redleggedfrog

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_review) says: "Empirical studies provide evidence that up to 75% of code review defects affect software evolvability/maintainability rather than functionality, suggesting that code reviews are an excellent tool for software companies with long product or system life cycles. This also means that less than 15% of the issues discussed in code reviews are related to bugs.

So, "don't usually" equals 15%. :^)

Deep dive: https://www.michaelagreiler.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/C...

LOL! I have, and would, do exactly that to avoid the slippery slope of falling into "management."

Maybe because you're in an office and don't want everyone talking? Or maybe you're on the bus and don't want everyone overhearing what you're doing? Or, for that matter, think about if you had to say out loud everything you do on a computer. Heck, a three hour meeting makes me hoarse.

Sam Altman is a person to doesn't actually do anything that would be considered actual work by people who do actual work (like me), so of course he is going to find a natural language interface the best he's ever used, because it mimics what he does every day, which is to tell other people to go do actual work.

Also, he has a stake in promoting his products, so what everything comes out of his mouth is dead on arrival as far as meaningful content, relevance, and veracity.

"We should be making AI a copilot—not the autopilot—for learning."

Doesn't work. A friend has been a teacher, at a not cheap private school, for going on 25+ years now. What she sees at almost every level is an avalanche of LLM "cheating". Even when there is extreme upfront emphasis on "this course is to help you learn, not just do whatever to find the 'correct' answers as quickly and easily as possible" the majority of students do the latter. She guesses that at least half are pasting in answers without even reviewing them. There are of course the few students that are there out of passion for learning, but those are the exceptions. This doesn't just apply to CS.

There are cultural and political ramifications that make enforcing this difficult (read rich parents that want those good grades). So she struggles along trying to swim against the current of LLM answers.

Quoting her directly, from about a month ago, "If they cannot type something into their phones and get an instant answer they're not interested."

Well, I'll throw one my customer's ideas out there. "Only validate their age if they're under 16."

Originally, "Only require a middle name when they have one."

Just wait for the "Coke, Steak, and Strippers" addendum. The C-levels need that for when they go party with Boeing.

Intel made ~55 billion last year. Maybe they don't really need corporate welfare.

I assume that means, "The obvious solution is to increase property tax on rental properties to force the hand of landlords.

Otherwise you're taxing the potential and new home-owners who might be on the edge of being able to afford a house.

I'd pretty much go for anything like this at this point that would stop the ever widening gap between average income and average house price - and I'm a landlord.

"When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm."

Yes, because I'd rather fly in a plane made by a "business" rather than "a great engineering firm." Why in the f*ck isn't this scumbag in prison? When you take a firm that produces a product that must ensure the safety of its users because the consequences are dire and you purposely subvert that, and then people die, you need a long stint of FPMIA prison. Also, cheated on his wife in their Golden Anniversary year. Lowest of the low.

I, and my family, are now literally asking on every single thing, "Is that covered by my insurance? Will I be billed extra for that?" Like, over and over. Stupid system, stupid questions. At a recent minor surgery I must have asked it 10 times, and once for these little grippy socks they wanted to give me for my bare feet. And yup, they cost extra. So, get 'em out.

Based on the message of the video I would have to guess that the video was created by folks working at home. They might have wanted to get the video done in office for better results. ;^)

Sarcasm aside, capitalism at work, really nothing to see here. They'll lose employees from the demand to work in office for the various reasons, and maybe it'll affect their bottom line, and maybe they'll learn some lessons. Or maybe they whither by not moving with the times. The websites they create are nothing that couldn't be lost.

Get your popcorn, it's going to be a good one.

They should feel good, because their capitalist machine has done just what it has aspired to do - get people to spend money they don't have:

https://apnews.com/article/spending-consumers-inflation-econ...

That's peak capitalism right there - you've got people spending to buy products with money borrowed from credit card companies and banks, which they will have difficulty paying off and will pay a good amount of interest on.

If you can't make a company work in that environment, you might want to do a bit of a self examination and notice that your advertising is annoying and off-putting and your web-browser based client is utter shit.

I'll go one further. The uncomfortable fixation on attractive women for the models is only an inkling of what is to be the primary application of such technology which will be porn. No matter how amazing that tech underlying these animated stills may be be the race for the lowest common denominator is already shining through on their examples. Don't think for one moment they didn't choose those on purpose. They know where it's heading.

Oh god, you're making my PTSD kick in. What this will all lead to? Clients going in making UI that appears to work fine and then asking developers to wire it in to the greater eco-system that will necessarily surround it, telling you "Look! It's almost done!" and then you're going to have PTSD too.

That's nice, can it work out of web browser to actually make something usable?

