It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.
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@cloudhop 20-30% of AI-generated code in Windows seems to be going really well:
https://www.theverge.com/news/867647/microsoft-windows-11-january-2026-update-bugs-issues
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3060768/windows-11-update-kb5077181-causes-startup-problems-heres-what-you-can-do.html@jernej__s @cloudhop I'd be really interested in knowing how the bugs relate to areas with LLM-generated code in.
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Software development is no longer constrained by typing speed, but by how clearly engineers articulate intent.
Writing code directly without AI articulates intent best. So, vibe coding is about articulating vague intent and hoping magic 8-ball fills the gaps im such a way that it covers your use case.@interru @cloudhop Once again they don't understand that the purpose of a programming language is to allow unambiguous expression of intent.
But then, that's how ruling classes work. They don't do the hard work and they don't understand the hard work. Which takes more knowledge, growing crops with your own labor, or ordering soldiers to collect the grain at spear-point?
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It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.
@cloudhop A lot of people are absolutely horrified to discover I can't touch-type. Just never bothered to learn. Because it doesn't limit me.
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It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.
Indeed. I have more than once been talking to someone, and when they found out what I did, they said something along the lines of "I could have been a software developer; I type pretty fast".
Always cocksure, overconfident young white men, now that I think of it.
When a CEO says this, I think it's time to sell the stock
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It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.
RE: https://equestria.social/@cloudhop/116077882659405785
@cloudhop Didn't we move away from waterfall design because detailed specification and anticipating intent were too difficult?
Asking for a friend.
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It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.
@cloudhop “Serial entrepreneur“ is just another term for “con-artist”.
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It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.
@cloudhop Both.
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RE: https://equestria.social/@cloudhop/116077882659405785
@cloudhop Equally funny (or depressing) to watch CEOs not seeing how "20-30% Microsoft code now written by AI" at the same time we see "security leak in Notepad" and "Windows 11 performance drop after last update" is not a recommendation for AI...
So can we tap the sign "when a measure becomes the goal, it stops being a measure" a few more times? One day they'll get it. One day...
@JorisMeys @cloudhop and the next day they'll forget.
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It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.
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It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.
@cloudhop imagine being like 'now buildings are no longer constrained by the speed at which we mill wood'
like ok uh that
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It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.
@cloudhop yeah and imagine the medical breakthroughs we'll get when surgeons are no longer constrained by scalpel speed!!
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It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.
The rich has zero idea about the labour AND the product. For them, everything is just commodity. Maybe because they have zero taste.
Which might explain why most of the luxury goods are so ugly.
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It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.
@cloudhop if programming is mostly typing, can we maybe consider designing better programming languages?
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@cloudhop if programming is mostly typing, can we maybe consider designing better programming languages?
@bri7 Ironically i've been trying to help my friend design a new programming language but nobody seems to think that better type systems are worth bothering with, they just look at the syntax.
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@bri7 Ironically i've been trying to help my friend design a new programming language but nobody seems to think that better type systems are worth bothering with, they just look at the syntax.
@cloudhop in
my humble opinion: better type systems, yes;more type annotations and type syntax: no
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@cloudhop in
my humble opinion: better type systems, yes;more type annotations and type syntax: no
@cloudhop more types does not lead to better types
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@cloudhop in
my humble opinion: better type systems, yes;more type annotations and type syntax: no
@bri7 See, it's hard to explain to people that you need a much more complex and powerful type system in order to *reduce* type annotations precisely because of unsolved problems surrounding inference algorithms (which is precisely what broke our first attempt). For some reason most people seem to think "better types" means "more type annotations" and I'm not sure how to explain the difference.
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It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.
@cloudhop what does he... how...
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@cloudhop Yeah, I remember all my software engineering skills I got from Mavis Beacon.
@geospacedman @cloudhop I have often wished that I could restrict my hiring of software engineers to people who could actually touch type (they're more likely to write things like comments and documentation) but sadly that would have limited the available pool. We're talking about the days when typing lessons in schools were only offered to girls, and most software engineers were boys.
