satisfice

I doubt that is an empty set.

Before you can achieve your vision you will have to learn how to appease angry, lustful, ambitious men. The only way patriarchy retires for good is if it is granted a kushy pension.

  A sweet disorder in the dressing  
  Kindles in food a wantonnessing;  
  A bun about the burgers thrown  
  Into a fine distraction;  
  An erring lettuce, which here and there  
  Enthrals the growling stomacher;  
  A sauce neglectful, and thereby  
  ketchup to flow confusedly;  
  A spilling salt, deserving note,  
  Into the rumpled sandwich tote;  
  A careless side dish, in whose fries  
  I see a wild ed'bility:  
  Do more bewitch me, than when meals  
  Are too precise in their appeals.

Of course the proof is in the utter lack of progress toward obtaining the stars, despite the stars in your credulous eyes.

There is antidote to what ails you: try thinking about this for five minutes straight.

At some point in a serious project a responsible adult must ask the question: “How do I know this works well?” The developer himself is an unreliable judge of this. LLMs can’t judge, either. But anyone who seeks to judge, in a high stakes situation, must take time and thought to test deeply.

That’s like going to the Olympic Village, among all the athletes, and being unable to understand why athletes ask each other “What’s your sport?” They are in the Olympics, man! They put everything into getting there. Ask them about their obsession, for crying out loud.

And ask me about how I am trying to make it in the world. I am happy to talk about it! Why aren’t you?

Taking generic potshots at critical thinking is not a skill.

The article has good advice. The idea of postponing critique for a little bit to give an idea a chance to breathe, for instance. But then it also comes in with insulting BS like “Shooting down ideas is not a skill.” The whole article is obviously about improving one’s skill at the positive practice of culling bad ideas. Why throw such shade with the title?

The ignorant practice of refusing to consider an idea is not the same as critical thinking. Critical thinkers already feel bad about bringing rain to the parade. Do you have to make them feel even worse about it?

This is survivorship bias, a form of sample bias.

Confirmation bias is a form of motivated reasoning where you search for evidence that confirms your existing beliefs.

“If it’s truly intelligent…” is an empty condition. And anyway, no one wants intelligence from their tools— or employees. They want gratification.

The line is “It’s not necessarily helpful to be clear about lines.” combined with “who the hell are you to tell us how to live, kiddo?” with a little bit of “let’s all silently agree that each human should be defensive and prickly at all times instead of ever being soft and accommodating to their friends and family and colleagues.”

Some will downvote this comment just because I am being trying to be clear about my lines right now, which proves my point. If popularity matters to me, I need to do more smiling and shrugging.

Spreadsheets certainly existed. We know that.

What I don't have is any example or testimonial from anyone, earlier than 1988, of using a spreadsheet to DRIVE automation used in testing. I would be surprised if I was the first to have thought of it. I can only say that my team asked around Apple and found no one doing this but our team, at that time.

I have some reason to believe my team was the first within Apple SQA to lean heavily into that, but I’d love to hear of earlier examples.

Responsible adults say that vibe-coding a serious product is a bad idea, because you aren’t capable of recognizing or fixing certain serious problems that commonly arise.