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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • I agree. But I mean, WordPress and SquareSpace already did that for about 98% of web traffic. It was a big part of the .Com Boom and Bust.

    But we keep coming up with new stuff to build web software for, and there’s still plenty of web developer jobs. And there’s still so so many many shit websites.

    Today’s AI can only remix, not do the new stuff. Maybe it’ll get good enough to tackle the novel new stuff, someday. I doubt I’ll live to see it, if it happens.

    The root of my crankiness is: If we’re about to no longer need developers, I should be seeing widespread websites whose search, cart and checkout actually work correctly every time.

    The snake oil salesmen are bragging that the era of carpentry has ended, from on top of a wooden stage that is falling to pieces with each step.

    I would say, it can only get better, but it can really go both ways from here.




  • Knowing it (well, appearing to, by regurgitating the average) better than many developers, pretty soon. A huge number of us know disturbingly little about how computers actually work. (Edit: Sorry, I’m being needlessly unkind to a bunch of us, since as Snoogums said, the current stuff doesn’t actually know anything at all, yet.)

    Knowing it better than top developers is a science fiction fantasy singularity daydream.

    And even Heinlein’s and Asimov’s post singularity fiction novels acknowledged that there would likely be roles for expert humans.












  • Just tell him respectfully, sometime.

    As a parent, myself:

    • I totally don’t mind if my kids tell me they can hear me. I appreciate knowing our communication lines are open.
    • I am still going to continue having (probably still loud) sex in the house. Unless my kids fully paying a roommate’s share of the costs to run the home, they’re still kids, not roommates.
    • I’ll probably buy the kid some nice noise suppressing audio headset as a shopping surprise, sometime soon.