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And once you’ve written all these specs you realize it became so slow that it’s faster to do it yourself in editor
by jwpapi 5mo ago
And once you’ve written all these specs you realize it became so slow that it’s faster to do it yourself in editor
- motoxpro 5mo agoat which point you realize you never had a plan written down and you are using the code as a spec
- jbjbjbjb 5mo agoWhich takes us back to this: https://haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-sufficiently-detailed-spec-is-code https://haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-sufficiently-detailed-sp...
- girvo 5mo agoPeople don’t actually track wall clock time, I’ve noticed.
- oblio 5mo agoNope, they never do. That's how you end up with those cooking recipes that only "take 5 minutes". Sure, if you don't count buying all the ingredients, cleaning and preparing them, cleaning up the pots and pans (and probably the worktop, stove, etc), a lot of things can take 5 minutes. Even trivial stuff like scrambled eggs don't actually take 5 minutes when you take everything into account. Reminds me when I automated a manual service deployment that only "took 5 minutes". Sure, copying the binaries only took 5 minutes, but coordinating between various departments to deactivate the relevant monitoring bits, turning off the services, invalidate the caches, etc, etc actually took half a day with humans involved. Once automated and parallelized the thing took about 10 minutes for a data center.
- wiseowise 5mo agoBut have you thought about “fun factor”? It’s where you sit like an addict in a casino for weeks and burn tokens in a hope of winning a software that you could’ve written? Who doesn’t consider “fun” thinking about work crap all the time, writing to your agent, verifying walls of slop?