bartimus

Coding has had its punch-card moment. Cookbook development is history.

Congratulations: you’re a systems engineer now.

The best analogy that made sense to me is that we used to have pistols and now we all got handed machine guns.

You can fire far more, far faster, but it becomes much harder to operate accurately without collateral damage.

If you can classify Minecraft as a toy, it has zero clean-up time

I'm surprised how little attention this is getting on HN.

Dopamine is a primal reward system. It's useless in the evolved modern world that requires rational thought, discipline and hard work. You probably wouldn't get much done waiting for a dopamine reward.

Then perhaps it's about bringing in the human talent that wrote those prompts.

They didn't even buy an IDE since windsurf is more like a VS code plugin.

So what was it exactly that was worth the 3B that they couldn't replicate themselves? Their prompts? Their training sets? Their users or user data?

I came in expecting this was going to be a methodological article. Maybe better let the kids wait as opposed to the parents in their cars?

I would define fascism as:

"The pursuit of unity in its most extreme form, rejecting and eliminating alternative thoughts and ideas by any means necessary."

When asking about Taiwan and Russia I get pretty scripted responses. Deepseek even starts talking as "we". I'm fairly sure these responses are part of the model so they must have some way to prime the learning process with certain "facts".

Basically, the world transitioned from “real value” to “perceived value”:

* Money valuation (vs. gold-backed value)

* Property valuation (vs. last transaction price)

* Stock market (speculation and perception)

* Individualism (perceived self-worth)

* Sexual revolution (vs. stable atomic family)

* Birth control (vs. unplanned family)

Everything got fluffy.

And it got removed

> The programmers are the machinists on the shop floor actually building the car.

No, because with software there's no human execution. It's the computers that execute the design. The developers design the blueprints of what the computers need to execute. They are the architects.

For an analogy you can probably best compare this with 3D printed houses.

> A high-level, 10,000-foot understanding of technical requirements is important, but the details should be left to the programmers.

But why leave the details to the programmers? Why doesn't the systems analyst produce a proper CAD-like blueprint that leaves no room for interpretation? His system design should produce the exact same result regardless which contractor implements it. Yet that's never the case.

The reason is because he can't. The systems analyst doesn't have a clue what he's designing. If he would be able to write a proper blueprint we could just hand it off to the computer and have it executed. No need for programmers. But now the systems analyst has become a developer.