I take issue with #3. The clean code is for you. Future you. You will be substantially more productive if your code is clean. You will end up being the "rockstar" (groan) because you can implement 2, 3, 5, 10(!) times faster on your clean code than your peers. I am living proof of this. And then when your managers and company realize you're the cash cow you can ask for absurd raises and get them. You are going to be hard pressed to do this with crappy code bases.

Actions speak louder than words - Apple is letting it's developers know what it thinks of them. You're going to have to raise quite the ruckus to get them to change their behavior. There's really no impetus for them to change when they're sitting on a mountain of cash.

"authenticity", "attention economy", "engagement"... This is just stirring the turds around in the cesspool. Deadbird is a net negative in the world, run by sociopath, and has no redeeming value, is actively harmful, but is addictive, like meth. Why do any of you actually care? Do something useful with your time.

Oh what? Pot meet kettle. Pretending to not be in it for the dough is ingenuous. They don't pay artists well and they have a near monopoly hold on music streaming such that they have no impetus to fix their abysmal software. Just admit you want a bigger slice of the pie and not like you're saving the internet.

Completely anecdotal but curious.

When my wife and I had children, our respective parents, two very different families (one progressive professional urbanites, the other conservative rural farmers) were both unusually insistent that our babies "get dirty." I can still picture them sitting on the ground in the garden in their diapers, grabbing handfuls of dirt and sticking them into their mouths (they learned quick, though). My mother, a paragon of modern conveniences, was insistent we hand wash our dishes. And you'd better damned well breast feed unless you've got a really good reason not to.

I was raised to be independent and think for myself, and my internal voice was saying, "What's with all this hippie B.S.?"

When asked about it, my parents told us that these ideas were handed down from their parents (coincidentally, farmers and business-people) after generations of observing that kids who grew up "too-clean" got sick more often. Literally, wives-tales. But as an adult, exposed to other families through school and playmates, I saw this for myself. Probably confirmation bias, except for now it's got science behind it.

Funny how some old knowledge becomes new knowledge again.

I don't actually work in the design part of the company, just occasionally implementing UX designs, but I've frequently been in the client meetings, and the point you make here cannot be overstated. This is the prime motivator of most clients when presented with a "templated" website - they want theirs to look different enough not to be recognized as the template. They want this so much they will push for sub-optimal UX, just for the sake of differentiation. I honestly don't blame them, as our templates, just as most templates, produce recognizable results - pretty much same site, different colors and logo.

All that being said, for more than 3/4 of them, they change their mind pretty quick when they find out the price difference between going with the templates or having custom UX developed. And this is just with the farmed out UX people who are cheap - not our good designers who the big customers use. Templates are good 'cause they let the little guy at least have the form and functionality of the big guys as long as they can tolerate they're essentially a row house.

"ChatGPT make the checkout button more pronounced but not too much I don't want to look greedy. Also move it so it looks better. Also only use good colors. It should work like Amazon. Also in checkout make middle name required but only if they have one."

Real client quotes slightly paraphrased due to memory constraints.

I feel for ya ChatGPT - I've been there.

"Risk-takers, innovators, short-cut-seekers, I'm-smarter-than-you's, I-can-out-hustle-you's, I-need-adventure-not-safey's, drop-out-of-school-to-code's etc are all going to be more likely to experiment with mind-expanding substances than the general population."

You forgot criminals, which those in the list above often become.

Yes, you're quite right. I can go electric in a few years when the ranges are better.

Well said. I live in Ashland, OR, and we get 100+ in the summer and pretty darn cold and snowy in the winter.

It is? It sure seems like the handles of the pumps end up smelling like gas. Maybe where you live it's better, but when I've driven elsewhere this was most certainly the case. Or maybe my sense of smell is too sensitive. ;^)

Also, grew up on a farm with its own gas pump for the vehicles. Pumped a lot of gas.

Well that fucking sucks. Now I have to get out of my car, in the sweltering heat or bitter cold, stand there while it fills, or get in and back out, and have my hand smell like gas until I can find a sink to wash, which sure as Hell isn't going to be in the bathroom at the service station.

I'm born and raised in Oregon, and know how pump gas, but certainly don't like it.

You folks all got Stockholm Syndrome. It has been great just pulling up, giving your credit card, and having a friendly chat. Now get to be like everywhere else where cat litter is sprinkled all over the ground from people who can't be bothered to fill correctly and doing stupid shit like driving away while still attached.

1 step forward, 2 steps back.

"...our insta-pot is essentially just a rice cooker." Yeah, ours pretty much boiled down to that, too. :^D

"...everyone has one." Going to be difficult to sell more then. :^)

Also, they don't fully replace more traditional cooking apparatus, like a pressure cooker, a crock pot, or rice cooker. We have all 4, and what the Instant Pot got a lot of use initially we found that the for purpose cooking pots worked better and got better results. So the Instant Pot slowly fell out of favor.

What I want is to write less code. I'd like automated analysis help with finding better more concise ways to render the logic. More code != better.