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Architecture is a kind of traditional professional that inherited its practices and methods from a time where there was a respect for the craftmanship that the activity requires.

Programming is a profession that, with the exception of a few early decades, practically started in the corporate world. Modern day development is what you can expect when companies have unchecked autonomy over a whole professional field.

That's why an abomination like scrum exists where you are guilty tripped everyday in dailys having to report what you have done even though management and your colleagues have access to your tickets with your logged hours and the code you have commited to the repository.

I love programming but the only thing that keeps me in the field today is the pay, the moment I start to earn less I leave the field and go to work in something else.

Can someone explain to me how Apple managed to come from nowhere with a chip(M Series) that's competitive with the best chips from two companies(AMD and Intel) that have operated for decades exclusively in this field?

Shouldn't AMD and Intel have an expertise that ideally would take decades and billions to be reached?

Development in any corp today, even middle-sized ones, is a big red tape festival. You have a project divided in sprints that are divided in (often meaningless) tasks, then you have a completely bloated CI/CD system and then things get deployed to three or four environments where people pretend to test everything. Things that might be developed by a journeyman developer in five days take six weeks to be done by a team of eight developers.

The whole process today exists to support a big class of managerial people(including scrum masters, PO's and PM's) whose salary depends on not understanding that the process is completely broken.

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." -- Oscar Wilde

For me it's exactly the opposite. When I was a teenager I was always afraid and deferential of my parents, now I can't help but see them as narcisistic and abusive.

I think the author is absorbing the negative atmosphere of the zeitgeist we're currently living in - i.e people struggling to make ends meet, inequality rising, environmental catastrophe in the making, wars, public discourese based on cynicism and outrage, etc - and using it against AI.

AI itself is a pretty scientific, neutral subject. On the other hand, the use we're making of it currently and the use we will probably make of it in the future is something certainly depressing.

The people you know probably have a house and own stocks. If you have to pay rent and live exclusively from the monthly remuneration of your work(wage) then in this case you're screwed.

Ridiculous article and on top of that the recruiter gives bad advice.

I've never needed a cover letter in my whole life.

Some areas of the city get historically low crime rates because they are essentially avoided at all costs, not because the place is safe. People "locked up" inside their own homes is not what I would call public security, even though the data will show that the numbers improved.

I mean that the statistics sometimes don't tell the whole story.

The city might be "safe", statistically speaking, but nobody gets out of home because everybody is afraid and tries to avoid public spaces as much as possible. So you have a whole generation being raised inside apartments and closed spaces basically, this was the high price I was talking about.

Sometimes criminality drops but at a too high price. Some cities in Latin America are "safe" from a statistical point of view but nobody dares go out at night, or even during the day, in some neighbourhoods because it's too dangerous.

>I do think there's far less of a need for seniors to hand off tedium to juniors.

I think that that's something that has been happening now for a long time, at least for the last 20 years.

In the beginning of 2000 if you wanted to have a streaming for your website, you'd have to pay your nose to an apache specialist tune your server so that it would be able to survive the load of streaming to a few hudrend of people. Today you just put your stuff on youtube and it's over.

More than twenty years ago I once met a "HTML developer". As I read here on hnews: nobody is interested in that kind of productivity anymore. People still have problems with HTML and CSS, but nobody is hiring someone only for that. Today you have to know both HTML and CSS among a ton of other things.

It's not this need for heightened productivity that scares me though, what really scares me is that a much, much more productive developer of today probably earns the same thing or even less than a much less productive developer from the past. The productivity gains were all collected by corporations and the capital, the workers got only stagnating wages and increasingly high pressure and scope of work.

So it's not only me who has this bad feeling. Workers and common people know that all the gains from AI are not going to stay with the working class. In the past, automation in the public discourse was associated with a richer society where people would have to work less and would have more time to leisure, now even the rocks know that this won't be the case. Companies will use AI to decrease salaries and increase even more their already immense leverage over the rest of the population.

Sure, you must be an anti-crypto obsessed person if you are against something essentially useless like bitcoin having a trillionaire market cap and using 2% of the energy of a whole country.

>This is opposite of every other intelligent creature that we know of, and so I'm extremely skeptical of claims of their intelligence.

Octopuses can demonstrably learn: scientists put food inside a pot with a lid and gave the pot to an octopus. If my memory doesn't fail me, in the first attempt the octopus took 2 hours to open the lid and in the second one it took 5 minutes.

The space exploration, which was once considered inspiring and noble, now is seen primarily as an investment diversification strategy of a bored billionaire with a very questionable character.

Unfortunately it's inevitable the conclusion that the humanity's road to the future is not monotonic in terms of progress and that looking at the past as better than today is not always a kind of nostalgic bias.

It can't be only me who hates this kind of buzzword-ridden text that doesn't show any relevant insight and seems to be conceived from the beginning to be posted on LinkedIn.

