Mastodawn

The fact that we are *not* seeing wildly improving software all around us tells us everything we need to know.

There is no flourishing of value delivery, new product categories, more needs being satisfied better. It’s the opposite.

All we are seeing is decreases in quality, because 👏 code 👏 creation 👏 is not 👏 the problem.

Jeff Grigg 15h ago

Arne Brasseur 15h ago

Maybe this is really the way forward. Don't debate the merit of LLMs. Deplatform. Just stop talking about them. Close the floodgates of the "inevitable" narrative.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1s9jkzi/announcement_temporary_llm_content_ban/

Jeff Grigg 2d ago

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jcoglan 2d ago

the idea that I, a pretty capable computer programmer, should pay *four years of my life* to people who make 10x as much money as me to ship the worst dreck I have ever laid eyes on, is just profoundly insulting, on top of all the other harm this shit causes

Jeff Grigg 2d ago

Jason Yip 2d ago

"...the Turing Test is a test of human gullibility, not a test of intelligence." https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-has-sort-of-passed-the-turing

AI has (sort of) passed the Turing Test; here’s why that hardly matters

Don’t panic

Marcus on AI

Jeff Grigg 2d ago

Jason Gorman 2d ago

Is comprehension debt a real thing?

This graph was generated from 28 million CI workflows.

I'd say that's a "yes".

Jeff Grigg 2d ago

abadidea 2d ago

IT'S HAPPENING

GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

#github

Jeff Grigg 2d ago

AnarchoCatgirlism 3d ago

Claude Code leaked, you know what that means. Time to break down the worst typescript I've ever seen.

First off this isn't code, its advanced begging. The most common design pattern I can find is just recurseUntilSuccess which is more of a prayer than an efficient architecture.

Shit like this is hard fucking coded into the prompts. Not that the LLM will obey, they just hope it will:

"You are not a lawyer and never comment on the legality of your own prompts and responses."

"In the Sources section, list all relevant URLs from the search results as markdown hyperlinks: [Title](URL). This is MANDATORY - never skip including sources in your response"

"IMPORTANT - The current month is ${currentMonthYear}. You MUST use this year when searching"

"ONLY mark a task as completed when you have FULLY accomplished it"

These people use caps like children. This isn't code, this is begging to a false god that cannot understand your words.

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Jeff Grigg 2d ago

Ethan Marcotte 3d ago

“Your choice isn’t between risk and safety but different kinds of risk: choose well.”

I really needed to read @aworkinglibrary’s thoughts on finding our way out of workslop; maybe you do, too. https://everythingchanges.us/blog/mouthwords/

Mouthwords | everything changes

Talk with your face.

everything changes

Jeff Grigg 4d ago

Picard Tips 4d ago

Picard management tip: It takes hard work to become a master at single-tasking.

Jeff Grigg 4d ago

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Trebach 5d ago

@stux Soon there will be a renewed need for developers to clean up vibe-coded "software" because LLMs tend not to take maintainability or security into account