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New comment by fastforwardius in "Rethinking Database Programming"

fastforwardius — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:05:55 +0000

I'm curious what you meant by the web app use case and why you find SQL bad?

New comment by fastforwardius in "I Fired Google"

fastforwardius — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:28:41 +0000

Fair point about the reminders!

May your wait be long.

New comment by fastforwardius in "I Fired Google"

fastforwardius — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:24:29 +0000

Good to stop repeating actions making you unhappy, but how about going without assistants alltogether?

From the examples given I haven't seen any meaningful life improvement with them.

New comment by fastforwardius in "I Fired Google"

fastforwardius — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:10:54 +0000

I saw cost savings trickle down to customers only in an economy textbook.

New comment by fastforwardius in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

fastforwardius — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:16:08 +0000

Why is it surprising?

New comment by fastforwardius in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

fastforwardius — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:28:42 +0000

You can make coffee by brewing it or by using Nespresso.

New comment by fastforwardius in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

fastforwardius — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:10:51 +0000

I couldn't understand either until I remembered appearances matter more than substance.

So if your goal is to deliver as much features as possible - regardless of the quality or roi - gatekeepers are an obstacle to remove.

New comment by fastforwardius in "What color is your function? (2015)"

fastforwardius — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:29:38 +0000

Having functions literally color coded based on type would be nice improvement.

New comment by fastforwardius in "AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn"

fastforwardius — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:13:45 +0000

"Not snow, not swans, but the tent of Hasan Aga" - cca 1640.

New comment by fastforwardius in "BBEdit 16"

fastforwardius — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:11:33 +0000

MeThree.

But I think it's not the case incentives are wrong but the reality of business - what do you do when things are feature complete in all the ways that matter?

New comment by fastforwardius in "I am not a Software Engineer"

fastforwardius — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:24:46 +0000

I don't think we can really have software engineers without having software engineering...and despite the name in use I see very little evidence of actual engineering.

New comment by fastforwardius in "Finland: Failures to deliver public warnings (Finnish)"

fastforwardius — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:08:33 +0000

Today, Helsinki region was under drone alert with advice to stay indoors. It seems that the public warning system failed to notify a large number of users.

Not many information I could find but it seems you need to have latest version and always on location permissions to have a good chance of things working. However if you do, you'll probably notice battery drain and be spammed by low urgency alerts like traffic congestions.

The Finnish government recently agreed to finally adopt the standardized EU-Alert system by 2027 so there is hope for the future.

Finland: Failures to deliver public warnings (Finnish)

fastforwardius — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:08:33 +0000

Article URL: https://yle.fi/a/74-20226095

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151146

Points: 3

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New comment by fastforwardius in "Tim Davis – Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee"

fastforwardius — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:07:44 +0000

> Self-healing test suites rewrite themselves when the underlying code changes.

Those tests don't sound very useful to have then.

New comment by fastforwardius in "The AI Layoff Trap"

fastforwardius — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:16:56 +0000

There are productivity gains to be had by reducing amount of communication and internal layers IMO.

I believe there are also diminishing returns on new features/products (in general case). So you won't really need that many people.

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.