Extinguished Engineer @ExtinguishedEng

PCF_LABEL_AWESOME Here for software stuff. Cursed with eternal optimism. I want to make it all better. Make Agile Great Again! Views are my own. Portal Point, Antarctica Joined March 2010

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Extinguished Engineer @ExtinguishedEng

5 minutes ago

@__d_1ggin An LLM will write assembly for a TRS-80. I bet it will do COBOL. @grok, how are you with both of those?

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10 minutes ago

@DerailleurAgile @Only1kai I missed what others caught - it was sent to a yahoo address. Real HR wouldn't do that. And no one knows who he is.

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a hour ago

@reiwa_shosha What if everyone is remote?

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a hour ago

@SensoryRebels It's okay to see right through her. It doesn't change anything. All the heavy lifting is yours.

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a hour ago

@jaenicc It's easy now. Friday's Claude terminal is still open.

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a hour ago

@sjgoedecke I can't believe I'm saying this, but I just realized that we're estimating more or less accurately. There are two ingredients: 1) Make everything small. 2) AI. Now everything is a 1. Sometimes it's a 2. It's almost never off my much.

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3 hours ago

@ajlamesa I need a sofa and a 65-inch 4K TV.

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4 hours ago

@amix3k I only wish I could ❤️ it twice

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4 hours ago

"Yes they will drive you crazy but you know what to expect." Predictably unpleasant is not a selling point. "you feel sad the last day even though you often never see them again." The second part is true. "You still have stories and some special moments." That's equally true of working remote.

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5 hours ago

@baddy2shoos1 @elenascross It's good for a married couple to have two bedrooms. When our son got a little older we needed three. We like being together, but sometimes you need that little bit of space. But I work in the living room. I don't want to sit in a little bedroom.

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5 hours ago

I wonder if the minimum that people expect to have when they get married is just too much. It's not new for people to expect to have it all when they get married. Is that getting worse? Anecdotally, some of the couples I know who raised big families got married young and poor. I don't think as many young people are willing to do that today. The kids from one couple are all happily married. They started in studio apartments or living over someone's garage. They're all great people. None of their sense of status or self-worth comes from where they live or what they own. Most of the couples I can think of who've been together a lifetime started small. Not all. It just leans that way. They were stable, but they didn't own houses or drive nice cars. I lived in a 700sqft apartment when we got married. My wife told me later she thought I must be poor because of the car I drove. It's been 27 years.

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7 hours ago

There's no hidden agenda. The managers manage. I'm literally just escaping the drive. That's 80%. I like the sleep, working out in the garage during lunch, and eating good. I like sitting on a sofa and having zero back or neck pain. If there's one thing I want to escape, it's occasional stupid noise. I can work next to ping-pong table and not care, but I can't handle someone whistling. I think they're mentally ill if they can't stop. I don't want to wear headphones or listen to music. I just want people to not be annoying.

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9 hours ago

@abhirip Probably very few turns. Especially when we start out, most things the person wants will be things the agent can't do. If they haven't asked for something it can do, it will transfer. I want the human to have a transcript or at least a clear description.

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a day ago

This is odd to me. I'm working on an AI customer service phone agent. To get a human you have to say, "I want to talk to a person" or anything the agent interprets that way. Or if it has a few turns of not figuring out what they want, it will transfer.

𝕊𝕒𝕞𝕞𝕪 @FromN5_

a day ago

Companies really replaced customer service reps with AI chatbots and now you have to convince a fucking robot that your problem is serious enough to let you speak to an actual human being

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Extinguished Engineer @ExtinguishedEng

10 hours ago

People who want to work in the office need someone to be there with them. If I want to work from home, I have to find a job that aligns with that. They need to do the same. The worst thing you can do is drag me to the office because Bob who hates his wife needs a friend.

Eni Iljazi @eni_iljazi

a day ago

The fact that so many people prefer WFH, prioritizing instant gratification at the cost of better long term outcomes, is in fact evidence that most adults are children.