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  • FredFig@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsThe rise of Whatever
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    8 hours ago

    This caused me to reconsider something. I had kinda assumed that everything sucks because the bar of quality for software is so low, and that’s pulling it down for every other field now that software proliferated into eating the world.

    But I didn’t examine that the relationship could work in both directions. Software sucks some of the time, but it doesn’t excuse shit like how Crowdstrike can still be in business, and we should probably look into what’s caused us to develop the attitude about not caring that shit is shit, just because the shit salesmen told us it’ll be less shit in the future.










  • FredFig@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemseating our own dogshit
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    1 month ago

    If you’re referring to genetic algorithms, those work by giving the computer some type of target to gun for that’s easy to measure and then letting the computer go loose with randomly changing bits from the original object. I guess in your mind, that’d be randomly evolving the codebase and then submitting the best version.

    There’s a lot of problems with the idea of genetic codebase that I’m sure you can figure out on your own, but I’ll give you one for free: “better code” is a very hard thing for computers to measure.