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  • teftef@mastodon.social
    Oct 13, 2026, 10:42 AM

    like i have seen two blog posts about harnesses and at best it seems like people trying to paper over the cracks, a tacit admission that the tools cannot work without strict guidance, but the unkind reading is a gambler battling probability

    the problem is, being heavily stochastic, it's really easy to trick yourself into believing that your nudges will work every time, or they have impact, or combine independently, and build superstitions

    the code doesn't have to work every time, so

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  • teftef@mastodon.social
    Oct 13, 2026, 10:44 AM

    the thing about saying "one day they'll learn" is that the reason we have stories like "the hare and the tortoise" is that people don't

    no-one loses on a scratch card once and thinks "i should stop here"

    we have a whole "you lose 100% of the scratchcards you don't buy" mentality here

    if people learned from consequence the world would be a much nicer place

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  • teftef@mastodon.social
    Oct 13, 2026, 10:46 AM

    call me old fashioned but i don't really think the future of programming is per-request billing to defence contractors set on destroying the internet

    or at least, a future we should aspire to

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  • teftef@mastodon.social
    Oct 13, 2026, 10:49 AM

    sorry i read a very bad blog post about our new agentic future and the need for better sandboxing because the guy couldn't get the computer to stop deleting the code over and over and yeah i simply haven't been kicked in the head enough for this future

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  • Enola Knezevicrhelune@todon.eu
    Oct 13, 2026, 11:43 AM

    @tef May I borrow "I simply haven't been kicked in the head enough" with or without attribution, as you would prefer?

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