Re:Blatant AI slop just won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand ...
by bluegatty on Friday July 17, 2026 @09:49AM
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"decisions after snorting a long line of social-media-psychosis and TED talks."
And yet - they are the one's paying you and everyone else somehow?
I think you might be missing something fundamental, start by considering that what is 'good software' is not an intrinsic measure, but a measure of what it does.
The only reason we really need 'intrinsically good' software, is if it's very long lived and a ton of people are going to come to depend on it.
People trying to make oak furniture when in most cases what we want is IKEA.
That said - AI or no AI - there's no excuse for not keeping a grip on things, whatever kind of 'grip' that might be.
And yet - they are the one's paying you and everyone else somehow?
I think you might be missing something fundamental, start by considering that what is 'good software' is not an intrinsic measure, but a measure of what it does.
The only reason we really need 'intrinsically good' software, is if it's very long lived and a ton of people are going to come to depend on it.
People trying to make oak furniture when in most cases what we want is IKEA.
That said - AI or no AI - there's no excuse for not keeping a grip on things, whatever kind of 'grip' that might be.