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As opposed to large screens replacing white/green/blackboards.

Do you know if traditional blackboards have still been used in 2025?

I'm curious what you meant by the web app use case and why you find SQL bad?

Fair point about the reminders!

May your wait be long.

Good to stop repeating actions making you unhappy, but how about going without assistants alltogether?

From the examples given I haven't seen any meaningful life improvement with them.

I saw cost savings trickle down to customers only in an economy textbook.

Why is it surprising?

You can make coffee by brewing it or by using Nespresso.

I couldn't understand either until I remembered appearances matter more than substance.

So if your goal is to deliver as much features as possible - regardless of the quality or roi - gatekeepers are an obstacle to remove.

Having functions literally color coded based on type would be nice improvement.

"Not snow, not swans, but the tent of Hasan Aga" - cca 1640.

MeThree.

But I think it's not the case incentives are wrong but the reality of business - what do you do when things are feature complete in all the ways that matter?

I don't think we can really have software engineers without having software engineering...and despite the name in use I see very little evidence of actual engineering.

Today, Helsinki region was under drone alert with advice to stay indoors. It seems that the public warning system failed to notify a large number of users.

Not many information I could find but it seems you need to have latest version and always on location permissions to have a good chance of things working. However if you do, you'll probably notice battery drain and be spammed by low urgency alerts like traffic congestions.

The Finnish government recently agreed to finally adopt the standardized EU-Alert system by 2027 so there is hope for the future.

> Self-healing test suites rewrite themselves when the underlying code changes.

Those tests don't sound very useful to have then.

There are productivity gains to be had by reducing amount of communication and internal layers IMO.

I believe there are also diminishing returns on new features/products (in general case). So you won't really need that many people.

I mostly agree with you.

I find Oodi (and Sello after redesign) to feel like a typical open office space (rather than mall) but definitely not like a proper library.

Rikhardinkatu is what I'd expect library to be while Lippulaiva is rather nice for a library that's part of a mall.

Which part of societal model you find inferior? I thought it was mostly economics and bureaucracy.

Skills are less important than foundation.

And Logo or BASIC >> Python in school context IMO.

Or more likely - you are a large business.

You provide customer support but think it's just a cost center so you happily reduce workforce by 90% and count on AI to cover the workload.

The non-trivial cases end up with the remaining workforce. They get burned out, but luckily there is plenty of people looking for any job.

It's an interesting question.

Years of school (reading, calculus etc) to get to the point of learning basics of set theory. One day to learn basic SQL based on understanding the set theory. Maybe few weeks of using SQL at work for ad hoc queries to be proficient enough (the query itself wasn't really complex).

For the domain itself I was consulting experts to see what matters.

I'm not sure that time it would take to know what to prompt and verify the results is much different.

Fun fact - management decided that SQL solution wasn't enerprisely enough so they hired external consultants to build a system doing essentialy that but in Java + formed an 8 people internal team to guide them. I heard they finished 2 years later with a lot of manual matching.

I seem to remember doing it in SQL (EDIT_DISTANCE) 20ish years ago. While I wouldn't say it worked beautifully, I also didn't need to make a single line of Rust :) also no more than 2 line s of SQL were needed.

I guess it's a lost skill.