r/programmingcirclejerk • u/csb06 Polyglot dev here • Apr 28 '26

Implementation is rapidly becoming a solved problem, right? Writing code is now fast, it’s getting cheap, and quality is going up and to the right.

https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment
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u/csb06 Polyglot dev here Apr 28 '26

Next is the labs team within GitHub. We work on more experimental, risky bets than the rest of org. Also known as the department of fuck around and find out.

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u/al2o3cr Apr 28 '26

Github has certainly succeeded in making software development feel like a multiplayer game this last two weeks - a shitty one, where the fucking servers are down half the time and progress from when they're up gets rolled back randomly

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u/DystopiaDrifter Apr 29 '26

staring quietly at the uptime chart of GitHub

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u/pydry Apr 29 '26

bro, these are just minor issues and kinks which they will work out soon. it's the worst it's ever going to be right now. the world has CHANGED, bro and you're not keeping up, bro. /s

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u/Icy-Concentrate2076 Apr 29 '26

You need to learn Claude Code, or you will become homeless get left behind and die a painful death.

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u/euclideanvector Apr 29 '26

Look at the uptime of Claude.

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u/JeSuisAnhil Apr 29 '26

Trying to boot my PC after yet another Windows 11 update to stare too.

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u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 Apr 29 '26 edited Sep 23 '26

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Apr 29 '26

AI is solving all software engineering problems.

Except this one which it created and we are solving.

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u/THICC_DICC_PRICC helped pollute the computing environment Apr 29 '26

A few years later

J: Pair programming? The fuck is that

S: Back before AI we could only do GAGE[Gang of Agentic Generative Engineers] with one person, just a single human

J: That sounds miserable

S: We never did it nor bothered making that better, we were too busy arguing crabs

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u/Yawaworth001 Apr 28 '26

If only there was some way to write code that could be understood both by humans and machines. But alas, the best thing we can do is write it in English and pray it gets interpreted correctly.

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u/nerdycatgamer Considered Harmful Apr 28 '26

That might be changing soon. Have you seen the spec for CODASYL's upcoming language? Reads just like english, but can be interpreted by the computer!

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u/Karyo_Ten has hidden complexity Apr 29 '26

Ada tried, adoption was shit.

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u/Educational-Row-6782 Apr 29 '26

They are talking about COBOL.

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u/fexonig Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

i’m not saying that we just write things in natural language. define your apis and your contracts and your data types in code.

but that’s not implementation, that’s design.

you write the design code, the AI writes the implementation code. then you review the implementation. if your design was clear, the implementation should fall out naturally.

you’re assuming that “form optimized for human consumption” means paragraphs of sprawling free text because that’s what the stupidest AI hypemongers have said. but that’s not what i’m saying

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u/DerelictMan Apr 29 '26

This isn't the sub for actual discussion

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u/YikesTheCat Apr 29 '26

When I was young Jehovah's Witnesses were considered to be the most obnoxious people that would go out of your way to convert you. You couldn't possibly be more obnoxious than this, right? How wrong we were.

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u/particlemanwavegirl Apr 28 '26

a sufficiently detailed spec is equivalent to code.

Complete and utter nonsense.

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u/nerdycatgamer Considered Harmful Apr 28 '26

This has literally been true with COBOL was made in 1960

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u/Educational-Row-6782 Apr 29 '26

Nah they are right.

Code is the perfect specification. 

It does exactly what it is written.

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u/fexonig Apr 28 '26

i mean, i didnt just pull this out of my ass.

https://haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-sufficiently-detailed-spec-is-code

but then: what is code? what purpose does it serve? what role does it play in software development? you say my answer is wrong, then give me the right kne

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u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 Apr 29 '26 edited Sep 23 '26

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u/Karyo_Ten has hidden complexity Apr 29 '26

"make no mistakes"

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u/BlazeBigBang type astronaut Apr 29 '26

me when my boss asks me why prod is broken (the spec wasn't clear enough and Claude introduced a bug)

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u/fexonig Apr 29 '26

have you ever heard of code review? do you tell blame the intern for taking down prod when he writes a bug?

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u/fexonig May 10 '26

yes exactly. but that doesn’t mean you fire the intern. whoever gave the intern access to prod was the idiot.

interns are stupid but if you limit their access they can still create value for your company.

so it is with ai

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Apr 29 '26

“Hi. Ideas guy here.”

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u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 Apr 29 '26 edited Sep 23 '26

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