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I barely know how assembly, CPUs, GPUs, compilers, networking work. Yet, software that I've designed and written have been used by hundreds of millions of peopl
by aurareturn 9mo ago
I barely know how assembly, CPUs, GPUs, compilers, networking work. Yet, software that I've designed and written have been used by hundreds of millions of people.
Sure, maybe you would have caught the bug if you wrote assembly instead of C. But the C programmer still released much better software than you faster. By the time you shipped v1 in assembly, the C program has already iterated 100 times and found product market fit.
- gzread 9mo agoCasey Muratori says that every programmer should understand how computers work and if you don't understand how computers work you can't be a good programmer.
- aurareturn 9mo agoI might not be a good programmer but I've been a very productive one. Someone who is good at writing code isn't always good at making money.
- gzread 9mo agoAI slop books made more money than JK Rowling, too.
- aurareturn 9mo agoMaybe in the future, yea. Most likely not because creating books is much easier now but total reading time can't increase nearly as fast. More books chasing the same amount of reading time.
- mghackerlady 9mo agoTo be fair, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they were better than barfs onto a page. She's not exactly Tolkien
- toldnotmywrath 9mo agoProblem with much of this talk is receipts are always nowhere to be found.
- aurareturn 9mo agoBut I don't see any receipts from the opposite side either.
- gzread 9mo agoYou don't see any good software made by people who know how computers work?
- aurareturn 9mo agoYou don't see any good software made by people who don't know how CPUs, GPUs, networking work at a deep level?