Austin Lehman

@cupofcode.bsky.social

Dad, software developer, knife enthusiast, tinkerer, maker of things.

I just stumbled across a job posting which describes the typical interview process as a 5 stage process, 5 individual interviews! How insane is that, where does it end? Hard pass.

I ported Aussom interpreter to C, and what I found was surprising. The Java version overall was faster. What I found is that JIT was providing a lot of performance that simply porting to C couldn’t beat without optimizations.

Brillant, and what I've been saying since vibecoding emerged: "From the bottom: no juniors entering the pipeline, so no new seniors. From the top: existing seniors slowly losing the depth that made them senior. The pipeline is collapsing from both ends simultaneously." (via @spinscale.bsky.social)

AI didn't kill your junior pipeline. You did | Andrew Murphy

AI didn’t kill the junior pipeline; companies did, because someone saw Claude write a for loop and decided that meant they could stop training humans. The result is an industry cheerfully pulling the ...

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Crypto isn’t useful for what it was created for and little else, AI is a big joke and 99% hype. Can we get away from these wastes of time/money/energy/environment and get back to the regular work of solving business problems and incremental improvement.

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. CALL YOUR STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, YOUR SENATORS & CONGRESSPEOPLE. ASK THE ACLU TO FORM A CLASS ACTION SUIT.

Call them want they really are: HACKERS This "DOGE engineers" thing is bullshit! They are boy hackers! Plain and simple This is 2016 Cambridge Analytics bullshit on steroids

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The FDA wants front-of-package nutrition labels required on packaged foods. The labels would tell consumers if the product has Low, Medium or High levels of saturated fat, sodium and added sugar.

The FDA calls for at-a-glance nutrition labels on the front of packaged foods

The FDA wants front-of-package nutrition labels required on packaged foods. The labels would tell consumers if the product has Low, Medium or High levels of saturated fat, sodium and added sugar.

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