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0 pointsobirunda8mo ago0 comments

How is this ironic? I asked you about your process and you haven't responded once, only platitudes and hyperbole about it and now you claim I'm making assumptions? I'd love to see your proompting.

Again. You were the one that actually claimed to be using English as the programming language, and have been vehemently defending this position.

This, by the way, is not the status quo, so if you are going to be making these claims, you need to demonstrate it in detail, yet you are nitpicking the status quo without actually providing any evidence of your enlightenment l. Meanwhile you expect me or anyone you interact with (probably LLMs exclusively at this point) to take your word for it. The answer to that is, respectfully no.

Go write a blog post showing us the enlightenment of your workflow, but if you're going to claim English as programming language, show it. Otherwise shut it.

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handfuloflight8mo ago

You're asking me to reveal my specific competitive advantages that save me significant time and money to convince someone who's already decided I'm wrong. That's rich.

I've explained the principles clearly: I maintain full engineering rigor while using natural language to express logic and requirements. This isn't theoretical, it's producing real business results for me, and unless I am engaging you in a client relationship where you specifically demanded transparency into my workflows as contingency towards a deal, then perhaps I would open up with more specifics.

The only other people to whom I open up specifics are others operating in the same paradigm as I am: colleagues in this new way of doing things. What exactly do I owe you? You're proven unable to non-emotionally judge ideas on their merits, and I bet if I showed you one of my codebases, you would look for the least code smell just to have something to tear down. "Do not cast your pearls before swine."

But here's what's interesting: you're demanding I prove a workflow that's already working for me, while defending traditional approaches based purely on... what exactly? You haven't demonstrated that your 'deep architectural insights from typing semicolons' produce better outcomes. So we'll have to take your word for it as well, huh?

The difference is I'm not trying to convince you to change your methods. You're welcome to keep doing things however you prefer. I'm optimizing for results, not consensus.

obirundaOP8mo ago

Big moat you have there I bet

handfuloflight8mo ago

module Obirunda where

import Control.Monad.State

import Control.Monad.Writer

import Data.Functor.Identity

type Argument = String

type Evidence = Maybe String

type Competence = Int

data ObirundaState = ObirundaState {

    arguments :: [Argument],
    evidence :: Evidence,
    competence :: Competence

} deriving (Show)

obirundaLoop :: StateT ObirundaState (Writer [String]) ()

obirundaLoop = do

    modify $ \s -> s { arguments = ["tradition", "syntax sacred"] }
    tell ["demanding proof from others"]
    modify $ \s -> s { evidence = Nothing }
    tell ["providing none myself"]
    obirundaLoop

runObirunda :: ObirundaState -> ((), [String])

runObirunda = runWriter . execStateT obirundaLoop

-- ghci> runObirunda (ObirundaState [] Nothing 0)

-- Never terminates. Pattern recognition, anyone?

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bsenftner8mo ago

Actually, it's a huge moat because the majority of the tech industry is like you, refusing to abandon your horseless carriage artistry for what is coming, and that is going to be natural language programming.

The issue is that the software industry as a whole has lost trust, larger society does not trust software to not have surveillance capitalistic aspects, and that is just the tip of the unethical nonsense that the software industry tried to pretend "there's nothing that can be done about it". Well, there is: abandonment of professionally published software because it cannot be trusted. Technologically, engineering-wise it will be a huge step back for the efficiency of software, but who the fuck cares when "efficient professional software" robs one blind?

The software industry is rapidly becoming an unethical shithole, and no uber productivity anything sells without trust.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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handfuloflight8mo ago

You're asking me to reveal my specific competitive advantages that save me significant time and money to convince someone who's already decided I'm wrong. That's rich.

The difference is I'm not trying to convince you to change your methods. You're welcome to keep doing things however you prefer. I'm optimizing for results, not consensus.

obirundaOP8mo ago

Big moat you have there I bet

handfuloflight8mo ago

module Obirunda where

import Control.Monad.State

import Control.Monad.Writer

import Data.Functor.Identity

type Argument = String

type Evidence = Maybe String

type Competence = Int

data ObirundaState = ObirundaState {

    arguments :: [Argument],
    evidence :: Evidence,
    competence :: Competence

} deriving (Show)

obirundaLoop :: StateT ObirundaState (Writer [String]) ()

obirundaLoop = do

    modify $ \s -> s { arguments = ["tradition", "syntax sacred"] }
    tell ["demanding proof from others"]
    modify $ \s -> s { evidence = Nothing }
    tell ["providing none myself"]
    obirundaLoop

runObirunda :: ObirundaState -> ((), [String])

runObirunda = runWriter . execStateT obirundaLoop

-- ghci> runObirunda (ObirundaState [] Nothing 0)

-- Never terminates. Pattern recognition, anyone?

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bsenftner8mo ago

The software industry is rapidly becoming an unethical shithole, and no uber productivity anything sells without trust.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse