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Sometimes I think cybersecurity should practice similar superstitions of the maritime industry
There's also an article from this same site about that: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/digital-vs-paper

IMO it's way better to do what you think is good, whether that's Obsidian, notebooks, or something else

Re:Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:50AM (#49448181)
>Let the AI write the code, not design the solutions.

I don't think design is necessarily out of reach for AI. As usual, the closer you get to the bleeding edge of what's been done vs. what's possible, the more thought needs to go into a design for it to be considered good. And TBH, even if you only make it to "it works", that's still laudable. There's plenty of profitable companies with terrible designs, technical debt, and broken systems built before AI, and that's why often these arguments fall flat for me.

I like the idea of mostly getting average designs out of AI. I am tired of running into overly complicated solutions to seemingly simple problems. Microservices vs. Monoliths for example. Maybe they thought they saw something that needed that complexity which was credible before, but they have gone and left someone else with their decisions, and left any credibility to the void. They're just playing the game though because there's is/was an incentive to get micro services on your resume for the next job.

>It creates embeddings from the full text as well as its extracted structure, then semantically combines and compares it with action prototypes. A separate classifier estimates whether the turn is a command, question, chat, clarification or complex request. Everything gets merged together.

Does this mean the prototypes and classifications need to follow what you can actually do in the game? Were they all hand-coded or generated somehow?

Sure bud
Re:AI is removing the middle class of software engineering on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @11:47AM (#49274288)
Secondarily, the business itself is also driving the throughput increases by demanding more volume, but there is no accountability to them for asking for throughput at the expense of quality. They may also deny the engineering time to work on things that would stabilize quality that supports faster delivery because features earn money more directly than developing quality processes.

This isn't coming solely from engineers wanting to produce more stuff faster.

Re:AI is removing the middle class of software engineering on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @11:31AM (#49273997)
>This is the theory, but I’ve never worked anywhere (and I’ve worked at a lot of places over 20 years) that actually did it like that in practice.

Same but with 10 years, and I don't think I would do well in a place like that. That removes you from writing code and there is a similar complaint about relying too much on AI and not writing enough code on your own.