Tilton Raccoon
This comment sums up why I’m so tired of programming in 2026 pretty well
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Show threadDelta Sierra8h ago

@tilton I get the sentiment, agree totally.

But, if someone slapped a circular saw out of your hands, I think they're going to say something like "Arghhhghgggg my fingers!" instead.

Show threadXoa Gray8h ago
@tilton Absolutely everything in tech, 100% has been this now for years and it's so fucking old.
I'm kind of surprised even the jackasses that are huffing their own "AI" farts aren't tired of the stink at this point.
Show threadFoxVK8h ago
@tilton I think that is how being old feels like... 🤷‍♂️
Show threadThommy7h ago
@tilton yeah I fucking hate it. It’s so self-obsessed and backwards. We devs should be thinking about how best to serve end-users not fighting a holy war on behalf of dev tool vendors.
Show threadIsaac Ji Kuo4h ago

@thomasjwebb @tilton I am so so so tired of this, and it feels like it will never end, but also ...

I half live in SQL world, and it shows that there is a better way. For the most part, databases all speak one computer language SQL. Yeah, different SQL DBMS vendors have different products with different features, but for the most part you learn SQL once AND YOU ARE DONE.

No endless cycle of the next hot computer language, FOMO, lava layers, blech.

Just SQL.

Show threadThommy1h ago
@isaackuo @tilton probably one of the better use cases I've heard of Claude was someone using it to rewrite things that were written in some proprietary ORM DSL back into SQL. Using one shiny new thing to back out of a previous shiny new thing. I think a lot of Claude users are falling straight into the vendor lock-in trap making special tools for it instead of just making a damn script that they can run on their machine. And letting it make spaghetti code that humans can't understand.
Show threadjack the nonabrasive7h ago
@tilton Who wrote this? What's it a comment on? (I know it's about LLM's etc but what specific thing is it responding to?)
Show threadTilton Raccoon7h ago

@karabaic A comment on Reddit. Full context here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Common_Lisp/comments/1screye/comment/oedprrx/

Show threadpancakes🔜Bed7h ago
@tilton techbros:
Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱4h ago
@tilton
It sounds like the old thing about "If the only tool you have is a hammer, all problems start to look like nails" or similar.
The wheel turns, of course.
Show threadslotos4h ago
@tilton Funny how this would be relevant 10 years ago too.
Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machines3h ago

@tilton

Nail gun's supergood tho!

CHUNK CHUNK
Yeah? You gotta admit!

CHUNK

Show threadPaul Hutchings2h ago

@tilton waiting until we can talk about why trying to metaphorically cut lumber with a nail gun is the dumbest fucking thing ever.

Its the whole "when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail" except because it's a nail gun the misuses and mistakes happen at 10x the speed just like they are now