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by deterministic 2mo ago
Nope not true at all (30+ years of experience here working on very large scale software). The whole point of being agile is to design your software architecture to be agile. That's what I do. And it works.
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by deterministic 2mo ago
If that ever happens to you, you're doing it wrong. I've spent 30+ years building large-scale software, and it has never happened to me. Good software design lets you accommodate even major requirement changes with minimal changes
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by deterministic 2mo ago
> Unfortunately written by an AI - that completely takes the wind out of the content I don't think the all-too-common "written by AI" remarks are helpful. The article was informative and useful. That's what matters IM
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by deterministic 2mo ago
When using AI to generate text, I highly recommend asking it to "simplify" the text before publishing. Maybe even more than once.
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by deterministic 2mo ago
> AI can generate components faster than humans can understand their combined execution That is true but you are still responsible for the code that gets checked in. So slow down and make sure you do understand it before committing it.
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AI Coding is Exhausting [video](youtube.com)
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by deterministic 2mo ago
I couldn't have explained it better myself.
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by deterministic 2mo ago
We already have. See seL4.
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by deterministic 2mo ago
If you work twice as fast but don't add a single $ to your income then you haven't increased productivity at all.
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by deterministic 2mo ago
GLP-1 has negative side effects (loss of lean mass for example) that I most definitely do not want.
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by deterministic 2mo ago
> AI has given a lot of completely incompetent people a false sense of competency 30+ years of experience writing large applications in C++ and TypeScript, including JIT compilers, commercial game engines, and business-critical systems u
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by deterministic 2mo ago
An additional note running SQLite in production: SQLite gets really slow when using very large BLOB's (100+ MB). I ended up having to store the BLOB's externally and refer to them from the SQLite DB. Not ideal of course (the BLO
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by deterministic 2mo ago
> Only because Lisp Machines, or variations thereof didn't took off in the mainstream It apparently turned out that it was more efficient to compile Lisp to a "normal" CPU instead of using an expensive custom non-generic &
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by deterministic 2mo ago
> I don’t know but to me it seems a bunch of people should learn proper typing There is no way your hands can produce code faster than a machine. Even before AI, I used a custom code generator for years. It generated about 90% of the cod
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by deterministic 2mo ago
I code the parts that are new and interesting. However after 30+ years of programming most code is something I have done before so I love getting Claude Code to do it :)
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by deterministic 2mo ago
I 100% disagree. I'm the maintainer of a large, business-critical C++ application with over a million lines of code that's used by major international companies. Claude Code routinely handles large and complex code changes correct
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by deterministic 3mo ago
What an excellent read. It absolutely nails the "why aren't everybody writing software now" question.
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by deterministic 3mo ago
Economists are famous for almost always being wrong predicting the future.
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by deterministic 3mo ago
> I enjoy making bread at home but it costs 10x and tastes like dog shit Eh? You enjoy making stuff at home that tastes like dog shit? That doesn't make sense at all. BTW: I love making bread and it tastes amazing!
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by deterministic 3mo ago
The #1 rule when using AI (IMHO) is simple: don't outsource your thinking. Use AI to brainstorm, implement features, learn new things, improve your writing, or speed up repetitive work. Just make sure you keep thinking while doing so!
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by deterministic 3mo ago
Who cares? I most certainly doesn't. As long as the article is well written.
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by deterministic 3mo ago
> go ahead and learn common lisp macros Lisp macros used to be the one advantage Lisp had over other programming languages. However nowadays macros are common. There are even languages that has more than one flavour of macro system (Hask
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by deterministic 3mo ago
I use plenty of DSL's in my daily work maintaining 1 million+ lines of C++ code used by very large companies around the world. No macros needed or wanted. More than 90% of the production code is generated from DSL's. Outside of C+
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by deterministic 3mo ago
> Common Lisp it's in places where trying to build such kind of software in C/C++ would be a reciper for disasters. I personally never blame the tools. I have written fairly complex software in 68000 assembler and it (1) worked
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by deterministic 3mo ago
> Alan Kay says a lot of problems with C/C++ go away when using the higher math more easily expressible in Lisp and like minded languages That doesn't match my experience at all. Math and numbers are in general not a problem ex
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by deterministic 3mo ago
I would be very interest in seeing how "getting lisp" enables you to write software that is more successful than the C and C++ software that runs the world. Perhaps you have written software in Lisp demonstrating this? Something y
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by deterministic 3mo ago
Reject documents that contain LLM hallucinations. Or use LLM's to generate 12+ pages of detailed reviews of those documents and return to sender.
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by deterministic 3mo ago
I love using Claude Code in my daily work. It has made me much more productive. But I also know that trying to optimize every second of my workday is a recipe for stress and eventually burnout. Nobody benefits from that. So the key is to fi
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by deterministic 3mo ago
Please ask AI to simplify x 3 before posting AI generated articles.
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by deterministic 3mo ago
Sorry, but I don't think you understand how many different skills are involved in building software that large companies can actually rely on. Writing code is only one part of the job. I use Claude Code every day and I love it. It has

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