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There's a Joel On Software post [1] in the same vein as this, which totally changed the way I think about writing software. You should aim to write software which can be verified l…

> Isolated QA should not exist because anything a QA engineer can do manually can be automated. I almost entirely agree. You'd certainly want a majority of QA responsibilities to f…

But they're not willing. And they'll often just cause more damage/loss than they provide in benefit to the company. Even the most benign drug which people claim is fine is one that…

I think it mostly comes down to the standard library guiding you down this path explicitly. The C stdlib is quite outdated and is full of bad design that affects both performance a…

Antithesis talks about some very particular use cases, but they're not the first to explore this. SQLite has something similar in the form of their `testcase` macro. [1] What's mos…

I don't think it was that strong of an over-generalization. AI doesn't seem to help out in the same way a human would. My teammates will push back and ask for proof of effort (a PR…

I think what the article gets at, but doesn't quite deliver on, is similar to this great take from Casey Muratori [1] about how programming with a learning-based mindset means that…

Type hints seem fantastic for when you're in maintenance mode and want to add sanity back to a system via automated tooling. However for new projects I find that I'd much rather pi…

Vibes are totally different though. People go childfree by choice, whereas men go MGTOW because there __is no other choice__ (that they find easy or preferable). I've heard it desc…

It's fine, I take every opportunity I can to shit on my own job lol. Ironically what you're looking for can be found in the lowest end, and the highest end products. Low end means …

I work on embedded appliance software at my job. A few comments: It's quite easy to find yourself having non-zero boot times for some unfortunate reasons. At least in my org, the s…

> Only at the cost of runtime checks And those checks are well worth paying for, enough that Rust also has them! I'm sure Rust would have even worse ergonomics if it insisted on no…

> And this is where Rust differs; Rust will reduce the likelihood of bugs from happening in the first place. I'm not saying Zig doesn't also do that, Rust just does it more. I'd ar…

Most of the human-made slop you'll see is going to be, at least on its surface, high quality and well produced since that's what goes viral and gets shared. To that end, I agree wi…