The Seven Voyages Of Steve3d ago

I don’t want to describe what I want to a computer in plain English. I want to express it in a formalised language more akin to mathematics than prose. Unambiguous. Logical. Deterministic.

Even if describing it in English worked perfectly, and had no other downsides, I’d still hate it. Because I wouldn’t be making it, I’d be product managing it, & I *never* wanted to be a PM.

The whole point was to directly make things. To feel the digital clay in my hands. Being a supervisor is not enough.

Show threadSören Meyer-Eppler

@sinbad relevant:

https://www.blackhc.net/essays/future_of_software/

The Flawed Ephemeral Software Hypothesis

Why software won't become disposable despite the rise of agentic AIs for coding

Andreas Kirsch—Research bio & blog
Mar 27 at 9:23pmWeb
Show threadThe Seven Voyages Of Steve3d ago
@BuschnicK a well written article - however even if software isn’t ephemeral, and code is still the primary artifact, the idea of manipulating it primarily through asking an agent to do the actual work it is not what I signed up for. I guess I’m probably done with the industry, or it’s done with me. I’ll still write code though
Show threadSören Meyer-Eppler3d ago
@sinbad same. Artist in the slop factory. Blood in the machine.
Show threadtoerror2d ago
@sinbad @BuschnicK Unless they can create actual AGI, then the machines will only create problems. Every time I see anyone who actually cares about how the code is implemented using these things, they end up frustrated and have to do it themselves. And you might say it doesn't matter how something works, if it works - but that's the problem, the more complex a program is, the less chance any vibe change has of "working", and the vibe dev has no clue how their own software works, or how to fix.