Timnit Gebru (she/her).1d ago

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

Incredible thread.

Answered some of my questions about what people think the future will be if everyone codes like this. It seems to be: instead of thinking about constraints of any kind or "what is the most efficient way to do Y or the most readable way to do Z?" answer the question, "what is the most brute force way to perform X if I pretend that there are no resource constraints and nothing needs to make sense as long as I see some sort of test passing? Just ship it with spaghetti code.

Show threadDeManiak 🇿🇦 🐧-The Stinkening22h ago

@timnitGebru I keep thinking "but if it works, does it matter?", and then I remember that yes, yes it does matter.

Shitty code breeds bugs. The shittier the code, the harder it is to find and fix those bugs.

Bugs cost money in the real world.
In the extreme case, lives.

In between is a vast grey zone of data breaches, ID theft, extortion etc, enabled,at least in part, by crappy code.

Show threadDeterioratedStucco

@kaasbaas
Made worse by the fact that the thing isn't testable in the first place.

@timnitGebru

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