Programming Still Sucks(www.stvn.sh)
25 pointsby jeromechoo4 hours ago2 comments
  • SaucyWrong3 minutes ago
    This was beautiful. I also appreciated the backlink to Peter Welch’s spiritual ancestor to this essay, which I had forgotten how to find, and had the joy of reading again.
  • jdw644 hours ago
    This is absurdly well written.

    I don’t know how someone takes the familiar anxiety around AI replacing developers and turns it into something this beautiful and funny.

    Once again, the programming industry has robbed literature of a potential Nobel Prize candidate.

    • pona-aan hour ago
      When I heard the repetition of an insignificant detail like the USB stick, I caught a whiff of Claude, and soon enough Pangram confirmed my suspicions: 26% AI generated.

      At least I'm glad the ship paragraph doesn't light up as AI, that would have been a travesty...

      • tyg1332 minutes ago
        26% AI generated? What does that even mean? How is Pangram arriving at that figure?
      • jdw64an hour ago
        You may be right. But this feeling is mine. Haha.
    • jeromechoo4 hours ago
      > You knew. And you signed off anyway. Because the alternative was losing the job, and the job was the mortgage, and the school fees, and the visa, and the version of yourself who'd fix it later once things stabilized.

      I felt the pang in my bones reading this. All of us peons are just wading through this brave new world trying to do what we know is right but ultimately having no choice but to give in to life's needs.