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Comment Re:A few comments on the problems (Score 1) 135

Yeah, welcome to what the software engineering discipline has been grappling with, as this started for us a bit earlier. I've been coding for 22 years now, and in the current situation, I'm still quite employable as long as I can use the tools well; but, there just is no junior software engineer role in many, many companies now. Even our mid-level or early senior people aren't getting the same practice that I did when I was at the same point in my career.

It's unclear how this will turn out. Eventually people my age will retire, and it's the same story you wrote.

Comment Re:Have they heard of a PC? (Score 1) 136

It definitely has. I've been using TOTP in the US as a second factor for years (maybe over a decade?) across websites and apps and the like. They almost never call it TOTP, though. It's usually "authenticator app" or something like that.

I store my TOTP secrets in Bitwarden for less-sensitive stuff or on my Yubikey directly for more-sensitive stuff.

Comment Re:But you MUST love the gen AI bots! Or... (Score 1) 93

Yeah, that's correct; so, it's kind of a balancing act between wanting to preserve context for a new feature or refactor as it's being built out and wanting to minimize context window usage and therefore token usage. Other stuff like CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md will also be ingested into the context automatically, so those are things to consider. Claude, for example, also has a /context command you can use to visualize your context usage.

Comment Re:Hugs my 2000s car... (Score 1) 155

Back when I got my most-recent car (2015), after I let the trial lapse, they called me every month for like 6 months, ignoring anything I said to them, until eventually I used a more-expressive tone of voice and improved my word choice. It was only after that that they stopped calling me. I can't stand that company.

Comment Re:Vibe Coding != AI Coding (Score 1) 31

I was going to comment this on another thread, but I'll just reinforce this here. As far as my definitions go:

Vibe Coding means you're interacting with the LLM completely in text and have very little or zero knowledge of the code it's actually building outside of whatever can be described or displayed in the conversation with the LLM.

LLM/AI-Assisted Coding means you're going back and forth with the LLM, sharing the responsibility for the code and its organization. One of you writes code, maybe the other refines it -- the human retains knowledge, understanding, and shared authorship of the system being built.

But, I do acknowledge that maybe some don't look at it like that. This is just how I differentiate those two terms and types of interaction.

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