Grady Booch
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The story of computing is the story of humanity: this is a story of ambition, invention, creativity, vision, avarice, power, and serendipity, powered by a refusal to accept the limits of our bodies and our minds.
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@ImNotJK
Makes a note to not recommend any of the young people I mentor to work at one of your companies.
Balance matters; a full life matters; choosing to not be exploited by a company matters; establishing that balance and fullness starts early.
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“Will ultimately need a complete rewrite” is the siren song of every incompetent executive.
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AI will kill coding in the same way that compilers killed coding.
What kind of human language prompts would have sufficient detail, clarity, and precision to permit the creation of useful, evolvable, and maintainable executable assets?
We call those "programming languages".
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, argues that we should stop saying kids should learn to code.
He argues the rise of AI means we can replace programming languages with human language prompts thus enabling everyone to be a programmer.
AI will kill coding.
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@elonmusk
tl/dr: Elon is in favor of free speech, but he is also in favor of suing you if he doesn't like what you say.
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@ValaAfshar
Show me a CEO who exploits his H1B visa workforce.
Vala, you are better than this. For goodness sake don’t normalize death marches; don’t glorify toxic management.
Except…that is exactly what you have done here
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Dear
@elonmusk
,
Speaking as someone whose profession is software and systems engineering, I have come to the conclusion that you don’t know what the frack you’re doing.
You are the poster child for how to not lead a software-intensive organization.
Respectfully,
Me
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You don’t need a university degree to be a great developer.
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Apparently, I am a junior developer.
If you call yourself a developer and use a mouse for editing code, I just assume you are a junior.
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First time this happened I thought “OMG my water heater is on fire!”
Turns out, at noon around the time of the summer solstice, the sun strikes my roof at just the right angle to illuminate the vent for a few minutes.
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Jordan, this is not to say that I’ve never worked on weekends or had many long nights. Of course that happens, and it was my choice from time to time to do so.
But I never had to do it as a condition to make my career.
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A bold move, to fire key developers who understand Twitter’s codebase and speak truth to your power.
Elon is the most incompetent and toxic manager of any software-intensive system than I have ever seen (and in my many years of experience I have seen quite a few).
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@elonmusk
I’m a software engineer.
And I have no idea what you mean by “hardcore software engineering”.
Will you please enlighten me as to what you mean?
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I got my first email address in 1979, on the ARPANET. Back then, we had a marvelous size document that listed the email address of everyone in the world.
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@elonmusk
That already existed as Twitter Analytics.
Why are you taking credit for something that was already available?
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Suggesting a rewrite of the entire software stack of an operational business is something you suggest if and only if you have money to burn, if time is irrelevant to you, and if you are deeply, profoundly bad at running a software-intensive project at global elastic scale.
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This is software project management incompetence at a global scale.
#MoveFastAndBreakThings
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It is honestly incredibly amusing to have so many Elon fanboys mansplain software architecture to me.
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Ada Lovelace devised the first program. Grace Hopper wrote the first complier. Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering.
Women have always been and will always be essential to the advance of computing.
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Gee, if only there was a uniform notation for expressing software design decisions…
You can give ChatGPT a picture of your team’s whiteboarding session and have it write the code for you.
This is absolutely insane.
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“Fear me not good people of Oz, fear me not. For it is I the great and powerful Wizard of Oz!”
As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over...
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Well, honestly, I am somewhat sympathetic to her point of view. I find it curious that, despite our abundance of resources and the time-saving technology we have evolved, that most don’t have a four day work week, universal health care, and a universal basic income.
Omg, poor baby has her first job. Like..she has to commute?? Like...she has to cook dinner?? Like...no time or energy to work out?? Like..she's working in person not remote??? Like...She. Has. To. Work. 9. To. 5 ??? What????🙄
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Let's be clear:
An LLM does not create any new truths; they are architecturally incapable of abductive reasoning.
LLMs only generate statistically interesting strings of words that are surprisingly coherent yet untethered to any metric for truth.
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Hey Matt, every integrated circuit you use was made possible because of the pioneering work of Lynn Conway, and Sophie Wilson invented the ARM architecture.
