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As opposed to large screens replacing white/green/blackboards.

Do you know if traditional blackboards have still been used in 2025?

I'm curious what you meant by the web app use case and why you find SQL bad?

Fair point about the reminders!

May your wait be long.

Good to stop repeating actions making you unhappy, but how about going without assistants alltogether?

From the examples given I haven't seen any meaningful life improvement with them.

I saw cost savings trickle down to customers only in an economy textbook.

Why is it surprising?

You can make coffee by brewing it or by using Nespresso.

I couldn't understand either until I remembered appearances matter more than substance.

So if your goal is to deliver as much features as possible - regardless of the quality or roi - gatekeepers are an obstacle to remove.

Having functions literally color coded based on type would be nice improvement.

"Not snow, not swans, but the tent of Hasan Aga" - cca 1640.

MeThree.

But I think it's not the case incentives are wrong but the reality of business - what do you do when things are feature complete in all the ways that matter?

I don't think we can really have software engineers without having software engineering...and despite the name in use I see very little evidence of actual engineering.

Today, Helsinki region was under drone alert with advice to stay indoors. It seems that the public warning system failed to notify a large number of users.

Not many information I could find but it seems you need to have latest version and always on location permissions to have a good chance of things working. However if you do, you'll probably notice battery drain and be spammed by low urgency alerts like traffic congestions.

The Finnish government recently agreed to finally adopt the standardized EU-Alert system by 2027 so there is hope for the future.