Will we get jGraveyard :) https://killedbygoogle.com

Yeah I mean, now you know how managers feel? :)

spend all day talking to people (except it's LLMs) and not sure if you accomplished anything, but people seem happy

The plus side is for your personal things like this you don't have to use it of course!

Last year I got two coworkers. My first in terms of coding. First I looked at everyone code request, but it soone overwhelmed me. We got a third and there was no way I could oversee everything and since I got a team of three management gave me other responsibilities on top.

I have no idea what they code and how they code it. I only go over the specs with them. Everything got quicker but the quality went down. I had to step in and we now have e2e-Test for everything. Maybe it's too much, but bugs got squashed and catched before we shipped.

So that's a win. Before I could test everything by hand. I worked more on things like creating a working release cycle and what tools we should use.

With or without AI the situation would have been similar.

I became a manager. We move the needle. I don't really get to code anymore and I don't see much of the code. It's strange.

Article addresses that.

Author says he does enjoy managing people, challenging them, and seeing them grow and accomplish things they couldn’t before.

None of that accompanies “managing” an LLM.

Yeah he was encouraging young people to go into debt and then was publicly critical of the pushback against him, two big no nos

the sensors on my robot vacuum are an upgrade over whatever Tesla has

When you give a snake oil salesman the reign over technical decisions…

Those are generally lidar so that fits in with the above :)

Just 2D and much lower resolution and speed obviously

Lazy Constants looked interesting. The impl uses unsafe: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/sha...

But with graal isn't the min compile time on avg hardware like a minute?

Yeah, but you only have to do that before shipping. You can just test/develop with "normal" java, you even get hot-reloading.

I have way more experience with java on android than Flutter, and Flutter so far has been a breeze.

What if you have a mobile app? Rest APIs? The argument doesn't work. Every backend language has ways to generate specs/types/clients from the APIs code.

Mypy still best for Django

As a long time Django user that wants to start using typing, can you elaborate on why mypy is still the way to go?

There's a really nice typing plug-in for mypy that's been around a long time: https://github.com/typeddjango/django-stubs

It is very disappointing that these new type checkers don't support plug-ins, so things like django-stubs aren't possible. That means you're stuck with whatever is delivered with these new type checkers. It must be really difficult since none of them support plug-ins. Some of these newer type checkers promise support for Django, but you're stuck with what they (will) have on offer. Also, you'll likely want typing for other libs you might use.

Pyrefly's Django support is documented here: https://pyrefly.org/en/docs/django/

I believe Zuban also has some form of Django support, but I'm unable to locate the docs