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yes and that led me to a more fundamental question : is it even possible for an easy way to do fine grained adjustments. The finer granularity brings complexity. that makes it unreadable (especially for the untrained) and hence set aside and forgotten. The other way is to narrow down and focus on a well defined subset of problems.

either way the number of people willing or compelled to learn it will be tiny. and it hence becomes a niche, perfect for a long-term side project but with no real return.

my conclusion was to stop looking and use D3 or custom code ( good looking charts for humans).

this project is trying to do the same, balance verbosity in text with granularity in the charts with a narrowish usecase : agent consumption.

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Graphviz and mermaid are a shitshow.

anything more than their own handpicked examples and you're better off using d3 or yfiles. layering, clustering, boundaries, rearranging are all basic needs for text to diagrams. None support it.

Both suck at being any good for rendering diagrams from readable structured text. There is a gap to be addressed.

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The programming language is the shared vocabulary

Everything above are made up leaky abstractions with a handful of exceptions

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Its valid but useless.

Think someone says i'm thirsty all the time because there's little clean water available, what's available is expensive but it could be better if we did so-and-so.

and someone replies I'm not thirsty.

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This is true in broader contexts too. Bunch of experts can't agree on something fundamental which is hard to prove/ disprove, and they have strong opinions on the topic.

AI is much worse.

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Its not _just_ that. Orgs aren't remotely sensible at measuring anything that isn't counted in dollars.

employees who are on the ai bandwagon are there for the free management attention.

Management is cooked because the damn market is hard, money is tight and they can't afford to fight the top down love and $$$ thrown at AI.

If you zoom out, all the real money spent on energy to keep AI alive isn't going to be held in nvidia stock for too long. it will burst, but its stupid to time it.

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> we are consultants

This is the key insight. Design patterns were developed by a set of consultants. Promoted by other consultants. Consultants have perverse incentives, like bankers.

Realizing this made me critical of the design pattern kool aid. I've come to terms that these are going to be around longer than I'm going to be employed writing code. i keep the criticism to myself and avoid them when i dont see fit. Works ok.

As Hoare said:

    There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
  The first method is far more difficult.

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> There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

That is so real. Brilliant !

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For months, Employees had the option to choose claude code or copilot. Now they dont.

Underlying model choice still has no restrictions. Opus 4.6 is by far the most popular. there's still big $$$ bills going anthropic's way.

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This got me thinking, so what happens in two years?

every tom, dick and harry who can type english has the tools to attack any software that isn't patched.

tools that were accessible to specialized groups, now made available to anybody with a grudge and a few dollars for tokens.

and what does anthropic and openai do? They form an inner ring to make the latest models available first to Enterprises. Enterprises will cough up the prices that anthropic and openai set, they have no choice here. e

Eventually everybody pays. This does not sound good

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Software today is worse in every possible way. Subscription solicitation is one such dimension.

BBEdit, Sublime et al. are beacons of what software quality, distribution and pricing ought to be.

three quarters of the saas industry is built around such made-up needs. Not much to be proud of there with a handful of exceptions.

as for price, it feels 100% fair to bleed your enterprise customers to subsidize individual customers.

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I keep them embedded in the codebase or an artifact right next to the source.

And the key thing is that i dont need too many details at all. A few cues and its all back in my head.

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I very much dislike this behavior, personally dont do this and want it stopped.

people that I like to be nice to have done this to me. I dont have a good response that wont trigger them.

They chose to do this cz its easy. I now have to choose : read that garbage and make sense and ask questions or reject it asking for your opinions not claude's.

Former leads to more walls of text. Latter makes me come across as not-nice and get broad stroke painted as an AI hater (which I'm not). Not many where I work will voice any of their discontent about anything AI. Its the hotness.

The irony of that article having an AI smell is not lost on me

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yes I don't like the term investor anymore, because there aren't anymore. in my mind I just switch the word to a compulsive gambler or at best a speculator. and everything else is just bots.

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exactly what else do you expect them to do?

They can see peers cheating the system using AI to get ahead, future job prospects, directly affecting time to pay off student loans are being crushed by the AI narrative which is a reminder of how the tuition money is never coming back

and then to have someone come in on commencement day and sing praises of AI just totally shows how tone deaf, blind, and off track the college system really is

related [1] Glendale Community College's screws up names as students walk up to the stage on graduation day. Blamed on AI

[1]: https://www.azfamily.com/2026/05/19/ai-system-fails-during-g...

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It helps to think of investors in tiers. The lower tiers mimic higher ups. Each tier has two orders of magnitude deeper pockets than the lower tier.

At the very top are the big investment banks and fund houses, berkshire. Second are smaller institutions and third retail/individual.

The top two layers demand a steady return, never losing money on average in any 36 month window. Otherwise it triggers a selloff top down to cover for it.

The bottom follows the top so the selloff or buy just gets mimicked, with the top tier never losing (the bottom layers make sure of it by following blindly)

With wild indicators already set a massive selloff should have already been in motion, but its not. The top tier is getting more greedy.

No one is betting on AI long term. Everyone's in for the ride. As always the bottom will feed the top.

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> ash trays give them a safe place to put it out

ha. i always thought they were remnants from old airplane plans that were too much effort to update to remove them. thanks for that

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yes, the tone feels personal, and I feel happy for the author for expressing it on a platform that is desgned for it.

He is clear in pointing out the hard earned lessons we have learned before and how the current actions are essentially undermining it. This is dumb (i agree) and he expects better from people whom he respects.

it's clear, personal, logical. I don't understand what your criticism is.

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I just use the built-in capabilities these days as everything that I would need is in there. This was not true many years ago when I did use some browser extensions.