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Re:Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role on Sunday August 30, 2026 @01:25PM (#49500731)
"I didn't read it" - good day, sir. Enjoy your weekend!
Re:Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:56PM (#49500402)
Respectfully, I don't need to do anything. You can choose to read or choose not to read. Have a great day!
Re:Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:10PM (#49499961)
Apart from years of experience and thinking about this problem, dictating my thoughts into my phone and transcribing and posting...
Re:Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role on Sunday August 30, 2026 @08:59AM (#49498264)
Appreciate the feedback and I don't necessarily disagree with your points - the societal argument is an interesting one.

I do think it's interesting that some people are immediately turned off of something because of the whiff of AI even if they like the actual idea or content.

Will likely experiment with different ways of writing in the future!

Re:Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role on Sunday August 30, 2026 @05:56AM (#49497226)
Author here: I dictated this article into my phone and got a model to transcribe and clean up / reword.

I'd argue that counts as using AI as a tool for conveying my original thoughts.

Re:Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role on Saturday August 29, 2026 @08:33PM (#49494567)
My hand drawn images would be far worse!
Re:Gimli – A Visual Studio Code extension for front-end developers on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @06:17AM (#19562163)
I'm just wondering why you've posted before release? I was really excited to try it out, only to discover that it isn't released yet... :(
Re:Ask HN: How Is Developing on a Linux VM in Windows? on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:00AM (#13089021)
I do pretty much all of my development in a VM because it's easy to manage and control development environments. It works very well, but I'd make sure that you have a fairly powerful machine.
Re:Best laptop for Hololens development? on Monday November 14, 2016 @06:41AM (#12949131)
I'd definitely suggest the Dell XPS range. Both the XPS 13" and 15" laptops are fantastic devices.
Re:Ask HN: How much do you earn on average through software freelancing? on Thursday November 10, 2016 @05:50AM (#12919335)
I was referred by somebody that I know from Twitter...
Re:Ask HN: How much do you earn on average through software freelancing? on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @08:11AM (#12899900)
Thanks for the advice guys.
Re:Ask HN: How much do you earn on average through software freelancing? on Monday November 07, 2016 @05:40PM (#12895900)
I'm a little hesitant to ask for more, because I'm really not in a position right now (for a couple of months, anyway) to be able to afford losing that extra income...
Re:Ask HN: How much do you earn on average through software freelancing? on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:22PM (#12895259)
I'm a 21 year-old who has recently gotten into contracting to supplement my primary income (a Software Engineering Apprentice for a Defence contractor).

I earn £12 an hour for my contract work, which I'm quite happy with at the moment because 10 hours a week means I get an extra £500 per month (which is considerable at my age, it pays my rent and bills and some).

I know it doesn't seem much, but I think I'm actually quite lucky to be able to get a gig at my age with my experience.

Re:Ask HN: Are you working paid part-time while still having a full-ti... on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @06:53AM (#12634603)
Yes, I work full-time (37.5 hrs per week) as a Software Engineer and also do around 15 hours of consulting in my spare time.

In my contract, there is a clause that has an issue with this, but only if a conflict of interest occurs. Since both companies are in very different industries (defence & mobile), this hasn't been a problem so far.