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Xamanismo Coletivoeliasulrich@hachyderm.io
Jul 6, 2026, 11:29 AM
"…it is useful for a biologist to think about chemical processes, and for a chemist to think about interactions at the level of physics, and for a physicist to do math. The #membrane & the #handle are essential, but sometimes you have to decap the sealed package and inspect and manipulate its internals directly.
#Problemsolving, #improvement and #maintenance all require the ability to move up and down the stack of abstractions to figure out where to stick your probes and stage your interventions."
@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/03/rod-logic/
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Xamanismo Coletivoeliasulrich@hachyderm.io
Jul 6, 2026, 11:32 AM
“This affordance was repeated later on the early web, thanks to the #ViewSource function that came built into every #browser, acting as a velcro tab for the membrane that separated rendered web pages from their underlying instructions. In my early years as a web developer, I copied, pasted, adapted, probed and traced #HTML in ways that would have been instantly recognizable to the younger me, keying in those BASIC programs and ripping apart the commercial software on my computer.”
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Xamanismo Coletivoeliasulrich@hachyderm.io
Jul 6, 2026, 11:36 AM
“Whether you're pasting source from Stack Overflow or recording a macro in Excel, you are just one operation away from #unwrapping the membrane and exposing #thecode beneath it. And with the modern internet, with Wikipedia, with endless tutorial videos, you are one further operation from penetrating the high level code to get at the code beneath it, and the code beneath that, and the code beneath that, all the way down to the bare metal.”
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Xamanismo Coletivoeliasulrich@hachyderm.io
Jul 6, 2026, 11:42 AM
“Which brings me to #vibecoding. As I've written, there's a world of difference between writing code for production and writing #personalsoftware that solves a problem you have. Whatever #deficits that code has (due to the fact that you're not a skilled programmer) are offset by the fact that you're the one making the tool (which means your needs aren't lossily filtered through a programmer's understanding of those needs).”
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Xamanismo Coletivoeliasulrich@hachyderm.io
Jul 6, 2026, 11:46 AM
“ #Automatedcode – whether from an LLM, View Source, Stack Overflow, or a macro recorder – is the top of a funnel. Many – most – of the people who enter the funnel won't slip further down the #abstraction chute. They'll solve their problem (a virtue unto itself!) and move on. But the more people we put at the top of the funnel, the more chances our civilization gets to produce another #skilledartisan who understands and can improve, iterate and repair #thecode the rest of us use.”
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