svtdragon

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The PR isn’t public yet (it’s in my fork) but even once I submit it upstream I don’t think I’m ready to out my real identity on Lemmy just yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just spent about a month using Claude 3.7 to write a new feature for a big OSS product. The change ended up being about 6k loc with about 14k of tests added to an existing codebase with an existing test framework for reference.

  For context I’m a principal-level dev with ~15 years experience.

  The key to making it work for me was treating it like a junior dev. That includes priming it (“accuracy is key here; we can’t swallow errors, we need to fail fast where anything could compromise it”) as well as making it explain itself, show architecture diagrams, and reason based on the results.

  After every change there’s always a pass of “okay but you’re violating the layered architecture here; let’s refactor that; now tell me what the difference is between these two functions, and shouldn’t we just make the one call the other instead of duplicating? This class is doing too much, we need to decompose this interface.”

  In my own personal experience it was actually kinda fun. I’d say it made me about twice as productive.

  I would not have said this a month ago. Up until this project, I only had stupid experiences with AI (Gemini, GPT).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re in the US like me, we should be aware the problem isn’t bright lights; it’s that our regulations don’t allow for the European beam alteration tech that will dim sections at a time based on oncoming traffic.

  Brighter lights are a huge boon to safety, but we need the corresponding tech to keep it that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a developer for 15 years: there’s no reason to put up with any bullshit in this field. They need us more than we need them. This field is mercenary as fuck.

  I’ve switched jobs on average every 2 years, except for one that I went back to for a second stint and one that was just a great place to work (remote). My salary has quadrupled in those years and I’ve learned never to stick around out of fear that there isn’t something better: there always is, and if the next job isn’t the one, get another one after that (and probably another raise).