Memex

Another casualty in the great meme war.

“It’s a UNIX system…”

Nah, just sort by date instead of topology, or vice versa.

git gud, son

I proudly accept their downvotes as their protest against the status-quo. In effect saying: “too real”. My last employer “asked” us to all install an app to access the office doors, and then mandated return-to-office, so I’m right there with you. :)

“None of my other subordinates had a problem with this, it’s a simple ask and only takes a minute.”

“Corporate needs you to install this app on your phone…”

I think the skeleton needs a top-hat before we can caption this.

Wut?!?! Link please!

For some reason, that doesn’t look like a GPT-generated graph, which means… sadly… that someone had to make that thing… and somebody had to approve it.

Inertia

Well, I do have MBSE on the brain, but the idea here is more like a low-code/no-code environment with an ABSOLUTELY ENORMOUS “pit of success”… so large that even GenAI can reliably fall into it. Numbered tabs, you go left to right answering questions and fiddling with with prompts, paint-by-numbers for working software.

I imagine that it is theoretically possible to successfully vibe-code, but probably not with a conventional project layout nor would it look much like traditional programming. Something like your interaction primarily being a “requirements list”, which gets translated into interfaces and heavy requirements tests against those interfaces, and each implementation file being disposable (regenerated) & super-self-contained, and only being able to “save” (or commit) implementations that pass the tests.

…and if you are building a webapp, it would not be able to touch the API layer except through operational transforms (which trigger new [major] version numbers]. Sorta like MCP.

Said another way, if we could make it more like a “ratchet” incrementing, and less like an out-of-control aircraft… then maybe?!?

“Let’s see how close I can get the lasers to my eyes without going blind…”

Sounds like a philosophical question.

No internet? No burgers! We must make everything depend on “everything else” (i.e. the internet) or the machines won’t be able to… [CONNECTION LOST]

“Let them eat food” --T

Are we coming to (or past) a point where one needs to not update Android, for sanity’s sake, and risk getting hacked until an alternative rises?

https://consulo.io/ (Basically a liberated jetbrains intellij/rider thing)