diego_moita

Lula and Bolsonaro are two sides of the same coin: a stupid tribalism were each side feeds on the hatred for the other.

Both will lead the country to pork-barrel, corruption and government paralysis by debt. Both are "unfortunate".

There are 2 solutions for all Brazilian problems: Guarulhos and Galeão. The rest is just circus.

True, in part.

Consider the role of a Business Analyst, in corporate environments. He is the person that talks to stakeholders and users and translates their "natural language" wishes into piles of semi-formal language (UML anyone?). Later on this will become fully formal language.

But I think Dijkstra point is more that we can't fully automate this process and let the machines do the formalization thingy. I used to believe that but I've seen LLMs doing things that really, really surprised me.

In the end I still hold hope in the old saying: "make a something idiot-proof and someone will just make a better idiot". We see LLMs doing magic if they're used by people that know what LLMs are doing. I never saw LLMs doing magic in the hands of idiots.

> I've realized that the agent doesn't write 'good' code

No one writes 'good' code. Everyone only writes 'good enough' code. You should always assume the existence of flaws and bugs.

You call "good" code the one that doesn't have the mistakes you know. But you'll never know everything, even if you are as smart as Dijkstra.

Libertarians will cry "freedom of speech".

I say this is about an addiction and an health crisis problem. We should restrict these adds on the same grounds we restrict ads for other addictions such as tobacco.

We should prevent parasites from preying people.

> I'm writing code these days and it all feels like a black box.

When you write C++ or Rust do you try to understand the generated assembly code?

Buy a Pebble, is a better watch.

And it is all open-source, the best guarantee against enshitification.

"Dentists" means very different professions around the world.

In Europe they're more like a health professional, concerned mostly with functionality and health.

In the U.S. and Canada they're sellers of "dental procedures" that can include things that European dentists might find horrendous: tooth whitening, dental cosmetic implants, etc.

As Mark Carney keeps repeating, the "rules based" world order we thought we had is gone and we nothing will bring it back the way it was.

What matters now is what the rest of the world will create to replace it.

LOL: nobody pays attention to South America and South Sahara.

John Coltrane has a special meaning in jazz for me.

I don't see any other musician creating harmonies as rich as him. Yes, not even Miles Davis, Bill Evans or Tom Jobim (other jazz musicians that I like a lot).

It is surprising how fresh and accessible his music remains today. He never became a top hit, but also never stopped being relevant.

> giving away free software as a gift. There is no duty here.

By that logic, if Facebook gives away their services for free then they don't have the duty to protect their user's privacy and mental health?