Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
Execute Program (learn programming tools quickly); Destroy All Software (dense programming screencasts); formerly Deconstruct conference.
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OpenAI has copied Apple's terminology, where "max" (meaning "the highest possible amount") is the second-highest level. And "ultra" is the level that is more than "max", the highest possible. I'm not sure whether I'm max mad about this or ultra mad. Whichever one is more I guess?
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Pre-AI: "I can build the core feature in a week, the product around that feature in a quarter, and the company around that in a year."
Post-AI: "I can build the core feature in a day, the product around that feature in a quarter, and the company around that in a year."
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all intelligence, no discernment
I spend a lot of time around people who have never worked in software. Reading Twitter, you'd never know how much those people currently hate software, "tech", and especially AI. Maybe the Twitter bubble doesn't care. But if we're not building for them, who are we building for?
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@garybernhardt I'm excited to stop writing code and start writing machine-readable specifications of precise intended behavior
Consulting service: you bring your big data problems to me, I say "your data set fits in RAM", you pay me $10,000 for saving you $500,000.
"You can make any software you want now!"
??? you could always make any software you want
2070: React, Node, git are still ubiquitous. AI moved us up a level, and the lower levels ossified as usual. Most programmers have never thought about alternatives; a few deify the people who made them; a very few lament what could've been. The story of Unix, all over again.
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if you only need to screw one screw per year and you're a hammer expert, fuck it, hammer the yearly screw
evergreen controversial opinion: it is good to care about the quality of your work
iPhones show you headphone levels in "dB", which doesn't mean anything. (dB C fast? dB LAEq 10? dB FS?) I hate this. But I think many people would think it's fine (they don't know what they don't know). In an effort to fit in, I will now refer to all weights/masses as ounces.
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all intelligence, no discernment
evergreen controversial opinion: it is good to care about the quality of your work
Consulting service: you bring your big data problems to me, I say "your data set fits in RAM", you pay me $10,000 for saving you $500,000.
