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New comment by fastforwardius in "A Tour of Oodi"

fastforwardius — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:06:16 +0000

I mostly agree with you.

I find Oodi (and Sello after redesign) to feel like a typical open office space (rather than mall) but definitely not like a proper library.

Rikhardinkatu is what I'd expect library to be while Lippulaiva is rather nice for a library that's part of a mall.

New comment by fastforwardius in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

fastforwardius — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:49:39 +0000

Which part of societal model you find inferior? I thought it was mostly economics and bureaucracy.

New comment by fastforwardius in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

fastforwardius — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:41:00 +0000

Skills are less important than foundation.

And Logo or BASIC >> Python in school context IMO.

New comment by fastforwardius in "White-collar AI apocalypse narrative is just another bullshit"

fastforwardius — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:19:41 +0000

Or more likely - you are a large business.

You provide customer support but think it's just a cost center so you happily reduce workforce by 90% and count on AI to cover the workload.

The non-trivial cases end up with the remaining workforce. They get burned out, but luckily there is plenty of people looking for any job.

New comment by fastforwardius in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

fastforwardius — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:13:20 +0000

It's an interesting question.

Years of school (reading, calculus etc) to get to the point of learning basics of set theory. One day to learn basic SQL based on understanding the set theory. Maybe few weeks of using SQL at work for ad hoc queries to be proficient enough (the query itself wasn't really complex).

For the domain itself I was consulting experts to see what matters.

I'm not sure that time it would take to know what to prompt and verify the results is much different.

Fun fact - management decided that SQL solution wasn't enerprisely enough so they hired external consultants to build a system doing essentialy that but in Java + formed an 8 people internal team to guide them. I heard they finished 2 years later with a lot of manual matching.

New comment by fastforwardius in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

fastforwardius — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:34:42 +0000

I seem to remember doing it in SQL (EDIT_DISTANCE) 20ish years ago. While I wouldn't say it worked beautifully, I also didn't need to make a single line of Rust :) also no more than 2 line s of SQL were needed.

New comment by fastforwardius in "You don't have to"

fastforwardius — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:08:01 +0000

I guess it's a lost skill.