Tag: opinion
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Why LLMs Rock (or: BooLLMean Logic for the Uninitiated)
· 5 min read
A truth table for human-LLM cooperation, why the comment section immediately accused me of supporting both Trump and Putin, and a sarcastic, joyful breakdown of garbage-in vs. wise-out.
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Exploring Programming Languages
· 2 min read
True story of the developer exploring different programming languages
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Your Orchestrator Is a Finite Automaton in Denial
· 14 min read
On the lonely `status` column that quietly metastasised into a state machine, the boolean flags breeding in its shadow, and why a real finite automaton is not academic finery but the cheapest insurance you will ever decline to buy
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Prisoner’s Dilemma is a Scam
· 11 min read
On missing rows in payoff matrices, the rationalist’s favorite fairy tale, and why your self-respect has a computable exchange rate in prison years
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Myths of Backward Compatibility
· 5 min read
Most fears about backward compatibility are precisely that—myths, nourished by laziness, ignorance, or a banal unwillingness to think the problem through. Just ensure backward compatibility. Leave the choice between SemVer, CalVer and assorted ShitVer to the angels-on-a-pinhead crowd.
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Bus Factor as Seen by the Bus Driver
· 6 min read
Bus factor comes in two varieties. The first is provoked by saboteurs who write deliberately unreadable code. The second—far more common—arises because only one person on the team is capable of solving the hard problems, and nobody else can be bothered to learn. The cure for the second kind is not better documentation; it is better hiring.
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The Diagnosis ‘SLOP’ Is the New Ad Hominem
· 5 min read
The accusation ‘this is slop’—applied to any body of information, be it letters, pixels, or notes—is pure, undiluted argumentum ad hominem. Let us stop counting bullet points in other people’s texts and return to judging by quality.
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How Does Clean Code Work?
· 6 min read
Clean Code doesn't work—not because the principles are wrong, but because the real world is dirty, chaotic, unpredictable, and asynchronous. The best code I’ve ever seen violated a good half of Clean Code’s commandments.
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How Many Paradigms Does It Take to Screw In a Lightbulb?
· 12 min read
If a developer claims the badge of mid-level-plus but doesn’t feel at ease in at least the five principal paradigms—they are a pompous fool, and you should show them the door.
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Software Development in 2026
· 9 min read
Three years after the four key developer skills, a modest update: five stages of LLM grief, why the models are glorified T9, why context matters more than the model, and the surprising effectiveness of saying ‘please.’
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Software Development in 2023
· 5 min read
Four skills that actually matter in 2023, or: a blanket glorification of Elixir masquerading as a balanced opinion piece.