Paul Vick
Language/database/performance geek. Previously of Microsoft and Meta. Mastodon: mstdn.social/@panopticoncen…
- A corollary to Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced software system is indistinguishable from vibe-coding." That's... actually shockingly true.
- This is a very impressive achievement but, in fairness, a C compiler is like the "Hello, world!" of compilers. A half century old language that is extremely compact and straightforward with an extremely simple type system. As the foundation of the most important pieces of software in the world...
- ...it has been extensively and exhaustively discussed, analyzed, and deconstructed. There are hundreds of implementations readily available (some that fit into just 100k!) with extensive conformance tests. It'd be a little surprising if it couldn't one-shot it, given how good the models are.
- The thing is, whether Apple is on the “stupid” list or not, probably three of the others will definitely be there regardless.
- Even if you believe that measles is no big deal, I just don't understand not having the impulse to help spare your child suffering. My oldest kids just missed the introduction of the rotovirus vaccine and got it. It was awful, but they survived just fine. I would have been happy to have spared them.
- Children in South Carolina are developing rare brain swelling complications after measles outbreak trib.al/YRnKgEt
- One of the critical things that distinguishes a senior developer from a junior developer is an understanding, deep in their bones, that the cost of DOING a thing is cheap compared to the cost of truly FINISHING a thing and utterly trivial compared to the cost of MAINTAINING a thing. Like 1:10:10000.
- If a SaaS app is truly trivial or the company is wildly overcharging for it, it could make sense. But I think there'll be a lot of companies that go for it only to some slinking back a year or two later when they get tired of having to maintain the thing. Even with AI helping.
- A truly unexpected side effect of the Epstein Files release is getting a window into what was really going on in the upper reaches of the Microsoft org chart during the Windows 8 timeframe. Absolutely not on my bingo card.
- NAMES MENTIONED IN THE FILES: •Trump— 38K+ •Reid Hoffman— 2.6K+ •Bill Gates— 2.5K+ •Peter Thiel— 2.2K+ •Elon Musk—1.1K+ •Richard Branson— ~1K •Howard Lutnick— 653 •Kevin Warsh— 521 •Larry Ellison— 398 •DACA recipients— 0 •Trans people— 0 •Drag queens— 0 www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
- It reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) words of David Lee Roth: “Money may not buy happiness but it’ll buy a big enough boat to sail right up next to it!”
- I don't believe for a nanosecond that Anthropic won't start running ads when the time comes (c.f. "don't be evil"), but well played for the moment.
- I guess Bezos forgot a semicolon back then: Democracy dies; in darkness.
