How odd. I googled their name and a few sentences from their post. They post stuff in a few other places too. They appear to be some sort of electronics installer from China. I don't see a single promotional link anywhere but it's all the same content for months, obviously written by AI. Must be some bad attempt at marketing.
I see junior devs hyping vibe coding and senior devs mostly using AI as an assistant. I fall in the latter camp myself.
I've hired and trained tons of junior devs out of university. They become 20x productive after a year of experience. I think vibe coding is getting new devs to 5x productivity, which seems amazing, but then they get stuck there because they're not learning. So after year one, they're a 5x developer, not a 20x developer like they should be.
I have some young friends who are 1-3 years into software careers I'm surprised by how little they know.
If I find myself writing code in a way that has me saying to myself "there has to be a better way," there usually is. That's when I could present AI with that little bit of what I want to write. What I've found to be important is to describe what I want in natural language. That's when AI might introduce me to a better way of doing things. At that point, I stop and learn all that I can about what the AI showed me. I look it up in books and trusted online tutorials to make sure it is the proper way to do it.
Companies do the least they can to employ people. That means paying them just enough and giving them just enough perks. I'm sure they'd provide housing if it was needed to competitively hire.
I've seen big companies like Microsoft offer company housing for new immigrants to ease their move to the US. It's also not uncommon for companies to pay for your cross-country move and temporary housing until you can buy a house.
The best clear example I've seen of LLMs making money is a company that now generates custom email text instead of using standard email templates. They increased engagement by some meaningful metric like +15% which translates into hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
I know the original email was something like "Alert: you have a new thing: X Thing"
And the new emails are a prompt something like "we know all of this about the user and all of this about the X thing, write an email alerting them to the new thing with these particular goals".
I really don't know much about it so I'm being pretty vague and generic.
I know lots of junior developers using tools like Cursor. When talking to them about it, they say they're not really learning how to program and don't know what they're doing most of the time. I do question how effective they actually are.
I recall that before AI, junior developers weren't very productive their first year on the job, but they became at least 10x as productive as they ramped up.
I'm left wondering if the "AI boost" that junior devs are getting now is leaving them less productive than if they had the ramp up that we had in the past. Maybe AI is making them 2-3x as productive but they're staying stuck there. Whereas without AI they might learn more and reach higher productivity.
The experienced devs I know use AI as a collaborative tool on the side. Like asking Claude or ChatGPT targeted questions. That's what I'm doing as well. I know I can code much faster than the junior devs using Cursor that I interact with.
I've used WebAssembly for complex cross platform SDKs. I write the core SDK once in WebAssembly and then wrap it with an API layer for each SDK. It sure beats updating and testing complex logic for 30 different SDKs.
Is MapLibre GL a cheaper (free?) open source alternative?
Cool stuff btw. I’m trying to visualize weather model data myself (millions of points) at https://futureradar.net and have been researching client-side techniques like yours.
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