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There is a disturbingly large set of researchers in artificial intelligence who believe that if you give them a collection of data big enough and mountain of GPUs on which to train, they can build a mind.
They are, respectfully, so very wrong.
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@elonmusk
Architecture.
You keep using that word.
I do not think it means what you think it means .
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You’ve gotta code like everyone’s watching.
Test like you are always wrong.
Refactor like everyone else is adding features.
And document like your children will inherit your git repo.
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Technical debt is most often caused not so much be developers taking shortcuts, but rather by management who pushes velocity over quality, features over simplicity.
wild to be called an “Elon bootlicker” for saying it’s a poor argument to tell your CEO the reason your work is leading to degraded product quality is because of “technical debt” (that *you* created in the first place).
This is true even if you remove Elon from the equation.
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When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads.
When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads. 😂
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To all the brogrammers who were offended by my post calling out brogramming culture, please do your research before you troll me.
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A case study in system design.
If you design a vehicle using 300 stainless steel demanding sub 10 micron accuracy on each part while simultaneously expecting that these parts will combine properly, it is best to not ignore the thermal expansion properties of said material.
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I stand with Linus.
Apparently some tech bros are having to learn the hard way that the creator of Linux is a leftist, today.
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Sam, that is impressive.
Question: does that number include the workers in Kenya you hired at $2/hour?
i know im not supposed to brag about openai, but the talent density at this scale (375 people) is 🤯 and i dont think has happened in the tech industry in recent memory
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Also, obviously, kids should stop learning to write, because we have keyboards. Also, kids should stop learning how to read, because we have audio books, YouTube and TikTok. Finally, kids should stop learning how to cook, pay bills, and dress because we can make apps for those.
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Never underestimate the institutional knowledge of the (largely undocumented) architecture of a complex software-intensive system, held by a few battle-tested souls.
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@dannyschof81
I’m 67, and what really ruins the vibe for me is when people such as you show up.
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@elonmusk
“Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue”
This appears to be true
“due to activist groups…”
Stay with me here: what else might have been a factor?
That’s ok; I’ll wait. The answer might come to you.
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There will be no Stability AI in five years.
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“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”
—Fred Brooks
“Adding microservices to a bad software architecture makes it worse.”
— Me
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If you need $7 trillion to build the chips and the energy demand equivalent to the consumption of the United Kingdom, then - with a high-level of confidence - I assure you that you have the wrong architecture.
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Greetings to the many new followers who have recently joined my thread, owing to the Elon kerfuffle wherein he stepped into the world of software engineering and I called him out for saying some dubious things.
Three things:
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@TaylorLorenz
It is her lover’s bedroom, who cheated on her. She is planting things to which her lover is allergic, so that the scent will linger in the fabric.
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You think fixing a bug in a million line code base is fun, imagine fixing a bug in a human language prompt the length of a short novel.
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In my experience, for a software development to focus on reuse is misguided.
Instead, focus on a culture of refactoring: not only will this yield simpler software with increasingly higher quality, in the fullness of time reuse will emerge in the form of patterns and frameworks.
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The movie "Oppenheimer" was ok, but what I really want to see is the movie "von Neumann".
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@ChrisMurphyCT
Or dear god, Senator: that is simply not true.
Please, you need to better inform yourself about the reality of contemporary AI.
(And yes, my DMs are open.)
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Programming will be obsolete.
— Matt Welsh
Nope. The entire history of software engineering is one of rising levels of abstraction.
— Me
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@elonmusk
You feckless coward; you small excuse for a man; you space Karen manchild.
Leaders lead; they don’t abide by poorly devised popularity votes.
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Woohoo!
@aoc
groks AI bias!!!
When tech companies develop algorithms that automate the assumptions of people from one demo, they start to automate subconscious bias.
When those flawed algorithms get sold to law enforcement, it can be disastrous for anyone that doesn’t look like most Silicon Valley engineers.
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Burn it to the ground and fling its ashes into the center of the sun.
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@itxaropena
I’m 65. For me, life was far simpler.
Although we did have global thermonuclear war on our minds...
