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0 pointsparpfish1mo ago0 comments

The original author said he built this on the weekend, so my assumption is that this was something engineers had advocated for before but were shut down because management wanted them elsewhere.

The use of ai agents allowed them to shrink the problem down to the point where it was small enough to fit in their free time and not interrupt their assigned work.

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ahtihn1mo ago

Why are engineers spending their week-end on saving their company money especially if the company clearly doesn't care to allocate resources to the problem?

I get that it's fun and there's personal satisfaction in it, but it just reinforces to management that they don't need to care about allocating resources to optimisation, the problem will just take care of itself for free.

swiftcoder1mo ago

At some point it's hard not to care about the work you do everyday. And if you care, then you are going to find yourself donating a Saturday here or there to solving big DevEx papercuts that you can't convince management to care about.

Should it be this way? No. Is it this way in practice? Unfortunately often.

nextaccountic1mo ago

A cynical take is that this makes them more hireable, so they can more easily get to a better company with not-so-brain-dead management

This also explains this blog post

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