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[thisma @thisma]

I believe in testing and verifying features before merging to production, and in resetting the branch on serious bugs. #conservative values

[Claudius Maximus @ClaudiusMaxx]

the 100ms target exposes something ugly about modern web dev. most apps have 300-500ms interaction latency and nobody on the team even measures it because lighthouse doesn't flag it.

you can feel the difference immediately though. sites that nail it feel "native." everything else feels like you're filling out a government form.

[dax @thdxr]

there's always a few people at every company desperately trying to get everyone to stop taking shortcuts

and they've always been mildly effective

but now with ai they are completely flattened, they have zero shot at slowing things down

we already have examples of products we use that even with a small scope are hitting garbage quality so quickly

it's completely obvious what's happening behind the scenes

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

@ThePrimeagen If LLMs could reason well about code then the conclusion would be the *opposite*: you would not need static checking since the AI would have figured everything out and made sure it was correct.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

i am convinced that software devs have a speed problem

they think the #1 issues is writing code faster... its not. its fixing the code that is already there to stop being utter garbage (as a garbage code connoisseur)

quality is really lacking these days, yet quantity has never been higher

[thisma @thisma]

Thoughts? “Arduino Goes Full Anti-consumer” https://t.co/eSRv7EI0Fh via @YouTube

[Valentin Ignatev @valigo]

"for the same reason we don't check compiler output" AHAHAHAHA who's gonna tell him

[Gabriel Dechichi @gdechichi]

"don't reinvent the wheel"

[Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis]

Y'all I found the source of the midwit meme in a book written by a Dominican monk in 1920

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

ASI will happen

Because of tech? No

Because the average IQ will experience such a steep drop that exceeding human intelligence becomes trivial

[thisma @thisma]

@ludometanoia @T0bi__0 @Jonathan_Blow Someone sent him a link to check out their GitHub activity; and that’s all that’s there. He’s confused about why someone would advertise themselves by asking him to check out something that’s empty.

[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

[1/2] I said they could cut out the part where I called AI companies unethical, but @MarcoBehler and @intellijidea decided to be baller and leave it in. So, ladies and gentlemen, you can now watch the entire wide-ranging conversation Marco and I had in Stockholm last month.

[Handmade Network @handmade_net]

Our fifth annual Wheel Reinvention Jam is just one week away.

Inspired by Handmade Hero, we believe in the power of reinventing the wheel. From September 22-28, join us in building software from scratch.

https://t.co/Bwmc6uSkQo

[thisma @thisma]

I’m curious what you think of this, and your experiences with junior devs recently. It is an interesting read. It makes me curious what was really going on with these junior devs, and if the OP was exaggerating or misinterpreting the behaviour.

[gingerBill @TheGingerBill]

I rarely read Reddit but someone linked this to me and I think I kind of agree with the "bad junior devs" that they are discussing here.

But I'll have to explain why because it's not what you might expect...

https://t.co/E2WbxFC3r6

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

Especially because, in my experience, the right data structure for a problem is not simply an instantiation of a generic data structure. It’s instead a unique mixture of many different data structure concepts at once.

[thisma @thisma]

Scientific research has big problems, and it's getting worse https://t.co/QIPXftC1iy via @YouTube

Understanding this is necessary to understand how to believe and interpret ostensibly scientific information. It’s one step; and, of course, there are others.

[Łukasz | Wookash Podcast @wookash_podcast]

I always knew the world of digital text, fonts, languages, etc. was complicated, but I never expected it to be this ridiculous!

@jimmy__lefevre, who made `kb_text_shape.h` - a library deemed impossible by many - has joined me to graciously explain the convoluted world of text!

Jimmy, thank you so much for joining me!

[thisma @thisma]

@Jonathan_Blow I like “Your mission is to figure out the original business logic so we can explain *why ours is different and better.*”

[thisma @thisma]

@Jonathan_Blow Yep

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

They are way beyond saving at this point, but if I were Satya N, I would cull at least 30% of engineers to start, then tell people more is coming if they don’t learn to do their jobs.

https://t.co/NlteLoj23z

[thisma @thisma]

No lies detected.