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I understand it well enough to know that creativity requires intention. So-called AI has no intelligence, and is thus incapable of intention.
I was recombining shit with Genetic Algorithms 25 years ago. I didn’t call it creative. I called it what it was…a stochastic algorithm.
Can you absolutely adore what it produces? Sure! But call your friendly random number generator if you want to know how you got here.
“You need to have balls.”
Le sigh.
I swear folks. Take an hour and read the docs carefully. It’s not difficult to get a scratch site up and running with Hugo. The obsession with “mean time to dopamine” is exhausting.
MOS 6502 ML
All I can say is :shrug:
As soon as I left the comfortable worlds of Apple ][ and MS-DOS and got shoved into Windows 3.0, I pined for a dark screen and started fucking with the color profile. When I was 12.
When I started running Solaris and Linux boxes in college, always had a dark terminal, and wrote my code in vi.
The older I get, the more I crave the darkness, and the UX bros are accommodating me.
Maybe it's just too late for me already.
The same things you do in a code base 3 years old. We've just made it fashionable to evolve a code base until we hit a wall, toss it in the trash, and start over with the next "modern" tech that will eliminate the problems of the previous code base. Rinse/repeat.
If the business still exists and is continuing to evolve 15 years later, why shouldn't the code base?
All of these things are very much real problems. You just have to be building microservices in a corporation that's still running thousands of batch jobs on mainframes and midrange servers. It's super fun let me tell you.
They exist. They are locked behind the firewalls of corporate America and Europe, and their engineers are generally forbidden to discuss it in public. OSS developers don't build software this way. Primarily because most generally useful (and therefore successful) OSS is not business domain-centric, and does not benefit from these patterns.
As one of those engineers that's forbidden to talk in public, I can assure you these patterns are extremely useful to keep valuable software viable, extensible, and maintainable for 15+ years. I just can't drop any specifics because IP lawyers are assholes.