Under every single CAD application that businesses use is a thirty year old CAD kernel.
Even OnShape and Shapr3d, “modern” tools use Parasolid a 30 year old beast.
We, on the other hand, are building a new CAD kernel. To use GPUs not just for rendering but for the math.
Yes,…
Figma locked us out of our org because they are trying to charge us for double the amount of users we actually had and the support team _does not get it_. Please someone who knows someone there help!
Unpopular opinion: Any engineer afraid AI will take their job must have been pretty "meh" in the first place, since any good engineer knows the job is to automate yourself out of a job and move on to automating yourself out of the next job, over & over again til the end of time.
How come there’s no reality TV show starring multiple programmers that get dropped into an unknown repo and have to fix a bug, the fastest one wins.
I’d watch that.
I'm curious if any college CS courses require running services (outside messing around in a lab) nowadays?
Debugging intuition comes from experience & is built up from years & years of seeing systems fail in different ways.
Big O isn't going to save you when prod is down.
I feel like 99% of being a software engineer is debugging random shit, 1% algorithms. As you gain experience you see more random shit, your random shit toolbox is ever expanding until you can figure out anything w time since it’s semi like something else in your toolbox.
If this tweet gets 1k likes I'll waste my weekend benchmarking all the vector dbs to figure out what is real and what isn't. I'll throw `np.array` in the mix as well, and will use some "big data."
I was using an LLM to write some basic code yesterday when I noticed it injected the most subtle fucking bug in the code & now I’m fully spooked off using them for a while. Could have taken me DAYS to find had I not realized.
Was randomly looking at a pre-product ai company on LinkedIn:
- 3 executive assistants
- 1 VP operations
- 1 VP sales
- 2 founders
- 7 VCs/Angels who put it in their profile
- 1 designer
- 3 actual engineers
ngmi
💯 speaking from my own experience I write the best code when I go super heads down, shut out the rest of the world for possibly days, forget to shower/food, and just pound it out… all from home, that legit does not work from an office.
If your employees aren't working from home, that's your fault - not theirs. Some of GitHub's most impactful features were built by people working from home or remotely.
People tend to think startups need a bunch of young folks but the elite move is hiring a bunch of seasoned professionals and a semi-retired industry veteran genius how knows crazy math and can tell stories of industry.
what are things in tech that older devs have dealt with that have since been abstracted away and would send new devs into a coma
I’ll start: when you’d test coworkers changes locally because there was no CI or when you hosted your website from your computer
Advent of code starts Friday, going to attempt to write them in cuda, and if the problem of the day can't be parallelized I'll make up a slightly different one for myself that can be, got repo all set up for cuda via rust:
The best engineers I’ve ever worked with create art with code. They can abstract complex code into simplistic frameworks allowing anyone to read and understand and contribute more on top. AI will replace the mediocre engineers but it will never replace the artists.
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MacRumors claiming Apple is making VR and AR glasses the VR glasses have 8K screens in each eye and a separate computer tower with a 5nm chip. Please let it be true!
What’s the German word for “it would behoove you to wait until after my code I have been refactoring for two days has compiled and had all the tests pass to approach and poke”
The haptic feedback in the OpenAI iOS app is legit, makes it feel like your phone is typing back to you.
I must know the engineer who worked (what I can only assume is) their ass off on that little detail.
The best systems are the ones you build that do a specific thing and once you are done building it you never have to touch it again because it’s just working silently in the background
A bunch of folks saying if people want to be SRE or ops they should “specialize” in that.
Personally, that’s bullshit. Everyone, EVERYONE, should have enough intuition about how systems fail so that they can write RELIABLE code, resilient to failure.
I'm curious if any college CS courses require running services (outside messing around in a lab) nowadays?
Debugging intuition comes from experience & is built up from years & years of seeing systems fail in different ways.
Big O isn't going to save you when prod is down.