Yeah, let’s pretend the vibe-coder creates praiseworthy code when everything is working…

That’s a conversation I’ve had more than once with my parents:

– Doing X is fine! Everybody did it in my time and we grew up just fine!

– Didn’t that friend of yours die because of it?

– Yeah, but he’s only a single person, and everybody did X…

I hope all those companies go bankrupt, people hiring those CEOs lose everything, and the CEOs never manage to find another job in their lives…

But that’s a not bad second option.

Early 80s: High level structured languages (Hello COBOL!)

Late 80s: 4th generation languages

At least before that people just assumed everybody that interacted with a computer was a programmer, so managers didn’t have a compulsion when hearing the name and decided to fire all programmers.

There’s a lot of people saying “well, not the year… but 2026 is going to be quite the year for Linux desktops” over the internet.

It’s easy to see where they are coming from. They just have more faith in Humanity than me.

Because of the intonation.

Yes, I’m not doing almost any of the things we do at work in my network.

I’m absolutely not running the same software. I’m not organizing the information the same way. I’m not using the same infrastructure abstraction, and even less configuring it in any similar way. I’m not writing the same languages.

The work environment is dictated by consensus between many people, with varying expertise, and weighted by how much work one is willing to put into each aspect of it. Each of those parts lead to bad tech, even though they lead to good people organization.

“Everything I do at work, I try out at home first.”

Absolutely no fucking way! And anything that touches work is isolated, their opsec sucks so much they didn’t even realized they mandate “security solutions” with known backdoors.

You have some of the world’s cheapest electricity wholesale. You also have a huge variance in prices to end-user, with the people that complain on the internet being among the most expensive in the world… because, of course, people that get cheaper prices don’t complain.

Also, yes, electricity in Germany is expensive as fuck.

I’m trying to test it for a couple of weeks already, but I got stuck not achieving the necessary tolerances.

Nah, remember that Australia is “western”, Chile is not… I’m pretty sure Ukraine doesn’t qualify.

US people have a great handling of geography.

Hum… At about 100m/year right now. I used to be faster than that.

Nah. You’ll probably want several shells operating above any sane temperature for steam. You don’t want to lose that extremely high temperature by just heating water to 600 °C or so.

Can’t do anything worse than Google, Facebook, or MS…

Using left-handed coordinates systems is just mean!

If “our” means on the US, you may have to take a look at your electricity monopolies for it to make any difference.

Well, it said “Cat Cat”.

People should turn the autotranslator down. And stop messing with word capitalization!

And teleport back back, right?

… Right?

Yes, they bite.

The local news had to run a campaign for people not to try to pet the capibaras.

There’s a band of capibaras living in my city… they already killed 2 people.