They would have rewritten all commercial software better - or if we are to believe the fantasy and hyperbole, you could patch your Windows 11 kernel live with some frontier model to fix every bug known and unknown.

First of all they cant - second of all they wontr, because their goal is money.

If you are doing 1000 commits a day, whats the point of git?

Does the AI ever look back at the shit trail it left behind?

Diffs are no longer diffs, they look like largescale delete and rewrite

AI definitely does look at git commit history in my experience

It certainly looks at the commit history more than I ever have. I find it quite cool when it points out interesting hints from the history.

It's gotten me out of a few sticky merges by examining history and providing information about why changes were done.

This is such a good point!

How hard is it to do plain search first for crying out loud.

Funny you asked, turns out it is quite hard because you must know a lot more about nature of your data and also intricate user needs to design an effective system like that. Fuzzy search is like bluetooth, slap it on and it kind of sort of works. Afterall, everything is better with bluetooth.

You need help.

Get off the computer and mobile, take a hike, do some gardening or something.

I do not. I have a full job and plenty of outdoors + socializing time. appreciate the concern

There are 3 algorithms I learned for circles when I was a kid. I wrote about them a decade and a half ago The third one is prety clever

https://schmantics.blogspot.com/2011/12/third-circle.html

gitk and git gui

Just out of curiosity, what is the reasonable range of pay for an engineer of your caliber in the UK?

hmm it depends really, I go below and above my "market rate"

I've come to learn that your salary as an engineer is more directly tied to your company's success rather than your personal outcomes as an engineer.

I've seen people padding buttons for £700/day working for large brands

I've seen people train open weight models for £350/day trying to ship an MVP.

The last permanent role I negotiated had a TC of £160,000/year. I'm open to go down to £90,000/year or even less for the right opportunity

As for contract work, my last 3 projects were £600/day, £700/day and £550/day. Again, I can go down for something stable.

> The last permanent role I negotiated had a TC of £160,000/year.

If you want that £160k+/year, you might as well either go to a quant firm like Citadel or Jane Street (But there is a 0% chance it will be remote) or build your own startup.

> I'm open to go down to £90,000/year or even less for the right opportunity

£90k is not bad, but not the best either, but anything higher than 120k in the UK means you lose 45% of that.

But the risk is that someone else will go even lower than your offer until the role can be done internally by another person using an AI agent.

The point is, most businesses that are non-quant and non-big tech, non-big AI do not want to pay the extortionate level of taxes in the UK and it makes SWEs in the UK look very expensive and the jobs + office move off-shore.

> But the risk is that someone else will go even lower than your offer until the role can be done internally by another person using an AI agent.

I have assessed various AI models & agents. I don't think I can be replaced by them, so I feel safe on that end.

That being said, I don't think my potential employers fully understand that.

> The point is, most businesses that are non-quant and non-big tech, non-big AI do not want to pay the extortionate level of taxes in the UK and it makes SWEs in the UK look very expensive and the jobs + office move off-shore.

Yes, this is where contract work came particularly handy. But the government made a big deal about taking them offshore due to IR35 pushing them out

By forcing oil to be bought with dollars, the USD was pegged to oil demand, especially from developing nations whose consumption was growing.

Also SWIFT being a means of control of movement of funds.

> forcing oil to be bought with dollars, the USD was pegged to oil demand, especially from developing nations whose consumption was growing

If you give me one source, I'll break down why this is wrong.

(In case there isn't one, the U.S. dollar was never pegged to oil demand [whatever that means]. And nothing about petrodollar recycling thought about developing nations for one second.)

Hasn’t all recent oil purchases been settled using USD. My understanding is that most countries buy US treasuries to maintain US credit ratings and to settle global trade debts.

> Hasn’t all recent oil purchases been settled using USD

No. I’ve traded and settled oil in British pounds from a desk at a bank in New York.

> most countries buy US treasuries to maintain US credit ratings and to settle global trade debts

No to the first, partly to the second. Holding Treasuries doesn’t affect creditworthiness. That said, Treasuries are a universal collateral, so some lenders may require Treasuries be held in reserve for their safety (usually in a third-country bank).

The main reason countries buy Treasuries is for reserves. These are maintained so they can defend their currency. They need dollars to do this if their country trades in and/or finances with dollars. (If they trade in or finance with yuan, they should hold yuan bonds, which they can quickly turn into yuan to sell into the market to buy back their currency, thereby stabilizing it.)

Copy and paste are handled by applications and the OS shell Any program is free to define the formats it is willing to copy or paste - like mime types.

Software sucks, not because its bad, but because people wont implement things

This article (and entire book) actually posits that US will remain the primary producer and consumer of copium worldwide and thus the #1