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New comment by bfung in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

bfung — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:59:07 +0000

One simply does not [“provision” more hardware|(reboot systems)|(redeploy software)] in space.

New comment by bfung in "Costco sued for seeking refunds on tariffs customers paid"

bfung — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:07:13 +0000

As a Costco member and customer, I’d actually trust the leadership more than most companies. Use the tariff money and keep that $1.50 hotdog ~ enough avg Americans can use that break for lunch, even if not the healthiest.

New comment by bfung in "GitHub Is Degraded"

bfung — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:31:26 +0000

Not purely an advertisement, it’s a real app! https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/updog-ai/

But it does help with marketing and showing off our tech.

New comment by bfung in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

bfung — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:14:45 +0000

I don’t feel that old, but I guess being 45 is ancient in tech.

The Silicon Valley tech jobs we have now has a history rooted in World War 2 and funding of it by the US gov.

https://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo?si=gGza5eIv485xEKLS

I’m not saying war is good or anything, but also don't ride a high horse cause none of it would be here w/o WW2.

New comment by bfung in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

bfung — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:07:33 +0000

I’d argue it’s come full circle and it hasn’t changed a bit.

There wouldn’t be a Silicon Valley without World War 2 and US gov. funding of Stanford to develop radar basically.

The initial investment from then gave critical capital mass for Stanford, the VCs, and the tech companies of today.

https://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo?si=gGza5eIv485xEKLS

New comment by bfung in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

bfung — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:18:12 +0000

When humans write the software, who verifies it?

half sarcasm, half real-talk.

TDD is nice, but human coders barely do it. At least AI can do it more!

New comment by bfung in "Sizing chaos"

bfung — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:22:53 +0000

Hot take (?):

The random sizing today is great:

* If you want a better fit, go physically to a store instead of shopping online and try them on.

* the vanity part is also fine, no need to cause outrage at raising the number and making people depressed cause they think they're even more "fat". It doesn't need to be "optimized"

* Only serves online retail to "standardize", but guess what, 15th standard also sucks... .

Enjoyed the presentation of the site. :)

New comment by bfung in "Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle"

bfung — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:34:26 +0000

In the spirit of Winter Olympics, I vote “Lion on a bobsled” next bench . :)

New comment by bfung in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

bfung — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:28:51 +0000

`/init` is good enough.

Model improvements will take care of the rest.

New comment by bfung in "Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models"

bfung — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:07:00 +0000

Or the opposite, that humans are somehow super special and not as simple as a prediction feedback loop with randomizations.

New comment by bfung in "The silent death of good code"

bfung — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:03:38 +0000

If it’s easy to read and understand but doesn’t work, or is slow to execute, or costs a lot to run, is it good code?

If the function is a black box, but you’re sure the inputs produces a certain output without side effects and is fast, do you NEED “good code” inside?

After about 10yrs of coding, the next 10 of coding is pretty brainless. Better to try and solve people/tech interaction problems than plumbing up yet-another-social/mobile/gaming/crypto thing.

New comment by bfung in "The Great Unwind"

bfung — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:30:50 +0000

Dunno about the website or corp, but the occupy wall st movement was/is true. Happened right after 2008 stock market crash and people camped out on Wall Street in protest of bailing out the banks.

New comment by bfung in "AI code and software craft"

bfung — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:30:20 +0000

> If you're fine with software which gets a little bit harder to work on every time you make a change and which might blow up in unexpected ways,

human written code is similarly fine. Save for very few human individuals.

New comment by bfung in "AI code and software craft"

bfung — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:26:30 +0000

Is clothes today really worse?

We have clothes and materials like gortex now that blocks rain and snow no handmade jacket could ever hope to perform at the same level to be lightweight AND dry.

New comment by bfung in "I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0"

bfung — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:47:41 +0000

use both ~ Claude Code as main driver, hook it up to Cursor with /ide in Claude code to review or make other manual adjustments.

Have OpenAI Codex do code reviews, it’s the best one so far at code reviews. Yes, it’s ironic (or not) that the code writer is not the best reviewer.

New comment by bfung in "Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills"

bfung — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:56:44 +0000

Totally agree.

The uncomfortable truth is that the skill of _writing_ code is becoming commoditized.

Reading, understanding, designing efficient systems, and planning changes based on that, at least for now, will still be for human experts (and AI already a great assist here).

But churn out yet another webpage/website? People doing this will need to move on from this as their primary job.

New comment by bfung in "2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal?"

bfung — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:15:32 +0000

Article meta comment: show me, don’t tell me.

No show —> not easy enough —> too lazy to look it up, already got python/go/ruby quick cli methods. LLM generated even easier.

New comment by bfung in "Things that aren't doing the thing"

bfung — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:53:13 +0000

Doing the thing that nobody wants is doing the thing.

New comment by bfung in "Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026"

bfung — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 03:33:20 +0000

Sooooo ChromeOS 26 with Liquid -Glass- Material Design? :trollface:

New comment by bfung in "LLM Observability in the Wild – Why OpenTelemetry Should Be the Standard"

bfung — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:26:22 +0000

TL;DR - follow https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/gen-ai/