BlueMonday1984
the most productive way to do things is to do it deliberately and with good planning
Two things which coding is currently allergic to, as the rise of vibe coding has demonstrated
Public reminder that two thirds of American Jews support the Gaza genocide. ScottA is not an outlier, he's the norm.
Assembly: really gets you to understand that you are contending with a computer chip, and that anything interesting that you want to do requires abstraction.
This is only tangential to your point, but I did remember (now-defunct) game studio Zachtronics put out a few games heavily featuring assembly: TIS-100, which directly revolves around programming the titular computer in its own version of assembly, and SHENZHEN I/O, which centers around building embedded systems and programming the microcontrollers contained within.
The company's catalogue is completely free for schools under the Zachademics program, so you could use them to show how assembly programming's like if you were running a school.
CIO even ends with talking up the Luddites — and how they smashed all those machines in rational self-defence.
I genuinely thought this wasn't true at first and went to check. Its completely true, a fucking business magazine's giving the Luddites their due:
Regardless of the fallout, fractional CMO Lars Nyman sees AI sabotage efforts as nothing new.
“This is luddite history revisited. In 1811, the Luddites smashed textile machines to keep their jobs. Today, it’s Slack sabotage and whispered prompt jailbreaking, etc. Human nature hasn’t changed, but the tools have,” Nyman says. “If your company tells people they’re your greatest asset and then replaces them with an LLM, well, don’t be shocked when they pull the plug or feed the model garbage data. If the AI transformation rollout comes with a whiff of callous ‘adapt or die’ arrogance from the C-suite, there will be rebellion.”
It may be in the context of warning capital not to anger labour too much, lest they inspire resistance, but its still wild to see.
"Would you like code with that?"
That was where the "creating a mirage of it" link was earlier. Removing now.
what to do with this information
If you know any sci-fi/fantasy mags, you should probably tell them about it to help them identify and reject slop more easily.
A pull request is when someone submits new code to a software project. On 21 August, NX added some configuration to look at the titles of pull requests and check they were correctly formatted.
I find it immensely hilarious that this security hole was blown open on my 25th birthday. Its almost poetic.
By my guess, its gonna take about a decade to fully clean up the mountains of slop code that this AI bubble's gonna leave. It'll certainly be lucrative (and soul-deadening, as you note), but as someone else has noted before, the riches are exclusively going to experienced devs and senior programmers - for anyone trying to break into the industry, they're probably gonna have to find work somewhere else.
New Pivot to AI candidate just dropped: Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
Gonna cheat a little bit and put one-woman consultancy firm/personal blog deadSimpleTech up as an example. The sole member is Iris Meredith, whose involvement begins and ends at publicly lambasting AI's continued shittiness.