Schlagwort: Programmieren

Free wrong answers.

  • 2026-03-05

Good software has always been about deciding what not to build. Cost was one of the mechanisms that enforced those decisions — not always the right one, but on balance it created discipline.

Now that it’s gone, the discipline has to come from taste, from product thinking, from someone asking the uncomfortable question: do we actually need this? The problem is that “we can build it basically for free” is a very persuasive answer. Even when it’s the wrong one.

Jan-Gregor Triebel: Cheap Code Considered Harmful (2026-03-03)

Slopucation.

  • 2026-01-31

The real concern is for generations of learners who are being robbed of the opportunity to acquire the expertise to objectively discern what is slop and what is not. Even worse, the possibility that experienced folks who use these tools effectively, will feel disincentivised from mentoring and training junior folks in foundational ways, something that was a natural part of societal evolution. And not just with software development, but the wholesale offloading of agency and decision-making to black boxes.

Kailash Nadh: Code is cheap. Show me the talk. (2026-01-30)

Slop Slogging.

  • 2025-10-06

We are in fact faced with a challenge to devise methods of buying originality with plodding, now that we are in possession of slaves which are such persistent plodders.

Hao Wang: Toward mechanical mathematics (1960)

Even when I close my eyes.

  • 2025-09-15

No, no matter how far we've come
I can't wait to see tomorrow

Linkin Park: With You

Don’t go for LinkedIn-based development choices.

  • 2025-01-06

Keep it simple. Simpler than that. Yes, even simpler. You can always add the complexity later if needed. Keeping it simple requires periodic refactoring / code deletion.

Bert Hubert: On Long Term Software Development (2024-12-22)