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You can't really understand the MAGA base's sense of betrayal on the Epstein Files without understanding "QAnon" and the long-held belief that Trump is secretly at war against a cabal of Democrat child abusers, writes CNN’s Brian Stelter. cnn.com/2025/07/14/media/trump…
One of the problems with vibe coding is that the hardest part of software engineering is not writing the code, rather it's *choosing* what to code, and designing the system (and, later on, maintaining the code/operations/etc)
The barriers and investment cost to writing code is itself a *desirable* aspect of software engineering because it forces you to make careful, good choices before you invest in building something
Because the majority of the time spent writing, say, curl, is not writing the original tool but rather maintaining it over time, it's important to make good choices from the beginning, and at every major version change
Early in my career, I built a system for a customer that made it easier for their university to automate sending invitations and login instructions for new users.
I missed some key differences in some user environments that weren't covered in my testing, and I ended up sending thousands of malformed login invitations... twice.
If I'd been forced to write separate login invitations manually for each segment of the user population, I would also have been forced to do more fine grained testing and take more care to ensure it works and think through the details.
But as a starryeyed new engineer, I was too excited by the idea of automating the whole thing in one go. I made it too easy to distribute the impact of my mistake, and I wasted the time of thousands of users.
Back in the waterfall days we reckoned about 40% design, 10% coding, 50% testing. Which did on occasion result in nervous clients who observed that we were a third of the way through the timescale and hadn't written any code yet ... but we did usually deliver to spec on time and on budget.
not too long ago, elsewhere, I read a post by someone who had vibe coded an app of 60k lines of code, and was looking for a professional developer to "fix the last bugs [they] couldn't fix with genAI". They had a couple hundred bucks to put on the table. I'd be surprised if their app could not be made with less than 10k locs...
I think it's an immature attitude borne out of people resigned to working within languages and frameworks that force a lot of 'boilerplate' on them, who haven't had a chance to develop the understanding that there are better approaches (more expressive *durable* abstractions, etc)
Proponents of the tool seem to extrapolate from the relative increase in ability of these tools in the past 6 months (mostly due to more cleverly wiring them up to the ability to use external tools and edit files) that in another 6 months they'll solve significant issues of design ... and I'm not seeing evidence of it
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I just read in the Wall Street Journal that certain areas of San Francisco remain a ‘no go zone’, despite the best and most valiant efforts of our amazing ‘only good mayor in a while’, the billionaire whose mama paid for his campaign.
The no go zone, supposedly, includes the place I live in; where in the same article the same mayor says ‘it also has the highest number of children’
And so the reality of running a council & the views of ReformUK have (without much delay) collided, as Kent Country Council discover the sending migrant workers home might have a major impact on the ability of the council to deliver social care..... oh dear, reality has bit them in the bum.
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Follow-up to Dr Bhakdi’s urgent warning. From Singapore, stats on dramatic death increases and live birth declines. Projected: 50% pop drop within 10 years.
I’m always a bit cautious of the argument that the barriers are a good thing. That easily slips into harmful gatekeeping if we aren’t careful. It’s not good when programming is inaccessible or unwelcoming.
What •is• good is that writing code slows you down and (if you’re good) makes you •think• about what the heck you’re doing — the work @saraislet is talking about — with a depth and detail that no amount of chin-stroking and up-front design work can match. Skipping that work, however you skip it, is a false gain. infosec.exchange/@saraislet/11…
One of the problems with vibe coding is that the hardest part of software engineering is not writing the code, rather it's *choosing* what to code, and designing the system (and, later on, maintaining the code/operations/etc)
The barriers and invest…
Code is a confusing engineering object for our human brains. It is a bit like building a bridge or a kitchen utensil: it’s an object without a mind, it has a function, it can fail, people do unexpected things with it. But it can also feel a bit like a person given a task: it has behavior, it •decides•, it •acts•, it •causes•.
(All arguably true of a bridge too, but most of us don’t think of bridges that way!)
The lay understanding of code leans heavily on the idea that programs are anthropomorphic, little homunculi with agency.
Where that understanding goes wrong is that humans have perception and experience and common sense. And yes, people are foolish and fallible — but ultimately humans are the adaptable element of complex systems[1], and when we design processes involving humans, we always, always lean on that adaptability.
