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Similar to bragging about LOC, I have noticed in my own field of computational fluid dynamics that some vibe coders brag about how large or rigorous their test suites are. The problem is that whenever I look more closely into the tests, the tests are not outstanding and less rigorous than my own manually created tests. There often are big gaps in vibe coded tests. I don't care if you have 1 million tests. 1 million e…
German General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord (a high-ranking army officer in the Reichswehr/Wehrmacht era): “I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent — their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy — they make up 90% of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who i…
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I'm not blaming you here, but I think "automatons" may be inaccurate. A lot of the jobs that seem menial would be utterly bollixed if done by an automaton. The people continually handle the edge cases and tiny discrepancies between formal procedures and how things actually work. Consider the many stories of people experience AI bots when they try to get vendor support for products. "Please let me talk to a real perso…
Anyone doubting this need only spend 15 minutes watching people using the self-checkout lines at the grocery store to see how good a good checkout person is...
Self checkout is the face of enshittification.
Similar to bragging about LOC, I have noticed in my own field of computational fluid dynamics that some vibe coders brag about how large or rigorous their test suites are. The problem is that whenever I look more closely into the tests, the tests are not outstanding and less rigorous than my own manually created tests. There often are big gaps in vibe coded tests. I don't care if you have 1 million tests. 1 million e…
Not gonna help with the test code quality, but at least the tests are going to be relevant.
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> This is a person clearly grieving that his hard earned knowledge in his field is now not that valuable. He's co-founder and CTO of his own company, so I think he's doing fine in his field.
It doesn't change the fact that much of what (I think) he prides in himself in is getting commoditised.
Jesus Christ, even AI websites are just garbage, and that is the lowest form of programming.
Hard disagree with the initial assumption: Abstractions do not make a system simpler. Note: I would have added usually but I really do mean always.
Similar to bragging about LOC, I have noticed in my own field of computational fluid dynamics that some vibe coders brag about how large or rigorous their test suites are. The problem is that whenever I look more closely into the tests, the tests are not outstanding and less rigorous than my own manually created tests. There often are big gaps in vibe coded tests. I don't care if you have 1 million tests. 1 million e…
It's a struggle to get LLMs to generate tests that aren't entirely stupid. Like grepping source code for a string. or assert(1==1, true) You have to have a curated list of every kind of test not to write or you get hundreds of pointless-at-best tests.
This should be distilled into a tool. Some kind of AST based code analyser/linter that fails if it sees stupid test structures.
Just having it in plain english in a HOW-TO-TEST.md file is hit and miss.
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Where my fellow ninety-percenters at?
I think we put too much negative emphasis on people who aren’t as gifted intellectually. In reality, the world works because of human automotons, honest people doing honest work; living their life in hopefully a comforting, complete and wholesome way, quietly contributing their piece to society. There is no shame in this, yet we act as though there is.
But I do know multiple, just in my immediate familuy. People who graduated from school, went to the local factory and worked there for half a century before retiring. Pretty much the same job, moving widgets from A to B etc, nothing massively complex. I do respect the people who can do it and especially the ones who make it look effortless and efficient - even a bit performative.
Also because my home town is a "factory town", guess where I worked for my summer job(s). I wanted to shove a hot poker in my ear just to get away from the tedium after the first day. On the second day I was thinking how to automate the damn process to not involve me in it at all :D
I have noticed LLMs have a propensity to create full single page web applications instead of simpler programs that just print results to the terminal. I've also struggled with getting LLMs to keep spec.md files succinct. They seem incapable of simplifing documents while doing another task (e.g. "update this doc with xyz and simply the surrounding content") and really need to be specifically tasked at simplifying/summ…
Documentation for humans should be written by humans. Or at the very least read through and signed off on by humans.
Bragging about loc was silly before ai. Now it’s not only silly, but also makes you look like a huge tool.
And why do other people care? It's not "line of code" is an uniform measurement you can apply between languages.
A 1 loc Perl program can do more things than a 1000 lines of Enterprise-grade Java.