But I’ll be honest: I cannot imagine growing up in this clear and present madness, and know that I admire those who are living through it now.
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@KellyannePolls
As a proud graduate of the USAFA class of ‘77, I found your presence on the board of trustees to be an embarrassment to the legacy of the Academy.
I am happy that you are being removed from this position
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We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.
— Ellen UIlman
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I am a senior developer, Katie. I still say these things.
Hi, I'm a junior software engineer. You might know me from my hits "sorry, I have a question," "sorry if this is a silly question, " "sorry if I asked this before, " and the chart topping "sorry to bother you again."
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Give me an example of the absolute worst software project manager you’ve ever encountered.
I’ll go first.
Elon Musk
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Let me rewrite the headline.
“Senior management establishes capricious and arbitrary deadlines for a software-intensive system with impossible-to-achieve features then fires dev leads because they can’t deliver.”
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We need a standard way to visualizing both the architecture as well as the activity of an LLM (and to generalize, of any artificial neural network).
Sort of a UML for AI.
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Further indication that
@openai
and
@microsoft
are chasing the wrong architecture.
BREAKING: Microsoft $MSFT and OpenAI want to build a $100 Billion AI supercomputer called "Stargate”
It would hold “millions of GPUs”
These guys really want to take over the world bro…
Microsoft is not stopping
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Most assuredly, in 10 years, AI will eliminate the job of coding in the very same way as did compilers the last 50 years.
It's great that we are teaching kids to code, but
#Coding
is one of those job categories that
#AI
will wipe out in 10 years:
———
Far better to teach kids
#DigitalLiteracy
and
#DataLiteracy
—
#DataScience
is gateway to
#STEM
careers:
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Dear
@LukeEvansSimon
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You are the kind of software engineering manager who is a stain upon the profession.
I suggest you reconsider your life choices.
Respectfully,
Me
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I loathe brogrammers such as this POS.
Hey
@techleadhd
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A four day work week.
It’s time people and companies and nations make this real.
Otherwise, what is all this automation and labor-saving devices for?
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Why don’t I hold any cryptocurrency?
Because I prefer to invest in assets that contribute to meaningful work and the creation of new things that expand the human experience, rather than assets whose value is grown on fear, ignorance, and greed.
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An observation.
Developers who think that object-orientation is dead often work in domains in which the fundamental abstractions have already been codified in patterns and frameworks.
OO is not dead; it's just part of the atmosphere in which you breath.
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Brilliant
I did twitter detective work on
@tszzl
and
@Grady_Booch
just to make a shitpost about ai, all this entertainment and here I am
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"Do LLM understand?" is a question that yields passionate answers.
As for me and my house: no, LLMs do not reason and in fact are architectural incapable of reasoning.
Let's unpack that.
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Advice to young people entering the field of computing:
If you choose to work at a company that possesses dubious ethical practices because it looks like fun and exciting and lucrative technical work, you yourself have just made an ethical decision.
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Now that I am of this certain age and reflect back on the beliefs of my youth, perhaps one of my greatest disappointments is that I thought there’d be a lot more informed, rational, and compassionate adults around in charge of things.
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In my long career I’ve been thrown off at least four projects for speaking truth to power, the first in which I observed that the proposed design would require a change in the laws of physics, the second observing that no software in the world could fix their hardware flaws…
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An architecture diagram in the wild.
Boxes and lines. And just one view model (see )
PS, Elon, this is what is called a system architecture, not a code review. And, where are the use cases that drive that architecture?
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Not any enduring, socially-responsible software company of which I am aware.
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A Congressman just declared, in no uncertain terms, that our President has lied about incidents that impact out national sovereignty.
Seems to me this is a clear and present violation of the presidential oath by
@realDonaldTrump
I have seen the classified information on Russian hacking.
@realDonaldTrump
has received classified briefings. I can tell you that
@POTUS
is LYING. Trump knows the Kremlin hacked America last year.
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Computer, in other languages:
Iceland: tölva (prophetess of numbers)
Hawaiian: lolouila (electric brain)
French: ordinateur (organizer)
Persian: رایانه (arranger)
Finnish: tietokone (knowledge machine)
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