Oh, the second part I strongly disagree. Bad tests are worse than no tests!

Very interesting article, thank you.

From my experiences with paid models at work, tests were especially insidious: I had cases where a seemingly sensible test showed up to not work at all. I was planning to push it but I got curious, and decided to “break” the feature it said it was pretending to verify. Lo and behold, test stays green. I find it especially bad because nobody loves to write tests, even less to review them, it’s not easy to make them good, LLM oh so loves to churn them out, and I’m already tired reviewing the main part of the code.

As for docs, my personal take is that they may not be as good as you think. IMO it’s more that we are not taught to write good docs or even to properly care about them. So I claim it’s the same JS case here, just you have even less skill to evaluate it than you had with JS. Note, it’s not directed at you personally more than anyone else, and I may certainly be wrong, that’s just how I feel about the majority of the industry in the area of docs (even pre-AI to a big degree).

Your article spelled out some things in a nice new way for me, with an interesting new takeaway for me in context of what I want to learn (here I must especially be wary of “AI” as it can help somewhat but can also actively degrade/hinder/derail/anchor), vs. where I don’t - but then if I don’t do I have skills to evaluate its result and to what degree (e.g. on your example, IMO, c++ high, js medium, docs low). Thank you again!

Yep, that’s exactly the sentiment I saw in people’s writing, that email has become almost centralized in practice, even though in theory it’s not. I saw this also generalized, that even successfuly promoted distributed/federated protocols still face the constant risk and challenge of becoming centralized in practice, when a major player manages to capture the majority of the field.

AFAIU, even Mastodon community needs to (and does) purposefully work on promoting alternative instances, so that not everybody ends up on mastodon.social…

FWIW, from what I read, the difficulty in selfhosting email is mainly in how to not get your outgoing mail insta-plonked by increasingly fussy and moody spam filters. Shows up that a huge percentage of receivers are now on gmail, trailed by a few other major players like M$, and you’re on their whimsy, with no way to appeal plonk decisions (and challenging to even find out if they plonked or not). This was reported so even before the era of “AI”, I wouldn’t be surprised if it were even harder now.

Then maybe that’s why your lines are so evocatively sparse and loose, because you’re trying to avoid it and escape by finishing as quickly as possible? 😂

edit: I wonder what’s your fave medium then, in your past posts I seem to see only some yarn stuff otherwise, is that the one?

Cool! FWIW, I like your vision and rendering way more than the crappy screenshots I’m able to find 😂

Wow, I love it! the monument is super cool, but I’m especially impressed by the forest and the mountain, how awesomely you suggest them with just a bunch of scribbled lines! and how the trees are scattered is also super cool! did you use some reference for them, or is it purely from imagination?

I googled up the original deck, and in theory I should love it, but somehow I don’t, while I actually really like your versions much more! 😳👍

Huge thanks for sharing what you know about the project!! ❤️

As for the part on what “will” happen though - you’re free to subscribe to your set of beliefs about the future; mine are respectfully different, and my question stands! 🙃

Whoah, that’s something! 🤯

And there’s even a very nice and interesting LWN writeup about it from a year ago: https://lwn.net/Articles/1022920/ - looks legit and, for now, the more I read the more interested I am!

I wonder how much vibecoded it is, though? The speed they seem to progress at feels impressive on the surface

I like it, and the worldbuilding idea, please keep drawing and posting!

I’m not 100% sure, but you could try Brandon Sanderson’s “Skyward” and other books/stories in what’s apparently called “Cytoverse” series. I didn’t read them yet, that’s why no promises, but I’ve read his “Cosmere” books - those are not really sci-fi though, more fantasy/steampunk (depending on sub-series) - and I found a lot of Christian themes in there. To the extent that I sincerely found some to be helpful for my faith development (even if I’m of a different denomination). I wouldn’t be surprised if he put some such themes in his other books too.

As for CS Lewis, I had no idea he has any sci-fi books - I’ll have to find them now! He’s definitively a very Christian topics writer.