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I don't agree with that conclusion that it just works. I'd argue that it doesn't work and gives the false illusion of things working right or well. There's a l
by dfischer 6y ago
I don't agree with that conclusion that it just works. I'd argue that it doesn't work and gives the false illusion of things working right or well.
There's a lot to unpack there.
Another way to describe it is that software and hardware are only becoming increasingly complex. What are the total amount of people that understand this complexity end to end? That is a very small elite. Given anything goes wrong like infrastructure or some unknown unknown event then the entire idea of "Just Works" is going to be surely broken. This is a huge attack vector to humanity.
- akkartik 6y agoYou've probably seen Jonathan Blow's talk on the subject: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk https://youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk I'm super interested in the subject: https://github.com/akkartik/mu https://github.com/akkartik/mu. In the framework of this thread I focus on 2 of the 3 layers: problem and software. Hardware is out of scope. For now. Recently I've started thinking about BIOS (inspired by https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0031 https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0031). So perhaps it's only a matter of time.
- dfischer 6y agoI haven’t seen the talk actually. I’m increasingly more interested in this problem space and it’s good to find like-minded people and ideas. Thanks for sharing. I’ll look into it!