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AI has become a commodity- for the better or worse. And yes, we should treat it as such, especially no more big ideas from (C-level) managers, please.

It’s only too late when we stop fighting back and accept it as a given. Don’t underestimate civil disobedience and the hacker spirit.

Interesting how often they use the word „craft“. For me, a sign that AI fatiguge is a real issue, not only among Windows users. Good, maybe a small, first step towards down-regulation of the hype.

An immense amount of time, dedication and talent must have went into all those achievements. This requires mastery of body and mind at an exceptional level. Putting aside all jokes and acting roles, t…

I wouldn‘t say this is the core argument of No Silver Bullet. I wrote a short review of Brooks paper with respect to todays AI promises, to whoever is interested in more details: https://s…

Of course, we can’t leave out a mention of Fossil here — the SCM system built by and for SQLite. https://fossil-scm.org/ …

After quite some time, and actually after reading this post[0], I took another look at GNU Texmacs, this time with a little more depth and patience. And indeed, the program is an incredibly powerful t…

For me, also highly intestering is the internal data model and serialization, see section "TeXmacs' content model" in https://texmacs.github.io/notes/docs/over…

No, not necessarily. It's the ratio and for most basic research the numerator of the fraction is also approaching zero.

I am somewhat concerned about the volatility. All three languages have their merits and each has a stable foundation that has been developed and established over many years. The fact that the programm…

> The role of the human engineer […] has been to reduce risk in the face of ambiguity, constraints, and change. That responsibility not only endures in a world of Write-Only Code, if anything it ex…

> Not sure what house would last that long Not necessarily houses, but there are some old buildings around almost everywhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_extan…

What stands out for me is that the productivity gains for small and medium-sized enterprises are actually negative. But in Germany, for example, these companies are the backbone of the entire economy.…

> For the first time in my life, I’m suddenly wary of meeting other "computer programmers" in the wild. I feel like there’s a decent chance we won’t actually have much in common, let alon…

It is at the core of the SQLite test suite and also a first-class citizen in interfacing to it.

For those interested in learning about the inner workings of computers, I also recommend the book Code by Charles Petzold. https://codehiddenlanguage.com/ …