RaftPeople

It's almost something you would see on Silicon Valley:

The new upstart CEO taking on Hooli and making those comments ("bullshit and loser thinking")

Gavin Belson get's wind of it and out of fear implements their new AI policy: "Straight to Ship". Anything the engineers can think of just gets generated and immediately deployed with auto-marketing (with obvious humorous results).

> do you have any proofs for these words? I'm working in IT

I definitely see effective use of the tools.

The most common examples are non-tech or semi-tech people solving problems with Claude's help (e.g. create a query that provides X data for the auditors) and only requiring a quick review by the tech team as opposed to the tech team having to do all of the work. The pace has increased and the tech team is less of a bottleneck for some things.

> Care to share what "right architecture" could look like?

I can speak about ANSI X12 because I've used it (North America), haven't used EDIFACT (non-North America):

Each document type, like a PO or Invoice has a defined structure (by the standards group) which is conceptually nested/hierarchical but physically stored as a combination of tags at the line level combined with delimited elements within a line.

Traditionally the raw data would be pass through a translator tool that converted it into it's hierarchal structure and a person could define a mapping from that structure to their internal systems data structure.

With the internet and XML and JSON, many people/companies weren't aware of the standards and didn't have an EDI translator, so they just winged it and extracted what they needed from the raw data.

There is still a large volume of EDI based data movement and it will probably live for a long time due to cost to change plus having standard document definitions across companies reduces the level of effort to connect many partners to many other partners (it basically reduces the transformations down to a conversation about which things each company does uniquely in the document as opposed to starting from scratch with a completely custom document for every company).

That's awesome, I know that initial feeling of being able to create and seeming like the sky is the limit.

I used to watch the workers at Radio Shack play Attack Force on the Model III and once I could afford a CoCo I learned how to make games by making that one.

Ditka

I don't think we should even be talking about the software factory anymore.

For home stuff I've shifted to a software day spa

But for work, I've gone a step further and now run a software CPG distribution center combined with a software recycling plant.

The code flows out of the DC, gets consumed by the business and then tossed back to the recycling plant, fully green from a 1's and 0's perspective.

Once in a while I had a little fun with this type of thing, back when it was just starting to become a thing:

"Can I have your phone number?"

"I'll trade you, you give me the CEO's phone number and I will give you my number. I may want to call him/her to check on deals or if I have problems with the product."

But generally I just politely say "No thanks"

> we came from lotus notes

in a DeLorean?

In addition to your example, there has been a pretty continuous supply of "predictions" that Einstein made that later proved correct when experiments were run.

> I don't actually believe that you can stack the dishwasher wrong as such

I read our dishwashers manual and was surprised at the significant amount of detail about how to position silverware for optimal cleaning (e.g. where to place small spoons, where to place forks, where to place large spoons, etc.)

Some thoughts:

1-We do have machinery that performs a resolution of next action/thought/belief (based on external input, current state, etc.) and we possibly just sense that action as "choice"

2-It seems pretty unlikely that the resolution process could be cleanly deterministic and repeatable given quantum stuff, meaning some step in the resolution process hovering on the edge of two options could go either way depending on the brain's electromagnetic soup's current state.

3-Our emotions are critical for our survival, driving choices that help us short and long term, and it seems that one of those core drivers is a sense of agency. Even if we don't have free will in the magic sense of causing electrons (or whatever) to suddenly turn left to support our choice, it would still be critical for us to have a sense that our actions and efforts all matter, so those feelings are probably built into the system.

Note: This assumes there is no special magic somewhere that defies our current understanding of the universe and it just hasn't been figured out yet.

Your analysis is exactly correct.

1D barcode is like CSV, it's not going away, it's too simple/useful/cheap.

> You were the exception.

I was really surprised by the article, I assumed it was going to be the same as my experience which was amazement at having the ability to write instructions that caused the system to do stuff, like make dumb games initially in basic and then better games in assembly.