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Code reviews can't keep up
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Optimizing software for agent-legibility is quickly becoming a hard requirement...
Screenshot from the last "Joy & Curiosity" issue by @thorstenball.com
More on identifiers: varoa.net/2024/05/01/i...
Plain diffs or some other tooling?
It’s hopeless
It echoes how during the pandemic the apparent impossibility to digitalise basic public services magically disappeared in weeks.
“[…] writing, which is the technology of the rational mind”
One of the interesting parts about software engineering is that each domain you work in requires re-asessing every pattern and best practise that seemed set in stone in other domains.
Must say it's been a lot easier to convince the AI to stop than the average human.
I have Copilot (+ Claude) stuck in an infinite loop of refactors with small "improvements" to its own implementation of a relatively simple prompt.
Feature parity with human devs is one step closer.
Talent borrows, genius steals
Listening to The Sonics' Hitch Hike, noticed that The Velvet Underground reused the riff in There She Goes, the Sonics were covering Marvin Gaye.
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Software engineer -> Software operator
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Warming up to this reading list enforced backupcy thing, thanks Pocket
It takes you about the same amount of time to read this post as the amount of downtime you’d be allowed per week with 99.999% availability
“One does not replace a blown fuse until one knows just why it has blown.”
Model versioning is starting to have a “project_proposal_final_FINAL2_revised_FINAL_v3_REALfinal.docx” feeling
Lo del supply and demand con amigos es delirante!
“Tan listo para unas cosas y tan tonto para otras”, que diría mi madre
There are still 1980’s style sysadmin orgs that have survived by hiding behind the fancy labels of DevOps / SRE / Platform engineering
Screenshot of a tool to visualize pmap outputs.
Been inspecting some pmap outputs these days, and could not find any decent visualization tools. Here is a quick one (nods to @simonwillison.net toolbox).
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New small tool coding workflow: open vscode, agent mode, ask for tool, go do $chore
I can relate
I think it has a lot to do with speaking to a specific person and being able to rely on a concrete shared context.
So em dash is the new delve?
Esto te lo moderniza el iluminado del pajarito azul con tres becarios en menos de un mes.
The more we lean into vibe-based coding, the clearer it becomes that we’ll still need good operators to keep everything sane and under control
this is not restricted to google products actually
"Vibecode calendar app? [y/n]" is a great litmus test for "person who understands programming"
