Tag: rants
All the articles with the tag "rants".
Stop Building God and Go Build Something for Electricians
A Nobel economist says last year's models were already good enough, and the industry is spending its engineers on the wrong layer.
Token Leaderboards Are Dead. Long Live the Feature Count.
Airbnb's CEO retired the dumbest AI metric of the year and replaced it with the second dumbest.
OpenAI Measures Productivity by How Loud the Outage Gets
OpenAI's president says the best sign AI is working is that nobody can work without it. SREs have another name for that.
JavaScript's Type Checker Finally Stopped Using JavaScript
The fastest way to speed up a JavaScript tool, it turns out, is to stop writing it in JavaScript.
Building Software People Love Starts With an Ugly App
The secret to delightful software is a boring stack, screens full of raw JSON, and an agency that talks clients out of the fun bits.
You Can't Unit Test a Rocket
Your coding agent iterates in seconds. A rocket iterates when the hard drive gets back from the desert.