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I can't help but keep finding it ridiculous how everyone now discovers basic best practices (linting, documentation, small incremental changes) that have been known for ages. It's not needed because of AI, you should have been doing it like this before as well.

Anyone who’s been a developer for more than 10 minutes knows that best practices are hard to always follow through on when there’s pressure to ship.

But there’s more time to do some of these other things if the actual coding time is trending toward zero.

And the importance of it can go up with AI systems because they do actually use the documentation you write as part of their context! Direct visible value can lead people to finally take more seriously things that previously felt like luxuries they didn’t have time for.

Again if you’ve been a developer for more than 10 minutes, you’ve had the discouraging experience of pain-stakingly writing very good documentation only for it to be ignored by the next guy. This isn’t how LLMs work. They read your docs.


> Anyone who’s been a developer for more than 10 minutes knows that best practices are hard to always follow through on when there’s pressure to ship. > But there’s more time to do some of these other things if the actual coding time is trending toward zero.

I think you'll find even less time - as "AI" drives the target time to ship toward zero.


I agree that this will be the end result over time, maybe even faster than we expect. And as those speed pressures increase, AI will take over more and more of the development process.

These best practice protections become essential only when you give the work to really bad programmers - such as parrots.

The Kessler syndrome is mentioned, satellites colliding, causing a cascade of follow-up collisions. This gets brought up a lot, but people have a poor intuition on how large the orbit space is. Think of it this way: It's obviously larger that Earth's surface, and placing, say, a million objects on Earth still leaves a lot of space between them (there are thousands as many humans). Yes, satellites move in certain orbits, not in random places, but space is large, and humans are bad with imagining large numbers and things. The illustrations with fat dots on tiny earth images are misleading too IMO.

Apart of that, I do agree that space data centers are probably just a marketing stunt at this point, although some things could obviously be done to increase their chances, like more lightweight designs on GPUs, something that was never a big topic before.


The other way people get confused about Kessler syndrome is that they imagine it's like the movie Gravity where it happens suddenly rather than a slow process that plays out over years/decades.

What hotkey-driven and fast-paced workflows are you referring to? I used to be an Office user, now G Docs, and I hardly miss anything. Hotkeys do exist, and more complex stuff can be automated quite well with AppsScript.

Maybe I'm not enough of a power user, but these things often sound to me like the 0.1% productivity boosts that are nice to have, but often hardly relevant in the grand scheme of things.


Not sure if that's a serious question, but your driveway might lack a proper foundation, so the surface is moving and cracks. Also, it's likely not concrete, but tarmac (which is much softer).

A significant number of American driveways are concrete. I'm not going to look up numbers, but I would have to believe that more are concrete than asphalt/tarmac. Unpaved driveways could outnumber both, who knows, but most people with paved driveways have concrete.

I think that depends on the region and weather differences. In the northeast at least, asphalt seems to be a lot more common than concrete.

Or eveen gravel as in my case.

I’ve never understood why people so frequently choose poured concrete over cheap interlocking pavers. Where I live, it’s extremely common to see someone pour a concrete driveway then promptly cut it up because they forgot something.

In contrast I've never seen someone have to cut up a driveway.

There are many ways concrete is superior to pavers. One of the most important is that it is miserable and almost impossible to properly clear snow and ice from pavers.


They sink when a car repeatedly drives over them. I watched a neighbor redo their yellow brick driveway. Well. Only briefly…

Ruts were visible pretty quickly again


Not when installed properly, i.e. on a level, compacted base. Where I live, in the Netherlands, a great portion of streets, driveways, sidewalks, bikepaths are from klinkers, or bricks. Very rarely do you see any indentations in them (mostly when there was some roadwork and a part of them removed and then reinstalled. The whole reinstalled section sinks a bit, probably because there workers were not careful and did not compact the substrate to the same degree).

Some of these klinker roads see heavy traffic and they're perfectly fine. It's also nice to see the automated machines they have for laying them.


If the substrate below isn't compacted properly, bricks will sink, and concrete will crack (maybe not as fast, but eventually). So we're back at where the discussion started...

