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> skill atrophy is real

Did you tried adding skill.md?

jokes aside, I agree - models are getting crazy good with CLIs and I kinda gave up learning all the syntax on every tool etc. it makes no sense - what I usually try to do after some _serious_ fkup/incident is to write a human-redable summary and some deterministic scripts which help to debug/fix the problem; for the future when I will eventually ran out of tokens, lol

but aside that I think "the skill" is shifting and a lot of stuff becomes irrelevant indeed; more useful seems to know how to setup your agents so they have access to relevant data easily to investigate and secure your infra and so on; e.g. recently I /llms/ spotted major misconfiguration in reverse proxy setup after I gave it access to all terraform/ansible stuff and let it just probe the hosts/network

ah yeah, golden times of crawling google when they actually didn't monitor ipv6 traffic properly against scraping (seo monitoring tools were first to drive 'adoption', lol)

> AI writes unarchitectes code if you don't have a system for developing and maintaining a consistent architecture over time (...)

I work at a ~15y old codebase; guess that the famous "architecture" is - a glue of half-baked solutions, unfinished ideas and inconsistencies. Recently I discovered there are 6 different ways used to create audit trails in the app. The "human memory" lives until person decided to switch job or is fired. Then the next person re-invents the wheel and cycle continues.

I suggest taking an honest look at "the architecture" people are so proud of - you might realize there is not much moat there after all. But then again - I mostly write cruds - so that's probably core of the problem, lol

> but to be honest, I don’t really want the burden of being a maintainer

release it to GH and disable issues and discussions tab and call it a day?

(personally I would love to see it, the idea of a single binary of all that stuff struck a chord)

> bit of a phase

I think it's a bit for than a phase

> I’m confident the situation will improve

for some it will, for some it won't; but I don't think you can stop the change (for better or worse)

if you do it for yourself I think it could be fun - getting out some thoughts out of your head onto the virtual paper

if you're doing it for engagement and internet likes - hard to tell; I think it's really difficult to grab ppl attention nowadays so either you're gonna create 'controversial' pieces ("Software is solved", "Software is not solved" etc.) to lure some specific crowd or you're gonna be disappointed xd

(I do still write from time to time, all the blogs of my past coworkers I subscribed via rss feeds are dead)

I did a full circle and finally self-host navidrome (since this year)

It's a funny feeling - after paying for streaming services for years you realize you barely supported any artists and do not own anything at the same time

yup; I AI slopped new design of some some site/portal I still maintain and got nothing but positive feedback - old version used "handcrafted" bootstrap 2 code so maybe the bar was just very low :p

I think engineers have very different bar for slop than most of the people - which could explain obnoxious amount of ai generated menus/banners in the actual physical space nowadays

weird talk; is not reading any code _at all_ is the new standard now? I do happily ai-slop side projects here and there but seems like just going full steam ahead _at work_ is ok? sorry, I meant - is the future now? xd

> In 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and famed Apple designer Jony Ive revealed that they had been working together (...)

Lol, almost forgot about that cringe $6.5b video announcement - thanks for the reminder!

ah yes, the classic full circle

/remind me in 6 years about this thread