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Somehow, I don't mind that the code blew the stack because it was recursion without memoization. Blowing the stack should be a pretty clear sign to figure out why and fix it.

Perl is not an acronym.

The three virtues of a Perl programmer are impatience, hubris, and laziness.

There's no humility in the list.

> Bureaucracy is a symptom part of the enshittification

Bureaucracy does not cause things to get worse. It's not a bad rash that the system displays when it's about to get worse or the puss discharged when it's irritated.

Bureaucracy is a response to a system that works well. It adds rules and hierarchies and red tape to maintain the system state as it is. It's organizational glue.

Bureaucracy is only a problem when trying to change a system.

Yes. Memorizing how a framework works is not knowledge. Knowledge is the deep understanding thing LLMs can't do.

Extra layers of busywork that nobody else wants to look at.

If your job is polishing a turd, make the turd shine like a cucumber. I have seen countless hours wasted on making Cuke/Gherkin "pretty" instead of accomplishing anything for the business.

I was hoping that AI would lead to a golden age of testing, with devs focusing on making the best tests possible to determine if the AIs writing prod code were correct. Devs leading AI to correct code.

Unfortunately, expecting the AIs to make poop and the devs to wipe their butts only came half-true.

> Societal gender norms have existed for probably as long as humans have

Or gender norms have existed since gender was defined in the 70s-80s by feminist scholars. Before that was only sex, which biologists know to be not a binary but a bimodal distribution, itself.

Literary Hub needs an editor. That title's grammar is appalling.

And the problems start there. Grunwald, adjectives spilling all over his page, needs a thesaurus for "uphill battle." Stylistically, this is a mess.

Style aside, Grunwald implies that maize is field corn and not sweet corn. It actually means both. This is clearly not a well-researched article on ethanol.

Beyond that we see his politics on his sleeve, tying ADM to Watergate. And a misunderstanding of the meaning of "corps," as the "Corps of Engineers" is not "the Army Corps." This is sadly childish. No, that's unfair to children. I've seen better journalism from high school kids.

See also Edward Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" available from many places online.

There's hard and then there's "there are so many unexpected edge cases you'll surely be cut if you touch that code," which not fun-hard.

This is the latter.