jonfazzaro

[jonfazzaro]

"It's all special pleading anyways. LLMs digest code further than you do. If you don't believe a typeface designer can stake a moral claim on the terminals and counters of a letterform, you sure as hell can't be possessive about a red-black tree."

[jonfazzaro]

"Vibe coding is like owning a high-end oven at home: it enables more people to experiment and create, but it doesn't replace professional chefs in restaurants."

[jonfazzaro]

"The bursar or the custodian might not be teaching a class, but their work increases the return the organization receives, and so the complexity they bring to the system is worth it."

[jonfazzaro]

"The promise that 'AI will write all your code' is evolving into the reality that we need engineers who can effectively orchestrate AI systems, which is essentially the same engineers, but now with new skills and higher salary expectations."

[jonfazzaro]

"It would have taken longer to review the complete solution, and you wouldn't have ended up with tests that cover the behaviors you know must exist—and that let you know whether or not the solution even works."

[jonfazzaro]

"Scale is a fundamentally different problem. If you were tasked with baking a loaf of bread, you would not begin with which model of semitruck would deliver the grain."

[jonfazzaro]

"The first level of training is to find code bases that have evolved through lots of small, safe changes & train the model on the diffs as well as the code."

[jonfazzaro]

"Smaller, more frequent releases implies software's in a shippable state more often, which implies faster build & test cycles… and down the rabbit hole we go."

[jonfazzaro]

"But when technology transformed auto-making, meatpacking and even secretarial work, the response typically wasn't to slash jobs and reduce the number of workers. It was to "degrade" the jobs, breaking them into simpler tasks to be performed over and over at a rapid clip."

[jonfazzaro]

"Icelandic reports show that productivity has remained stable, and even increased in some sectors. One of the keys to this success lies in improving the mental health of workers."

[jonfazzaro]

"We augmented coders know we're onto something but we're still working out what."

[jonfazzaro]

"The Oversight pillar reiterates that human accountability and insight are irreplaceable, functioning as the quality control that turns AI-generated code from a risky black box into a reliable component of a software system."

[jonfazzaro]

"As someone who had found decades of joy in crafting what I believe to be elegant, highly-maintainable code, I'm surprised at what I'm promoting."

[jonfazzaro]

"This feels like breathing to me. My lungs expand as I take in complexity then relax as I partition that complexity through better design."

[jonfazzaro]

"One limitation on how much I can ask it to do at is: the amount of code I'm willing to look at."

[jonfazzaro]

"Despite claims of innovation and disruption, there's tremendous pressure to look legitimate by conforming to established visual language, which apparently means anatomical openings."

[jonfazzaro]

"Divide the components into small pieces and let AI finish the work. Fixing a defective brick is far more cost effective than re-architecting an entire building."