Apple is going to stop supporting Intel machines. I’ve just realised that I have programmed the Mac on 68K, PowerPC, Intel, and Apple Silicon. Feeling quite old.
Andrew Eades
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London-based person who like making things with software. From BAFTA winning games to productivity apps.
Time to put down the internet the day…
For decades I’ve been trying to stop coders from trying to execute code in their heads. Reading code properly is hard and humans cannot hold enough in their tiny brains to do it well. That’s why I advocate autmomated tests, pure functions, strong types, small functions, clear boundaries, etc… Code review should be the tool of last resort. Print debugging? In 2026? A lot of what constitutes good programming is about readability. What if we didn’t need that constraint any more?
F1 and F1 teams, we are not interested in your new livery and new race suits. This is getting ridiculous.
…. write a LinkedIn post.
@Hannahdowney I think it was your question last night at @NSLondonMeetup about how we get Software Architects when there are no juniors left to pursue the career path. Part of the joy of my job has been training juniors and I think that is what sort of deflated me about AI for a while. But I’m coming out the other side. Maybe we train Software Architects differently. Building Architects don’t start as brickies and work their way up. I think CS degrees might have to change…
I’m off to NSLondon at Apple HQ in Battersea.
Brent SimmonsBefore sending Apple any money this week, remember that Tim Cook attended a private screening of the Melania documentary at the White House later in the same day that Alex Pretti was murdered by this administration. He knew about it and went anyway.
It’s like when before the browser address bar was merged with the search field, we all went to google.com and “searched “ for the website because it was easier than typing or mistyping a URL. So instead of going directly to a site, we all did this hop from google.com even though it was less efficient.
The real thing here is that people desperately want text-to-action. LLM’s are probably part of the solution but not the entire solution. It would be trivial to write a spreadsheet function that did this job 100% correctly but we are settling for a half-working thing because we are too lazy to start.