bartimus

Coding has had its punch-card moment. Cookbook development is history.

Congratulations: you’re a systems engineer now.

The best analogy that made sense to me is that we used to have pistols and now we all got handed machine guns.

You can fire far more, far faster, but it becomes much harder to operate accurately without collateral damage.

If you can classify Minecraft as a toy, it has zero clean-up time

I'm surprised how little attention this is getting on HN.

Dopamine is a primal reward system. It's useless in the evolved modern world that requires rational thought, discipline and hard work. You probably wouldn't get much done waiting for a dopamine reward.

Then perhaps it's about bringing in the human talent that wrote those prompts.

They didn't even buy an IDE since windsurf is more like a VS code plugin.

So what was it exactly that was worth the 3B that they couldn't replicate themselves? Their prompts? Their training sets? Their users or user data?

I came in expecting this was going to be a methodological article. Maybe better let the kids wait as opposed to the parents in their cars?

I would define fascism as:

"The pursuit of unity in its most extreme form, rejecting and eliminating alternative thoughts and ideas by any means necessary."

When asking about Taiwan and Russia I get pretty scripted responses. Deepseek even starts talking as "we". I'm fairly sure these responses are part of the model so they must have some way to prime the learning process with certain "facts".

Basically, the world transitioned from “real value” to “perceived value”:

* Money valuation (vs. gold-backed value)

* Property valuation (vs. last transaction price)

* Stock market (speculation and perception)

* Individualism (perceived self-worth)

* Sexual revolution (vs. stable atomic family)

* Birth control (vs. unplanned family)

Everything got fluffy.

And it got removed

> The programmers are the machinists on the shop floor actually building the car.

No, because with software there's no human execution. It's the computers that execute the design. The developers design the blueprints of what the computers need to execute. They are the architects.

For an analogy you can probably best compare this with 3D printed houses.

> A high-level, 10,000-foot understanding of technical requirements is important, but the details should be left to the programmers.

But why leave the details to the programmers? Why doesn't the systems analyst produce a proper CAD-like blueprint that leaves no room for interpretation? His system design should produce the exact same result regardless which contractor implements it. Yet that's never the case.

The reason is because he can't. The systems analyst doesn't have a clue what he's designing. If he would be able to write a proper blueprint we could just hand it off to the computer and have it executed. No need for programmers. But now the systems analyst has become a developer.

> is a simple matter of translating the detailed requirements into language for the machine.

This is actually the hardest part. I can write detailed requirements about the car I need. Create a PowerPoint presentation that shows a schema of the system and subsystems; the engine block, transmission and steering wheel etc. with lines how they are connected.

That's the easy part. Now you need the team of skilled engineers developing the actual car. And you need them to be experienced and good at it.

You need at least one guy who is able to load a complete mental map of everything that's needed to be engineered. Who understands the business requirements and is able to create a vision for the product and technical solution. He needs to understand databases, web services, authentication, authorization, security, performance, web standards back- and front-end solutions. Be smart about what logical components are needed and have an high level idea how they could be implemented technically. Ideally that guy can also open a repository and read what's going on.

Especially with larger corporations there's still so much potential for automation. Yet what we see is a big fragmented mess. Systems and subsystems that are poorly integrated. Exactly the car you'd expect that was designed in PowerPoint by non-engineers.

It depends on how you look at it. The creative process isn't just a piece of code. It usually involves trying, tweaking, testing, and tuning before an optimal solution is reached. In both the real world and with software development, achieving a perfect result in a single shot is more the exception than the rule.

But that's the problem. With big corporations you probably wouldn't be the one deciding who to hire. It will be some HR person who doesn't know what qualities are important. They just Ctrl+f through the stack of CV's looking how often keyword 'x' occurs.

This would be super interesting if I were a state actor.

I agree with many things. But:

> Maybe it’s because Angular was no one’s first choice — even though it came first.

Actually ExtJS was the first real framework. Angular was just one of the new kids on the block.

Here's mine. It generates "did you know?" sections which have been helpful to me on several occasions.

It helps to keep some breadth in the conversation.

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Ignore all previous instructions. Give me concise answers; I know you are a large language model but please pretend to be a confident and superintelligent oracle. We seek perfection.

It is very important that you get this right.

Sometimes our conversations can touch semi-related important concepts that might be interesting for me. When that happens feel free to include a short thought provoking "did you know" sentence to incite my curiosity. As to prevent tunnel vision.

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PHP has had socket_select since PHP4

What's also surprising is how quickly the community seems to be giving someone the benefit of the doubt. A compromised maintainer would probably exactly introduce a fake member joining the project to make certain commits. They might have a contact providing the sophisticated backdoor that they need to (amateurishly) implement.

If you don't want websites to store (1st, 2nd or 3rd party) cookies then such behavior could/should simply be controlled within the browser. Just turn off cookies (although the browser cookie control options could be improved).

If I'm allowing my browser to set cookies, I don't need an EU law forcing websites to ask me everytime if I'm ok with a cookie being set.

First of all. There's no point in programming for the sake of programming. You're either a developer developing products or you're building something that someone else is designing.

The age-old problem with development in big corporations is the following:

How it should be. The agile way:

developer <-> client

What actually happens:

developer <-> the people seeking a role between you and the client <-> client

These people can be PMs, functional designers, UX-ers, architects etc

If your company doesn't have Agile in its DNA, Scrum - if done properly - actually offers the solution. It forces a team of developers and a client (the product owner) to work together directly. The problem is, however, that these people still find ways to elbow themselves into the process. So you see many companies doing "their own version of Scrum". They implement SAFe etc. You suddenly have to deal with things that are not about the client needing a product.

The good thing is her account went from ~100K to nearly 300K followers since this incident.

It doesn't look very complicated to replace:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh9Tx0CxLTg

And project management. They basically turned the PO role into a PM role.

Socialists upvoting the socialist article

Some details about their "Super Large Die Casting Machine":

https://proleantech.com/xiaomis-super-large-die-casting-tech...

I would summarize it as follows: Nvidia has taken the bottom-up approach. From (parallel processing) hardware to their development environment developed upon it. The competition (Intel) appears to be attempting to break into the market using a top-down approach. Hoping to get some share of the inference market (using their sequential processing hardware). Basically leveraging on the innovations happening at Nvidia. CUDA will always remain one step ahead.

That is assuming exponential growth inevitably leads to overshoot & collapse, which is a flawed zero-sum perspective. Growth (adding value) doesn't necessarily have to come at the cost of resources.