Eric Lippert

I wrote a personal tool to do that when I was implementing them 15+ years ago, and yes it is very handy to have such a tool. Also a bunch of my debugging output tools are still in the code.

Surely senior developers already outperformed groups of juniors before being slowed down by being forced to use automatic bug generators.

Destroy him, my robots!

Absolutely!

Thanks @scott.hanselman.com for inviting me to be a guest on HanselMinutes to talk about my upcoming book, Fabulous Adventures In Data Structures And Algorithms. I had a great time!

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Now I'm going to have to close my ScotiaBank account. VEXING.

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It was because of the wise old man of the mountain.

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Thank you so much for asking! I would love to, but let me coordinate real quick with manning marketing dept. :)

A great blue heron shaking itself dry at sunset.

We used to stress out about whether a *warning* could possibly be interpreted in a way that would cause a new bug, and now intellisense is recommending I write a dozen new bugs every time I use VS. No wonder the old guard are vexed.

Ought the tech industry to take the legal system as its example of how to do jargon right then? Replace simple English words with Latin phrases?

Thank you everyone who has given me such warm support and thoughtful feedback on the early access release of my upcoming book:

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I really appreciate it.

The site-wide sale is over but if you want 50% off at checkout from now until Nov 27, use code MLLippert at checkout. Thanks!

I do not, sorry. And I don't have a good enough understanding of memory models to write my own!

Thanks!

Doug mocked that up but the title was mine!

Thank you!

Fabulous Adventures in Data Structures and Algorithms - Eric Lippert Author Eric Lippert introduces fabulous solutions using uncommon algorithms and data structures. There’s a lot more to algorithms than the useful-but-boring recipes you recite for every interview. Th...

I'm writing another book, and the first few chapters are available through Manning Early Access now! For 50% off!

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More details, and the story of how I came to write it, are on my blog at

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It feels great to be writing again after a long break. :)

Thanks Cynthia!

There are no senior employees if there is no pipeline for training junior employees, and LLMs will never replace senior employees because LLMs *do not think and will never think*. It's incredibly foolish to destroy that pipeline.

Of course companies are not altruistic. Microsoft provided me vocational training not for the 12 months of terrible quality work they got out of me, but rather to incentivize me to become a highly loyal high quality entry level employee who could then make them 4x salary in revenue. It worked.

The point of giving tasks to interns isn't to get the task done, it's to train the intern! That's why we don't give critical tasks to interns.

Many times at MSFT decades ago I said that QA's job was not testing, it was advocating on behalf of the user. Testing was a tool, meeting user needs was the goal. Who advocates for users now? Seems like no one.

Wait til they find out about XBOX!

An enormous Giant Pacific Octopus asleep out of its den in shallow water at Sund Rock on the Hood Canal.

The most stunning thing we saw diving Sund Rock yesterday though was the biggest GPO I've ever seen in the wild. It was fast asleep, out in the open, in only 18 feet of water. I've never seen one asleep out of its den and so shallow before.

A golden colored dirona albolineata in the Puget Sound

I spent the morning diving in the Hood Canal and got a pretty decent shot of this beautiful golden dirona. Biggest one I've ever seen, at least as big as my palm.

Since I've started using VS again, ignoring the bad suggestions being constantly made has unfortunately become second nature.

When I was in devdiv my team worked hard to make systems that did NOT suggest that I introduce subtle bugs a dozen times an hour.

Please do better.

It was! And having seen many of my friends and colleagues laid off in the last three years by billionaires seeking to put downward pressure on wages, it continues to be infuriating.

This was particularly galling for me as my aforementioned second rewrite was cancelled after Neal and I put a year's worth of work into, and it was passing almost all conformance tests. The third rewrite blew way, way past the initial timeline. Astonishing to me that Roslyn was not cancelled!

After I was promoted to principal engineer and then given an unacceptable performance review immediately after, one reason they gave was my poor ability to estimate how long a complex task would take. A skill that I was never taught, and was provided no expert mentors to learn from.

When we pitched to VS management that we entirely rewrite the entire compiler and IDE stack for VB and C# from scratch, understandably they wanted to know when it would be done and how much it would cost, so we negotiated schedule and quality goals.