ChilledTonic

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How many packages a year do you order, do you think? Just curious.

I hear a lot of stories like this; but the question I always come back to is - what incentive is their to discard the working system? In your case its the 3qc step process, why is that just gone now?

The more I look into these systematic changes the less sense it makes.

Fair points, but I think you're responding to an argument my piece isn't quite making.

The complaint isn't that logistics should follow Moore's Law or that we need same-day delivery for everything. It's that we're paying more for objectively worse service than we had a decade ago. Services aren't "adapting to consumer needs", its just objective decay being masked as optimization.

The Lettre Verte example actually reinforces the point: service got slower, then slower again, not because physics demanded it but because maintaining the previous standard became inconvenient. The dedicated sorting train wasn't decommissioned because trains stopped working; it was decommissioned because the institution decided the mail didn't matter enough to run it.

Nobody expects sea transport to break the sound barrier. But when 73% of consumers experience an outright delivery failure in a three-month period, that's not bumping against hard physical limits. That's drivers marking packages "delivered" that weren't, because lying clears the route faster. That's solvable. We're just in a system that doesn't incentive fixing it.

The asymptotic argument would land if we were approaching some theoretical maximum. We're not. We're sliding backward from where we were, while costs rise. I'm not asking for magic, I'm asking where went the reliability we already had, at the prices we're already paying.

So, what are everyones thoughts on Kiro?

I like the idea of its spec docs and steering format but found it very underwhelming to try and use them, often they caused more confusion of the AI then functional code.

I've noticed with nearly all of these "Vibe Code" security fatalities, they're nearly ALWAYS using Firebase as a backend. I get it, I've used Firebase for a number of enterprise and personal projects, its convenient and easy to setup.

But even before LLM coding, I had team members walk into its numerous footguns - especially around public buckets and bad firestore rules. How many of these stories are really to be blamed on the AI tooling, and how many could be blamed on the very poor default settings of Firebase?

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The fact that this was machine translated was surprising as it was remarkably readable! Interesting how far that tech has come while I wasn’t looking.

Mostly getting errors about BreezeWiki not being allowed to access Fandom, but the idea is sound and much needed.

You are touching on an inherent truth in TFL, which is that there are nearly infinite equivalent statements for any logical sentence.

The idea for the article was to make a real example of logical equivalence, as books on the subject stay pretty abstract. - like others have mentioned, in the real world there are smarter choices to be made.

You've discovered a CSS issue that I did not notice for seven years.

Thanks.

The issue was that for some reason, different types of code had different font size settings.

Phenomenal - I've been using patat for this:

https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat

This has in line snippet execution, critical for how I present - so lets switch to this.

"If your website requires Javascript/CSS3 to display the majority of its content or to navigate, it will be rejected."

How much of the return to webrings and blogging is going to be held back by erroneous memories of when the web was "better" and "simpler".

something is wrong in the industry, or how management roles are filled, or how wealth and influence and opportunities are distributed generally.

And will you be able to fix these issues within your own lifetime? Will you be able to turnover the behemoth of bureaucracy and golf playing managers that has become the technology industry?

If not I highly suggest adopting the Julius mentality.

I have to say I became a lot happier in this field once I aligned myself more with Julius.

I think what happens to developers and engineers is that since we have the ability to attune our toolsets very specifically to our needs, we assume everyone can do the same.

This is untrue. Most people live a life of hodge-podge technical solutions that don’t work very well, meaning their expectations for how software should work is supremely low.

Once I understood this I became Julius. Management does not care how or why the software does or doesn’t work - they just want 12 rules for life style platitudes and charisma.

The part about sending Julius to meetings while everyone else worked to fix things particularly stood out. The meetings are useless, but that’s where everyone glad hands. Gladhanders get raises.

The difference is that I like to think I’m still pretty good and doing my job. I’m just acknowledging that pure l33t skills does not a career ladder make. If anything it could even be a hindrance.

Perhaps this is a cynical response.

