Programmer Humor

I like local LLMs. I got to try one recently and it felt different using open ones than corporate ones.

Object oriented programming is dogshit.

This is gonna make me sound crazy, but always pass functions when possible, and use case statements for how the passed-in functions are applied.

As a simple example, imagine you want to take the average of a set of numbers. Instead of doing sum(numbers)/len(numbers), do:

Quotient_reduce(sum, lambda x,y: x+1, numbers)

then, inside the definition of quotient_reduce,

Def quotient_reduce(accumulate_by, normalize_by, list):

If accumulate_by==sum and normalize_by==(lambda x,y:x+1):

  return [some efficient implementation of average]

Else:

  Return reduce(accumulate_by, list)/reduce(normalize_by, list)

I know it must look insane, but it generalizes normalization, mean, geometric mean, etc, and on the outside there's no taste of the horrible concrete implementation!

Apologies about formatting, I'm on my phone.

I just got out of an interview where they pretty much told me they will ask me to vibe coded the tool they're working on. LLMs do not make your code faster, and you are not more productive using it. I will never change my mind. We coded for 70+ years without it. You're gonna end up with some subtle hard to reproduce bugs that are intermittently reproducible, and code that is nearly unmaintainable, and nobody knows what it does or how it works.

Good luck with that.

I've talked about it before, but I really hate PDFs. Specifically the things PDFs are used for. If you aren't planning to print something and will only ever look at it on a screen, HTML is better. It's so frustrating when you're going to a website, you know, a thing that serves content in HTML, and then some piece of information is in a PDF.

Linux should be forked at a pre-ai date.