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bluetooth audio is probably all one needs for phone car integration. but carplay/android auto are sadly really popular. So already, your phone can connect in two different ways, ju…

Pretty much this. The less software on the car, the fewer problems. It's practically impossible to test every permutation of code against every system. Maybe AI can help, but pract…

It's one of the reasons the US military is so good. As a soldier, you know they will come for you, behind enemy lines, so you can fight like hell, knowing that your fellows have yo…

Yes it's quite the blend!

There's probably a case for both. Core logic might benefit from hard types deep in the bowels of unchanging engine. The real world often changes though, and more often than not the…

I actually wonder about his conclusion that 50 years hence English will be unrecognizable. There will be changes of course. Yet we are also more connected than ever, whereas the ne…

In fairness , Dickens is quite dry. My mind would wonder off. In some sense, it's better these days, competition has led to care for the reader that probably didn't exist as much t…

The alternative is one type, with many functions that can operate on that type. Like how clojure basically uses maps everywhere and the whole standard library allows you to manipul…

Iterating often is not helpful for stable systems over time. I like go's library it's got pretty much everything needed out of the box for web server development. Backwards compati…

But open source didn't do the Linux model. It did the GitHub model of open to anyone. If anything the heirarchy of trust the Linux model uses will be more important now.

Possibly, but AIs might shift to more curated content, which has it's own dangers I suppose. There are definitely challenges, but I've been around long enough now that we'll adapt,…

God please no. Do not involve government in this. That's a terrible terrible idea, and would do the opposite of intended.

It could push back more, true. Although it's role in pair programming is the driver, you are the navigator. I often begin a session with exploring and asking it questions of the co…

If all software could be as good as sqlite, I would not care how they do open source

Yes; yet... I thought the efficiency per compute has to do more with the nm process shrinking the die than anything else. That and power use is divided by so many more instructions…

Actually, I wonder how they measured the 'speed' of coding, maybe I missed it. But if developers can spend more time thinking about the larger problems, that may be a cause of the …

Speaking just for myself, AI has allowed me to start doing projects that seemed daunting at first, as it automates much of the tedious act of actually typing code from the keyboard…

Yep, I can't trust software that has shone clear instructions to produce incorrect results, like Gemini did with it's image generation famously. If nothing else, it means Gemini's …

Okay. If you’re being vague, you get vague results. Golang and Claude have worked well for me, on existing production codebases, because I tell it precisely what I want and it does…

You could fix versions, and probably should. However willful disregard of prior interfaces encourages developers code to follow suit. It’s not like Clojure or Common Lisp, where a …

All I know is that claude code is pretty dang good, grok's nice for searching info, and Google's Gemini hasn't really been in my workflow at all. Neither chatgpt, beyond when it fi…

Spending is the issue. That money is spent on something, and it isn't (all) teaching either. The chart in the link below shows employee vs students headcounts over 6 years. Even th…

Including Steve Yegge, is Gas Town orchestrator of LLMs is... wild. And complicated. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...

Edison Motors up in Canada is interesting, in the truck space. Diesel EREV semis, and heavy-duty pickup modifications. Sounds like they're running into overregulation issues though…

EVs, as part of the world economy, aren't emissions-free either. Just at the tailpipe (or lack thereof). Rare-earth mining is very energy-intensive.