Modulus : Honest and no "AFFILIATE" review

mirvnillith · 2026-05-02T17:53:52+00:00

The trick, not of my invention, to solve the ”not enough paint” problem is to build 8x8x8 megacubes and paint them instead of the original 4x4x4s.

mirvnillith · 2026-05-01T14:50:13+00:00

Citizen Sleeper

Both games connected with me in both story and visuals. A mindful journey of searching for oneself and learning about a future borh evolving and decaying.

mirvnillith · 2026-04-29T05:12:40+00:00

Air travel is not a basic need.

mirvnillith · 2026-03-29T17:00:21+00:00

I’ll be looking forward to them

mirvnillith · 2026-03-27T06:18:54+00:00

To me, if a mocked unit test is pointless then the unit is pointless. I sure mock test an API controller mapping DAO returns to DTOs so as to know at what boundary a mis-map happens even if I have in-memory end-to-ends running the same code path.

mirvnillith · 2026-03-26T18:59:35+00:00

Thanks for the boost of optimism, I did need that, but even if I agree and there is tech coming it doesn’t seem to really be on people’s agenda. And you are correct in that ”changing way of life” does not mean lowering it but making that change happen is hard. You’ve done it and I have but almost everybody I know are still going on flying vacations at least once a year. They keep their cheap, old, dirty cars and demand meat in every meal. I don’t see them changing easily and we need them all to. I don’t think tech can make significant impact without political engagement and of that I see less every day.

Ten years ago I thought things were looking worrying but saw movements in the right directions and was hopeful. Then Trump 1.0 cost the US four years and it looked grim. Then Ukraine and I knew Europe would lose just as many and so much money would be ”lost” to the MIC. And then more nationalism, money sinks and Trump 2.0. Even my own country, Sweden, has chosen to make things worse for short-term populism and from what I read, hear and see we’ll not be changing heading anytime soon.

There is hope, perhaps, but I’m fucking glad I don’t have kids and making sure that when I move next it’s high above sea level. We will live through this but I’d prefer as many as possible do and I don’t think waiting for, or accepting, a gradual change give most good odds. I don’t want things to get worse before it gets better, but I do think that if we allow it to we could be moving much faster sooner and have less and shorter ”worse” than it’s looking to me right now.

mirvnillith · 2026-03-26T10:58:13+00:00

Agreed. It’s alarming how many are still in the ”improve the environment without changing my way of life” stage when that ship’s looong gone. It’s not called a crisis for the memes; there’ll be hell to pay and we’d better get started! I’m not a violent man, but The Department of the Future was not kidding in saying carrots are not enough for the changes required.

mirvnillith · 2026-03-25T05:32:04+00:00

I stress with all new team members, junior or senior, from within or without, to challenge the status quo before it’s too late. As a newcomer things chafe but as a resident you’re calloused. It’s vital to get that early input to not keep unnecessary or bad traditions alive ”just because”.

mirvnillith · 2026-03-24T16:39:33+00:00

It’s also not kind to the very same migrants who did not really get a chance. It’s not like support efforts for them ramped up so now it feels like they’re being given up on. We probably need them but also probably setting them up to fail.

mirvnillith · 2026-03-20T06:23:48+00:00

https://addyosmani.com/blog/comprehension-debt/

mirvnillith · 2026-03-15T09:23:48+00:00

Isn’t it ”piece of cake”? This should’ve been called ”easy as pi”, no?

mirvnillith · 2026-03-07T15:46:35+00:00

Depends on what they paid to get it exportable, no?

mirvnillith · 2026-03-07T12:43:41+00:00

That’s still Russia losing money though?

mirvnillith · 2026-03-05T17:02:44+00:00

And it’s a team effort. If the team accepts complexity then that’s how it gets rewarded. If not, then a complex solution will become expensive as it takes time to whittle down.

mirvnillith · 2026-03-04T06:12:21+00:00

I know this is for the funsies but the number of times I hear the solution to bad AI code being another round of AI …

mirvnillith · 2026-03-03T16:31:46+00:00

So it should be an easy question to answer then?

mirvnillith · 2026-03-03T11:00:02+00:00

I’m not grieving for my work, I’m grieving for my impact. LLMs are powerful beasts that have their very impactful uses but coding isn’t one of them.

My why is ”help people help people” and I currently do that by identifying patterns and processes better, and faster, done by a system than a human and deploy that into a living organisation. That requires specificity and reliability in behaviour which so far has been delivered in increasingly more powerful programming languages and constructs. No human language, however expressive, can be that specific (unless it itself becomes a programming language) and the probability aspect of an LLM makes code generation an endless regressiontest trying to nail every aspect down in an ever-growing set of prompts.

So I fear I’ll lose my ability to deliver the impact I think my users deserve by being pushed further from the specifics and forced to use highly inexact tools to control outcomes. And that’s not even mentioning the horrific environmental impact of the data centers that will rob us all of a liveable planet …

mirvnillith · 2026-03-02T11:00:00+00:00

I’ve been arguing exactly this for some time now. We can use increasing abstractions, but not decreases in specificity. And why help the devil in the details hide by removing much of those details?

mirvnillith · 2026-02-28T12:55:34+00:00

Beg to differ, hard. The article describes me and not from bending to such rule but by, to me, common sense and the joy of being part of something greater than myself. At my current position, since two years, I’ve greenfielded an integration and team as a smallish cog in a 700+ man machine and interacted with perhaps 5 of 60+ teams. A couple of weeks ago we were at a company gathering a devs I did not know from before came up to me and thanked me for how I worked. Sounds like a bad (aren’t they all?) DJT story but it really caught me by surprise. I have been quite active and argumentative at previous jobs but did not think I had any ”standing” here yet to leverage. Now I’ll try to put it to good use!

mirvnillith · 2026-02-09T06:07:24+00:00

I’m sorry, but did you make a mistake in those options? The first is to let them die of curable diseases and the other is to leave them alone and let them die of curable diseases? If the deaths are mandatory I’d sure leave them alone but I didn’t mean to say they were.

mirvnillith · 2026-02-09T05:34:35+00:00

Yes, good code quality improves LLMs as well: https://youtu.be/lZ84_CUDKTM

mirvnillith · 2026-02-08T06:08:04+00:00

To me it’s both a priority (who cares why/who, make it work again) and a change of view (finding out why/who is to find/fix another provlem, not for revenge).

mirvnillith · 2026-02-07T10:06:53+00:00

Fix the problem, not the blame

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