If we say “walk out the door,” humans generally will not just walk face first into the wall just because the door is behind it.
So much of the work we do in software is about asking not just what •does• happen when the developer runs their own code, but what •could• happen when the code is running in the wild, out from under the watchful eye of its author.
That’s really, really hard. It’s a large portion of what makes development time-consuming and labor-intensive.
And it’s something you can only do if you actually understand what the code •means• — both to the computers and to the humans.
A lot of the design work that goes into programming languages and tools is about prompting developers to •think about meaning•: tests, types, scope, compile errors, runtime errors — all about •preventing code from running• in the presence of an expectation/reality mismatch.
I’m always on high alert for tools that promise to speed development by letting developers skip the thinking.
This AI vibe coding (“kids should not go into coding as a career”) era reminds me of that guidance counsellor in high school (circa 1995) warning us to stay away from the computer industry at large b/c he read an article about Moorse’s law (I assume) and figured they can only make these darn computers run so fast and then that’s it… this was before any true adoption of the Internet.
Hands on coding experience as you’re describing would dispense all the theory.
Ref: I’m still gainfully employed fixing mainframe code 🙃
I remember a similar brief panic about offshore outsourcing. All the programming jobs were going to disappear to other countries…until they didn’t. Prediction is hard, especially of the future.
That’s not necessarily the only way to use machine learning to assist coding. It is, however, one of the “magic diet pills” promises at the heart of the current hype bubble.
Whatever the dev tools of the future look like, until we have Lieutenant-Commander Data, difficult human thought will be at the heart of writing code.
In a saner environment, we’d be having a reasonable conversation about that: in what ways, if any, can a machine that repeats contextual patterns with no sense of meaning augment humans thinking through tricky things? In ways can it mislead? When, if ever, is it worth the tradeoffs? the resource costs? etc etc.
Right now, the off-the-charts money and hype make that reasonable conversation impossible except perhaps in hushed corners. (Please do not have that argument in my replies. I am tired.)
this is why I always say that the best thing for me as a dev that makes the biggest difference to my productivity and the quality of my work, is to partner with a great tester
Außenpolitische Sprecherin Disoski wünscht sich Konsequenzen für Israels Regierung wegen Lage in Gaza und kritisiert Meinl-Reisingers Begriff "Schreibtischtätertum". Diese will auf Dialog setzen und sieht sich falsch interpretiert
"Advantage over the enemy": Indian Air Force Su-30MKI successfully fired Astra missiles at targets, which are being developed for the advanced LCA AF MK1A fighter en.topwar.ru/267960-preimusche…
The Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Air Force have conducted flight tests of the Astra missile. This is an air-to-air missile.
Whatever your problems were, he is obviously a good heart. My ex refused me access to my dogs and gave one away. When she posted in the national register my girl had died, I sent her a copy of her post and thanked her for the kindest words she ever said about my girl. She always hated that girl but took her fom me.
⭕️L'advocat del pres, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, descriu el seu delicat estat de salut i la denegació deliberada de tractament.
⭕️L'advocada del Dr. Abu Safiya, basant-se en la seua última visita, descriu la brutalitat a la qual és sotmés durant els interrogatoris i les constants pallisses.
⭕️El Dr. Abu Safiya, detingut des del 27 de desembre de l'any passat, ha perdut 40 kg i patix hipertensió i debilitat cardíaca.
⭕️ 360 professionals sanitaris han sigut arrestats des de l'inici de la guerra genocida en la Franja de Gaza.
⭕️ Entre els detinguts es troben metges amb experiència i especialitats importants, accés que se'ls ha negat a pacients i ferits.
⭕️ El Ministeri de Salut insta les autoritats competents a intervindre urgentment per a criminalitzar les pràctiques de l'ocupació contra el personal sanitari detingut i pressionar-los perquè siguen alliberats.
@Richard @greyknight It took forever to get to him, and as I recall, you couldn’t just start at Tyson again if he beat you, you had to go back and re-beat Mr. sandman and Macho Man, or at least one of them before getting to face Tyson again. After three or four times making it to him, I just abandoned it.
