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The tech lead on my first job once told me to send him any changes deleting code for review, the more code deleted the better because he loves to see them

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They never read mythical man month, did they?

A line I heard recently that if a statistic and a measurement becomes a goal, it ceases to be meaningful.

Everybody who’s written more than 15 lines of code begins to understand that line count is not a measure of anything useful.

Code is a set of instructions for a machine to do something but even more important it documents what we intend to do

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I wonder which Forth developer has notched up the most capabilities per byte.

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Shoveling asbestos into the walls might be an understatement, AI looks more like microplastics we're spreading everywhere, including in our brains.

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Since it has to be serviced with AI, slop code is an adjustable rate liability.

The cost to use AI changes, it's possible to get into a three lost decades situation like Japan, if a lot of debt is accumulated quickly and the rate then changes unfavorably.

@pluralistic 🎯The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Just “vibe code” a non trivial application and monitor the time you need to get your application *reliably* working. You will be AI coding cured for the rest of your career.

@pluralistic Somebody finally invented "Tech Debt as a Service”.