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
That is laugh out loud stupid.When I was doing software development full time (financial data processing and analysis), I would sometimes spend a whole day running code and generating and analyzing output only to go in and change a couple symbols on a couple lines to fix corner cases. In that time if you'd handed me Moby Dick and asked me to type it into MS Word I'd have typed 50 or 60 thousand words, around 1/4 of the book.
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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 ah yes, nevermind all the tools text editors and IDEs provide to speed up development...
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@cloudhop as a composer I am no longer constrained by how fast I can play the piano
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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" huh. I'd like to see his NFT portfolio
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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 The only time software development was ever constrained by typing speed was when we still had to do it over a 1200 modem connection. And guess what? There were ways to work around that.
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@cloudhop Actually, the latency was the problem not the 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.
@cloudhop hmm, I wonder why windows has all of a sudden released some of its worst patches in history
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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
really isnt the major factor in what takes up the time of this lengthy engineering and construction process tho -
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?
