The programming language in the background of this website appears to be Odin.
Bill Hall "Ginger Bill", the creator Odin, is a speaker on day 1.
A software conference that advocates for quality
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Re: A software conference that advocates for quality
#22For a non-engineer (business) person the case "engineering quality vs move fast break things" sounds more like "slow & expensive VS fast". The choice is obvious.
Re: A software conference that advocates for quality
#23Curious how they’ll balance the business needs of moving fast with AI vs quality because my agents aren’t that good. While it works, I’m often having to cleanup afterwards - slowing everything down. I was almost as fast when I had just basic intellisense. Anyway, I’ll watch the twitch stream from across the pond.
>Curious how they’ll balance the business needs of moving fast with AI vs quality
Why would they need to do that? Is that even a goal or something that this conference is addressing at all?
Re: A software conference that advocates for quality
#24Where can you actually learn the substance of what this conference is about? All I found is a Twitch tagline that reads "Software is getting worse. We're here to make it better."
The have a list of the presentations in the original link. That should at least give you some idea what they're going to talk about.
Re: A software conference that advocates for quality
#25I may be the only one who thought this, but this doesn't seem to be related to the fondly remembered Better Software Magazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Software_Magazine
It seems to be socially associated with the Handmade Hero and Jon Blow Jai crowd, which is not so much concerned that their software might be buggy as that it might be lame. They're more concerned about user experience and efficiency than they are about correctness.
Re: A software conference that advocates for quality
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
They probably just manage to realize that being seen to be "moving fast with AI" simply isn't a goal unto itself, that it has to deliver something of value beyond itself.
We could be in a tortoise vs. hare situation... Unless we find ourselves back in the conditions of the 2010's again, thoughtfully building software to be high quality and high performance may win out in the long run over "move fast and break things."
Always have been. It’s why the vast majority of disposable corporate garbageware, products chasing a buck, consumer shovelware, etc is built on the shoulders of thoughtfully designed, high quality, mature software that stands the test of time. No popular production software runs on an OS kernel someone vibe coded yesterday. Durable utility is where quality lies, as the cost of quality is able to amortize. Chasing trends is, by definition, costly.
Re: A software conference that advocates for quality
#27I may be the only one who thought this, but this doesn't seem to be related to the fondly remembered Better Software Magazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Software_Magazine It seems to be socially associated with the Handmade Hero and Jon Blow Jai crowd, which is not so much concerned that their software might be buggy as that it might be lame . They're more concerned about user experience and efficiency tha…
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Re: A software conference that advocates for quality
#28I may be the only one who thought this, but this doesn't seem to be related to the fondly remembered Better Software Magazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Software_Magazine It seems to be socially associated with the Handmade Hero and Jon Blow Jai crowd, which is not so much concerned that their software might be buggy as that it might be lame . They're more concerned about user experience and efficiency tha…
> which is not so much concerned that their software might be buggy as that it might be lame
This is not at _all_ my interpretation of Casey and JBlow's views. How did you arrive at this conclusion?
> They're more concerned about user experience and efficiency than they are about correctness.
They're definitely very concerned about efficiency, but user experience? Are you referring to DevX? They definitely don't prize any kind of UX above correctness.
Re: A software conference that advocates for quality
#29I may be the only one who thought this, but this doesn't seem to be related to the fondly remembered Better Software Magazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Software_Magazine It seems to be socially associated with the Handmade Hero and Jon Blow Jai crowd, which is not so much concerned that their software might be buggy as that it might be lame . They're more concerned about user experience and efficiency tha…
> which is not so much concerned that their software might be buggy as that it might be lame This is not at _all_ my interpretation of Casey and JBlow's views. How did you arrive at this conclusion? > They're more concerned about user experience and efficiency than they are about correctness. They're definitely very concerned about efficiency, but user experience? Are you referring to DevX? They definitely don't priz…
By reading their blog posts and watching their videos.
Re: A software conference that advocates for quality
#30You would think a conference that advocates for quality software would have a better website.