webarchitect

I love photography and I'm intrigued by what you are doing with this. I'm not annoyed that you are talking about photography on this post. I think there is room for judicious use of AI in photography. The fact that it was disclosed and still accepted means they were at least curious.

I'll take a look at your post. I think it's really good to point out that abstraction is something that we have sometimes accepted / sometimes struggled with our entire careers (lives?)

I think the real question here is how we rebuild some confidence and perhaps remove some fear.

I can think of so many times this has happened before. People getting used to MVC, Dependency Injection, ORMs. Sometimes the code is so large you only work on a part of it, so you have to get used to a lot of not knowing.

So how do we build confidence anyhow when we can't know everything?

I think first, standard checks - does it compile? What do static analysis tools say - code quality, passes SAST analysis? Linters? Style checkers?

Do the tests run? I'm not comfortable with the tests I write let alone the AI.. by adding fault injection (fuzzing, chaos), and mutation testing, I have a better degree of confidence in the tests and code.

Spend even more time getting to know the product instead. Maybe I don't know the code as well as I used to, but I know the product backwards and forwards. That helps me have some new confidence that I didn't really have before. Knowing the greater whole.

I like fault injection (fuzzing, chaos), and mutation testing. I think introducing these helps the AI write better tests and helps having some confidence in the tests that are written.

Perhaps it is too pessimistic, but it's the default state to fail, die in some sense, just like any other organic thing. The world doesn't have a good record of these things we've created lasting very long.

The hopeful part of me thinks that what will emerge from the disorder will be better, just like anything else that survives today that was once part of something else.

Democracy isn't dead, but in the US, it's sure in troubled water. The two-party system encouraged people not to think for themselves but instead have to choose between two parties that, at least initially had common ground but now are diametrically opposed to one another. Now one of the two parties is pretty weak, having lost ground, giving the impression that it had lost touch with the common people and focused on loud but semi-fringe issues. One party owning the system has the same look as Democracy is dead.

Not to mention that even with a strong leader in both parties, we are on a race to the bottom, each election oscillating between the two parties, each spending lots of money and focus undoing what the other party did. When the two parties had common ground, this was much less of an issue.

In the end, this isn't going to get fixed, the US is going to just keep printing money, blowing up the deficit until the last few countries outside the US who trust us no longer do. We'll be in too many wars, in too many places, with too few friends. End up the same way the USSR was when they were in Afghanistan for too long.

I don't think even if you pulled money out of politics, banned stock trading for elected officials, no foreign wars, universal health care - that we would right the ship. Our problems are fundamental. Our early leaders warned us against a two-party system, trying to show us the problems it would lead to, and we ignored it.

This should read - Were worried that RSS is hurting our AD revenue and paid API so we're removing it.

Not to mention that with WINE you can install Microsoft Office - I could be wrong, but I think OS and Infra are the focus, Microsoft Office is orienting and tolerable. Its bloated but people know it. Besides office, everything important really is a web app now.

They probably saw it when they were pretty young, nostalgia beats anything. For me, that scene with the dark doll and Mia Sara dancing by the firelight will go down in history as one of the best scenes in any movie.