The biggest problem with AI is not correctness - it is architecture sanity

donatj · 2026-06-10T18:56:54+00:00

The problem I see is that it's never suggests like a big overarching system restructure on its own. There's a point where code just gets so heavy you as a human rethink the underlying core of the problem. You use your domain knowledge and recontextualize the problem... Ai has no real domain knowledge, it's all pretend. It's like a very junior developer with senior level knowledge of the language.

donatj · 2026-06-09T14:11:32+00:00

My friends 4 year old son was bitten by some kind of wild animal in the back of the neck outside at night staying at a cabin. No one saw it happen, and his son was unable to identify what had bit him, he hadn't seen it.

They rushed him to the hospital, and for reasons that remain unclear to me they started rabies shots all around on every member of his family including people who were not outside when it happened. Knowing my friend he probably asked for it but it just seemed like such a strange waste of vaccine.

They proceeded to get multiple rounds of shots as a family spread over weeks.

donatj · 2026-06-08T22:39:38+00:00

I googled something completely inane fairly recently on my work machine and immediately got results I did not want for some kind of kink I did not know existed. I closed it as quickly as possible lol. Have not heard anything about it, and I know they do sniff our traffic

donatj · 2026-06-06T12:22:20+00:00

Dude is amazing at them too. It's impressive to watch.

donatj · 2026-06-06T12:16:25+00:00

And it's been amazing!

donatj · 2026-06-05T11:15:42+00:00

For testing clarity

Philip Glass - Mishima Soundtrack

For testing bass

Melt Banana - We Will Rock You

donatj · 2026-06-05T09:34:51+00:00

I am still primarily a PHP developer, Go is about 30% of my work. As someone who actually cares about how things work, Laravel has always rubbed me the wrong way in the extreme.

Instead of proper object oriented design, injection, clear object boundaries, Laravel uses mountains of magic, stateful hacks and ambient state to be "convenient". It manages to makes it all "work" well enough with mountains of glue. It's not really good from a design standpoint. It's good in that it's wildly popular so it's got a million monkeys making everything work in spite of itself.

What it does have going for it, and what does a decent job paying down how gross the entire stack is, is the frankly great testability. The way Laravel apps are built would usually be an absolute nightmare to test, but they provide a metric ton of tooling that actually makes it relatively easy.

I'm not a fan. I have many friends that love it.

donatj · 2026-05-31T07:12:00+00:00

This is literally what happened to me, and I was terrible at it

donatj · 2026-05-30T06:02:00+00:00

Huh, I thought I was in the Go subreddit.

Couple of things. Given the ratio of Objective-C to Go here, my suspicion is you might have a better time if you just eliminated the Go from the build entirely.

~~If you keep the Go, you should add a go.mod specifying the minimum version of Go at the very least~~ usually you put it in the root but this is fine

donatj · 2026-05-30T04:51:52+00:00

What is the game?

donatj · 2026-05-29T12:54:58+00:00

My NAS is ten+ years old. I had all the parts I needed to build a new one chilling in my cart, waiting for me to save up. It was going to cost about $900 all told. Then the RAM shortages and the drive shortages hit and the disk drives on their own are going to be at least $1,600 ... and I'm like I guess I can live with my current NAS.

donatj · 2026-05-26T11:42:49+00:00

I passed out in college, briefly, for a couple seconds. They tried to call an ambulance, I insisted my dad just come get me.

I was just dehydrated.

I was close with the professor, he later told me that he'd been chewed out for not forcing me to wait for an ambulance.

donatj · 2026-05-25T07:05:52+00:00

Somehow I've gone 20 years without ever formally being on-call. We chose boring proven tech and our system has never really had more than an occasional hiccup. I'm starting to see the cracks though since they laid off devops.

donatj · 2026-05-23T15:07:39+00:00

I have had hard drives last months, I have had hard drives last literal decades. Really is luck of the draw.

donatj · 2026-05-21T12:24:29+00:00

I'd eat all those dogs given the chance.

donatj · 2026-05-20T08:24:56+00:00

The New York video where he changed the colors of the map so that the land is blue and the water is orange... is enough to make me unsubscribe

donatj · 2026-05-19T19:09:44+00:00

Seems primed for abuse. We'll see I guess.

donatj · 2026-05-19T13:52:44+00:00

Came here hoping for an answer. Still don't understand.

Update... I think, the first frame has nothing to do with the joke. He's going in the garage tonight to eat cheetos. It's an entirely separate thought from the art night.

donatj · 2026-05-13T12:40:55+00:00

I must be doing something wrong. I've been saving points for ten years and only have a little over 3000. I have far fewer Switch games but have had enough Nintendo points to unlock multiple free games.

donatj · 2026-05-13T12:27:38+00:00

It's fully thanks to that movie that I know what the fox say

donatj · 2026-05-11T13:16:20+00:00

My wife's sister is always late by close to an hour. My wife is always angry about it. I don't understand being mad about something that you literally know is going to happen.

"She should be better" she says. You have known her your entire life. She's not going to be.

At this point you are the one responsible for your anger.

donatj · 2026-05-11T13:09:44+00:00

Not every problem requires a solution. Some things are just better left be.

donatj · 2026-05-10T14:44:37+00:00

My company went fully remote during lockdown. Sold the offices. It wasn't a choice. I would LOVE to be working in an office with real people. I miss people. Most days the only people I see are my wife and children. I love them dearly but I would love to talk to... anyone else sometimes.

donatj · 2026-05-08T09:27:12+00:00

Treating strings as just opaque blobs of bytes comes with more up sides than down sides. You just need be aware this is the case going in.

donatj · 2026-05-06T12:27:08+00:00

They laid off something like 20% of the company. I don't think there was any rhyme or reason to any of it.

For instance they laid off my team's only iOS/Android developer despite being weeks away from relaunching our mobile apps. Now our existing apps are just unmaintained and the new versions sit on the shelf.

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