That's actually a pretty reasonable description I think. I mean, in the semi-serious way. But I was just talking to some colleagues of mine about how one can get attached to or invested in code that they hand wrote, even though that code wasn't really solving a problem that was "worth" that level of attachment. And AI assisted code generation changes the dynamic for code that fits in that category for me, and it just so happens to be a lot of the code people write for work fit into that. You only really need to be "artisinal" about the code that "really matters".
I'm a recent jj convert, and working with llms was actually a driver for my own jj adoption. I haven't tried the watch daemon, but I do run `jj new` anytime i ask the llm agent to do anything. It has worked amazingly well.
I'm still hype about WASM. This looks like a cool release. I'm running some pretty high traffic WASM plugins on envoy, running some plugins for terminal apps (zellij), and for one of my toy side projects, I'm running a wasm web app (rust leptos).
For 2 of those 3 use cases, i think it's not technically the optimal choice, but i think that future may actually come. Congratulations and nice work to everyone involved!
I really like gleam. I have a few unfinished side projects in gleam with about 10k lines of code, so I've had enough of a taste to know I like it. I can't wait to see how it matures. I plan to write more gleam in the future. I am particularly excited about the possibilities of sharing more code between webapp frontends and backends. Gleam has so much potential and is already quite productive.
I am not that online of a person. But I joined the discord to say hi and ask a few questions and I have to say the community really does have great vibes. If I were spending more time online, I would likely bias to spending it in the gleam community. They're a bunch of very friendly, and smart people working on a wide variety of interesting projects.
I use search engines every day (primarily kagi). But I will use a fast llm with a search tool for some things, like providing context about a news story etc, (primarily gemini 2.0 flash with "grounding" on).
I did the exact same thing. I'm back to buying real books, but I will say I still use my ereader in situations without good lighting or where the book is just too cumbersome. Sometimes that means I get the book twice which is suboptimal, but I strongly prefer the reading experience of a physical book. My appreciation of the work is even higher when the reading experience is better.
Personally, I think you are very sane for considering leaving FANG for ethical reasons. Of course, in our economic system, there isn't any fully ethical way to participate at all. But in my opinion, there are other good jobs that pay well that are overall less harmful.
If you haven't yet, check out https://devenv.sh (super powered nix shell and more). It's pretty nice for python packages and installs your requirements to a project local venv for you via whatever tool you want (pip, poetry, uv etc).
I've been using it for a couple of years and it's super nice to be able to manage both python and "native" dependencies, and other non-python development tools all together.
I used just nix and whatever python packages are already in nixpkgs for several projects. And that works really really well until you run into an issue with compatibility like I did. It seems to mostly happen when some extremely common tool like `awscli2` depends on a specific version of some package and so it's pinned.