>In a lot of software organizations with rapidly changing and undocumented requirements, there's a good chance defects will go unnoticed until they're no longer relevant, so spending a lot to find them before they're shipped is a waste.

It's really a shame that a good percentage of these applications full of bugs and "rapidly changing and undocumented requirements" don't get scrapped and stay many decades afloat until they get replaced by another application also full of bugs and "rapidly changing and undocumented requirements".

I think that that's a very sad way of seeing things honestly.

In the past the USA put the man on the moon, today repeating the same feat looks almost impossible. I bet that a lot of managers at Boeing also think that building planes like a few decades ago looks almost impossible now.

>I'd be curious to know [...] whether management is actually allowing the quality department sufficient independence to investigate these issues and fully resolve them

If management in the aerospace industry works like management in the software industry, then I guess they are pushing for results as agressively as possible without much concern about safety or anything else.

I used to drink one liter of coffee a day, and I would prepare it in a measured cup by the way so it's not an exaggeration.

What terrifying information is she sharing with you?

I'm not optimistic honestly. We have politicians throughout the world whose political platform revolves around denying that the global warming(climate change) even exists. With this level of irrationality it's hard to see the world collaborating towards a solution for something that in the best scenario is going to change the world as we know it and in the worst scenario represents an existential threat.

We thought that with the internet and the acessibility of scientific content we would have a global society of conscious people with a high degree of scientific literacy and instead of that what we got is the ressurgence of the flat earth theory, fakenews about vaccination and a growing general hostility to science.

I think at some point in the future we will get "used" to progressively catastrophic climatic events, and the people who created this state of things will either be dead or will just adapt their discourse as "it's sad but it was a necessary step to avoid a global green dictatorship".

That's more than the GDP of Argentine in a change that has happened in less than two months. It's crazy how we see such speculation as a normal process and I wonder if that's really a good thing.

If you stop to think, a trip to the future is a trip to immortality because you can go to a time where the technology to live forever will be available.

I'm not saying that developers should ideally be drones who have no say on anything. I'm just calling bullshit in the ADHD-fueled development of nowadays where people are not even sure about what the final product should look like and put on the shoulders of the developers the workload of dealing with the ineptness of the clients and the managers.

Scrum nowadays is essentially a tool for micromanagement, that's why managers love it and developers hate it. Dailys are completely useless and breaking the development of complex projects in 2 weeks sprints is outright harmful.

If you think that it's the role of a developer to figure out what a client wants, then well... We have completely divergent views of how the the process should be. A software developer should develop for a specification, he or she should not be there to entertain clients in a game of creating a product.

It's not that scrum is not perfect, scrum is an absolute garbage that unfortunately today fits very well with the micromanaging hunger of managers, no method is better than scrum.

After almost 10 years working in corporations and in the government, I can't help but think that Dijkstra's call for quality rings truer than ever. It's appaling the amount of projects that get killed not only because they were poorly executed but also because they were completely useless in the first place.

In this day and age we live in a kind of stupor that we have to keep the wheel of economy spinning no matter what and that as long as someone is paying we have to keep sh*tting lines of code for perpetually late projects. It's like we're inefficient on purpose. Look at the shitshow that the SCRUM method is for instance. We are purposefully distancing software development from any kind of rigorous method, it's a real tragedy.

Do you work in the Coast Guard?

I think that the future for the drug smuggling is computer controlled submarines, and I'm not even talking about AI. I think drug producers will pre-program a route for a submarine that will autonomously navigate until the destination where it will be picked by a receptor.

I read that it's extremely hard to spot submarines, I can only imagine the kind of things that will be smuggled once there are functional submarines of the size of a big fish.

Most of the ocean is dull and there is no much of a point in partying in the darkness of the oceanic waters.

I read that a typical load in a narcosub was worth about 100 million dollars and a narcosub itself costs 2 million dollars. Two narcotrips will not only pay for the submarine but also make a huge profit, your idea that smuggling is for those low on the totem pole and that it has to be dangerous is something that you invented.

The low hanging fruit argument only takes you so far. How many other mathematicians in his epoch or before were able to pick as many low hanging fruits as him?

>He was a man who never understood that he was prioritizing things and accomplishments over people. I suspect empathy didn't factor into the calculations in his head.

Perfectly put, but this happens more frequently than you think.

My father is pretty much like Fritz but without the audio obsession. He's now in his 60's and his whole life he only cared about making money an being busy all the time with work.

Everytime I ask my father how he is he will always reply how well his business is going. I wasn't surprised by the following quote from the article because it's exactly how people like him are:

>A hard-driving boss at his company, he brought the same energy to his after-hours hobby, which he sometimes seemed to think of as everybody’s hobby.

Using your definition I would argue that VBScript, Ceylon and CoffeeScript are also dead.

Perl is seeing a strong decline and I think it will join the dead group in a few decades.