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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • At work whenever we need to build little command line tools, my team is always vexxed by my guideline to have the meat+potatoes in a script that reads well-formatted data off stdin , and outputs well formatted-data to stout. They always wanna have some stupid interactive prompts and saving to files baked right in.

    This is exactly why. You wanna save to a file?? > file

    You want to read from a file? cat |

    You want to save to a file but swap commas for colons? Sed.

    You get so much FOR FREE w/ the GNU toolkit, even for what you build yourself, by thinking in streams.










  • Right now it’s just buzz and empty promises to not sound “left behind” to shareholders.

    Even if it could generate code that could be massaged into a production-ready state at a cost less than having human-only developers (colour me skeptical), I think middle-management would actively sabotage it. You can’t fill your day with pointless meetings when your developers are AI agents.

    So, I actually think the idea is only taken “seriously” at the very highest levels. I expect several layers of resistance even before it hits the actual engineers… Not because it’s a fantasy with no grounding in engineering reality which is ultimately doomed to fail, merely out of self-preservation.