Ben Delarre
bendelarre@mastodon.social
<p>Wrangler of web app technology. Maker of things both physical and digital.</p>
Posts
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Post #1724434
Executives: &quot;You can all go 10x faster now, you&#39;re empowered!&quot; Managers: &quot;Yes let&#39;s go team!&quot; Managers schedule 10x as many meetings to go faster Execs: &quot;Look, even designers are shipping code now! So much empowerment!&quot; Engineering: &quot;Fuckit, APPROVE, I don&#39;t have time to review anymore. Have to get to the next meeting about the designer vibe coded feature we&#39;re shipping tomorrow.&quot; Execs: &a...
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Post #1724433
Some people live in a delusional fantasy world with no self awareness at all. Must be nice.
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Post #1724432
Merging the PR that deletes 330k lines of old prototype code on a Friday afternoon then walking out to the pub for a pint on a sunny day... Doesn&#39;t get much better.
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Post #1724431
The AI industry has reached its logical conclusion. Vulnerabilities as a Service. VaaS is the hot new thing folks: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116347212857125753
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Post #1724430
I just discovered I live in a city where on Easter Sunday we have a competition to find the most hunky Jesus and then we can watch our neighbors hurl themselves down a steep hill on big wheel bikes dressed in the most outrageous costumes. SF continues to amaze and delight.
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Post #1724429
Recruiter messaging me about a job opportunity. What&#39;s this? An interesting job building web apps for high performance monitoring of generalized novel hardware systems... Right up my street. Hardware, check, web, check, visualizations, yup, performance, yes please! Oh... &quot;3+ years experience with React and CSS-in-JS&quot;. Ah. You didn&#39;t actually mean you were serious about performance did you? I do not, nor would I ever, recommend you try and build high performa...
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Post #1724428
Watching teams start migrations towards React &quot;because our team knows it, and we want to have LLMs generate it&quot; is so depressing. Sure, shoot yourselves in both feet while you&#39;re at it.
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Post #127430
Just saw this from a friend and now I can't unsee it: "I just had a weird thought. (LLM type) AI is a lot like torture, in that you'll get an answer that sounds plausible, but might not be true because the victim/AI will give whatever answer it thinks you want. From now on I'm going to think of asking AI stuff like you're waterboarding a nerdy seven year old." Stop the AI waterboarding!