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I've been writing technical documentation and architecture docs that no one ever reads for years. I now write those same documents using ai in a fraction of the time. No one reads those either but they are memorialized so that no one can bitch about tribal knowledge.

Bravo! Wonderful read.

The comments here are a cesspool unfortunately. People bickering about pronouns used for cats, how many shots it takes for a vase to explode, or whether or not some circa-1993 software was used or mentioned.


this. the meetups i was a part of devolved into product pitches and people looking for jobs


Sounds like the same problem with <activity> meetups. Some people are there for dating, some people are there for <activity>.

Thing is, people have to realize this because mixing the two leads to misery.

Maybe they have to be explicitly told not to put their foot in it.


The coworking space I was at back in 2013 held regular weekly meetups in the common space. Sometimes cool tech was shown off, but a ton of promo talks was common. I won't say no to free pizza though.


The obviously ai generated dramatic prose. The entire site has the veneer of AI generation as well. The gradient background, the glowing header text, the monospaced fonts, the dots next to the footer subnav items that serve no purpose. If i were writing a blog today i would take comfort knowing it has never been easier to stand out by simply being yourself.


nice


nice


right? I read the kleppman post sometime ago about formal verification taking off but i could never square away who verifies the verifier.


That might emerge as one of the main tasks of future software engineers, writing formal specifications by hand.

It could be the case that Tony Hoare was right, just too early.


Yes! Formal specs could be where the understanding of what exactly the system is supposed to do gets laid out - and ideally coupled into the verification process that the code produced actually does what it is supposed to (and nothing else...). That would be a big change!


It is normal to spend a huge amount of time creating incredibly detailed behavior specs in avionics and other code where people can die from bugs.


slop


position is one thing. implementation of that position is another.


"Forty years later, in September of 2018, I started working on this version of Space War. It's an animated GUI driven system with a frame rate of 30fps. It is written entirely in Clojure and uses the Quil shim for the Processing GUI framework." - Robert Martin

https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2021/11/28/Spacewar.ht...


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