captaincaveman

oh it helps, it doesn't multiply my productivity, I wish it did!

It marginally increases my productivity and reduces some friction, honestly I'm more than happy for it to write as much code as it can on my behalf, it just can't.

I suspect those for whom it is a big game changer, were likely engaged in lots of activity which is cookie cutter.

Yes, that sounds about right!

So once diagnosed what then, pills or is there anything else that can be done?

Interested in knowing how you got started, any prior knowledge/training, as that seems quite the hill to climb?

Well as someone not already familiar with it, I've no idea what it is for, github readme didn't help?

In practice this doesn't work very well in an enterprise, the boxes end up a mix bag of different levels of things, some abstract some concrete, some just random.

So if you need to piece together larger chunks of architecture, a supply chain for example, you basically have to redo it all. There is a lot of waste in this, and no one has a sufficiently clear view of the overall architecture, which leads to other waste and quality issues.

For some reasons most engineers get very defensive about a more formal approach, I suspect mostly because it doesn't immediately benefit them or they haven't had too deal with large scale architecture and don't see the problem.

Wait, I thought Apple had given up on it's car project?

A publicity stunt?

Those previous people probably got promotions in new role, as they had experiance with a $1.5 mill ad budget!

"An architect is someone who comes up with a plan to build something without any real care about budget, labor costs, or labor skills - both in software and in buildings."

Whenever I hear developers say stuff like this, they just sound junior/inexperienced.

They are a user, they choose to moderate or not, forcing people in this way to contribute only in a very specific way means, less users ...

I'm a good bit older than you, for me the eye opener is by travelling the world and seeing how much has been trashed. When I was a kid it felt like there was a vast amount of nature out there (even then a lot of damage had been done, but many of the wildlife docs etc were just old enough that when filmed there was more nature).

Growing up in a modern western city I was far removed from it, but then travelling and seeing how much has been carved up and domesticated (as well as the cultural homogenisation), it really feels we are doing future generations a massive wrong.

Actually it was also that it was standalone and no wires.

Probably better to ask what good things our dad's did, I can tell you my kids love it when I make them help put the laundry away, I suspect their opinions might differ :)

In the late 90's /2000 Kevin Warwick was saying AI is is going to be increasingly problematic, and was considered something of a buffoon by academia (or some of), now they are all on the bandwagon.

Cybernetics at Reading did a lot of Neural Network stuff, less Symbolic due to the Cybernetics philosophy.

Could it swap, so we can have lisp back?

I think that is probably the right way to go. We have a put a few things on AWS which really don't fit there too well, all on the benefits of shutting down our on-prem estate, 5 years later we still have an on-prem estate.

Its this sort of drivel that I hope ChatGPT will destroy, people bullshitting on topics they don't have insightful understanding of is exactly what a bot is good for. So yes freak out the bots can do that now, you can stop writing.

Assuming this is true, wasn't it the bailing out of the banks a major factor in the need for austerity?

If we kick the Conservatives, hmmm I wonder who will be next up to bat, ohh for about a decade until we are sick of their incompetence.. goto 10.

They just literally wait their turn, terrible incompetence and no accountability.

Largely agree with what you're saying, not so much on retirees, yes they should be means tested, but I have seen old people getting robbed of their homes to pay for some shitty nursing home.

There is, we have a low bar of what a senior engineer imho.

Be careful not to read the news, your larder and fridge will suddenly be bare ...

Yes can't easily use the colour to judge how tasty tomatoes are, some of the best ones I've ever had were a big green looking, but were grown in the Portuguese sun naturally.

Grown in massive greenhouses require electric etc thus the cost has gone up because the cost of fuel has gone up, including transporting these things across the continent.

There is a shortage in some out of season fruit/veg, I really have not been impacted at all. Importing less food staples, and eating/growing food within our climate range is no bad thing.

Many things have made engineers more productive in my working lifetime, yet there still more of these pesky software engineers than ever!

Cutting staff is not going to reduce their revenue for some time, and in the interim their profits increase and thus defends the stock price at a time the tech sector is getting reassessed (valuations are too high, and need adjusting).

The point is, it has nothing to do with having money in the bank to pay them.

> All the money goes to Google!

That's an aspect I hadn't considered, nor heard anyone else suggest!

Well that person has reputation/credibility and some reasoning they apply, before passing on the information. Just because you read that the world is flat are you gonna start telling people that? Now let's be clear, some people do mindlessly regurgitate nonsense, but their creditability is typically very low, so you ignore them. There is a grey area where some things aren't clear, but on the basics people of average intelligence are fairly robust, I'm not convinced chatGPT is.