Denis B.

@LewisCTech You must be an amazing teammate

@denbvk Oh go operational rhythm yourself

There's a false dichotomy in software, where you either: - write 1000 page requirements docs no one reads and never update them - you just wing everything with a light dusting of Story Points, Sprints and other agile consultant fairy dust. You can just be sensible you know.

@CliftonSellers I wish I knew :) Nothing. We have too much crap around already

What doesn’t exists that you wish someone would build?

@verycracked People romanticise beaches too much. It’s boring AF. A normal person should spend at most four years a year on a beach and get an urge to do something meaningful.

There is no reason why on the very few days that it’s 85+ degrees here that the beaches aren’t packed. Work will always be there, live your fucking life dude.

I am in AI. I hate what it did to San Francisco. This place is so beautiful but has been genuinely ruined by AI.

@LewisCTech Sorry bro there is a reason why strong devs should not be EMs

@initjean Show yours code

all these models are stupid and write horrible code

@LewisCTech It’s your operational rhythm

@denbvk what's a sprint? (I'm asthmatic)

@RaminNasibov Once I found that gravity is not a force but acceleration from the ground towards outer space, and it blew my mind.

What fact about space really bugs you?

@shl vs whatever

Software vs wetware vs hardware

@RaminNasibov They are. Finland has plenty of them

Why are data centers not built in cold climates?

In short, it’s because js is incredibly shitty language, so it’s extremely hard to translate it into specialised bytecode. Overall, the pipeline is similar: source code -> bytecode -> machine code. It’s just semantics of the language which disallows efficient machine code translation. BTW, Dart is properly designed in that sense, and Dart code performance has to be similar to Rust in WA.

how the fuck is rust in wasm faster than js?

@trashh_dev Skill issue

idk man. i get literally 0 dopamine hits from using ai. yall are weird.

@LukasHozda I think smartphones killed this category. You can do simple office work on your phone.

I remember when nettops as they were called were the hot new thing. Interesting that they never took off

@matanSF Yes, I wrote a haiku about this

Did you ever hear the fable of Darth Amodei the Wise?

@oprydai That’s true. But is intelligence a compression?

compression is intelligence

@DooMWhiteX @nicbarkeragain There is a reason the text still dominant in science and engineering

@denbvk @nicbarkeragain There's a reason media other than books exist: films, series, music. Text isn't the best way to communicate everything. An image often explains an idea far better than pure text. Deep thinking and work are impossible with text alone.

The entire idea of AI code generation is based on the assumption that a "prompt" can express your technical intention. But as soon as you start to get good at programming you stop thinking about it in english and instead switch to some abstract mental representation.

@typecraft_dev You mean the biggest architectural mistake in PG, so even made Uber do a back migration to MySQL?

indexes in postgres are fascinating

@systemdesignone Because we didn’t have a good way to distribute proprietary binaries before Flatpack arrived. And it’s a bit too late for the party. You see, you need not only technical rigour, but also business initiatives for commercial players to invest in this crap.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ONLY Why is Linux Desktop still not the most popular option in 2026?

@matteocollina I had a similar experience. They blocked regular code review. I think it noticed that some logic is a security hardening; this false positive suite shocked me.

My long Fable 5 session C++ was blocked without anything having to do with Cyber. Sigh. Model is great, but the rest is really annoying.

@xwanyex Sounds like a good thing to me.

Software engineering is a great little insight into how capitalism works more broadly in that developers have spent the last 50 years making new tools that everybody else has to learn, inventing new libraries, working on projects that threaten to make everybody else's engineering skills obsolete, and this all culminates in AI tools that some people think will totally eliminate the profession. And so it's natural to ask yourself, "why?" Why would they do this? Why would an industry make the tools to make themselves obsolete? There's a simple answer: it's because people have *individual* incentives that override the collective incentives. Software engineers are in *competition* with each other. They aren't a single, coherent, cooperative entity. And it's the individual incentives that are operative. This is true all throughout capitalism. Many socialist arguments are built on an inability to understand this core fact.