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by satisfice 6mo ago
A sweet disorder in the dressing Kindles in food a wantonnessing; A bun about the burgers thrown Into a fine distraction; An erring lettuce, which here and there Enthrals the growling stomacher; A sauce neglectf
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by satisfice 6mo ago
You silly men. You think green fields and blue sky thinking will make space colonization less expensive and more obtainable than a new airline terminal. Of course the proof is in the utter lack of progress toward obtaining the stars, despit
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by satisfice 6mo ago
This workflow is another example of a developer with contempt for testing. Yes there is iteration and review and output checking. In relatively low risk projects that is enough— but so is basic vibe coding. At some point in a serious projec
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by satisfice 6mo ago
Can we have a science paper that explains why we can colonize Andromeda but we can’t build high speed rail?
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by satisfice 6mo ago
How can you possibly not understand? You really are flummoxed about people who devote themselves to supporting their families economically and thus invest great energy into that pursuit? That’s like going to the Olympic Village, among all t
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by satisfice 6mo ago
I wrote a couple of books about testing. Yes, writing nuance is really hard. One of my readers noticed I contradicted myself across two different sections, due to a single missing word.
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by satisfice 6mo ago
It's what everyone other than pedantic jerks think AGI means. Read a book. Watch a movie. Every depiction of AGI is essentially a depiction of a human. Sometimes a human without substantial emotions. That's sentience.
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by satisfice 6mo ago
That's not what anyone means by it. Are you paying attention to why people care about AGI? AGI means "human-like."
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by satisfice 6mo ago
I feel better reading your reply.
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by satisfice 6mo ago
There is no point in talking about AGI unless you mean sentience. That’s what everyone cares about. The rest is technobabble.
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by satisfice 6mo ago
Must say there is substantially more helpful material about critical thinking in the comment section, here, than in the article itself.
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by satisfice 6mo ago
This article commits exactly the sin that it claims to warn against. It has obligatory positive statements about the value of critical thinking, surrounded by highly disparaging comments about how people practicing critical thinking in good
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by satisfice 6mo ago
Yeah if I am going to kill a guy, might as well taunt him, too. I don’t think it goes any deeper than that.
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by satisfice 6mo ago
‘There is a confirmation bias at work here: every developer who has experienced such a remarkable outcome is delighted to share it. It helps to contribute to a mass (human) hallucination that computers really are capable of anything, and re
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by satisfice 6mo ago
Tools don’t have rights. Neither do silicon, sandwiches, or centimeters.
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by satisfice 6mo ago
In the software business, if a product doesn’t do what you want it to do we call that a “defect.” Defects get fixed. Defective products that can’t be fixed are discarded in favor of better ones. “If it’s truly intelligent…” is an empty cond
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by satisfice 6mo ago
This article crosses a line for me. The line is “It’s not necessarily helpful to be clear about lines.” combined with “who the hell are you to tell us how to live, kiddo?” with a little bit of “let’s all silently agree that each human shoul
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by satisfice 6mo ago
Are you not entertained??
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by satisfice 6mo ago
Automation was used in testing since the beginning, of course. (Earliest vivid example I have is from a 1956 television commercial.) Spreadsheets certainly existed. We know that. What I don't have is any example or testimonial from any
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by satisfice 6mo ago
Was anyone using a spreadsheet to drive automation for testing earlier than 1988? I have some reason to believe my team was the first within Apple SQA to lean heavily into that, but I’d love to hear of earlier examples.
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by satisfice 6mo ago
The world seems to be divided between people who assume that things work well until they are proven not to, and the other kind of people, who are known as “responsible adults.” Responsible adults say that vibe-coding a serious product is a
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by satisfice 7mo ago
In this ever-changing world, it pays to delve beneath the surface of a casual claim— if you know what I mean.
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by satisfice 7mo ago
At last, a story about an invasion of delicious aliens!
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by satisfice 7mo ago
Yes, I want to see the prompts. Yes. But I won’t promise to read it, because it’s bad writing. So maybe it would be better to not use the LLM to draft writing that pretends to be you. That would be easier on everyone who reads. Instead we l
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by satisfice 7mo ago
For every single post of this type: please stop writing as if you know that any of this works well. You don’t know! You are experimenting, speculating, and excited to share. That’s fine. What’s not okay is presenting a false impression that
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by satisfice 7mo ago
None of these assumptions are required to avoid hypocrisy.
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by satisfice 7mo ago
In a competitive game, it is perfectly moral to want to win even if it means denying a win to your opponent. The act of attacking does not make defending a sin.
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by satisfice 7mo ago
Wealthy guy says that thing his wealth depends on is working out great!
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by satisfice 7mo ago
Comments like this are what I hope to see whenever I visit. Spurring thought. Challenging the obvious.
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by satisfice 7mo ago
I’m sorry you had trouble with this, but I don’t understand the problem. I really don’t. I am a tester. I’ve been a tester for 39 years. I’ll be a tester until I die, whether or not anyone pays me for it. At some point, you believe I am goi

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