Why would anyone make a hard programming language?

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INTERCAL’s main advantage over other programming languages is its strict simplicity. It has few capabilities, and thus there are few restrictions to be kept in mind. […]

No. If an established dev leans on LLMs for coding and shovels it into the main branch, they have abdicated their responsibility and trashed their reputation. We get to point that out

without any obligation to do their work for them.

Either we get him more resources or we STFU about the retired dev using AI. We can’t have it both ways.

Of course we can do both. I don’t have those resources to grant

and I get to point out that Tridge, despite his well earned reputation from the huge contribution of creating rsync and bringing it to the point where it’s effectively complete as an essential piece of internet infrastructure, was massively arrogant in abdicating his responsibility by shovelling LLM slop into that same piece of infrastructure.

A child of five would understand this. Fetch me a child of five.

—Groucho Marx

Of course, that works only when everyone’s in the same room. I don’t have a good replacement for teams that connect remotely.

Yet another way that the good ideas from Agile got crushed to meaninglessness by Business Idiocy.

The whole point of the “stand up meeting” is, by forcing everyone to stand together, to encourage everyone to keep it brief and to the point, so it benefits everyone without sucking their time.

Screenshotting a text post on the Fediverse, to post an opaque image on the Fediverse.

The post was right there to be shared.

We shouldn’t even be in this situation, where just politely asking someone’s computer to delete files is effective.

Exactly, it’s a problem only for those who have knowingly handed their development environment over to obey commands from an untrusted source.

If you’re the one holding the syringe to your own vein and pushing the plunger, but you didn’t think to ask what’s inside first? That’s no one else’s fault.

This is a well targeted sabotage of a system that’s causing untold damage. Of course it’s going to annoy and surprise the people using the system it’s targeted to.

any kind of undocumented subversive behaviour in your thing.

Fortunately, this behaviour is explicitly documented.

Without this, we wouldn’t be sure the agent does a good job!

10×s developers who could produce 0 code without it

Let me see; ten times nothin’, add nothin’, carry the nothin’…