bandrami

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721.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I think it has to actually work at least once before we can start predicting it will be the norm.
722.
by bandrami 9mo ago
As Spolsky said a quarter century ago, "bloat" is just "bugs somebody already fixed". (He may have actually said that about "cruft", but the idea still applies.)
723.
by bandrami 9mo ago
If software already exists that does X, X is a solved problem. You didn't hire a developer to solve already-solved problems.
724.
by bandrami 9mo ago
To the first question, if your senior devs can do that there's almost certainly something more directly valuable to your business they could be doing than solving a problem your vendor has already solved The second question is a valid
725.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I don't do tea leaves so I wouldn't commit to that, particularly because I think SAAS was oversold in general even before LLMs came out. But I think the idea that the industry as a whole will shrivel away just isn't feasible,
726.
by bandrami 9mo ago
That's a huge part of it. But also you presumably hired a full-time programmer for a reason, and in almost every case that reason was not to have somebody to write and maintain your CRM system. So any system they build and maintain i
727.
by bandrami 9mo ago
It's a tale as old as time that developers, particularly junior developers, are convinced they could "slap together something in one weekend" that would replace expensive SAAS software and "just do the parts of it we act
728.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Bingo; the exact same arguments against regular-coding it in-house apply to vibe-coding it in-house.
729.
by bandrami 9mo ago
If you want actual physical custody of gold you'll be paying a lot more than the alleged spot price; what you buy on the metals market is a certificate against gold held by a clearinghouse (which certificates are significantly oversold
730.
by bandrami 9mo ago
They're easier to accept but significantly harder to use
731.
by bandrami 9mo ago
"A marathon sounds like a really long way to run. Maybe if I simultaneously juggle it will distract me from how tired I am."
732.
by bandrami 9mo ago
It's broadly agreed that hasn't been the case for a while now, but that at the moment it's better for everybody if we pretend it still is
733.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I could put all of my cables in one giant bundle...
734.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Which generally make the home less valuable
735.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Stuff like this used to make me incandescently angry but as I've gotten older I've come to understand that honestly we just can't have nice things
736.
by bandrami 9mo ago
XCode re-associates its preferred filetypes every time you update it, or at least pretty reliably does for me
737.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Particularly since that mantra started around 2005 or so, which was exactly when Silicon Valley stopped creating companies that could run at a profit without a constant investor firehose.
738.
by bandrami 9mo ago
"Why isn't there better software available?" is the 900 pound gorilla in the LLM room, but I do think there are enough anecdotes now to hypothesize that what agents seem to be good at is writing software that 1. wasn't e
739.
by bandrami 9mo ago
There are self-hosted Forths
740.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Huh. I'm extremely skeptical of AI in areas where I don't have expertise, because in areas where I do have expertise I see how much it gets wrong. So it's fine for me to use it in those areas because I can catch the errors,
741.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Because why would you make something broken when you could make something not broken?
742.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Init and run control aren't the same thing. Which is part of what's nice about sysv (which, yes, OpenBSD's init is based on). OpenBSD's run control system is particularly nice, and it's the sort of thing you can use
743.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Huh? Not even remotely
744.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Why do your magic space computers not require maintenance?
745.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I got one of those Asus ROG laptops that bragged about having an NPU and I kept trying to figure out how to access it until I realized they just meant the integrated Ryzen GPU (which is also responsible for getting anything rendered by the
746.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Is this really that hard to type? https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/etc/rc.d/watchdog...
747.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I mean, every cross-platform commercial DAW manages to do it? Bitwig, Renoise, Reaper, even VCV.
748.
by bandrami 9mo ago
It's not just "very challenging", it's "very challenging and also solves no actual problem we face".
749.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Well this was just announced, and I'll be surprised if nobody gripes about a $2T dilution of their equity.
750.
by bandrami 9mo ago
"Where is the output?" remains the giant elephant in the AI room. You can tell because people get mad when you ask that.

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