anytime you're paying people to churn out boilerplate instead of letting the computer do it for you, you've significantly misunderstood what computers are actually good for.
"always using the default configuration is like living in a motel your whole life"
—@hydrargyrum (link)
showing up to the money party late is worse than showing up early in the wrong clothes.
I had the misfortune of having to run Windows when I worked there and these days Windows is basically an electronic billboard that makes a half-arsed attempt to run applications as a sideline.
Q —How was God able to create the world in only six days?
A —No installed base.
—@rikthevik (link)
There's a great saying by chess grandmaster Morphy: "The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life."
SQL: Normalize until it hurts, denormalize until it works.
Regular code: Pure until it hurts, impure until it works.
people who come from the world of agentic coding have a certain digital smell that is not obvious to them but is obvious to those who abstain. It's like when a smoker walks into the room, everybody who doesn't smoke instantly knows it.
I'm not telling you not to smoke, but I am telling you not to smoke in my house.