It’s extremely passive aggressive. I’ve gotten similar emails - if I’m not responding to you, take the hint - don’t try to neg me into responding.

There was a startup about a decade ago when crypto was just kind of becoming a mainstream-ish thing, where if someone emailed you, it would intercept it if it wasn’t on your contact list, and the app would automatically ask them for a bitcoin bribe to have you actually get the email to land in your inbox.

I wonder weekly whatever happened to that company. I wish it took off.

I get 100+ emails like this “handbook” a day and discard all of them. Want my attention? Spend your ad dollars on it, literally.

It would be nice to have a pdf copy of the letter downloadable for those who are outside of the USA.

Thanks for the user test, It was great to review it. I have to say there is no feeling more terrifying then watching someone browse your own blog.

As for ELO Style, to which are you reffering? I'm only familiar with Chess ELO which I'm not sure how I could apply here.

As for comparing one to one - I see what you mean. I'm intrigued by that but feel it might make the exercise take even longer then it currently does.

I agree with the overwhelming element, and am reviewing options; right now I copied the paper exercise nearly one-to-one, which I agree doesn't translate well.

I appreciate your insight!

The sentiment indeed aligns exactly with what a kind person might say - but to the user screaming out into the void, the tragedy is in that the bot will never actually respond to the users message.

It’s the screaming into the void and only an ad-bot responding back that’s the stomach dropping element to me.

Truly a perfect mystery. Perhaps at one point letters were expected to be returned, and this feature of the letterhead has been copied over the years without thinking?

The OCR statement is confusing. It speaks of a customer manager trying to pass the buck down the line as quickly as possible

Very funny that this article starts with an ai-generated slop image instead of anything substantial.

The author talks of sharing ideas - I’d trust his more if he skipped the SEO bait

Man, I remember my Gilfoyle. We had an employee who would do one off programs for anyone with a use case - but ours wiped his computer before giving it back, so frequently we'd get tickets for software we'd never heard of that was somehow mission critical, and we'd have a few days to spin up a new version on the spot.

Probably some of the most fun I've ever had writing software was making Gilfoyle-2s.

This is interesting, but can anyone give me an example of using this for beyond just a simple easter egg? Presumably this had some real use to be added to the DNS spec.

No love for <marquee> or <center> anymore. Remember, an html tag is only truly deprecated if you stop using it and let it leave your heart.

I’m actually thrilled by this, as it means all the hack marketers that spam my inbox incessantly with whatever product they’re hucking - this time for sure perfect for my business, in spite of the fact I’ve ignored their last ten emails - are all out of a job, and good riddance.

The author sounds unfamiliar with this brand of marketing email, so I can see why it would come off disquieting to find it’s all AI - but it’s equally annoying from a human.

At least with AI sending this crap nobody can use these emails to justify their sales bonus.

Off the cuff thought, but I wonder if the early days of modern banking were marred with such blatant fraud and deceit.

I think of stage coach robberies of US bonds, and the various bank “rug-pulls” (to use crypto fraud nomenclature) that occurred before the Coinage act of 1857 - but it’s such distant history it’s hard to find how people felt about it at the time.

What I’m getting at is this - is crypto fraud innate to it’s very essence, or did all “advancements” in banking technology have the same problem before everyone settled in and “got used” to attempts at fraud.

This is pretty clever design to me. If Apple & Google don't try to change their policies to skirt around it, it seems like a good way to build so-called super apps on their respective platforms.

Building a Telegram bot is incredibly easy, and a lot of digital services are more then capable of being handled in that format. Being able to easily charge for that built into the actual software library? Win-win to me.

See also:

https://www.hellobonsai.com/

Which I have used on and off as a freelancer; if Onigiri is even 60% of the way there in feature parity, I’ll switch today. Bonsai has always been far to expensive for my tastes.

Right, and I’m trying to state that those practices are ancillary at best reasons when the end user just sees a functional phone.

Joe Consumer doesn’t even notice the garden has walls.