Trump on Saturday called for countries affected by Tehran’s de facto closure of the strait — a crucial artery for some 70% of Japanese oil imports — to send military vessels amid the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war against Iran.
Should be re-written as: "countries affected by Trumps complete lack of foresight or planning...".
That is the exact problem. The people who put up the $2B thought they were safe - after all they were putting up money to buy a successful profitable business.
Problem is they didn’t really understand the business and trusted the PE guys to keep running it well…
It always doesn't know the answer, there's no branching possible, so no need for a branch test. By your definition that makes it a "true subject matter expert" on every subject. Although if you squint a bit, it does look rather like a plucked chicken.
We’re heading for a world of terrible code that can only be maintained by extremely good coding agents and are pretty much impossible for a human to really understand.
The days of the deep expert, who knew the codebase inside out and had it contained in their head, are coming to an end.
> We’re heading for a world of terrible code that can only be maintained by extremely good coding agents and are pretty much impossible for a human to really understand.
I once figured out the algorithm of the program written in one-instruction ISA. I think the instruction was three-address subtraction.
In my opinion, you overestimate the ability of coding agents to, well, code and underestimate the ability of humans to really understand code.
The chart in the article we discuss appears to plateau if one excludes sample from 2024-07. So, we are not quite heading, we are plateauing, if I may.
Probably more like the long tail of software - software that was created for a particular purpose in a particular domain by a single person in the company who also happened to know programming - maybe just as Excel macros.
I strongly assume the long tail is shifting and expanding now and will eventually mostly be software for one-off purposes authored by people who don't know how to code, and probably have a poor understanding of how it actually works.
Hm, yes, it makes sense. If AI "makes" software more and more composable, then yes, most software will be thin wrapper on some ancient machinery that no one understands :)
I guess in some sense this is already the case. Most developers are not "full stack" (and the job postings that describe a software MacGyver are ridiculed like clockwork), but with AI this is actually becoming more and more possible (and thus normal, or at least normalized). And of course software is eating the world, including itself, so the common problems are all SaaS-ified (and/or FOSS-ified), allowing AI-aided development to offload the instrumental dependencies.
Crappy software that works. Unfortunately for all clanker evangelists, you need humans to review all the clanker spaghetti, manage infra, do firefighting and translate business requirements into working systems (gross oversimplification of what that entails). Just code review alone takes up a huge toll on our bandwidth.
Something I was planning on building but never got round - if anyone wants to do it then feel free to use this idea.
Lots of companies really have no idea what javascript is being inserted into their websites - marketing teams add all sorts of crazy scripts that don't get vetted by anyone and are often loaded dynamically and can be changed without anyone knowing.
A service that monitors a site and flags up when the code changes - even better if it actually scans and flags up malicious code.
The danger is we’ll start to see more QA rejects coming into the market. The temptation to mix in factory rejects into your inventory is going to get very high for a lot of resellers.
Nobody would deliberately sell QA rejected memory. I do not think you understand what this would result in, even in markets with relatively dogshit consumer protection laws.
Direction pointing seems to be pretty bad in any built up area (on my iPhone and my wife’s Pixel). I suspect that they are relying on accurate GPS for it combined with the magnetic compass. Both of which are a bit hit and miss when you are surrounded by tall steel framed buildings.
Should be re-written as: "countries affected by Trumps complete lack of foresight or planning...".
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