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 threadPaul Rietschka1d ago

@timnitGebru Never in my life did I think I'd see software development, a field that's spent decades building best practices and being concerned with security and code quality, destroy itself in a matter of months.

At this point these people might as well be just reading tea leaves, or casting chicken bones on the ground.

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2010: Whee, I'm a software engineer!

2015: Hmm, can I really claim "engineer"? We're not *that* rigorous.

2020: Actually, yeah! Some of this really is engineering!

2026: Never mind. We're a bunch of fucking clowns.

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