@Expedia Reminder: never book with these travel agencies. They cancelled our flight to Japan 3 months before the trip with no alternative offered. They refund you, sure. but flights are nearly 3x pricier now.
Customer exp is garbage too!
@Expedia@LATAM_ARG LATAM also dodges all responsibility and just points the finger at the agency, no alternative offered. Awful experience | Tambien ustedes se lavan las manos y pasa la pelota a la agencia sin darte una alternativa. Pesima experiencia
Un clase media baja muerto de hambre invierte la totalidad de sus ahorros, 200.000 usd, en bitcoin. Gana 300.000 usd y deja la guita en una compu vieja como un "trofeo". Sigue viviendo como muerto de hambre doce años, hasta que llega a funcionario y vive como rico.
Es razonable.
I did web development for give or take 10 years. So, naturally, I learned and forgotten A LOT of absolutely useless technologies.
But there is one that is so useless, that if I had a choice of going back in time and either killing Hitler, or warning myself against spending time on it...
It would still be Hitler, but maybe I could stop for just a bit on the way back, and throw in a couple words to my younger self to not waste my time on this.
This is why PR diff speed matters. This isn't a dunk on GitHub specifically, because GitLab, Forgejo, etc. are all equal or worse. But this is the kind of thing that drives me nuts, because this is a core workflow and its slow enough I literally take my hands off the keyboard.
Btw, when my mouse jiggles on the left, its because the page is literally skipping frames and I'm instinctively shaking my mouse to see if it'll respond. And on the keyboard input you can literally here me finish typing before a letter even shows up.
For someone like me who is an expert at these tools, my brain navigates the tool dramatically faster than it can keep up, and that is not good. The tool should not get in the way.
I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.
I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).
It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.
The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.
We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.
I worry.