Hardy Esterhuizen

Chief something something, Netgen.

[Sergey Karayev @sergeykarayev]

Claude Code with Opus 4.5 is a watershed moment, moving software creation from an artisanal, craftsman activity to a true industrial process.

It’s the Gutenberg press. The sewing machine. The photo camera.

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

This is not true @TAKEALOT

I was at the delivery address all day.

Your online support provides no way to report this.

[Sam Rose @samwhoo]

StackOverflow graph of questions asked per month.

Holy shit.

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

My new favourite dish.

[Michael Wagener 🇺🇦 @mwmentor]

@geordinhl @Springboks Be a bit better if you could check into why the water has been cut off in the South Peninsula for the umpteenth time this year. This feels to me like incompetence. Which is unfortunate.

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

Please could we have an update on the water outage in Noordhoek ASAP @CityofCT

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

At some point the developer community will discover that the inevitable end point of AI generated software is that it will simply generate machine code directly.

Coding languages are simply an abstraction to facilitate human reasoning.

This is probably a few decades away.

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

AI can never replace humans because we have one thing it can never have: a purpose for doing anything.

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

@MrEwanMorrison @tessarowenalouw There’s a simple solution:

Invalidate all copyright rules for generated content.

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

This Cape Town winter day is up to some summer mischief.

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

Hardy's law of planning:

The more backup plans you put in place the less likely you are to need them making all the effort seem like a waste.

Inverse law of planning:

Things are more likely to go wrong when you don't make backup plans.

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

Just as calculators and spreadsheets transitioned bookkeepers and accountants from manual addition and journals, AI will uplift coders from manually scaffolding projects and the grind of coding css, html, and repetitive classes.

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

There are 2 kinds of office co-workers - those who ignore the coffee machine alert that the grounds container needs to be emptied or it needs water after they've made their coffee, and those that take care of it for the next person.

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

oh, this is extremely cool. post claims the reason point estimates of project completion times are frequently large underestimates is that they're estimates of the median of a lognormal distribution, which is heavy-tailed, and the mean is 1.6x the median

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

We are very grateful to these pilots and crew.

This is the sight and sound of relief in Cape Town when there’s a wildfire close to your neighborhood.

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

@geordinhl @Brahm_ZA @CityofCT 🙏🏻

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

@ChapmansPeakSA

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

The south peninsula is cut off apart from Chapman’s Peak drive.

How the hell can you force everyone through an expensive toll gate causing traffic chaos like this?

This is madness.

@CityofCT @geordinhl

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

@ChapmansPeakSA

[Hardy Esterhuizen @hardy71]

How is there no procedure to open the till gate on Chapman’s when it’s the only open road?

What happens if an evacuation is needed? Will the jobsworths still be sitting there taking their R64 and stamping tickets.

This is shocking.

@geordinhl @CityofCT