> The part where the license says "Don't run this on your server and charge people money for it, or we will sue you"?

A bit offtopic but could re-generation of the project with LLM (with for example prompt "rewrite the <repo> changing every line of code") help protecting from being sued? If yes, then the OS licensing is doomed to fail.

We had a trial about this if I'm not mistaken. For a piece of software to be declared as not infringing on another, its developers need to use a "clean room" approach when developing it. Giving an LLM a repo to copy is definitely not "clean room".

What kind of politics? I mean, what do they sell, little to no tech books?

Just go see for yourself?

Who said they did not? It's probably not public, that's all.

Everything? Ok, everything. Names "anonymmized" (but easily trackable) and the list of addresses. Why not sell it to get money? /s

> but I swear it built the comprehension I have today.

For interns/junior engineers, the choice is: comprehension VS career.

And I won't be surprised if most of them will go with career now, and comprehension.. well thanks maybe tomorrow (or never).

I don’t think that’s the dichotomy. I’ve been in charge of hiring at a few companies, and comprehension is what I look for 10 times out of 10.

There are plenty of companies today where "not using AI enough" is a career problem.

It shouldn't be, but it is.

well you could get "interview-optimized" interviewees with impressive-looking mini-projects

I have worked with a lot of junior engineers, and I’ll take comprehension any day. Developing their comprehension is a huge part of my responsibility to them and to the company. It’s pretty wasteful to take a human being with a functioning brain and ask them to churn out half understood code that works accidentally. I’m going to have to fix that eventually anyway, so why not get ahead of it and have them understand it so they can fix it instead of me?

> Before using Holesail, make sure you have Node.js installed on your system.

No, thank you.

I would expect this tool to be containerized.

Yes you can use a container instead https://hub.docker.com/r/holesail/holesail

Yeah, it's how everywhere is measured. But I like to remember Joel Spolsky's takes on measuring everything, including his famous book and blog:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/08/09/the-econ-101-manag...

Contrary to the usual opinion on HN, this provides a good reason to do an MBA!

You should learn enough economics that if you are even a bit insightful you will avoid Econ 101 thinking, you will learn about things like intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and a lot of other things relevant to management.

My MBA program mentioned in passing intrinsic / extrinsic motivation in the Ethics class - which in my program did not even have a final exam :).

Most of the time was spent on cost cutting, customer vs producer surplus, profit margins, efficient markets theory, lots marketing, lots of "the purpose of a commercial enterprise is to make money for its owner" said in different ways, and maybe some operations analysis.

This is great, thank you for sharing

Also layer upon layer of abstractions - to the point where no single person understands the stack from top to bottom.

Perhaps there is a light at the end of the tunnel: with AI coding assistance, the whole application can be written from scratch (like the old days). All the code is there, not buried deep within someone else's codebase.

> It's me. I'm the LM

Okay.

Year-end promotion cycle is the worst time for end-users and the best one for engineers greedy for promotions.

Don't blame individual engineers who want to do what will be rewarded instead of company performance policies that reward this type of behavior.

shoot, there are also end of year layoffs and reorgs to pump up those year end numbers

what engineers, mate? they AI now

and they're doing just spectacular