Grady Booch
@Grady_Booch
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scientist, storyteller, philosopher
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Joined October 2011
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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The entire history of software engineering is one of rising levels of abstraction. This is as it was, is now, and always shall be.
I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become
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Agency at scale without empathy and consideration for its consequences on those impacted is a terrible thing.
So true
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The joy of discovery.
What’s a universal human experience you think future AI will never truly understand?
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Unrequited love.
What’s a universal human experience you think future AI will never truly understand?
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Mortality.
What’s a universal human experience you think future AI will never truly understand?
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Diversity is an attribute of every enduring complex system and is in fact a necessary and vital component that contributes to its evolution and resilience. See also Herbert Simon’s The Sciences of the Artificisl.
America’s diversity isn’t our strength. Neither is its lineage. Our greatest strength is the set of ideals that unite us across that diversity.
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The connectome is the truth, but it is not the whole truth.
You are more than your genes. You are your connectome.
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@yordisprieto @MoiTrades All architecture is design, but not all design is architecture. Architecture represents the set of significant design decisions that shape the form and function of a system, where significant is measured by cost of change.
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Architecture!
FAANG software engineer tells how they vibe code at FAANG --- "You still always start with a technical design document. This is where a bulk of the work happens. The design doc starts off as a proposal doc. If you can get enough stakeholders to agree that your proposal has
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All that is old is new again.
🛠️ As AI-assisted coding takes off, traditional “vibe-coding” won’t cut it. Enter Spec-Driven Development — a 2025 engineering practice that defines specs first, then uses them to generate reliable, maintainable code with AI agents:
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The story of computing is shaped by the concepts of computational thinking, was forged in the fires of conflict and commerce, and even now is the loom that weaves and is itself woven by the tapestry of our human experience.
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