Mario Figueiredo

Retired!
Thank you for all the fish.

[Mario Figueiredo @fromdevoid]

I see a lot of my replies to posts disappearing from the thread view. The reply counter still acknowledges them, but the only way I can see my own reply to other people posts that disappear like this is by going to my profile.

What's going on? They haven't been hidden by the OP either. Their hidden replies list is empty.

[Mario Figueiredo @fromdevoid]

@LewisCTech I don't know why so many of my replies are disappearing from view and I can only see them from my profile. Am I being sent to spam?

Can you please confirm you have a top level reply from me on your thread view?

[Mario Figueiredo @fromdevoid]

Yeah. The word designer used to be more common back in the day. It was progressively replaced with architect. An architect essentially designs a solution, much like a civil architect designs a bridge. At which point architect became a verb is unclear to me. Maybe around the late 90s...

As for your provocation, that's been a battle of mine for a long time. I always tried to push back over the years the idea that a software architect should design at the engineering level. An architect shouldn't be telling engineers wich patterns to use or how the classes should be structured, for example.

It was only with C4 that I finally felt vindicated after so many years of losing this battle. Here I had a model that finally understood and encouraged software design at different responsibility and target audience levels. It became much easier for me to model a solution all the way down to the component level and allow engineers the freedom to choose the implementation details.

[Mario Figueiredo @fromdevoid]

That's not how I read that point. It seems to be talking about the need for requirements to flow both from above and below. From stakeholders and engineering.

Also, please don't call it Requirements Engineering. Today I got a spam email from a Trajectory Architect offering me a job opportunity and I'm still shaken...

[Mario Figueiredo @fromdevoid]

@ProgrammerDude The fact they can't even tell or acknowledge the numerous parallels between well known idioms and their imagined (that's the correct word) best approaches to agentic development, really paints a perfect picture.
AI really is the great enabler of the mediocre class.

[Mario Figueiredo @fromdevoid]

So, I gave @bluesky a shot for a week. But let me tell you, it's a complete graveyard for tech and software development.

After 4 years, its #feeds feature has turned into a spammy promo mailbox. You'll be assaulted by product announcements if you add any one of those feeds.

It's very hard to find anyone interesting unless they happen to drop on your regular feed. But the problem with that is the whole place is now almost entirely a political social media service, and no one uses Bluesky except to vent their political grievances.

Starter packs can't be found after you created your account either. Or so it seems. So, I can't even comb through other people's following suggestions.

It's ironic that the offshoot of Tweeter and the alternative to X turned into a platform both less topic diverse than tweeter ever was and more politically oriented than X can ever be.

Crossed off.

[Mario Figueiredo @fromdevoid]

The state of the tech startup industry, my friends. It's full to the brim with idiots who look at their products like this, and at you like meat.

[atulit @atulit_gaur]

didnt everyone know this? ofcourse your deleted photos are not deleted from your phone, what do you think your phone does to your deleted photos? send it to the sun to be incinerated?

[Mario Figueiredo @fromdevoid]

@HSVSphere @jbexte I immediately made the assumption that "ai" would probably figure somewhere on the bio of someone like this. And I wasn't disappointed. It takes a special kind of person.

[Mario Figueiredo @fromdevoid]

@ChShersh Oh! And regulations. Systems have to be highly adaptable to new regulations. It's not just writing new code or replacing existing one. The whole concept of ever changing behavior has to be baked into the design.

[Mario Figueiredo @fromdevoid]

The finance industry can be brutal. Some of its real-time requirements can make anyone feel like an impostor. Legacy systems can be found behind every door, turning data communication into an incomprehensible web. But worse of all is perhaps double-booking and ledger problems, and making it work across multiple systems running concurrently.

Tell me if it's any one of these.
I worked for nearly 10 years in that sector. Thankfully I mostly kept away of their core systems. It was not only until I got into industrial automation that I was raped. But I know what you are talking about.

[Marce___Vann__ @MarceVann]

Sto guardando in loop per la quindicesima volta e ho ancora le lacrime 🙈

[Mario Figueiredo @fromdevoid]

You should have tagged the clown. Like this: @valvesxyz

You are talking to the wrong crowd. But I understand the need to vent: it's terribly frustrating seeing these AI bros who abandoned every desire to learn the craft, pretend they can do better than those who didn't.

The claim post was eventually deleted. It's anyone's guess if they have learned anything, or will just try to vibe patch the hole they cut around the stain.

[Mario Figueiredo @fromdevoid]

@schteppe There's nothing to be fixed. It compiles valid code to the correct CPU instructions.

[Mario Figueiredo @fromdevoid]

@PokeMasterCP @sudobunni Unsolicited advice for your case:

Learn from books. Use AI only to ask questions.

Avoid video courses too. This method also reduces your brain ability to grasp, infer and reason through knowledge. Just grab good books teaching your programming language of choice.

[Mario Figueiredo @fromdevoid]

Heck! I would go even further and argue that the fact programmers used inheritance is their problem and their responsibility alone.

Even Stroustrup would criticize the idea that everything should live in a class hierarchy. And when C++ Templates were introduced back in 98, programmers stopped having excuses to use inheritance.

[Mario Figueiredo @fromdevoid]

@ChShersh @Uwu123231634 Whoa! That is an insane thing to say. No one introduced inheritance in OO languages because they didn't understand what OOP meant.

The fact languages introduced inheritance is their problem and their responsibility alone.