper country is probably the way if you have money saved up or can sell a house.