> No I didn't say that, I think you suffer from the curse of having a lot of previous experience in an adjacent area where you built a strong mental model of how things ought to work, but now you're trying to forcefully apply this same mental model onto Docker.
I think you just proved his point. Docker came onto the scene and hit roadblocks in enterprises where sysadmins lived. These architectural and terminology choices ran head on into well established domains. Yes, docker did change things, but I think his point is it would’ve had more success with paying customers if the authors of docker had a better understanding of established network administration and system administration concepts from the start (though these were the early devops days…). That lack of understanding caused adoption friction in enterprise space, and different choices could’ve prevented that without changing at all the paradigm of what docker is.
The docker mental model isn’t crazy different. Design choices made it unnecessarily less compatible with existing mental models. This probably contributed to the feeling of it being revolutionary, but impeded its adoption with paying customers.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by dumbs it down? Chalk it up to inertia, but I still love Claude code CLI the best, but when using Codex, I tend to use the app. I don’t know why. No good reason. I’m guessing you mean you get much better results with the CLI?
Wow, I wasn’t aware of this. I’ve always read climate change as the primary driver for bleaching. If that is the case, do we know why/how they’ve recovered?
Just accept that it will happen, and it will likely happen to all of us. It has already happened to a colleague of mine, and they are a highly educated native English speaker.
It optimizes for value. Art optimizes for quality. Capitalism can also produce surplus, which can purchase art. Yes, I lament the decline in quality of a great many things. I celebrate the new availability and attainability of things previously exotic
Writing code and developing solutions is part of my job, but does not define my job, so I wouldn’t expect my feelings to translate, but AI has allowed me to punch above my weight, tackling and solving problems that weren’t feasible (for any number of reasons) for me before. It has absolutely been a force multiplier. Will there come a day where no one is willing to pay me to solve problems? Maybe. But I’ll just keep tackling harder problems that stretch me. Will that come to an end? Maybe? But I don’t think so - at least not in my lifetime.
Or maybe people genuinely like TUIs? Most folks came of age after the TUI had already lost popularity to the eye candy and only recently learned the merits of the terminal. I personally have always loved a good TUI and enjoy the terminal. I can’t count the number of people who worked in a TUI and were pushed to a modern GUI say (usually in the 00’s) how much more productive they were in the TUI version.
LLMs can be too creative and often too verbose. Sometimes there is a right answer and a way to get there with the understanding of language, but despite using structured outputs, the model insists on inventing variations not in the schema or coming up with something completely different. A model like Jev that can not do those things, and can give the same output every time with given the same input, and be able to measure probabilities has many use cases.
Yeah geeks just stop trying! Seriously? Yeah, we’re in a bubble and narratives are ahead of reality but if you really don’t think AI is and will continue to eat knowledge work, just keep making your buggy whips.
I disagree. The human brain reinforces circuitry that is used often, meaning the human brain is generally quite adaptable. Ancient (and modern) hunters sit still and silent for hours waiting for game, with their brains ready to take over in an instant on the rare occasion something happens.
What conversation do you think we would be having? Would we be debating the laws that January 6 attendees are passing in the chambers? What alternate outcome do you think was likely, or even possible?
I think there is room for arguing children raised in the high flying city have been robbed of something as well. Can’t have it all and one is not objectively better than the other if you look at the full picture.
Thanks, appreciated. I read about 2/3 or the article. I like the content, and appreciate that it doesn’t scream “written by AI”, but it did get long winded in places.