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it usually takes a little longer than this, but yeah, everything in the world eventually caves in for whatever makes more money. you can't tell me you're surprised, look at the state of facebook, instagram, twitter, iOS, OSX, Windows (god)... once you expect something to work good that you would pay for, the only thing left to do is to make it shitty and sell the quality back you for extra margin. it's called private equity (polite term for the business of telling people "it's not yours, it's mine"), favorite son of capitalism

...says yet another company hell bent on integrating it into every facet of our lives. This reads like a celebration, if you ask me.

the discourse around "code quality" has always attracted the least nuanced minds, ones who see the world and the phenomenon of life as nothing but territory to be divided up by the latest buzzwords. the worst ones insist that we narrow the discussion even further, to focus on the conflicts between these buzzwords. whenever i have to sit through such discussions, i try to meditate on the irony of mother nature weaving the most functionally brutal, ruthlessly redundant poetry that is the genetic code, only for the resulting creatures to deny themselves the power of the principles inherent in their own construction.

i intend to invest $40B in my wife's pottery business; she will invest the same amount in my uber-for-dogs AI SaaS startup. our GDP is gonna be wild.

i've learned in two years of unemployed hacking that there is a camp 3: you treat code like an evolving life form, requiring both ingenious introspective craft and utilitarian grit to survive and thrive. a product is a trajectory of software in time, and software is a trajectory of code in time; this is no different from how our genetic code determines our physical existence, which then shapes our lives. there is no spectrum between code vs product; if you want to remain relevant in software design, you must see them as layers of a larger whole (and there are many, many more layers once you go beyond the binary of code VS product).

yes. it's like a giant finger pointing at the moon, and everyone's talking about the finger.

what do you expect? if you’re “automating” an audit, it already means you don’t care. the LLM is there to blur the calculus of responsibility, take the blame if someone cares enough to look. happy customers, until someone “delves” a little too deep (like you did) and ruins the slumber party.

false dichotomy. neither company will make it. the winner will be some solo dev with a singular vision and ruthless dedication to quality. “teams” do not have visions, individuals do. the more people are involved in a product, the blurrier the vision becomes, the more insidious the vested interest of the organization to profit from the user, rather than align themselves with the user. solo devs do not have such problems, because they’re no different from users, aside from the fact that they were users before the software existed. they make the software because they want to use it, and there is no amount of payroll employees that can replicate the quality and innovation that results from this simple, genuine self-interest.

i’ve been doing this for a while, you create an extra file for every code file, sketch the code as you currently understand it (mostly function signatures and comments to fill in details), ask the LLM to help identify discrepancies. i call it “overcoding”.

i guess you can build a cli toolchain for it, but as a technique it’s a bit early to crystallize into a product imo, i fully expect overcoding to be a standard technique in a few years, it’s the only way i’ve been able to keep up with AI-coded files longer than 1500 lines

Even the most cockeyed reading of history will tell you that it is absolutely vital to the survival of humanity and all that is good on this earth that the US military be tied down and held back.

i’m confused now. if he’s a serial child rapist sending mexican goons into american cities to murder white nurses, does that mean he’s more of a populist, or less? figured i’d check with the expert.

copyright is not “broken,” it was always a two-faced scam designed to protect “owners” at the expense of creators. don’t expect this blatant hypocrisy to kill copyright, either - death of copyright is a slippery slope leading straight to communist utopia, and the death of the global acqui-parasite class