Yet another American-Swiss immigrant geek with a cargo bike. IETF (mostly L4), SRE (infrastructure), recovering academic and security person, frighteningly amateur electronic folk musician, unrepentant pedestrian supremacist.
I see this ignorance about software development history all the time, making people «reinvent» the past constantly or forgetting the lessons we learned.
I think universities need to teach «history of software development» or we’re just going in a loop here, unwittingly reenacting past mistakes.
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I see this ignorance about software development history all the time, making people «reinvent» the past constantly or forgetting the lessons we learned.
I think universities need to teach «history of software development» or we’re just going in a loop here, unwittingly reenacting past mistakes.
"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."