2026-03-29 03:10 UTC
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@fred@social.fthevenet.eu 2026-03-29 12:34
@glyph @aredridel @ceejbot "Always has been", quite literally. I went to one of those reputed to be wise [...] and when I considered him and conversed with him, men of Athens, I was affected something like this: it seemed to me that this man seemed to be wise, both to many other human beings and most of all to himself, but that he was not.[...] For my part, as I went away, I reasoned with regard to myself: “I am wiser than this human being. For probably neither of us knows anything noble and good, but he supposes he knows something when he does not know, while I, just as I do not know, do not even suppose that I do. I am likely to be a little bit wiser than he in this very thing: that whatever I do not know, I do not even suppose I know. An excerpt from Plato's Apology of Socrates, written over 2400 years ago.
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@simulo@hci.social 2026-03-29 14:08
@glyph @aredridel @ceejbot so maybe: blast radius reduction = being a good programmer
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@ceejbot@toot.cat 2026-03-29 15:34
@glyph @aredridel It’s so interesting to watch the differences in reactions among people to these tools, and the differences in *how* people adapt to their use. The amount of thought and creativity in the reaction is showing in the quality of the results. This is regardless of where the person is on the experience curve. (Though obvs people far along on the experience curve know *what* to push for more than do less-experienced people)
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@dreid@wandering.shop 2026-03-29 17:18
@glyph @aredridel @ceejbot I think a lot of people are working on the assumption that mistakes aren't as costly anymore. You won't have to live with the consequences very long and you can just rewrite everything if the technical decisions you make end up being wrong. This doesn't hold for genuine safety issues, like things affecting the privacy and security of your users, but industry was already caring about those things pretty reluctantly.