Better keep her away from any suspicious black puddles.

Unless you’re a Gmail user.

Kes is not a TNG character. Maybe Deanna?

To add to the list: Replacing bad wood, pest service, aging appliances, fence maintenance, septic emptying (depending on your location), flooring wear and replacement, grouting and caulking, pest control, exterior cleaning, etc.

It can occasionally feel like an endless stream of tasks.

Oof, that’s rough, especially considering that GitHub used to be a Linux shop. I wonder what happened to all the Rails folks who built the OG platform.

They’re happy and vested probably :)

Happy and definitely gone, haha. Not my circus not my monkeys.

So freaking weird. Is it normal at MS for Product Managers to push code? wtf

Original PR: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226

Isn't this the promise of AI?

They also love to be tread upon if the boot is just right.

I pay for Copilot annually, and mostly for its code auto completion features. I use CC if I want to do anything agentic. Not sure if I want to pay more for occasionally-good-intellisense at this point.

Same! I wonder what other alternatives there might be for autocomplete.

autocomplete is still unlimited within the subscription, maybe using a free model or even cheaper ones are best value..

If you find out, please let me know!

Code completions and Next Edit Suggestions remain free with Copilot Pro.

But you can no longer amortize annually, which makes it even more a question of "is this worth it this month?" each month. Especially for personal accounts.

I'm similarly thinking about sticking with the auto-downgrade back to Copilot Free when the annual sub ends and then just yelling about it any months I hit the 2000 completion cap.

I wouldn't mind a plan between Free and Pro that is just "all I care about is code completion and next edit suggestions".

But they both used C++, a rare and obscure language rarely used in cryptography! /s

This post really resonated with me. Through the daily drudgery, I lost that spark that drove me to programming in the first place as a kid and became disgruntled with it for a while. It wasn't until I pushed myself to get back to hobby (or shed) programming that I rekindled my old passion and, as a result, find my day job much more bearable.

Opposite for me.

I have an actual shed that I spend time in, doing maintenance work, building physical items (latest one is an auto-refilling bird watering station), and making beer. Given my day job is so desk-bound, and so tech oriented, I find using my hands in my off-time to be very fulfilling and what keeps me sane.

Different strokes, as they say.

I had to get out of tech for that reason: i need a physical good I can create and hold. Using my engineer skills to build physical things satiates my brain so much more. I don't think I can ever go back to coding as a job. I just don't care about other people's garbage code, lol.

i got out of tech/coding so i could apply my skills to more real world stuff. it's been so much better. i don't make as much but i end each day with a feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment. i wouldn't trade it away. my social life has gotten so much better, as well, because i'm happier in general and i talk to so many more people as a result. i smile more, i think is the main thing.

And what are you doing now? :-)

How’d you get out? For the many over-specialized readers like myself…

Surely step one is psychological. I feel like being able to accept a lower paycheck is critical to leaving tech if you’re at the over specialized part of your career

That is not merely psychological unless you're very early in your career and life, with no dependents, etc.

Technically, leaving your family to live as a hermit is also a psychological decision.

That's financial and circumstantial, not (just) psychological.

Psychological in the sense that my kids will need to psychologically accept that they now live under a bridge?

Callous, but that’s your fault for building a life that requires tech money to maintain. I don’t get the point of comments like yours, just to make one feel bad for escaping the golden handcuffs.

There are plenty of people that have children and live decent lives earning less than $200k/year + benefits.

I'm making under 200k now. If I got out of software I'm pretty sure it would still go down.

Sorry for making you feel bad.

Congratulations and thanks for sharing.

Same here. I've been trying to get more into the physical world, with a tech angle, rather than just pure software. As you said, using my hands is what keeps me sane, makes the world seem a little more real, if that makes sense?