Jonas Bjering

@unclebobmartin @horatioecthomas I would be very happy to pay full price for that 10 pages book! And then again when you have enough insights for 300!

@horatioecthomas If I were to write a book now, I think it would be 10 pages. We are at the very start of this revolution; and we are all working like mad fiends to get smarter about it. But, so far, not a day has gone by that I have not learned.

Codex is repartitioning the Empire app to conform to the most stringent of SOLID and Component principles. It is dividing the system into components that have D=0. My role has been to insist on that constraint; but (after a rather frustrating period of explaining to Codex what abstraction actually means) it is Codex that is making the majority of the partitioning decisions. It appears to be making those decisions quite well.

Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the programming occupation will become extinct [...] than that it will become all-powerful. More and more, computers will program themselves.”​ Statements discouraging people from learning to code are harmful! In the 1960s, when programming moved from punchcards (where a programmer had to laboriously make holes in physical cards to write code character by character) to keyboards with terminals, programming became easier. And that made it a better time than before to begin programming. Yet it was in this era that Nobel laureate Herb Simon wrote the words quoted in the first paragraph. Today’s arguments not to learn to code continue to echo his comment. As coding becomes easier, more people should code, not fewer! Over the past few decades, as programming has moved from assembly language to higher-level languages like C, from desktop to cloud, from raw text editors to IDEs to AI assisted coding where sometimes one barely even looks at the generated code (which some coders recently started to call vibe coding), it is getting easier with each step. I wrote previously that I see tech-savvy people coordinating AI tools to move toward being 10x professionals — individuals who have 10 times the impact of the average person in their field. I am increasingly convinced that the best way for many people to accomplish this is not to be just consumers of AI applications, but to learn enough coding to use AI-assisted coding tools effectively. One question I’m asked most often is what someone should do who is worried about job displacement by AI. My answer is: Learn about AI and take control of it, because one of the most important skills in the future will be the ability to tell a computer exactly what you want, so it can do that for you. Coding (or getting AI to code for you) is a great way to do that. When I was working on the course Generative AI for Everyone and needed to generate AI artwork for the background images, I worked with a collaborator who had studied art history and knew the language of art. He prompted Midjourney with terminology based on the historical style, palette, artist inspiration and so on — using the language of art — to get the result he wanted. I didn’t know this language, and my paltry attempts at prompting could not deliver as effective a result. Similarly, scientists, analysts, marketers, recruiters, and people of a wide range of professions who understand the language of software through their knowledge of coding can tell an LLM or an AI-enabled IDE what they want much more precisely, and get much better results. As these tools are continuing to make coding easier, this is the best time yet to learn to code, to learn the language of software, and learn to make computers do exactly what you want them to do. [Original text: deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issu… ]

RTs much appreciated ❤️ So hyped to announce Jump Ship! A coop PvE where you’re the crew of a spaceship! 🚀 If you like what you’re seeing, please wishlist on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/1757300/Ju…

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If you're not taking tiny, safe steps can you really claim what you're doing is refactoring? I don't think so.

@cliffski What company would Positech buy if you had a monster hit?

@producerjohan @PdxInteractive My takeaway from reading this is the importance of a sturdy kitchen table.

I found this we made for a press event around a decade ago. So when do we publish the next chapters? @PdxInteractive

It is hard for less experienced developers to appreciate how rarely architecting for future requirements / applications turns out net-positive.

@producerjohan Good thing we could leverage a fantastic community that way! Essential as we had like _one_ day to model the papacy! So cool you could give the ideas justice in later incarnations.

@jonasbjering How we basically created the eventdriven gameplay as it was faster to make events than code features. And if we only had titles and options we could do 30 events a day :)

Closer to 17 years ago. April 23rd, 2004. Anyway, it was a fun project.

"It's so easy to fall in love with one of those infinite alternate universes where you just did that one thing differently and everything worked out. Like "if only we had raised VC, we would have made it". No, sorry, you probably wouldn't have." world.hey.com/dhh/it-s-hard-…

Given shortages and speculators on things like 3090 GPUs and new consoles, it seems like we really would be better off with a transparent auction system directly from the manufacturers and a more efficient market. The world of sales channels prevented that in the past, but we \

Someone gave me a rather prophetic heads up on the GME excitement two and a half months ago.

It is @Wikipedia 's 20th anniversary today. It is hard to remember from today's perspective how viciously the idea of a publicly edited encyclopedia was mocked by many traditional gatekeepers of knowledge. It is hard to imagine a better refutation.

@nylander Halt and Catch Fire, tyvärr inte längre på HBO, men finns på C More

Vad är era bästa tips på TV-serier man kan ha missat? Gillar allt från The Boys och Expanse till His Dark Materials och The Crown. Är svag för allt som är snyggt och välskrivet.

I can't believe Zoom gives away their best feature, limiting meetings to 40 minutes, for free.

RT if you were part of that tiny 1993 bar.

@mikewcohn While there is wisdom here, what is the software process equivalent of a Geländewagen?

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We’ll never have complete control, but neither are we victims. - Jerry Weinberg

@davefarley77 "We are all juniors in something, use your opportunity to get GOOD at being a junior! The main difference between great and average developers is their ability to get into something new and become productive as opposed to being able to do the same thing for the 50th time. [ctd]