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Creation is now near-free. Verification/understanding is not, yet. It s time to engineer away the slop. Geoffrey Huntley: Engineer Away the Slop
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Avdi Grimm, Code Cleric
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developers in Learning Belonging cultures, who endorse a coding is learnable set of beliefs, experience this moment very differently. Their identity threat was cut in half. Mastodon: @grimalkina@mastodon.social
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What you spend your time on is what you practice, and what you practice is what you build skill on. If the work is shifting to supervision, then that’s the craft now. We’re building the machine that builds the machine. And it deserves the same investment in tooling, practice, and professional development that we gave [ ]
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Developer happiness has never been about smiling at your keyboard. It is about clarity. It is about friction being low enough that you are not constantly fighting your own tools. It is about expressiveness so your intent stays visible when you come back six months later. Those principles are not decorative. They are survival strategies. [ ]
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Ruby has always encouraged us to think about design as something you live inside, not something you should add later or simply ignore. Obie Fernandez: Ruby Was Ready From the Start
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By default, wins get trumpeted in one setting (blog posts, conference talks, all hands) and costs bubble up in others (SRE team meetings, on call, retros, complainy DMs, grumbling over whiskey). The result is that both sides may feel like they are being unfairly silenced. Charity Majors: AI Enthusiasts Are in a Race Against Time, [ ]
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Users don’t experience systems as implementations. They experience them as continuity. leaflet.pub: UI Is a Conservation Layer
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I think we wrote a brilliant critique of ideology. We should have completely blown [techno-optimist capitalism] out the water, but it of course just carried on. … material reality is more important if it offers to triple your wages. Co-option is easy. … Critique is important. I’m not dissing it. We should do it. But [ ]
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As much as I fear the fallout of this technology, I fear the fallout of ideological purity even more. Time and again, people fall victim to the transformation of a stance on an issue into a holy cause, a flag to rally behind, a group from which to exclude The Other. Purity is a dangerous [ ]
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the markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. Gil Duran: Attack of the Trillionaire