I spent a couple of years doing contract work in a team that built the APIs that ran behind a fairly complex site; they understood that I was helping build the site, but really didn’t get that I had nothing at all to do with the UI or content, and yes thank you for your suggestions about the layout but that’s not something that I can “just go fix it” because a) change control is a thing and b) that part of the site is maintained by an entirely different team, from a different company, and I don’t have access to their source code
It should be possible, right? It’s not like we’ve gotten worse at coding. All the bloat is a function of people not caring, and to some degree different requirements.
I should check if lemmy.sdf.org is back online. Retrocomputing would love this.
Mentioning @CanadaPlus, so I can find this easier.
I set k to 50,000,000,000… that’s more items than my shitty computer can fit in memory (including swsp) but I am now happy to celebrate my O(1) algorithm.
We had an ai demo at work last Friday where we just were showing off a local running llm with some test input. Best part was the demonstrator had it output something unexpected and they were like “I’ve ran this twenty times and it has never said that”. Lol. We’re alright but it’s incredibly useful already it’s pretty exciting.
Any gains from LLM now would barely offset the complexity bloat introduced in enterprise applications in the last decade alone. And that’s not even taking into account the sins of the past that are only hidden behind the topsoil lair of cargo cult architecture.
After the report that codes made by the assistance of copilot are actually shittier than code written manually I’m feeling safe until the next breakthrough in AI development. Meanwhile I’m saving up gold for the eventuality.
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