reposted @bryanl.dev: If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...
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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: It's like a war movie in that sense.
I was 16 when I came out and I was easily fooled by its rebellious anti-consumerism into viewing project mayhem as a valiant struggle.
Fully understanding it in my 20s and reckoning with my failure informed how carefully I navigate political...
@jmoiron.bsky.social I didn't expect "agentic AI" to usher in a resurgence of the Unix command line, but it makes sense in hindsight, as composition has more leverage now.
It's also resulted in a rush to poke holes in the walled gardens that have been closed since the death of web2 APIs.
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@jmoiron.bsky.social "but it might work for us" tobias funke meme where the first panel says "a beheading strike on the current leadership will result in a favorable regime change"
@jmoiron.bsky.social Caught this PBS segment on an organic Asian vegetable farm in upstate NY, and I need you to know that the farm is called Choy Division.
"Growing up, food felt like the one thing I really had in common with my family" is such a universal child-of-immigrants thing.
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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The current terminology isn't great.
"Engineer" is too general and ambiguous and in some places reserved for a particular level of education.
"Hobbyist programmer" is even worse; it sounds pejorative or patronizing.
Maybe GenZ or GenA will recognize this dichotomy and help us ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The opposing force also causes problems.
A trend of "industrial programming" getting adopted by small shops and individuals for which it was unsuitable. "This is how we did it at Google."
In an earlier era, this was best described in the "Hammer FactoryFactory" story by Benji S...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: This has all led to two unending issues.
The first is "code as craft" people and functional programming zealots constantly tutting (irrelevantly) that the industry is doing it wrong.
Those people are great programmers, but they're making a category error.