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It reminds of people who use ORMs, never pop the hood to analyze the queries, indexes, etc - then decide it's the database that's the problem.

This is why I started using Obsidian Web Clipper. There is SOME work to learn it and set it up, but the small amount of upfront work will pay for years to come. And the folder itself is backed by Dropbox, so I don't have to worry about losing it all forever.

It is the best for very practical things. I once needed a logo for my SaaS company - just tell it to generate hundreds of versions until you stumble upon the one you find fetching. I do not want to become an artist just to be able to make one logo. Just as an artist would not want to learn programming if they ever needed some simple automation script.

Just use hashmap for everything.

The extra work required to delight users is still work. Most people won't be bothered to spend the time. It's so much easier to create the average and move on.

The baseline has moved down, but it also encourages laziness. Those who break out of the "Claude, do the thing, no mistakes" rut will do great things.

I always say - "give me the fastest baseline framework and I will destroy it with one bad SQL query".

Sure, but last year I had to reinstall Windows because they did not bother to test USB input devices on their new "recovery" feature: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/windows11/th...

All it had to do was run Check Disk, but it kept going in a loop every 30 minutes checking their "AI" for solutions, finding none. There was no way to get out of it.

I am sorry, but even in the worst days of Windows, this would have been a huge deal. This was the last straw so I installed Mint to play games.

The assembly line never stops either. Somehow we figured out that eventually one has to go home.

Zero bugs, though.

There is plenty of evidence. For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR4i3Ho9zZY&t=37s

The reason is clear - without scarcity of compute or memory, performance is no longer a feature. That works until all the laziness compounds into a crawling bloat.

This is regarding desktop software. With services, microservices is basically a performance anti-pattern that is used without any due diligence in most cases.

Of course not. It can write working code well, and that's why there is a heated discussion now about code reviews and good engineering practices in the world of agents.

The issue is that software is almost unique it the sense that you can use reinforcement learning to get the desired outcome - does it compile or not? A large amount of automated trial-and-error runs do that.

It's not true elsewhere. The definition of "is this a good outcome" is pretty nebulous in other areas.

"Is this what the law says?"

Yes, but that's not how the judge will interpret it, etc.

But... but... but.... 30 thousand commits a day. So much committing they needed to vibecode their own version control.

As they say, money can't buy taste. An allegedly multi-trillion dollar company can't bother to have any UX input from a meatbag.

BTW, I work for a very small tech company - we can request PTO with Claude.

This is like tokenmaxxing for observability?

Wasn't that Terminator: Salvation?

Laughs in Ed Zitron.

The standard C-level superpower is sorting a spreadsheet by cost, descending, and cutting the top X rows. This seems to be the pinnacle of American business school.

I didn't say that - of course you can do both, but some people just want a simpler life without having to hustle in hopes of getting rich someday.

Yes, but it will only make the K-shaped economy worse. Those who want to practice excellence will pull parsecs ahead, leaving the other 80, 90 percent in the dust.

You should not be punished for not having wild ambitions in life. Some people just want to live and raise a family, and why should they be blamed for it?

Yeah, and I think 2027 will be the year of reckoning. Lessons shall be learned.

Taking equity over money is a rookie mistake. Always. Take. The money.

A lot of that depends on how you do with the birth lottery. The path from Westchester to Stanford is a little easier than from a homeless shelter (that was MY life).

It's unbelievable to me that this is legal. You put your trust into a corporate entity with your data. The entity goes away, so does the guarantee? Oh, OK.

I learned that the hard way with 23&Me.

Sometimes watching the fresh-faced punks make bank while I slave away at a "regular" company for average pay is just demoralizing. It's really about being at the right place, time, and near the right people, isn't it.

Yes, you can - but you need to fill out a few forms first, before you start the music.

Because the models do what you ask them. "Claude, do this thing, be thorough, no mistakes" is not a good prompt.

I think this will be a self-correcting problem once the damage is done, and the only cure is more cowbell, I mean - TIME.

In the age of extraction capitalism where building sustainable, profitable companies is not the goal, no one will care.

Well, isn't that an IRONIC spelling error.

AI models do not live and learn - it's worse. They actually get DUMMER if you don't start with a clean slate. This is important. One has to curate the context carefully.

Riddle me this. How does a company pay people a million dollars a year, and it occurred to no one to, I don't know, monitor outgoing packets if the model is supposed to be contained, when you know the set up is not really air gapped?