Programming

At scale, even edge cases become common.

humanities scholars see a STEM topic they don't understand and think "damn, guess i don't understand that. they must be smart" while STEM people see a humanities topic they don't understand & go "they must just be making shit up"

Not all fast software is world-class, but all world-class software is fast. Performance is _the_ killer feature.

A good tool teaches you the concept.

A bad tool teaches you itself.

yearly reminder everything looks exponential from the middle of a sigmoid

Put the arts back in schools and never let them leave again. Because now I understand how STEM only schools have not led to Innovation or critical thinking skills. Disinformation is prospering as a result

The simplicity of C is dangerously misleading.

It’s a characteristic of big tech workers who have been raised on performative activities for promotions to focus on output (I did a lot of hard work) but not the outcomes (the resulting product was terrible).

It's so sad that this AI movement never even considers solving problems for humans. They solve problems for companies.