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Being self taught also selects for the ability to learn autonomously. Which is very important in software.

someone was bribed != people are motivated by financial gain

I don't know. People working in web frameworks might be more visible, and more numerous than people working more low level stuff. But I don't think the latter is rarefied atmospher…

"This system has severe limitations. But we should rely more on it because this other system is also limited." For several decades we've developed and use computers because they ca…

Cost of revenue should include R&D and amortization. Pointing to EBTIDA is a very old trick.

Yup. Code is liability. Understanding it is the corresponding asset. Generating more code that is less well understood is akin to increasing leverage. Or: buying a super car might …

I like to read books on computers from the 70s and 80s. No trite analogies, just hard facts and diagrams. And explanations that start from scratch, requiring no previous knowledge …

Nothing has served me better over the past few decades than accumulating ever more detailed and accurate knowledge of what it is exactly that computers do under the hood. All the l…

What you are talking about here is accidental vs essential complexity as described by Brooks in the 80s. Your claim that LLMs do away entirely with accidental complexity and manage…