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People sometimes do things because they enjoy doing them, even if they aren’t particularly good at them.
I have two problems with that. One is, you can do what you like quietly and without disturbing anyone around you. Second is the Dunning Kruger effect: witnessing it first hand is never fun.
To your neighbor, doing it badly is still doing the thing.
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The plumbing also needs iteration and prototyping, but sound, forward looking decisions at the right time pay dividends later on. That includes putting extra effort and thinking into data structures, error handling, logging, naming etc. rather earlier than later. All of that stuff makes iterating on the higher levels much easier very quickly.
The essay is quite similar to this one from strangestloop.io[0] [0]: https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-...
The contents are so similar, that it cannot be coincidence. It really seems like the author of this blog simply plagiarized the strangestloop post without referring to it at all...
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While I do agree with the content, this tone of writing feels awfully similar to LLM generated posts that flood some productivity subreddits recently. Are there really people who "spend weeks planning the perfect architecture" to build some automation tools for themselves? I don't buy that. Commenter's history is full of 'red flags': - "The real cost of this complexity isn't the code itself - it's onboarding" - "This…
> Commenter's history is full of 'red flags': - "The real cost of this complexity isn't the code itself - it's onboarding" - "This resonates."
Wow it's obvious in the full comment history. What is the purpose for this stuff? Do social marketing services maintain armies of bot accounts that just build up credibility by doing normal-ish comments, so they can called on later like sleeper cells for marketing? On Twitter I already have scroll down to find the one human reply on many posts.
And when the bots get a bit better (or people get less lazy prompting them, I'm pretty sure I could prompt to avoid this classic prose style) we'll have no chance of knowing what's a bot. How long until the majority of the Internet be essentially a really convincing version of r/SubredditSimulator? When I stop being able to recognize the bots, I wonder how I'll feel. They would probably be writing genuinely helpful/funny posts, or telling a touching personal story I upvote, but it's pure bot creative writing.
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While I do agree with the content, this tone of writing feels awfully similar to LLM generated posts that flood some productivity subreddits recently. Are there really people who "spend weeks planning the perfect architecture" to build some automation tools for themselves? I don't buy that. Commenter's history is full of 'red flags': - "The real cost of this complexity isn't the code itself - it's onboarding" - "This…
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While I do agree with the content, this tone of writing feels awfully similar to LLM generated posts that flood some productivity subreddits recently. Are there really people who "spend weeks planning the perfect architecture" to build some automation tools for themselves? I don't buy that. Commenter's history is full of 'red flags': - "The real cost of this complexity isn't the code itself - it's onboarding" - "This…
I understand that it's not the main point in your comment (you're trying to determine if the parent comment was written using an LLM), but yes, we do exist: I've spent years planning personal projects that remain unimplemented. Don't underestimate the power of procrastination and perfectionism. Oliver Burkeman ("Four Thousand Weeks", etc.) could probably explain that dynamic better than me.
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I've forgotten where I've seen this now, but one of the best developers I've seen wrote code by writing it, deleting everything, then writing it again, sometimes many times in order to get their final code. I found it fascinating.
One of my friends calls it "development-driven development".