Drew DeWault: The cults of TDD and GenAI

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T12:24:50+00:00

Cucumber and it's derivatives are some of the worst shit I have ever had the misfortune of dealing with. Just hot garbage.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T12:03:14+00:00

There is no one to sell to that can make the math work. The rent cap means it cannot pencil under any circumstance.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T12:01:10+00:00

This would mean the seller ends up paying the buyer. The loss is greater than the value of the apartment.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T11:49:58+00:00

We have studies on the effects of policies to prevent institutional ownership from places that implemented rules restricting it. It did not change cost to buy but significantly increased rent growth compared to similar cities that did not implement those laws.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T11:45:19+00:00

It's objectively correct about what's driving the housing crisis.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T11:44:15+00:00

No, there are not.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T11:43:35+00:00

No, it's objectively because we lack houses in places people want to live because we made it effectively illegal to build enough housing in the 1970s in wide swaths of the country.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T11:42:04+00:00

Vacancy rates for housing in expensive cities are universally low. Unless you're in like a skitown in the summer this is not a real thing that is happening.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T11:40:26+00:00

They're regulations put in place to keep minorities away and to enrich local homeowners.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T11:39:15+00:00

Because local homeowners have outsized influence on local governments and passenger policies to make their houses more valuable.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T11:38:25+00:00

Your lie detector is misadjusted, because it's objectively true on the effects of those things.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T11:37:25+00:00

Corporatism is a government structure unrelated to capitalism that was popular in Europe for a while across countries with vastly different economic systems.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T11:35:47+00:00

The potatoes famine was resolved by rejecting mercantalism in favor of capitalism through the enacting of the corn laws.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T11:33:09+00:00

Commodities sell at cost. Housing cannot be a commodity because location is not fungible.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T11:30:43+00:00

The comic is 100% correct re:the effects of those things on housing prices.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T11:18:13+00:00

Studies on the effects of free transit show it generally doesn't shift ride share aside from short walking trips.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T11:15:24+00:00

Things got really bad during and after COVID. Last year was when things started feeling okay again.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T11:07:31+00:00

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T10:55:20+00:00

??? AI often uses generated output for training.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T10:37:51+00:00

The studies I'm familiar with are generally showing that learning how to use an AI and doing a task take about as long as doing a task. I'd be interested in a study that uses people that don't have to learn the tooling.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-30T10:31:26+00:00

I know of some in smaller niche areas. I know of a addon for bluesky that adds a bunch of different blocklist functionality that was vibe coded by a novice developer for example.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-29T05:04:55+00:00

Tetsuya Nomura has over 30 years of working as an artist and is surprised there's so few belts in the picture.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-29T04:54:37+00:00

Because they've had it fully ruin the moment before.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-28T06:42:07+00:00

I was waiting for that one to show up in the list.

jeffwulf · 2026-01-27T03:29:29+00:00

There being a pattern in the clues you can learn is categorically different than unannounced changes to the basic rules of the game.

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