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Where did all of this trust come from? When I first started hacking I had the expectation that every chunk of code I came across was broken in some way. All o
by acuozzo 2y ago
Where did all of this trust come from?
When I first started hacking I had the expectation that every chunk of code I came across was broken in some way.
All of the software I relied upon was broken in some visible way. My Windows 95 installation would have multiple kernel panics per day. My Usenet reader would fail catastrophically when encountering non-ASCII text. My CD-ROM copies of games would freeze until I kicked the side of the computer which consistently worked.
I still see bugs everywhere nowadays, but they're more hidden and, honestly more frustrating since they're so opaque.
- riehwvfbk 2y agoIf you try to do this in a work context, you'll be told you are wasting time. Even if you aren't fired, you will not be considered for promotion: the way to do that is to have "a lot of impact". This means shipping a lot of half-baked stuff. The other piece of the puzzle you need is having good "work ethic". This is best demonstrated via late-night debugging heroics where you patch up the crud you shipped earlier while getting "impact" points. For whatever reason people who run companies believe that their customers wants "lots of crud quickly" instead of quality products.
- JohnFen 2y agoHow true that is depends entirely on what sort of company you're working for. It may be common with SV-style companies (and it shows), but it's not nearly as common in the rest of the software world.
- specificanxiety 2y agoWhen we decoupled results from capital. It doesn't matter how buggy your software is if people are forced to use it anyway, especially if you haven't turned a profit in ten years but you still get VC money anyway. Remember when "running a business" meant "making a good product and making some money in the process"? Yeah, me neither.
- charlieyu1 2y agoWhy are we blaming VC for bad products? There are always very profitable companies consistently chunking out bad products. Sometimes it feels like quality and profit is inversely correlated
- happymellon 2y agoMicrosoft isn't getting punished for it's bad experience. Where I work there is now a retention policy for all Microsoft products, including OneNote. Yep, if you managed to fight through the interface you are now greeted with an application that will lose your long term notes.
- rchaud 2y ago> Where did all of this trust come from? A concerted PR operation from OAI and Microsoft pushing the belief that LLMs can 'reason' and thus be trusted with things beyond formulaic high school and college papers.
- senko 2y agoI hadn't realized LLMs were a thing before Windows 95 and Usenet. Please try to understand the comment you're replying to instead of going with a knee-jerk reaction.