> The entire software development lifecycle was, it turns out, designed around the idea that it takes a day to produce a few hundred lines of code. And now it doesn’t.
No, it was never designed around that. All methodologies of software dev don't focus too much on writing the code, but on everything else: requirement definition, quality, maintenance, speed of integrating feature, scaling the work, ...
Personally with 20 years of experience, I never seen a single company were writing the code was a bottleneck
I wonder if these fanboys will publicly walk back their statements if Mythos turns out to BS.
Remember, in French, mythos is short for mythomanes that means "pathological liars"
Bezos is making a lot of money. But it doesn't mean it makes the world better. Prime or AWS can still work fine without having Bezos making tons of money
Agentic coding are bringing new people to coding. But instead of reading some books about coding or looking at the history, they face the same problems as before, they have the same struggle and they re-invent the same solutions.
I am waiting for the vibe coding expert posts that will tell us that lines of code are not a good measure, it is a liability and you should instruct your agent to write less code ...
I am waiting people to commits their prompt/agents setup instead of the code to call this a changing paradigm. So far it is "just" machine generating code and generating code doesn't solve all the software problem (but yeah they get pretty good at generating code)
* you add an HTTP header saying "I am a kid"
* porn web servers read and handle this headers
* if they don't (easy to test), they get fined
It is easy to implement, easy to monitor, and will probably just work if the government do the effort to monitor and enforce it. If not, it will just be an other DNT header
The security argument is the best one to shove all this monopoly practices, but I doubt there are real proof of that somewhere. These days, I think I have most trust in a small app developed by a folk in a garage than something produces by Meta or Google
The thing people need to understand here is that the annoyance is not due to lack of technical solutions, or regulations forcing something. It is explicitly wanted by the industry so they can maximize the consent rate. The browser solution is probably the best technical/user friendly one, but ad tech/data gathering industry won't have any consent. As they control most of the web, they will never do that
I left the industry 4y ago, but at the time, it was impossible to track impressions on FB ads. So when FB tells you "We did display 1000 time your ads", you just have to believe them.
For the IP of the click, I have seen it from my own eyes in 2013, from Facebook. About analytic tools, I let you check who is the leader in this market, and about their independence in the click market ... If you have a website that pointed by a FB ad campaign, just look at the IP of the incoming clicks.
> Not sure if you had a stroke while writing this, but this makes no sense.
Well, that what is happening in practice. It is an attribution game, ad companies try to have the best conversion numbers more than increasing the overall sales of a store.
I have been working in a drive to (physical) store company, we were measuring performances with an expose group + a control group and we were showing 3% visit in store increase during a campaign, while our competitors were claiming things around 10%. We knew that their tracking technology was just about "we shown an ad, they visited the store, it is because of us"
I did work in the ad tech industry for almost 15y and big corp like Google/FB scam their user:
- they don't allow double tracking, so you have to trust their numbers
- if you look at IP from their "clicks", you see often a FB/Google datacenter IP range
- and for most of the traffic they might send you, they did just clever algorithm and heavy profiling to stole your organic traffic. So they get this "amazing" performance by claiming people that would have bought on your site anyway
I have seen and been working in companies trying do to the impact metrics well, but these are outliers
- websites showing ads are annoying their user and get no benefit of it
- stores/brands/people that want to advert pays a bug chunk of money for nothing
- only the middle men are getting benefits
For me it is not concept to oppose. You can write optimized code but still name your variables "first_item" instead of u_fp_64_ptr like I often see in "optimized code"
No, it was never designed around that. All methodologies of software dev don't focus too much on writing the code, but on everything else: requirement definition, quality, maintenance, speed of integrating feature, scaling the work, ...
Personally with 20 years of experience, I never seen a single company were writing the code was a bottleneck