When I started using Git around 2006, we didn't have GitHub. We used Google Code for SVN hosting, but we wanted to try Git because it was 'truely' decentralized, so we just pulled from other developers' computers directly. It involved setting up port forwarding on the router and letting your computer on 24/7. Fun times.
I thought the same but I tried to create a small Django project with APIs, small React frontend from scratch, no LLM, no autocomplete, just a text editor. I was surprised it was all still there after a couple of hours. Not sure it's a skill that useful today, it feels like remembering your multiplication table.
The value is to control the tool chain from idea to production so it can be automated by agents. It's no secret that the final goal is to fully replace developers, the flow "idea to production". It's easier to control that flow if you control each tool and every step.
I won't be surprised if the next step is to acquire CI/CD tools.
The agent "personalities" and LLM workflow really looks like cargo-cult behavior. It looks like it should be better but we don't really have data backing this.
> If you truly care about the planet, don't have children.
That's a fallacy; people care about the planet precisely because of children. I don't care about the planet for its own sake; I care because of the humans who inhabit it and their future lives.
Also, humanity spent 100,000 years without flying around the globe, and I doubt they were all living hermit martyr lives.
Where I live, ballot are a piece of paper slipped into an envelope (not sealed). It's mandatory to take at least two different ballots before entering a voting booth. You can take a picture with one ballot inside the envelope and switch before leaving the booth.
Not only that but paper in a voting booth is so simple that anyone can check that it is done properly.
It may be a burdensome process, but very simple to understand. Every modernization of the process has major drawbacks.
– Electronic voting machines cannot be verified by just any voter, and the vote count is not transparent.
– Remote voting (even paper-based) does not guarantee freedom of choice: it cannot be ensured that the person is not under pressure at home, or even that it is truly that person who is voting.
- Voting alone in a private booth ensures that no one can verify who a person voted for. It is therefore difficult to buy votes, since it is impossible to confirm that a person followed any instructions.
The fact that any voter can verify and ensure that everything is conducted properly, without having to trust a third party, is essential to guaranteeing the integrity of the vote.
I've been using Django for the last 10+ years, its ORM is good-ish. At some point there was a trend to use sqlalchemy instead but it was not worth the effort. The Manager interface is also quite confusing at first. What I find really great is the migration tool.
It's called Symbiogenesis [0] and it's not at all a wild theory. But it's limited to cell components, not multiples organs fusing to create something as complex as a mammal.
The whole issue, as clearly explained by the maintainers, isn't that the code is incorrect or not useful, it's the transfer of the burden of maintaining this large codebase to someone else. Basically: “I have this huge AI-generated pile of code that I haven't fully read, understood, or tested. Could you review, maintain, and fix it for me?”
It's a tell, a common language quirk of LLMs especially ChatGPT.
- a slow-loading app isn’t just an annoyance. It’s a liability.
- The real performance story isn’t splitting hairs over 3ms differences, it’s the massive gap between next-gen and React/Angular
- The difference [...] isn’t academic. It’s the difference between an app that feels professional and one that makes our users look bad in front of clients.
- This isn’t a todo list with hardcoded arrays. It’s a real app with database persistence.
- This isn’t just an inconvenience. It’s technofeudalism.
- “We only know React” isn’t a technical constraint, it’s a learning investment decision.
- The real difficulty isn’t learning curve, it’s creating a engineering culture.
- This isn’t some toy todo list. It’s a solid mid-complexity app with real database persistence using SQLite.
- The App Store isn’t a marketplace, it’s a fiefdom.