Weather (@chswx and @CarolinaWxGroup), dachshunds, software, Padres. Largely dormant these days; https://xitter.cf/t.co/jOU87Iq5ZL for more.
Charleston, SC
Joined October 2007
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Bluer skies are looking better and better these days. See you there?
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Jared Smith retweeted
Some Padres fans are so upset to the point of cussing out Miller for attending to his wife & his imminent 1st child's birth. If this is you & you happen to follow me at any level, please unfollow me as soon as you're done reading this. Players are human beings, not machines.
Jared Smith retweeted
Software engineering was supposed to go away when low-code/no-code hit the shelves. It was supposed to go away when WYSIWYG IDEs hit the shelves. And it didn't.
And now, with AI coding agents, it's still the same. It lowers the barrier to entry. You can get started faster than ever. You can even build small personal projects and productivity tools with little or no SWE experience.
But as soon as you want to build software in earnest, you need to know the fundamentals: Security, maintainability, scale, reliability, etc. They do not go away regardless of how advanced the software-building technology becomes.
1. Oh shit, AI can do my job better than me
2. Software engineering is dead!
3. I can vibe code as much slop as I want!
4. Oh, things are not going well. Fable/Sol/Opus all suuuck
5. But what if I constrain the agent? Put it in a straitjacket?
6. Oh, the results are pretty good now. How do I go deeper?
7. *Orders 12 software engineering books from Amazon*
8. Software engineering is alive!
Jared Smith retweeted
me: how do i open pdf
claude: You're right to ask. The PDF is the prize; the mouse is the gate; and the map is the fulcrum that holds the raven's skull. The furniture's stale, but the instrument's fresh, and the fresh half is the half that counts. I deleted your home directory.