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people are inflamed by the nature of the crimes, which distracts them from the reasons and context in which they were (are) being committed, which is even more serious
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Greek theatre teacher Efi Lazou wrote and directed a theater play as a private individual, with the title "Anne Frank speaks to the children of Palestine".
The shows were done in a private space with zero involvement of her school.
Yet, the Administration for Primary Education (under the Ministry of Education) has launched an investigation against her, trying to fire her due to that play.
Η υπόθεση της θεατρολόγου Έφης Λάζου δεν αφορά μόνο ένα πρόσωπο. Θίγει τον πυρήνα του ρόλου του εκπαιδευτικού, τη θέση της Τέχνης στην κοινωνία και το δικαίωμα στη δημόσια αναστοχαστική έκφραση.
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Throughout his long lifetime, William Gayley Simpson was a widely traveled and careful observer of Western civilization and its relations with the non-White peoples of the world, especially the Negro and the Jew. An exceptionally deep thinker, he traced the sickness that has overtaken the White man's world in the 20th century to its roots in Jewish world conspiracy and its coordinated aggressive moves against us. Simpson reveals the deception inherent in our money system, which isn't based on real wealth at all, but on debt and fantasy, and it cannot do other than cause trouble for the people condemned to use it as their medium of exchange.
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UK’s industrial sites to face power constraints without urgent grid upgrades.
A group of major British businesses has warned that without further investment, the UK’s electricity network will become significantly constrained from 2030 as the economy electrifies.
"The Achilles’ heel of the ruling elites in Europe and in the United States today is that even though they’re presiding over the political crisis of neoliberalism, the legitimacy crisis of neoliberalism, they’re thoroughly wedded to the regime. They have nothing else to offer."
Donald Trump styled himself as a populist, “antiestablishment” president. But look at what he has actually done in office, and you see he’s a status-quo politician with nothing to offer working Americans.
Höchster Masernstand in den USA seit mehr als 30 Jahren
In den USA sind die Masern weiter auf dem Vormarsch, die Infektionszahlen haben den höchsten Stand seit mehr als 30 Jahren erreicht. Ein Grund ist offenbar die wachsende Impfskepsis - auch in der Regierung. Von Nina Barth.
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Friedrich Merz findet, Deutschland müsse erst einmal nicht mehr so viel für die Zukunft der Menschheit tun: Unser Anteil an den Emissionen sei doch so klein. Das ist ein sehr schlechtes Argument.
A Russian strike on the town of Zlatopil in the Kharkiv region has killed a 57-year-old woman and injured her 13-year-old daughter, along with nine others. — Ukrinform.
Today in Labor History July 14, 1896: Legendary Spanish anarchist and military strategist Buenaventura Durruti was born. Durruti helped organize attacks on the government of dictator Miguel Primo de Riviera in 1923. He was influential in the anarchist federation FAI and the syndicalist union CNT. He is probably best known for leading thousands of anarchist troops (the Durruti Column) against the Franco dictatorship.
Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥
in reply to Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 • • •Early in my career, I built a system for a customer that made it easier for their university to automate sending invitations and login instructions for new users.
I missed some key differences in some user environments that weren't covered in my testing, and I ended up sending thousands of malformed login invitations... twice.
Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥
in reply to Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 • • •If I'd been forced to write separate login invitations manually for each segment of the user population, I would also have been forced to do more fine grained testing and take more care to ensure it works and think through the details.
But as a starryeyed new engineer, I was too excited by the idea of automating the whole thing in one go. I made it too easy to distribute the impact of my mistake, and I wasted the time of thousands of users.
EndlessMason
in reply to Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 • • •Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
in reply to Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 • • •Marc
in reply to Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 • • •I'd be surprised if their app could not be made with less than 10k locs...
recursive 🏳️🌈
in reply to Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 • • •I think it's an immature attitude borne out of people resigned to working within languages and frameworks that force a lot of 'boilerplate' on them, who haven't had a chance to develop the understanding that there are better approaches (more expressive *durable* abstractions, etc)
Proponents of the tool seem to extrapolate from the relative increase in ability of these tools in the past 6 months (mostly due to more cleverly wiring them up to the ability to use external tools and edit files) that in another 6 months they'll solve significant issues of design ... and I'm not seeing evidence of it