“Everything printed by Tabloid is automatically capitalized, and an exclamation point is added. Why would you want anything else?”

Finally an opinionated programming language with the right priorities.

Yes. Sadly Linux viruses are doing well, today. I suppose it is a reflection of Linux’s success.

Yep. And since they’re made by “Meta”, any promise that those glasses aren’t constantly recording and over sharing - well, I won’t believe it.

“Our AI security reviews 20,000 configurations every hour. Your money is safer than - shit. Well, nevermind. There’s no money left. Excuse me, I need to leave the country.”

If it’s all dumped into a single commit, I will whip your computer into the nearest body of water and tell you to go fish it out.

I’m going to steal this for an update to an internal guidance document for my dev team. Thank you.

Today I learned the term Vibe Coding. I love it.

Edit: This article is a treasure.

The concept of vibe coding elaborates on Karpathy’s claim from 2023 that “the hottest new programming language is English”,

Claim from 2023?! Lol. I’ve heard (BASIC) that (COBOL) before (Ruby).

A key part of the definition of vibe coding is that the user accepts code without full understanding.[1] AI researcher Simon Willison said: “If an LLM wrote every line of your code, but you’ve reviewed, tested, and understood it all, that’s not vibe coding in my book—that’s using an LLM as a typing assistant.”[1]

Did we make it from AI hype to AI dunk in the space of a single Wikipedia article? Lol.

Just to be clear, the person answering Flatpaks isn’t being flippant. Any tools, editors or games that Mom wants, she can safely install by searching and clicking ‘intall’, all without enough permissions to harm her computer.

Linux, for less technical parents, is genuinely really nice, now.

This is photoshopped, right?

Yeah. Warning - uninvited poetic waxing on feature flags and leadership choices, incoming…

We all agree we inevitably do some live testing at our customers risk, because no test environment is perfect.

With feature flags, we’re able to negotiate how many of our customers to test on, at a time.

But some of us prefer to forgo feature flags and risk our entire customer base on every change. It saves money, at least for a little while.

I’m not exactly fun at executive leadership meetings, but somehow I keep getting invited to them. Heh.

Lol. Even among those less stupid, most didn’t hire junior developers for the last three years, to hedge their bets.

Well, it’s three years later, AI didn’t solve shit, and we are facing an entire missing cohort of senior developers.

We’ve seen this before - back when web frameworks “made all of us obsolete” back in 2003.-

Here’s what comes next:

Everyone who needs a senior developer gets to start bidding up the prices of the missing senior developers. Since there simply aren’t enough to go around, the “find out” phase will be punctuated.

Losing bidders get to pay 4x rates for 1/3 the output from consulting companies.

Cheers!

Source: I was made obsolete by web frameworks so hard that I entered a delusion where working with web frameworks just let us produce bigger buggier websites even faster - and where the demand for web developers skyrocketed and I made some seriously respectable money while helping train up junior developers to help address the severe shortage.

Yeah. They did substantially modify the message to make it much clearer, thankfully.

“it’s not that hard” just announces to the world that you haven’t tried to do anything hard with it.

Yes! I too now intend to stop calling Chevrolet of Watsonville with my Python questions.