WeltzeitgeistGreat video. Watch it!
(This is Prof. Ada Palmer @adapalmer)
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I like to do things differently. | Dad to 2**2 kids. | Currently writing Ruby at Qasa.com | Alumni: Elabs, Hashrocket, et al. Rubyist since 2007. | 🇸🇪
Returning To Rails in 2026
https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/03/05/returning-to-rails-in-2026/#top
Returning To Rails in 2026
I love a good side-project. Like most geeks, I have a tendency to go down rabbit holes when faced with problems - give me a minor inconvenience and I’ll happily spend weeks building something far more elaborate than the situation warrants. There’s joy in having a playground to explore ideas and “what ifs”; Building things just for the sheer hell of it, as Richard Feynman put it “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”.
Ben AvelingAs programmers, we’re used to getting things ‘sort of working’ being hard, and getting from there to ‘mostly reliable’ is, if not easy, then no harder. You just fix the edge cases, working from important down.
LLMs are the other way around. Getting to sort of working is trivially easy, going to ‘mostly reliable’ is impossible. Every edge case you fix undoes some random part what you thought you had working.
@davidgerard @katrinatransfem
LLMs are the other way around. Getting to sort of working is trivially easy, going to ‘mostly reliable’ is impossible. Every edge case you fix undoes some random part what you thought you had working.
@davidgerard @katrinatransfem
"AI rewrites aren’t unethical because of licenses or old precedents. They’re unethical because they accelerate a cultural collapse where nothing has weight anymore. If every project can be digested and regurgitated instantly, we lose the ecosystem that made open source worth contributing to in the first place."
— David Helkowski
— David Helkowski
@nina_kali_nina Aha, thanks! I didn't know any of this.
To me, Asahi is known as a Japanese beer that Ruby coders like to drink.
@nina_kali_nina What's Asahi?