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nah the world needs more software - it's just the delivery mechanism that's different.

we are entering the world of smaller service firms (1 - 3 people) - where technical chops will even get paid more. the age of cookie-cutter apps is over.

you're one of the lucky ones.

usually in most when engineers tend to create their own tickets - it's for useless shit like improve x, clean up y etc.

very few people have worked in places with high agency - where you work with a higher up & create a feature/product line that has customer impact. startups are one of the few places I can think of with high agency.

pretty good presentation.

my take is everyone in the industry should read grog-brained developer, & no silver bullet before working as a professional.

the other is a mindset change - the best working code is code that's never written as it doesn't have bugs or suffer technical debt. Agentic coding doesn't solve that. Human taste does, which means our job is to reduce the amount of lines we write. agents etc are useful for the filler or bullshit part of our jobs e.g generating tests.

but ultimately I think the whole spec-driven development & agents spitting 100000s of lines era will be looked upon as mass psychosis.

last thing to give an analogy - you don't carve a David statue by gluing together pieces of marble - but you carve it by cutting pieces of a huge block of marble.

seems the big phone makers are going with the phone-2-tablet fold.

very few have gone with the ultra portable and pragmatic fold like razr-ultra.

hopefully apple comes out with a razr-ultra like fold.

you gotta admire the power of using json/b and simple KV stores.

so many people sleep on that.

everyone's anger is warranted.

does CTFC have mandate to enforce things nationally - yeah. Does NY have a mandate to stop thing nationwide NO.

however the murkiness with the whole thing is about corruption and having friends, sons of the president as your backers etc - proper procedures are no longer followed.

I look at people spewing propaganda of let agents go wild when building stuff forgetting when building stuff - 'the moat was building the right thing' not building the wrong thing really quickly.

the tragedy is 'mainstreet' runs on Facebook.

not shitter, google but fb. some local business don't even have their own sites but maintain an insta / fb page.

Go wins for simplicity. however what I have seen is companies end up going with Java coz it's simple enough - not simple as Go, but simple enough + fast enough.

though the letdown with Java is the wider ecosystem that makes unwarranted contraptions out of simple things.

Nvidia has been playing a dangerous but profitable game since the Crypto boom.

but now I think they probably have bitten more than they can chew.

Apple already proved with their unified memory - that as long you have the capacity you can run capable models locally - thereby goes demand for inference if everyone is running some model locally.

For training - Chinese models have proved that you don't need the latest & greatest in Nvidia hardware. Same as TPUs.

only time will tell.

how I handle this - if I find an interesting web page - I save to pdf & save to my external sdd. ideally I should get one of the 8tb HDD to save material I see on the web.

coz yeah good quality material is disappearing on the web fast. the only thing remaining is people building their own private search indexes.

technically web apps should be light as air.

but complexity merchants make them weight as much as the sun.

2006 programmers - smooth brained - they don't understand now you can just have an 'agent' code for you using piles of JS and massive dependencies. if the app breaks then the agent can fix it for you.

I think in the future more cases of Alzheimer's are gonna be present

e.g with the potent use of marijuana that's present these days, excess drinking & lack of reading + dumbing down of population via use of llms.

Poland has made a lot of good moves lately. for techies in the UK/US they might not care that much - but there's also an effect on you.

in the U.K - a polish skilled workers are choosing to remaining in Poland instead of moving to the uk.

for the US - a lot of firms are setting up polish offices - hence when you hear 'a.i' efficiency most of those jobs have moved to Poland or India. Whether it's big tech, big banks and small funded VC startups. What remains in the US are just senior+, staff software engineers.

the impact of recursivedoubts i.e htmx creator on software engineering practices and adhering to simplicity is monumental but the industry keeps heading towards complexity.

imagine if these guys were able to be pragmatic and reform like the Chinese deed & not be so dogmatic about ideology - what they could've been.

I guess Deng Xioping said it best - "I don't care if the cat is black, white or purple as long as it catches mice"

I just learnt about Virtual Power Plants using big batteries i.e 40Kwh+ - so yeah that could work.

good question ? I worry about that too since I'm from a poor/shit country that I travel to constantly & live for half the time !!

blocking by geo yeah might work - but what happens when someone is traveling abroad ? they've to use a VPN to access your site ?

my take with all the bots - the web is gonna be a bunch of private walled gardens. with most sites set to no index. you will only discover them via referral from someone real.

which book was that ?

everyone on this board - is now aware the US gvt is working against your interest unless you're sama & crew.

invest in your own solar, or other forms of renewable energy - get an ev.

hope u see this :)

https://imgur.com/a/wy2fLEw

> 3) You actually implement the solution.

even for an entrepreneur type - you need to understand the technology to get to good enough solution e.g if you don't know shit & just accepted what the llm gave you - u might end up with an unmaintainable mess. the llm might recommend you use some proprietary solution when an open source solution exists that works well for your use case.

plus llms tend to be wordy or make things complex more than necessary.

there's something equivalent in the business world - mostly used by businesses not run by psychopaths - where you optimize inside 2 triangles with the points on the triangle being cost, profit, & user utility/happiness.

b2b - so I use the phone or email.

I try avoid email at first, since most cold emails can be 'spammy'.

also Rails largely sits in a world where most apps are CRUD based or everything is CRUD e.g [0] - which for that purpose Rails has nice ergonomics.

whereas Django though it also provides almost similar abstractions in terms of CRUD - it doesn't assume your app will only do CRUD stuff - hence the flexibility e.g there's many apps where you only have a handful of endpoints that are user accessible maybe at most 15, then of course management of users via Django-admin but everything else is non CRUD e.g calling other systems

[0]: https://jeromedalbert.com/how-dhh-organizes-his-rails-contro...

look at litestar [0] - if you want something more coherent than fast api

[0]: https://litestar.dev

I'm not talking about democracy - but a 'permission' system.

In the west - you've to be 'blessed' to become an economic player - there's the myth of competition (but someone has to bless that competition) - whereas in the Chinese economy there's no favored party - BYD isn't favored more by the gvt because it's large anymore than the small upstart that's making electric cars.

> isn't Xi and the other party members capable of doing exactly this? - hence I said the CPC can tip the scales once in a while but in terms of free market competition the Chinese economy is more 'free'

Ryan & the Deno team thanks for this. not that I'm going to use it anytime soon - but yeah having durable objects outside Cloudflare and also self hosted ones means a lot.