Programmer, hacker, thinker, hopefully rational, definitely opinonated.
Joined September 2010
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It doesn't have neither the context length nor can it focus on every line in a huge codebase. Give it a tight scope and it'll do wonders.
We're still good (meanwhile), because there's place for us to scope and organize and design, but not because we misuse a tool and blame it.
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I used to love the idea of polished, beautiful code in my projects.
But the fact is the quality of the code doesn't bring value to the users. It only, possibly, brings value to the makers, if they happen to need to change the code in the future to bring more value to the users.
20 Sep 2025
I don't do Software Engineering anymore.
Nobody does.
It's a time when the truths of Software Engineering have been cancelled. The common ground now, pushed by the ever-growing crowd of deniers, is that we no longer need to write good software. That good code has no value. That hitting the market requires anything but good code.
The truth is that Software Engineering works for everything aimed at the future. But the current industry's goals are short: build some shit, sell it, and hop on the next shit.
There is no application or service creation anymore. You don't see any big useful app emerging, like 10-20 years ago. Everything in our industry today is either a short-lived grift or a heavy, buggy, corporate-driven monopolist shit that is here to enslave us.
Software Engineering is no more.
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Some do need to change the code, some even need to often, still:
If you have a released app with garbage code that provides good value to users, it's more valuable than a perfect code app that will provide good value in a year. Or never - your code could never be too perfect.
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Correct in principle, not in practice.
The idea makes sense if talking of a developer with zero understanding of the context of the tested code.
But AIs nowadays, empirically, do detect bugs in code you ask them to write tests for.
You should use the tools that you talk about.
20 Sep 2025
It makes no sense to point an AI at a function and ask it to write a test for that function. The AI, if it’s any good, will write a passing test for that function. it will not detect any bugs in that function. In fact, it will codify any bugs as part of the test.
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The main takeaway from my remark, actually, is that you should be pointing AIs at a problem and telling it to solve it, and not pointing it at a piece of code and asking it to write tests.
(And then, you may tell it to solve it with tests or TDD or any methodology if you care.)
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Hot take: it was his fault for approaching someone who pretends to enjoy that painting.
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I produce 50k loc (assembly code equivalent) per day.
7 Aug 2025
I met a founder today who said he writes 10,000 lines of code a day now thanks to AI. This is probably the limit case. He's a hotshot programmer, he knows AI tools very well, and he's talking about a 12 hour day. But he's not naive. This is not 10,000 lines of bug-filled crap.
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I'm struck by how aggressively unintelligent the comments on this post are. Where's the vitriol towards tech demos coming from?
Is it just trendy to hate on AI projects?
Are people incapable of basic extrapolation?
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The NN learned the structure of a game world well enough to replicate full 3d vision, physics, responding to actual user interactions. (With all the limitations of a bleeding edge tech demo.)
And the reply is "not as good as the original".
Are some people literally future-blind?
1 Nov 2024
wow i swear i've seen a game just like this before. it's almost like millions of hours of footage of the best selling game of all time is required to train an AI to produce a worse version of it.
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Either all old people can "claim money off the government", or none.
If you think a childless person must save for their retirement themselves, then a parent must rely on their allegedly productive children to fund their retirement.
25 Jul 2024
This is obviously going to piss a lot of people off. But it addresses a serious problem.
Old people without kids claiming money off the state is a classic free rider problem. It can’t be maintained forever. Plummeting birth rates and increasing demands from the old is already dragging the UK down.
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I don't understand - what are you fighting against?
Who is the enemy?
Who are those so-called degrowthers?
Has any person said "I'm against technological progress"?
Are you talking about literal Amish?
Or is this just propaganda, painting some specific people in false light?
16 Oct 2023
THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1
“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
— Walker Percy
“Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were foragers, subsisting in a way that’s still observable among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands. Even after Homo Sapiens embraced agriculture, progress was painfully slow. A person born in Sumer in 4,000BC would find the resources, work, and technology available in England at the time of the Norman Conquest or in the Aztec Empire at the time of Columbus quite familiar. Then, beginning in the 18th Century, many people’s standard of living skyrocketed. What brought about this dramatic improvement, and why?”
— Marian Tupy
“There’s a way to do it better. Find it.”
— Thomas Edison
Lies
We are being lied to.
We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything.
We are told to be angry, bitter, and resentful about technology.
We are told to be pessimistic.
The myth of Prometheus – in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator – haunts our nightmares.
We are told to denounce our birthright – our intelligence, our control over nature, our ability to build a better world.
We are told to be miserable about the future.
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Something that a lot of Westerners don't understand about Gaza "siege":
Israel used to supply its own water and power to Gaza, for tens of years.
It's not like Israel has cut off some external supply lines, it just stopped supplying its enemy with Israel-produced utilities.
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There is a room-sized blender that kills everyone who's in it(, if it activates). You either step into the blender, or flip the switch to blend all the people who might've stepped in. The blender activates only if >50% of participants flipped the switch.
25%
Step into blender.
75%
Flip the switch.
12 votes • Final results
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And, another poll:
Would you take the red or blue pill?
Would you be ok if intellectually bottom 25% of people, and the people who care about them, died?
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