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You already see this pre-ai with apps asking me to update everytime i open the damn thing…

People protesting in the United States?!?!? Unthinkable

If we taxed him a little more i might be able to afford a tiny violin to play to mourn his unfair treatment

for starters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement but if you have no knowledge of American history not sure a hn thread is right place to start

there is a 3rd option and it involves us organizing and actually exerting some of our power as the critical dependency in basically all of the modern economy.

In my experience reliability and simplicity have decreased, LOC for every feature is at least 2x what it was, more incidents than ever before. What kills me is if we just applied llm programming to the old ways of doing things and got our minor speedup but refined our approach, got ai to catch things we normally wouldn’t, did the extra refactor we normally wouldn’t we could increase reliability and simplicity. But management wants the velocity more than those things.

also stupidly updated and mission control and window management is so crazy buggy, adopting your embargo from now on if I can keep my sanity

as someone using AI, it is mania, leadership has decided it is so and software is getting worse. we could have just accepted our 20% bump and been happy, fixed bugs, made things better quality, nope, ship half assed features at 2x speed, pretend claude is infallible and will solve all our problems, brand reputation? user research? pixel perfect designs? what are you a dinosaur?

So you don’t dispute this reporting, don’t dispute that this was Musk’s idea, which implies he lied about it immediately afterwards.

And just so i am clear on your philosophy there is no guilt that rides whatsoever with presenting this capability to the leader of the free world who then goes and does exactly what you suggested resulting in many people dying while a nation fights for its life.

that was 2 days ago, this came out today: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/10/16/musk-appro...

Reporting literally just came out that throttling starlink for ukraine was his idea…but sure he is just a helpless innocent billionaire with no control whatsoever

I feel like this was always true to an extent, now product and design are just more tolerant of it because leadership is cracking a whip over their heads because things are supposed to be much faster “because ai” so things like pixel perfect hand offs, adhering to existing design system, making sure you are aligned with the brand, copy is reviewed with marketing go out the window. Now everything is shipping in hackathon mode with an eng driving decisions they really should not be.

people have been saying "it's been a minute" to mean a long time since at least the 90s in NY

this is so cool :) thinking about some remixes already with maritime traffic and tides

Seems a lot like the meme of the new designers pushing a redesign to justify their existence.

To be less dismissive it seems an industry wide problem that big splashy projects get rewarded while the silent “Snow Leopard” mind numbingly obvious just up your quality and fix bugs and UX issues work goes unnoticed.

I don’t see a single comment I would describe as celebrating this

Fun to watch, not fun to live is what i believe the parent is referring to.

“The other is to make sure you have a good insurance company” such a thing exists?

moderate corporate democrats are repeatedly getting trounced in elections and the DSA crew are starting to win so citation definitely needed

your perspective on today’s America is there is _too much_ accountability for big companies?

"The Corner" is also a great read by him.

this is a more reasonable argument IMO, but i would still disagree that that means only the top level pros stay for a few reasons (although it might happen / is already happening in the short term):

- if it is true that AI enhances our abilities it just means the goal posts move of what was expected for each level

- the complexity ceiling will rise for the level a superstar or a company is capable of maintaining, meaning there will still be stratified complexities for the mid levels of old to handle, it might just be higher than before

- counter intuitively but time and again increased software creation more often than not increases demand for more software rather than decreases

if the world decides it has no more problems to solve with software, then we are in trouble. i don't think that is happening anytime soon.

Because the companies everyone claims are now obsolete are making a lot of money still doing the supposedly obsolete things?

because this comment is responding to: "I think the field is basically over as a long term career unless you are truly exceptional. It will become very easy to build most software"

photoshop, paypal, and many more companies etc. have software of vast complexity that cannot be reproduced or maintained today solely with llms, ipso facto you still need software developers or some similar role to build and maintain the complexity of _yesterday_

some guy shipping an iOS app to zero users doesn't change that. although i think it is good we can have more bespoke software.

color me skeptical that the CEO or anyone non-technical is ever going to prompt their way out of a major incident when all the AI chickens come home to roost.

small bit of feedback, "Rice it until it feels like yours." is pretty jargon heavy for a landing page, i don't think all that many people outside linux/tech use that term, why not "customize"?

A chef in a michelin restaurant, unless he/she is the sole employee (very rare) is likely in charge of a team of line cooks and while they may get some time and place to experiment you better believe it will not be when preparing the chefs carefully curated menu and recipes for paying customers who have been on a reservation waitlist for months. Bob decided to cook the broccoli with a blowtorch and substituted some ingredients in table 9s dinner. There is a fire in the kitchen and the NYT food critic is going into anaphylactic shock but Bob at least feels like an artist so we will let it slide.

the claim we are arguing here is not that “linters never make mistakes” it is that “linters are generally beneficial and avoid mostly useless debates we previously spent an inordinate amount of time on” Most linters have an escape hatch for exactly this which is usually a one line disable comment

I also never have these conversations at work…because every repo uses a linter and the engineers are mature enough to recognize most of these debates as bikeshedding. Every once in a while someone will suggest turning on or enabling a new custom rule with some justification and there is a brief discussion and it is enabled or not. Outside of work in a consulting gig I didn’t have a linter in the codebase and the owner brought on a new engineer, he wrote if else statements all on one line no matter how long they were and removed spaces everywhere because he thought shorter code was better. He balked hard at any feedback about code style and I was told I couldn’t enforce code style or install a linter. I think you will surprised how much you care if someone with a truly weird style starts putting it in your codebase, I always told myself I didn’t before this. After more dumb waste of time clashes like that I quit the project. Now even personal projects get a linter :).

everything has tradeoffs, on the one hand you are right you have one less dependency, on the other hand the maintenance of said dependency is now on you. many times app store connect has changed some api and fixing our release process was a matter of updating fastlane because the community had already dealt with it, that's on you if you have a bespoke delivery solution.