It’s about half the price. Paver driveways cost twice as much to install due to the increased labor. It’s not that expensive to sawcut concrete.

Note that your memories might not be accurate, as your brain may have skightly altered them over the years, over and over. There is generally no way for yourself to know (except for some external proof).

This is not just the case for early childhood memories, but for anything - the more time passes, the less accurate. It's even possible to have completely "made-up" memories, perceived as 100% real, e.g. through suggestive questioning in therapy.


I can relate. I often feel like my earliest memories are now more like memories of memories, and I dimly recall that it wasn’t always like that.

I disagree with the stated examples and literally quit reading there.


Does anyone ever reach a high level of productivity with correct posture? I can't.


Sure, but getting the right environment is a prerequisite. In my case it’s a Herman Miller Embody chair [1] that stops me getting into a bad position (it’s not impossible, it just encourages good posture).

[1] https://www.hermanmiller.com/en_gb/products/seating/office-c...


Totally a tangent here but it amazes me how a company as big as Herman Miller could screw a product page up so much by not even having a picture of the damn product.


It's there, you just have to slouch to see it.


Lol, I see the image fine but if I click the red "Buy Now" button, I get a 404.

Fortunately, I type this, sitting in my wonderful 15 year old Embody chair so I don't actually need to buy now. Everyone is different and I never raved much about Aerons but the Embody has been very good to me, whether my posture is textbook "good" or "badly" slouched and reclined ... it supports and makes me want to sit and work. :-)


if you are US based, it seems like switching to United States as the country works (or en_us in the URL from en_gb)

It's the first thing on the page. Your browser is doing something funky.


Was adguard dns. Apparently their asset delivery method is flagged on a ton of adblocker lists.


Something might be wrong with your client (ad-blocker, NoScript maybe?) because there a ton of pictures on that page.


Ha, yep you're right. How bizarre, wasn't a browser ad block, it was adguard dns blocking a ton of tracking scripts needed to show the images.


I had the same problem.


Word of warning: the Embody chair does not have front-to-back adjustments for the armrests. They will be pretty useless unless you like having your keyboard close to the edge of your desk.


Wow! That chair costs about $2000. https://store.hermanmiller.com/office-chairs-ergonomic-chair...

Nice back you've got there. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it.


I ditched all my HM chairs for a standard wooden chair. They just never felt right (maybe the non-forward-adjustable armrests had something to do with it), but boy are they good at selling you an expensive fantasy.


Hell, my bed is on the floor, and my sofa is now also a pillow on the floor.


I was the same for decades until I moved somewhere with black widows.


The embodiment of overpriced and mediocre


Luckily there is no such thing as "correct posture".


if im not sitting on my right foot with left knee under my chin my thinking takes a hit, but i also have to constantly switch how im sitting so i dont get annoyed. its hard not to slouch/melt into whatever im sitting on and i think the only way to offset all that is the gym.


Excuse me, I remember when DSL was the latest and greatest, it can't possibly be this old. :')


That would be ~25 years ago. I remember getting my first ADSL connection around 2000 in the Netherlands when that stuff was still very new.


KPN MXstream! Thanks for making me feel old. I got flashbacks of spending multiple evenings configuring PPTP in Linux without being able to access the internet just to get internet access.

I remember having to walk to a buddies home just to check the tutorial:

https://rj.home.xs4all.nl/mxstream/


I mean yes me too, but that was in 2005. I feel like "everyone" got fibre here 10 years ago and if not there is 4/5G mobile broadband.


The bright side of this is that there is at least some sort of competition, since they operate on very different infrastucture. This is the free market premise on how quality and price should improve. Reality is often different though, because most customers are not really comparing and/or voting with their feet.


Seems okay on mobile, how does it look for you?


Jfyi the title has been edited now, it was the actual word previously which was not broken and just made the page super wide on mobile.


It was fine on my iOS Safari with a small screen. It automatically hyphenated it, differently depending on orientation.

Presumably not on other browsers, though, as lots of people were complaining.


Safari on iOS 26.2 did not hyphenate it for me. I bet it has something to do with which languages are installed.


Ta!


Especially not working on mobile because the long word pushes for wider column and therefore a more zoomed out view.


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