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New comment by 1024bits in "A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury"

1024bits — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:30:37 +0000

I'd also wager that hiring generalists with no prior experience in the language actually helped them, because they got to instill their culture and style from the ground up with their new hires. Pre vibe-coding, most of those people would'nt have wanted to just jump in and hack away with zero instruction.

New comment by 1024bits in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

1024bits — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:10:53 +0000

Reminds me of this story from lego:

     I gave the ducks just two coats of varnish, not three as we usually do!

His dad made him redo the lot.

Source: https://www.lego.com/en-us/history/articles/b-the-beginning-...