checkmatez
Re:Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @10:22AM (#47248823)
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
It's hard to keep things simple. Management should be mindful of that and encourage engineers to follow YAGNI, to do refactorings that remove more code than they add, etc.
Re:AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who c...
on Thursday February 12, 2026 @08:00AM (#46988276)
It's like telling your children: "do as I say, not as I do".
Re:Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @03:19AM (#46956769)
My feelings as well.
Re:Clean Coder: The Dark Path (2017)
on Monday February 09, 2026 @07:02AM (#46944319)
Did you even read the second half of the post? The author's answer to your concerns is testing. He suggests relying on tests rather than on strict type system that forces you to design everything upfront.
Personally, I can see arguments for both approaches - stricter types or more tests.
Re:Lessons from 14 Years at Google
on Monday January 05, 2026 @08:16AM (#46498415)
Even if it is AI assisted, the points are still valid and written in a way that is easy to understand.
Re:I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website with Claude
on Monday December 08, 2025 @06:20AM (#46191020)
> that LLM are fundamentally unable to produce original code.
What about humans? Are humans capable of producing completely original code or ideas or thoughts?
As the saying goes, if you want to create something from scratch, you have to start by inventing the universe.
Human mind works by noticing patterns and applying them in different contexts.