That was a long time ago and they said that formal methods were the future back then, too.

Uber's profit margins are about 10% value created and 90% exploitation of power imbalance between the rich corporation and itinerant drivers and less well capitalized competitors.

Whether somebody acknowledges this reality or not tells you where their political allegiances lie.

If you find writing tests tedious enough to make using an LLM to write them seem like a good idea you're probably churning out repetitive tests, unnecessary tests, tests which aren't great at catching bugs.

>I want to start by saying that I’m neither an AI-fanatic

Kind of like saying you are a fanatic before saying you aren't.

I don't think theres too much here (e.g. "spec driven development") I haven't seen elsewhere.

The people who echo that sentiment without educating themselves are giving them a helping hand.

In particular the whole "the best people are the ones who will use it the best". IME the best ones are the ones keeping it the most at arm's length while the people who embrace it the most churn out epic amounts of utter slop.

I like how HTMX does SPAs. It straddles the divide nicely between simple and capable.

a bad king and a bad CEO could be replaced with a spinning top with no loss in productivity (and maybe some gain).

This certainly isn't a result of democratic overreach by a concerned group of citizens. No demographic is demanding this.

It's one of those "create the infrastructure for stasi 2.0" the epstein elite tries to periodically ram down our throats ironically using "think of the children" to manufacture consent.

The last time they did this they contracted saatchi and saatchi to run an a disturbing campaign: https://londondaily.com/revealed-uk-gov-t-plans-publicity-bl...

9 times out of 10 somebody who perceives a huge amount of anti Semitism online wrapped up in criticism of israel will absolutely categorically refuse to condemn the genocide.

When they refuse, this is how you can tell that it is simply projection and disguised islamophobia.

Israel is also pretty open about funding bots to spread that kind of message both offline and online.

So what's the point? You've just confirmed very clearly that your criteria for what constitutes a paid comment is your idiosyncratic opinion. you refused to give criteria beyond "convince me".

These are things I've come to expect from bots, clueless journalists, clueless juniors, clueless expert beginners and clueless members of the professional managerial class but almost never from experienced software engineers.

To be fair, seasoned software engineers always seem to get shouted down online by the former group which is louder and more numerous so you could argue that we "lost" the argument.

Meanwhile big tech's vibe coded monstrosities are increasingly exploding all around us in ever more humiliating ways while the humans who had this tech rammed down their throats get thrown under the bus.

This undeserved halo effect over AI is maintained in order to keep the needle from pricking the ginormous stock market bubble that hinges upon the religious belief in the lie AI Will Replace Us All Soon.

You seem very confident you can tell the difference so I thought I'd ask first.

The profit margins on creatine are not high.

There are a lot of people with high slop tolerance and who are seemingly prepared to endure the side effects of that.

If you sit on an underdeveloped plot of land in a high value location your tax bill will exceed your rental income.

The land is worthless to you. So you'll sell up to somebody who will make something of it.

It's practically a law of business: executives prioritize their power first and their company's profit margins second. This is one reason why outsourcing coding was so popular despite not saving money and being so commercially disastrous - execs were in the driving seat with that relationship much more than they were with us.

Despite what some people will tell you about how the home assistant consumer segment "doesn't matter" (it does) it really is more about the tangibility of control over data vs the intangibility of lost consumer goodwill.

Companies are not profit maximizing at all costs. The shareholders and the executives are not a singular body they have different and sometimes wildly divergent interests.

Just because they're in charge of multi billion dollar corporations doesn't mean that they don't get distracted by shiny baubles like a 3 year old or that they don't feel the pressure of being "cool" like a teenager. They're not LLMs.