Actually the tooling is such that you have that written in some kind of a rules file that will then more or less append the rules to the prompt so you wouldn't have to repeat it over and over.

At least I think that's how it works, I was only half listening to the mandatory AI training.

Unless they’re aware of The Mythical Man-Month

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imagine trying to whisper these

And all without a single junior dev in the open office hearing their genius. Aside from the junior dev who bought the fucking thing in the vain hope they could roleplay as a more competent employee. That junior dev can hear themself going "no, fuck, delete, how do I- no, stop typing, you stupid fucking thing", which I assume counts as "genius".

How to give a graybeard an aneurism in 4 simple words:

We need to start aggressively bullying and mocking adults that act like this openly and publicly. I was a skinny nerdy kid that got picked on constantly in high school. And even I think pricks like this need to have their self esteem and confidence shattered

Follow the industry trends, or at the bare minimum be able to speak "intelligently" about them. Management just LOVES buzzwords. It sucks, but that's the reality we have to deal with.

Focus on soft skills, not just technical skills.

Have a process to your thinking. Like a logical proof, show your work!

Leverage every tool you can for your job search.

Good luck.

If you're still in college, try to get an internship. Once you have something on your resume, it's a lot easier to get into places. Plus try to network and stuff. Getting recommended by someone is much more likely to result in an interview.

The AI shit is really rocking the boat right now, but ultimately I don't think it's sustainable. I don't know what the future of dev work will look like or when it'll balance out, but right now, these AI agents are effectively heavily subsidized by investors. At some point, they'll need to either turn to the public (IPO) as a last resort, or actually begin to turn a profit. I think this happened with Microsoft's Copilot. "Tokenpocalypse" was the term that got thrown around. They can't undercharge for this stuff forever.

Even if AI does end up being a significant part of work, actually knowing how to code will make you better at using it. Your skills aren't useless. You'll be better at noticing when the agents make shitty code or shitty decisions. If agentic development ends up being too costly for everyday use, you'll still be able to assist with "manual" code writing.

AI companies over hype their products and say they're world shattering as a way of marketing. They say the idea of developers are over because they want people to invest and buy their product. Agentic coding has gotten pretty fucking impressive in the past few months, but something's gonna break at some point. The bill always comes due.

But yeah. Internship and networking. Learn AI, but don't eschew traditional development practices entirely.

nope, that's a star trek-ism. limiting oscillations -> damping. making something wet -> dampening.

Does the 130-150wpm number include thinking? I don't think I ever speak that fast even when I'm retelling material I know very well to my juniors, because even that requires thinking while talking to convey the information logically and consistently.

Hey Claude, what does "int open parenthesis asterisk fun closed parenthesis open parenthesis int c comma char asterisk asterisk v closed parenthesis equal get open parenthesis closed parenthesis minus greater sign fun semicolon" means?

Oh, you think speech to text is your ally?  But you merely adopted the speech to text; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see a keyboard until I was already a man. By then, it was nothing to me but key Binding.

"Conversing" with an LLM is a different dialect than speaking to humans if one wants consistent output. Keyboard still wins. LLM is exhausting. Humans are dope.

It's not really 130-150 words per min though bc mostly the words we say are nonsense, "uhms" and saying the wrong thing and starting over and pausing and such.

Not to mention, when we speak to a computer, it's not like to a person, as others have pointed out. The 130-150 wpm number comes from in context speaking where we already know what we're going to say. That isn't the case when doing things on a computer such as responding to a comment, anything requiring thinking, coding, etc.

Also, speech-to-text systems do not immediately recognize the speech we say, adding further delay.

So it's not actually 130-150 words a minute.

In terms of meaningful day-to-day use, I maintain that it's far slower and less precise than a keyboard, especially if you're a proficient typer.

And this makes sense as everyone I've ever met who likes to use speech-to-text (excluding those who MUST use it for disability reasons) are simply those who are bad at typing. Cope harder. slow-mo. This comment was written using a keyboard

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so what they’re saying is true for that one use case

This doesn't follow. Both of us are talking about inputing in english. Vibe-coding with a keyboard is also superior there

I'm glad to hear you're better. I understand paying for something that works better, but I guess I'm still stuck in ye olden days where software was a one time purchase and if they really needed more money they'd release yearly major updates. And I'm not convinced that switching between a locally run whisper model and something proprietary in the cloud makes that much of a difference. Especially with the privacy concerns. Of course I could probably be convinced, but I don't want to.

Heh, still living in the stone age? That's why I use my Superwhisper™.

"pressing enter" so a keyboard is still needed?

How could they lie like this?