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Hi I'm teo.

I spend a lot of my time working with computers. I'm interested in functional programming (haskell, nix, rust, agda mostly), formal methods, wikis, public transport and being critical of tech.

No one can be free until we all are. ACAB

I've been on the fediverse on and off since about 2017

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@whitequark for the longest time my brain refused to read this properly and assumed it was called fight club every time I walked past

Managers are often really impressed with trivial code changes or assume that complex impossible changes are trivial.

This makes sense. Being a manager (as a standpoint) puts you far away from the code which limits your ability to understand it.

LLMs turning coders "into managers" then makes it difficult for them to evaluate coding agents' effectiveness. The longer you spend further away from coding, the more difficult it is to tell what is trivial and what isn't.

@jonmsterling I find that these disclosures are often free advertising for these companies and implicitly undervalues the author's effort, and then the discourse becomes everyone is using this and it is necessary to be productive
Umberto Eco uses 50% less fuel and 30% less packaging than regular Umberto
you certainly will not regret morging continvoucly
Muppets Les Miserables and Javert is the human

Wife: Where are all the coffee filters?

Me:

A message for you all to carry through the year

A little louder, a reminder:

"Good UX" mostly means "I've seen this before."

Have you ever seen an adult without your cultural baggage approach a doorknob for the first time? They'll start by pulling it, then pushing it. There's nothing "intuitive" about turning a round doorknob. But you've been trained, so you don't even notice.

"...but Apple, but the iphone", the iPhone was never "easy to use" or "intuitive". They bombarded TV with training videos disguised as ads for 6 months pre-release.

In retrospect, maybe it should have been a red flag earlier that they called the degree they gave me a "BS in computer science"