Although trained in physics, I worked in the computing industry with pride and purpose for over 40 years. And now I can do nothing but sit back and watch it destroy itself for no valid reason beyond hubris (if I'm being charitable).
Ineffable sadness watching something I once loved deliberately lose its soul.
I spent my time trying to make it better. Not just write code, but find better or at least different ways to do so. Simpler, cleaner, more general, more comprehensible.
What's happening today is a complete repudiation of everything I was trying to achieve.
You wrote:"But hey, the industry has spoken. Who am I to question it?"
In fact, the industry has NOT spoken. Instead it's done a Wylie Coyote, and overuses the first thing it thought of. It's just now looked down...
IMHO, it's an excellent editor for my books and articles already, and is starting to be a good lint. With all lint's problems (;-))
Think of ways to make code "simpler, cleaner, more general, more comprehensible".
One of my experiments is at https://leaflessca.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/a-prompt-for-hunting-bugs-in-claude-haiku/
One that I've debugged for writing is in my repo at https://codeberg.org/davecb/Prompts/src/branch/main/developmental_edit.txt
@[email protected] i don't have any hopes with industry. only with floss communities, not companies. of course some niche communities are a separate and unknown world for commercial developers, but who cares.
292 Posts, 99 Following, 103 Followers · Dave Collier-Brown, once of the (late, lamented) Sun Microsystems Systems programmer and author Nom de Guerre: DCB
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