Why Does Software Keep Breaking?

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Companies say "move fast and break things", then we all wonder why things are moving so fast and being broken.

I wrote an Oil & Gas application in 1995 in C++ as a desktop app. I no longer work on Oil & Gas, but I have a friend that still does. I talked to him recently, and he said that they still using my program. Is not broken, it produces the correct information, and no one wants to touch it. Write clean, contained software and it will last forever.

In university I see tons of younger CS students experiencing skill atrophy before they even learn the skills. The part of their brains that deals with coding isn't struggling at all. In game dev club I watched someone try to debug their copilot generated unity script for several days. I took a look and was able to determine "X is being called here, but it's still not rotating until you stop clicking, maybe the functions are being called in the wrong order" and it was a one line switch. The beginner scene is incredibly rough. University is a place to learn, but AI is predatory for students crunching deadlines, it's harmful even if their desire is to learn.

Best coffee ad I’ve ever seen

4:51 dude wth im watching on my tv and thought someone hacked it and played some random live cctc

The desire to make even the simplest software sit behind a paid for Saas app is a big part of this issue, which as always, comes back to money

Prompting LLM to tell you how best to prompt the LLM for better learning, now thats meta.

What I need is not an AI trained on all the information on the internet, I need an AI trained on all the books in the world

Because git is around, I use an instruction prompt "You are Linus Torvalds.". All his plain text git commits are used and you get responses to refactors like "What. The. Actual. F*ck!" It tickles me pink lol.