Post #2189728

2026-04-27 01:06 UTC

@headius@mastodon.social The fundamentals of software engineering become more relevant and important when application and feature code becomes cheap to sketch. Cheap to sketch, often illegibly and inconsistently. Static analysis, performance monitoring, continuous integration, and ops visibility have to be up to the load of doubtful application code. Not to leave aside the importance of specific and legible tests of system transitions and invariants.

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@jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io 2026-04-27 01:10

@headius@mastodon.social Otherwise we're speed-running Lisanne Bainbridge's Ironies of Automation faster than Argyris' Theory of Constraints can pull us up short in time to snap out of it.

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@headius@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 01:11

@jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io You're a few steps behind what I'm seeing. I can't even have conversations about how to build a system or implement an idea with some people if they aren't asking Claude what to do. They gave up the small decisions, then the medium ones, and now they can't even think about problems without an LLM prompting *them*. It's like a prion disease carving away bits of their brains until nothing is left.

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@sl@pleroma.envs.net 2026-04-27 18:32

@jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io @headius@mastodon.social Cheap to sketch, often illegibly and inconsistently. This! I have to continuously redirect LLMs to follow conventions and place code and logic in sane places so the project structure remains solid. Otherwise, everything would be randomly scattered throughout the project.

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