@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.

@prietschka @timnitGebru

software development, a field that's spent decades building best practices and being concerned with security and code quality

Do not mix "software development", the scientific-or-close-to-it discipline that exists, that has principles, that is taught (often badly, but that's another debate) in schools, with what techbros flood the industry with top-down.

Enterprise coding was never driven by sound software development practices. It was always bullshit. It was always an application of the latest company fads and buzzwords; vibe coding is only the latest one, certainly the most harmful, but not fundamentally different.

The knowledge and skill remains, no matter what these assholes do. It just won't be found in the capitalist world. It never was.

@ska @prietschka @timnitGebru The enterprise approach is always focused on delivering a product, and hardware is usually cheaper than optimisation.

If your database is lagging, what's the best solution: Hire a database guru to optimise your configuration and make sure you are using appropriate indexing and query structure, or just whack another quarter-terabyte of RAM in the server?