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I was born at the perfect time to pursue a career in full-stack software development. I grew up programming 8-bit computers, then learned Unix in college. I entered the workforce at the emergence of Windows for Workgroups and Linux, and I'll be retiring right about the time the AI's make me redundant. Also, the year Social Security goes broke.
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Months and months of planning by lots and lots of middle management can save literally hours of programming.
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Give a man a program, and you'll frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, and you'll frustrate him for a lifetime.
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I have a mental illness that makes me think that people will change their minds if I present the correct arguments with the appropriate facts and data.
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I've put all of my skill points into arguing with blinking lights.
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But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a new piece of Apple gear, to lust after it, hath committed purchase of it already in his heart.
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Don't say you're easy on me; you're about as easy as a nuclear war.
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I sold the Renoir and the TV set; don't wanna be around when this gets out.
Duran Duran, The Reflex
Tag Archives: AI
Updating the Ignored Wisdom
In the age of “AI”, a graphic is now going around, which allegedly shows a slide from a presentation at IBM circa 1979. It makes great sense, which, of course, means that companies couldn’t care less. My prediction is that … Continue reading
Reddit Had an Answer?!
I was trying to integrate Anthropic’s Claude AI into Visual Studio Code, and it wasn’t showing up in the add-ons. There’s literally one command to install it, and it simply wasn’t working. I also could not see it in the … Continue reading
“Vibe” All the Things
I can’t wait for middle management to read a post about “vibe coding,” tell a bunch of lower management to tell staffers to use it for everything, note some improvement in some metrics, and report this to upper management, which … Continue reading
AI is the New Oil
AI is the new oil in Fortune 500 companies. Everyone is jockeying for budget to hire consultants and supervise bloated projects using commercial AI products for non-critical-path purposes, rather than developing in-house expertise at creating models with the wealth of … Continue reading
Even More on the Capabilities of Current-Gen “AI”
Another Twitter post led me to this Reddit post: Further down in the comments, OP had this to say: I copy-paste all of this for full context, but I want to emphasize this paragraph: It tried a bunch of things … Continue reading
More on the Capabilities of Current-Gen “AI”
Eric Raymond, another bright star in the programming universe, weighed in on the actual capability of current-gen “AI.” He echoed DHH and Carmack, again reiterating my own opinion that LLM’s cannot replace humans at (non-trivial) programming. Yet. Sure, it can … Continue reading
Capabilities of Current-Gen “AI”
There are 2 schools of people on Twitter on using AI in programming. One states emphatically that they are producing fully-realized projects through nothing but “vibe coding,” and the other states, well, what DHH says here. John Carmack had this … Continue reading
CoPilot Having a Normal One
I mean, even if you can’t recall the ASCII characters for a hex value (like me), you should be able to realize that that 0x51 is one less than 0x52, so that the “R” and the “3” should be right … Continue reading