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> iamdevloper --digest --week=2026-10-01
> 6 posts returned ▋
OpenAI gave its agents their own computers this week, which seems like exactly the sort of unsupervised access that leads to someone, somewhere, explaining to a machine why it shouldn't have touched the production database.
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[01] Manager: we need someone who can hit the ground running.
Me: day one?
Manager: day one.
Me: still waiting on AWS access three weeks later. |
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[02] if I was Moriarty I would've hidden my plans in Confluence, three folders deep, last edited by someone who left the company in 2019 |
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[03] git blame exists so you can find out exactly which version of yourself to be angry at |
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[04] signs the rewrite is coming:
someone says "legacy"
someone says "greenfield"
someone says "we'll migrate incrementally"
nobody migrates incrementally
three years later, still on the old one, now calling it legacy too |
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[05] How long after joining did you stop pretending you'd read the onboarding docs? |
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[06] 2010:
-hired to build the product
2025:
-hired to build the product
-actually spend the week explaining to an agent why it deleted the product |
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Same week, earlier years. No feed is going to show you these again.
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4 OCTOBER 2017 > I'm too nervous to quit my job, what if freelancing doesn't work out?
*6 months into contracting*
> imma be a few minutes late to standup https://t.co/feaH4tYHtx |
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30 SEPTEMBER 2020 "sit downs with maybe clothes on the bottom half of me but also maybe not done over Zoom whilst my eyelids are barely open" but I agree "standup" has more of a ring to it |
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2 OCTOBER 2013 Colour drained from my face as I read the email:
"I've sent you some copy to put on the website, it's attached in a .docx above." |
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