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GreenDotGuy 1d ago

2016: every line of code is immediately tech debt, the most important design paradigm is simplicity, I maintain a curated personal blog about minimalism

2026: haha I just have my stochastic labubu generate tons of code all the time, I don't even look at it. More is more. I regularly have nervous breakdowns about what it all means on all social media platforms

@mrtazz "stochastic labubu”

Dźwiedziu 2d ago

@gastonrampersad
Such cargo cult as the times we're in.

the tower fairy 2d ago

@gastonrampersad @mrtazz they are very famous where I live for Reasons and this made my morning XD

Alexander 😷2d ago

2016: the code is self-documenting

2026: *spends hours perfecting detailed tutorials inside a hidden folder*

Victoria🏳️‍⚧️2d ago

@alxndr @mrtazz don't forget the fact that those tutorials are often much better than actual documentation for contributors…

@tragivictoria @alxndr @mrtazz people keep saying that but whenever i open a claude md the vibe in there is like "FOR THE THOUSANDTH TIME STOP MUNCHING ON THE UPHOLSTERY TOTO!!!"

Victoria🏳️‍⚧️1d ago

@lritter @alxndr @mrtazz i can only speak about the cases I saw myself really

Alexander 😷1d ago

@tragivictoria @lritter @mrtazz I've seen both, "software engineers" begging the chatbots to "PLEASE BE VERY THOROUGH", and very useful instructions for building and testing a project, which I'm sure some human contributors would have loved to have. Shame on those sloperators either way.

@mrtazz
I skip the code generating and go straight to the breakdowns tbh

babble encat 2d ago

@mrtazz so true but hopefully they're not the same person lol

@babble_endanger @mrtazz they are the same person before and after being given free tokens for Claude

butt bud 2d ago

@mrtazz I love the term stochastic labubu

@mrtazz There's a conference-speaker dev who immediately came to mind

Cairo Braga 2d ago

@mrtazz "stochastic labubu" is a BANGER

Ray McCarthy 2d ago

@mrtazz
See C A R Hoare on producing correct software:
Either cleverly simple or massively large and complex.

Simple is easier to check but much harder to design.

A curse on managers that want to go straight from a Marketing Dept request to people actually coding.
You can't even estimate project duration, complexity and risk without capturing the real requirements in formal logical language and then doing a design (with no coding!)

jimkennedy 1d ago

@mrtazz #StochasticLabubu #ftw

rainynight65 1d ago

@mrtazz "Stochastic labubu". Don't mind if I steal that.

Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀1d ago

@mrtazz 2026 - "Stochastic labubu has a blog and spits out 17 articles a day, I might activate an agentic labubu to double check the contents and mail me a report daily."

atopoeia-o 1d ago

@mrtazz Debug shmebug mebbe we'll look at it later.

AI please verify my code for me so I can submit it seighly to 1,000 govt websites.