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For 50 years, software engineering ran on code rationing. Writing code was expensive, so we rationed it carefully through roadmaps, RFCs, prioritization meetings, and scope reviews. This created a role: the No Engineer. No, that won't scale. No, we don't have bandwidth. No, that's out of scope. No, we need a design doc first. The No Engineer was valuable for 50 years. Every "no" saved real money. Their judgment was the rationing system. LLMs will be the end of code rationing. Code is cheap now. And while the No Engineer is explaining why something can't be done, the Yes Engineer has already shipped three versions of it. If you're a Yes Engineer, the next decade is yours.









my entire career strategy hangs on a strong belief that we are not going to see fully automated software generation in my lifetime. but we are going to see an end to the ralph-loop, spec-driven-one-shot-dream, and the "end of white collar work" hype. we're already seeing some high profile players in software development start to set their coarse along the same path i've been following these past few years. it starts with "wow" then "i can use my skills to fully automate this" and then it proceeds to "fast but no cognitive ownership" then disappointment, confusion, frustration, and ends with "hey, this isn't going to work guys, we need to be more disciplined and look at the code, keep our cognitive ownership, and just use the tools to improve our outcomes. these are not our replacement, these are our accelerators. it's the same story, different tooling". i'm already there. if a company were to come to me today and say "we tried all the trendy stuff but it just made everything worse, we're losing control of our code base, we need to either ditch these things or make them a power-up" then i am ready for that. if i am wrong, then so be it. my career is over anyway because i have zero interest in giving up cognitive ownership and responsibility (the ability to respond), while remaining accountable. i'd rather wash dishes or stack shelves than submit myself to the horrors of remaining accountable without cognitive ownership, agency, and responsibility.



The fact that Dubai Police could spy on a private WhatsApp conversation of an airline crew member using electronic monitoring operations, which led to an arrest is an indication that there is nothing private in WhatsApp. The end to end encryption claim of Meta is a lie.






Americans are reaching a breaking point over the rising cost of living in the US










Während in deutschen NGOs über die Auswirkungen des Wortes „Neger“ diskutiert wird, ist Instagram voll mit Content wie diesem. Hunderttausend Likes. Leute haben keine Vorstellung, was da kommt.



Today in Hip Hop History: Eazy-E died March 26, 1995 R.I.P.



Israeli soldiers tortured this 18-month-old baby in Gaza to force a confession out of his father during an interrogation












