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I got strong feelings of Vernor Vinge’s work here. I’m not sure how managed to come up with such a close picture to where it now seems programming and security is headed.

Feels very related to the idea of refinement culture: https://lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/refinement-culture While the connectedness of our world allows for great ideas to be spr…

Obviously it isn’t totally impossible, but it becomes challenging to know if it’s required or not. It’s hardest when it isn’t just throwing an error but instead defaulting to somet…

>Yet even with a lot of manual steering, that type of code does not come out of LLMs naturally, and even if the code comes out naturally like that, they will still attempt to handl…

Do you have a source for how little maintenance this will need? I imagine there will be teams of people continually employed for regular maintenance and operations. Concrete does d…

This is an excellent article, I’ve seen almost all of the issues it calls out in production for various APIs. I’ll be saving this to share with my team. I’ve seen two separate engi…

This article reminded me a lot of a previous HN post[0] which hinted at choreographic programming[1]. While this post is light on details, I think this is an interesting space and …

This is so cool, going to have to check out all of the posts in this series. I recently got a manual knitting machine (a basic round one, non programmable) and have really been enj…

This feels about as useful as the evil bit: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3514

This is a topic I’ve been wanting a book on for a long time. We’ve done so much work to eliminate the need for maintenance for the masses through things like planned obsolescence, …

>Worse, many behaviors of the system don’t necessarily have a lot of conscious intent behind them (or any) This is one of the key reasons why I’ve ingrained the “You Ain’t Gonna Ne…

The biggest cause of these issues isn’t style-related or something that can be easily documented ahead of time. A recent example: an engineer wrote a custom caching layer for a ser…

It might take me an hour, but communicating the idea to the engineer, convincing them it’s better, guiding them to the solution, and then having them build it will take far longer …

>I briefly try to think of which chucklefuck I could blame this design on, but truth be told I rubber-stamped enough questionable pull requests in my time here that a fair amount o…

Did Anthropic ever use the term unlimited? I understand the general frustration with the pattern, but it seems weird to put unlimited in quotes when it wasn’t the way Claude was so…

>In 2024, 551 tech companies laid off nearly 152,922 employees, according to data from Layoff.fyi. The pace has accelerated dramatically this year. In just the first six months of …

Reading this felt very similar to watching “Pitch Perfect 237” (Anna Kendrick 9/11 conspiracy) https://youtube.com/watch?v=MiC9X_MoE1M

There are important reasons to have domestic manufacturing even if automated and not creating jobs.

> incrementally builds my credit rating Most BNPL plans are not reported to credit agencies and therefore don’t build credit. But “financing” by paying with a credit card and payin…

I’m curious if .NET can compare here, though I have limited experience with rails or ASP.NET both seem to give you a lot to work with. Though the overlap of rails devs with .NET de…

A small amount of lead makes its way out of the chamber in the form of dust and fumes after shooting. It’s quite easy to breath this in or get it on your hands and accidentally ing…

>Just look at the millionaire CEO of your own company. Do they have 6 kids? They probably don't even have 4 kids. Couldn’t this also be evidence that money is the issue? i.e. you c…