searabbit

I’m normally not a history or greek mythology nerd, but I’m reading the Iliad for the first time to reread the Odyssey, and it really do be true. They’re like ‘we outnumber the Trojans 10:1, have more gods helping us, also the dude who has beef with the Trojans is a massive asshole, and we don’t even know if they kidnapped his main wife or she chose to leave him for a hotter guy, but some of our men died and they had families dammit!’

I think bro got trapped in the backrooms

As someone somewhere between junior and intermediate developer, I will say vibe coding on my personal projects has accelerated my learning so much on the proper way to code things so much more than constantly bugging my seniors who don’t have time to properly review and critique my code (because surprise surprise! We’re understaffed). At least now I can ask Claude to explain its approach and fact check it myself, and the times I’ve had it run too loose, I’ve gotten practice debugging code I’m unfamiliar with since Claude eventually hits a point where it fucked something up and has no idea how to fix it. But obviously the caveat is you have to approach it as a learning tool not an automation tool.

If it’s my boss who wants to “jump on a call” every 5 minutes because they want me to do their job, or because they’re bored and just want a captive audience, I don’t really have a choice. Also, the junior who will need you to babysit them for an hour because they don’t know anything (not their fault but those calls suck too). And finally, the coworker who is quiet quitting and playing the “how long can I avoid getting fired while I look for a better job” game. I am “happy to jump on a call” with all those people to be forced to do their time sensitive tasks /s. If they were forced to write a coherent email, they might actually find it boring enough to do some of the work themselves.

Yes I’m thinking of at least 5 different people and I thankfully don’t work in that industry anymore.