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New comment by dapperdrake in "My Software North Star"

dapperdrake — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:52:53 +0000

Writing memory safe code in C with (most) compilers slapping UB in your face without so much as a warning is about the same as vibecoding.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Europe raised me to fail and here is why"

dapperdrake — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:12:59 +0000

Spot on.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Moving beyond fork() + exec()"

dapperdrake — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:55:38 +0000

How else does consistency work, then?

Only being half facetious here. Maybe you or someone else really has a better take.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"

dapperdrake — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:07:33 +0000

Let me LLM-expand that for you…

New comment by dapperdrake in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:42:51 +0000

Then there are almost no domain experts.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:42:26 +0000

Ran into this, as well.

And they were really annoyed at being asked math questions.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:41:48 +0000

Additional iterations are valuable, if and only if we learn from additional iterations. Otherwise we are just spinning our wheels.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:40:27 +0000

No. AI sucks at formal languages and implications.

Lossy decompression probably won’t ever be really good at this. If it’s missing from the data, then it won’t be there.

The AI math proofs were probably already out there in tiny pieces and nobody got all of the pieces together. That is valuable. It’s different from making a piece that is missing. And the AI will just hallucinate.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:37:34 +0000

Talking to CPAs never gets you to Pacioli groups.

Talking to engineers and mathematicians gets you there.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:34:26 +0000

Working model suitable for an electronic computer.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:33:43 +0000

Excellent example.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:32:42 +0000

This is one of the few mistakes K&R made going from BCPL to C.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:31:47 +0000

That is why coders who learn problem domains are where the money is at.

Works for me.

Already learned two or three problem domains well enough and now it is starting to compound.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:29:34 +0000

Markets, not individual businesses. Many Kebab stands are tiny businesses. The fan-out for retail is necessary.

The market is big.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:27:49 +0000

Company officers already are.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:26:41 +0000

The almost all problems are "small", by your standards. Giant market.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:22:11 +0000

User-latency is key.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:21:51 +0000

Scalability stems from domain knowledge.

Sometimes you need two orders of magnitude. Sometimes you need five. Sometimes you need less than one.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:17:33 +0000

Seriously doubt you ever did serious financial math.

Coding is way easier.

New comment by dapperdrake in "Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog"

dapperdrake — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:57:23 +0000

This has drastically changed with "recent developments".

Iteration speed is everything now, if and only if you learn from the additional iterations.